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Movies Like The Killing Jar

If you liked The Killing Jar (1994), a thriller movie directed by David Blum, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Careful What You Wish For

    Careful What You Wish For (2015)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.

  2. 252 Pick-Up

    52 Pick-Up (1986)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a videotape of him with his young mistress and…

  3. 3GirlHouse

    GirlHouse (2014)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    In an attempt to make some extra cash while away at College, Kylie moves into a house that streams content to an X-rated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the house's location, she finds herself in a…

  4. 4Basic Instinct

    Basic Instinct (1992)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller

    Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.

  5. 5Graphic Desires

    Graphic Desires (2023)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    When reclusive Franklin cheats on his partner with a mysterious girl he meets on a dating app, it becomes the start of a deadly obsession.

  6. 6The Mother

    The Mother (2023)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    A deadly female assassin comes out of hiding to protect the daughter that she gave up years before, while on the run from dangerous men.

  7. 7Bone Lake

    Bone Lake (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also thriller

    A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream…

  8. 8Heatwave

    Heatwave (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    A woman's life takes an unexpected turn when she falls for her boss's wife. She must soon defend herself as she becomes entangled in a web of malice.

  9. 9Buried Alive

    Buried Alive (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller

    A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires in surprising ways.

  10. 10Dream Lover

    Dream Lover (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10Also thriller

    Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…

  11. 11Dressed to Kill

    Dressed to Kill (1980)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing…

  12. 12The Dead Girl

    The Dead Girl (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.

  13. 13Strange Darling

    Strange Darling (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

  14. 14The Last Seduction

    The Last Seduction (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller

    A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.

  15. 15Vice Squad

    Vice Squad (1982)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

  16. 16Blackwater Lane

    Blackwater Lane (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    An American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to…

  17. 17Deceived

    Deceived (1991)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller

    The murder of a museum curator places art dealer Jack Saunders under suspicion for selling forged treasures to museums. When Jack suddenly dies in a car crash, his wife Adrienne tries to discover what he did on her…

  18. 18Bad Sister

    Bad Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a…

  19. 19X

    X (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    A veteran call girl and a runaway prostitute witness a murder which sends them on an out-of-control roller coaster ride through the twilight zone of sex-for-sale.

  20. 20Gang Related

    Gang Related (1997)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    After murdering an undercover DEA agent, two corrupt cops scramble to cover up what they've done.

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