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Movies Like A Short Stay in Switzerland

If you liked A Short Stay in Switzerland (2009), a tv movie and drama movie directed by Simon Curtis, 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. 1You Don't Know Jack

    You Don't Know Jack (2010)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and tv movie

    Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

  2. 2Girl, Interrupted

    Girl, Interrupted (1999)

    ★ 7.6/10Also drama

    Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the…

  3. 3Stay

    Stay (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…

  4. 4The Double

    The Double (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

  5. 5Christine

    Christine (2016)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    In 1974, television reporter Christine Chubbuck struggles with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.

  6. 6I Am Elizabeth Smart

    I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

  7. 7Reversal of Fortune

    Reversal of Fortune (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal.

  8. 8Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

  9. 9I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

  10. 10The Serpent's Egg

    The Serpent's Egg (1977)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

  11. 11Girl in the Box

    Girl in the Box (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

  12. 12Conspiracy

    Conspiracy (2001)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.

  13. 13Before I Fall

    Before I Fall (2017)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her…

  14. 14Awakenings

    Awakenings (1990)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama

    Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled…

  15. 15Heaven Knows What

    Heaven Knows What (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.

  16. 16Fourteen Hours

    Fourteen Hours (1951)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama

    A young man, morally destroyed by his parents not loving him and by the fear of being not capable to make his girlfriend happy, rises on the ledge of a building with the intention of committing suicide. A policeman…

  17. 17Shutter Island

    Shutter Island (2010)

    ★ 8.2/10Also drama

    World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

  18. 18Requiem for a Dream

    Requiem for a Dream (2000)

    ★ 8/10Also drama

    The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.

  19. 19Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey

    Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)

    ★ 8/10Also drama and tv movie

    On the night she plans on taking her own life, 17-year-old 'Lisa McVey' is kidnapped and finds herself fighting to stay alive and is raped. She manages to talk her attacker into releasing her, but when she returns…

  20. 20My Dinner with Hervé

    My Dinner with Hervé (2018)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.

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