Movies Like Sanctuary
If you liked Sanctuary (2001), a romance and thriller movie directed by Katt Shea, 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.
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Mothers' Instinct (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and dramaHousewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly…
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Cape Fear (1991)
★ 7.3/10Also drama and thrillerSam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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The Beach House (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movie and romanceCara Rudland thought she’d left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind, but returns to the scenic Lowcountry of her childhood summers after losing her job in Chicago. There, she reconnects with her mother…
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Leave the World Behind (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerA family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
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Angel of Mine (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and thrillerA woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.
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Byzantium (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thrillerResidents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.
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The Lighthouse (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and thrillerTwo lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
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Rip Girls (2000)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and romanceA teen-age girl and her father come to an island on Hawaii, they find a closer relationship to each other and think about changing the island. During her adventures, Sydney finds friends, a new hobby with her fantastic…
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Earthquake Bird (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and romanceTokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.
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Wild at Heart (1990)
★ 7/10Also thriller and romanceYoung lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
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Nocturnal Animals (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and thrillerSusan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics…
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Labor Day (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and romanceTwo strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story.
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10Also drama and romanceWhen his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thrillerThree childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect…
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movieThe 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.
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The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and romancePhotographer Robert Kincaid wanders into the life of housewife Francesca Johnson for four days in the 1960s.
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Shuffle (2012)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and romanceLovell Milo is a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s…
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Wicked (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also romance and dramaIvy Morgan, a college student in New Orleans, falls for Ren Owens, the last person she expected to enter her rigidly controlled life.
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It Ends with Us (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and romanceWhen a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for…
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Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also tv movie and dramaA single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.