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Movies Like Ex-Wife Killer

If you liked Ex-Wife Killer (2017), a tv movie and thriller movie directed by Danny J. Boyle, 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. 1Buried Alive

    Buried Alive (1990)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller and tv movie

    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.

  2. 2Kept Woman

    Kept Woman (2015)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller and tv movie

    Jessica and her fiancé Evan have just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her…

  3. 3Infidelity in Suburbia

    Infidelity in Suburbia (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller and tv movie

    With her husband away at work, and her son at school, Laura dreams of a home-renovation project to supplant her restless days. Elliott, her irresistibly hot private contractor, soon fulfills her more forbidden dreams.

  4. 4A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

    A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local…

  5. 5The Return

    The Return (2006)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying…

  6. 6Someone's Watching Me!

    Someone's Watching Me! (1978)

    ★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and thriller

    A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.

  7. 7Till Death

    Till Death (2021)

    ★ 6.7/10Also thriller

    After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted…

  8. 8Watcher

    Watcher (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also thriller

    As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

  9. 9Faces in the Crowd

    Faces in the Crowd (2011)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller

    Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.

  10. 10Frenzy

    Frenzy (1972)

    ★ 7.1/10Also thriller

    London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the…

  11. 11Blackwater 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…

  12. 12Grindhouse

    Grindhouse (2007)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller

    Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…

  13. 13Savaged

    Savaged (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.

  14. 14Bad Sister

    Bad Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller and tv movie

    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…

  15. 15Wicked Minds

    Wicked Minds (2003)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller and tv movie

    Holden returns home from college and is surprised to find his overpowering competitive father married to a much younger woman Lana. Holden quickly falls for the beauty and charisma of his step mother. A passionate…

  16. 16Acts of Vengeance

    Acts of Vengeance (2017)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.

  17. 175lbs of Pressure

    5lbs of Pressure (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller and tv movie

    Fresh out of prison after serving time for murder, Adam returns to his old stomping grounds to seek out a son who doesn't know him. Eli, the brother of the man he killed is looking for revenge. Mike, is trying to…

  18. 18Tyler Perry's Duplicity

    Tyler Perry's Duplicity (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned…

  19. 19Dream 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…

  20. 20Breaking In

    Breaking In (2018)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller

    Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to…

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