Movies Like Unwritten
If you liked Unwritten (2018), a thriller movie directed by Dale Neven, 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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The Ninth Gate (1999)
★ 6.5/10Also thrillerA rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.
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Following (1999)
★ 7.1/10Also thrillerBill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious…
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Promising Young Woman (2020)
★ 7.4/10Also thrillerA young woman, traumatized by a tragic event in her past, seeks out vengeance against those who crossed her path.
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Safe Haven (2013)
★ 7.2/10Also thrillerA young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
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Glass (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerIn a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of…
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The Words (2012)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerThe Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to…
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Matchstick Men (2003)
★ 7/10Also thrillerA phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
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Night of the Hunted (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also thrillerWhen an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her…
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerA young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also thrillerA precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Hider in the House (1989)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerA deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
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Odd Thomas (2013)
★ 7/10Also thrillerIn a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
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The Deliverance (2024)
★ 6/10Also thrillerEbony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services…
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Blackwater Lane (2024)
★ 6/10Also thrillerAn 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…
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
★ 7.8/10Also thrillerA young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
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The Woman in the Window (2021)
★ 6/10Also thrillerAn agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
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The Number 23 (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerAnimal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
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Safety Last! (1923)
★ 7.7/10Also thrillerWhen a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
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Nocturnal Animals (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also 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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Verity (2026)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerLowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.