Movies Like Sleeping with the Enemy
If you liked Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), a drama and thriller movie directed by Joseph Ruben, 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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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thrillerA 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.
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Derailed (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thrillerWhen two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
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Straw Dogs (2011)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerA young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.
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Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and thrillerA sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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Deep Water (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and thrillerA well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
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Dolores Claiborne (1995)
★ 7.3/10Also dramaDolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera…
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Gone Girl (2014)
★ 7.9/10Also thriller and dramaWith his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
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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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Die My Love (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also dramaAfter inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace…
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The Thing with Feathers (2025)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaFollowing the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.
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Addicted (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerA gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.
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Not Without My Daughter (1991)
★ 6.9/10Also drama and thrillerAn American woman, trapped in Islamic Iran by her brutish husband, must find a way to escape with her daughter as well.
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Adulterers (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and dramaOn a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to…
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
★ 7/10Also drama and thrillerDr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who…
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Intrusion (2021)
★ 6/10Also drama and thrillerWhen a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.
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Enough (2002)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and thrillerWorking-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she…
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Shirley (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and thrillerA famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
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Manhattan Night (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thrillerPorter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a…
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Secret Window (2004)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerMort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey…
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One Hour Photo (2002)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thrillerSy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of…