20 best movies like Before I Go to Sleep (2014)

List of the best movies like Before I Go to Sleep (2014): The Girl on the Train, Secret Obsession, Assumed Killer, Stonehearst Asylum, The Operative, The Eyes, Possum, Rebecca, The Mandela Effect, State of Play.

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Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

Newlywed Jennifer is brutally attacked at a dark rest stop. While healing from her injuries, she can’t recall anything from her past, including the ordeal. Her husband, Russell , is just thankful she’s alive and eager to get her home. As he reintroduces her to their secluded mountain estate, Detective Page pursues Jennifer’s assailant — his own daughter went missing and was never found. The same fate now awaits Jennifer, unless someone realizes that her loving caretaker is actually her captor.

Markimdb: 3.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Israel, Germany, USA, United Kingdom
Duration02:02

A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:56

A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA

A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:07

Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:41

A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:05

    A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

      A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

        With 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.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
        Duration02:21

        Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
        Duration02:31

        A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:29

          On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan
          Duration02:01

          Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryFrance, USA
          Duration01:38

          Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

          An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.

          Markimdb: 4.2
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Brought together at their childhood home over their dying mother, an estranged family is thrust into a deadly fight for their own survival.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
          Duration02:32

          A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountrySpain, United Kingdom, USA, France
          Duration01:35

          Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

          An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany, France
          Duration02:01

          Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan—a young boy—via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          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 murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration02:24

          A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:24

            Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
            Duration01:39

            After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, where he's told he's been hired as the groundskeeper. With the state of his soul in question, and the love for his wife and daughter all the more real and powerful, Ben must figure out if he's truly cheated death, or if he's become part of something far more sinister.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:25

            A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:17

            A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA

            Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:22

            A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:28

            Detective Andrea Cornell is a tough, thorough Homicide Detective who leaves no stone unturned. Her unwavering dedication to her job makes her the most formidable opponent - or a highly valuable ally.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, Malta, France, United Kingdom, Hungary
            Duration02:03

            After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrethriller, drama, detective, film noir
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:29

            Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:52

            Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountrySpain, USA
            Duration01:39

            A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA

            A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryNorway
            Duration01:32

            A mother reports her student daughter Lisa missing, but detective Aslak Eira is getting too little information, and she is found in a lake. The more they investigate, the less they seem to understand. Then Lisa's best friend goes missing too.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genredrama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:15

            The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be, so he only remembers fragments of the case: a confrontation with an angry husband, a secret bond with his beautiful but unstable wife.

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryCanada, France
            Duration01:46

            When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryIndia

            If you're not safe at home, and you're not safe outside, what do you do? Where do you go? Is it possible to face your fears? Find out in the spookiest psychological thriller of the year, Phobia, starring Radhika Apte.

            Markimdb: 4.8
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryFrance, Canada, USA
            Duration02:24

            A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:43

            Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:32

            The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.




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