20 best movies like Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

List of the best movies like Eyes Wide Shut (1999): Original Sin, The Snare, Birth, Café Society, Chloe, Black Swan, The Prestige, The Gift, The Perfect Guy, Eye of the Beholder.

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Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryFrance, Mexico, USA
Duration01:58

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:39

Three friends head to the seafront for a drunken weekend, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
Duration01:40

It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

The story of a young man who arrives in Hollywood during the 1930s hoping to work in the film industry, falls in love, and finds himself swept up in the vibrant café society that defined the spirit of the age.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada, France
Duration01:36

A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

    A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

    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
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Australia, China
      Duration02:34

      A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, United Kingdom, Australia, USA
      Duration01:49

      A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:46

      A young Englishman plots revenge against his mysterious, beautiful cousin, believing that she murdered his guardian. But his feelings become complicated as he finds himself falling under the beguiling spell of her charms.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Hungary
      Duration01:44

      Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy as mistress and maid. But as their ritual of domination and submission begins to turn stale, Cynthia yearns for something more conventional, while Evelyn tries to push their taboos even further.

      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: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, United Kingdom
      Duration01:42

      In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this film of psychological imagery and an erotic exploration of the female body.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:43

      Psychiatrist Ann Hecker is ending one relationship and possibly starting an important new one, while finding that some of the sexual exploits her patients relate are weighing on her. Turning to a married friend from her research days for guidance, she finds his help increasingly important when a female patient is murdered and it turns out that her new boyfriend was also seeing the dead woman.

      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: 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
        Genrethriller, drama, western, detective
        CountryNetherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:45

        In the menacing inferno of the old American West, Liz is a genuine survivor who is hunted by a vengeful preacher for a crime she didn’t commit.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genremelodrama, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:44

        A witty, romantic, and very dangerous love story about chance meetings, instant attractions, and casual betrayals. Two couples disintegrate when they begin destructive adulterous affairs with each other.

        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: 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: 6.4
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, France
          Duration01:31

            Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...

            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: 7.6
            Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Czech Republic
            Duration01:50

            With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Belgium
            Duration02:39

            Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.

            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: 7.5
            Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Germany
            Duration02:24

            A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration01:40

            A woman grows suspicious of her controlling husband after she discovers secrets about the women in his past.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:32

            A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration01:34

            Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father. When Dorothy tells Jonathan that she is pregnant and that her father will deny her inheritance if he finds out, Jonathan murders her, but he stages her death as a suicide. As Jonathan works his way onto Mr. Carlsson's payroll, Dorothy's twin sister, Ellen, investigates the apparent suicide.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genremelodrama, drama
            CountryUSA, Spain
            Duration02:28

            As a young New York couple goes from college romance to marriage and the birth of their first child, the unexpected twists of their journey create reverberations that echo over continents and through lifetimes.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryCanada, United Kingdom
            Duration01:48

            An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.

            Markimdb: 3.6
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

            S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:38

            Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
            Duration01:56

            The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:24

            Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness when he loses everything he ever cared about. One year later, Bruce decides to give Samantha the punishment he believes she escaped. Samantha has struggled with her own demons since that fateful night, and Bruce will take her struggles to the edge when he implements a demented plan to teach her a twisted lesson that may cost her the ultimate price.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:35

            A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.

            Markimdb: 4.8
            Genrefantasy, comedy, drama, detective
            CountryUSA

            Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence: in reality and his own interior world. While working on a murder mystery script, and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is baffled when his characters start to appear in his life, and vice versa.

            Markimdb: 5.1
            Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:36

            A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

            Markimdb: 6
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

            Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

            Markimdb: 7.7
            Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:09

            In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

            Markimdb: 8.8
            Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom
            Duration02:28

              Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
              Duration01:23

              A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family take an unexpected turn.

              Markimdb: 4.3
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:50

              After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.

              Markimdb: 3.6
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA

              After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.

              Markimdb: 5.7
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:16

              Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, biography
              CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom, China
              Duration02:08

              The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

              Markimdb: 7.1
              Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:10

              Marnie is a beautiful kleptomaniac who is in love with businessman Mark Rutland. Marnie who is a compulsive thief is being watched by her new boss Mark who suspects her of stealing from him and thus decides to blackmail her in the most unusual way. A psychological thriller from Alfred Hitchcock based on a novel of the same name by Winston Graham.

              Markimdb: 5
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:20

              JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim's rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent despair that will ultimately unlock an unspeakable secret festering within him, bringing The Grief Tourist to it's brutal and shocking finale...

              Markimdb: 6
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama
              CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

              When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.




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