20 best movies like Wild Things (1998)

List of the best movies like Wild Things (1998): Gone Girl, Double Jeopardy, Vantage Point, Careful What You Wish For, Marnie, The Paperboy, Manhattan Night, Mindscape, Sea of Love, Body Heat.

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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
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
    Duration01:45

    A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Mexico
    Duration01:30

    The attempted assassination of the American President is told and re-told from several different perspectives.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    A 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.

    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: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    Porter 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 seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

    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: 6.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:53

    Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.

    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: 5.7
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

    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: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, France, Denmark
    Duration02:11

    Mike Regan is a successful, self-made man who has it all: a gorgeous wife, a beautiful teenage daughter and a sleek, state-of-the-art “smart home”. But he soon finds himself in a deadly, high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse when his I.T. consultant, Ed, starts using his skills to stalk Mike’s daughter and endanger his family, his business, and his life. In a world where there is no privacy, and personal secrets can go viral by the click of a mouse, Mike needs to rely on his old connections to defeat a new kind of nemesis.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryGermany, USA
    Duration02:02

    A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

    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: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Lithuania

      A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the local police, but they aren't interested - Bobby was their killer.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:45

      Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.

      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: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      A nightclub singer enlists her brother-in-law to track down her husband's killer.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryIndia
      Duration01:03

      In war torn Calcutta during the 1940's, Byomkesh Bakshy, fresh out of college, pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:35

      A former serial killer Byung-su gets diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and when a series of murders occur near his town, he worries whether the killings are his doings. Then, he comes across Tae-ju and realizes that he’s the killer. He reports this to the police, only to learn that Tae-ju is one. Byung-su tries to find evidence against Tae-ju, only to raise the young killer’s interest on him and his dear daughter.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't prove anything with conventional detective work. With no other option, she goes undercover, pursuing the same man as Catherine, and hoping that Catherine will slip up and reveal her true identity.

      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: 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: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

      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: 6.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany, Sweden
      Duration01:55

      In Stockholm, Sweden, hacker Lisbeth Salander is hired by Frans Balder, a computer engineer, to retrieve a program that he believes it is too dangerous to exist.

      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: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers -- with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:58

      Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The murderer's special signature is to leave tantalizing clues based on the grim remains of his crimes.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:20

      Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Charlie, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Charlie plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:56

      A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.

      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: 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: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:33

        When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
        Duration01:37

        The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

        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: 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: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:11

        U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe deduces that there's much more to this than a simple missing-person case. Marlowe's path crosses that of a blackmailed movie star, Mavis Wald, and her friend, exotic dancer Delores. A mobster sends karate expert Winslow Wong to bust up Marlowe's office and warn him off the case, while Lieutenant French also cautions the detective to stay out of the police's way.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?




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