Movies like Obsession
If Obsession's mix of jealousy, police and perfect crime stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Obsession's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Strangers on a Train
1951 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 101 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: perfect crime, film noir · Also crime and thriller
A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: psychological thriller, psychiatrist · Also crime and thriller
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life behind bars for…
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Brute Force
1947 · Directed by Jules Dassin · 98 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (1940s)
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…
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Shutter Island
2010 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 138 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: psychological thriller, missing person
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
1950 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 95 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller
A police detective's violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946 · Directed by Tay Garnett · 113 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (1940s)
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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Ministry of Fear
1944 · Directed by Fritz Lang · 86 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (1940s)
Stephen Neale is released into WWII England after two years in an asylum, but it doesn't seem so sane outside either. On his way back to London to rejoin civilization, he stumbles across a murderous spy ring and…
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Gone Girl
2014 · Directed by David Fincher · 149 min7.9
Why you'll like itShares: psychological thriller, missing person
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.
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Get Out
2017 · Directed by Jordan Peele · 104 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: psychological thriller, missing person
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial…
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Killer's Kiss
1955 · Directed by Stanley Kubrick · 68 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: film noir · Also thriller and crime
Davey Gordon, a New York City boxer at the end of his career, falls for dancer Gloria Price. However, their budding relationship is interrupted by Gloria's violent boss, Vincent Rapallo, who has eyes for Gloria.