Movies like Eileen
If Eileen's mix of prison, sexual abuse and winter stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Eileen's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Gone Baby Gone
2007 · Directed by Ben Affleck · 113 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, boston, massachusetts, anxious
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro.
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Cape Fear
1962 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 106 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: film noir, aggressive · Also thriller and crime
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
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Body Heat
1981 · Directed by Lawrence Kasdan · 113 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: prison, femme fatale · Also thriller and crime
During an extreme heatwave, a beautiful Florida woman and a seedy lawyer engage in an affair while plotting the murder of her rich husband.
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Room
2015 · Directed by Lenny Abrahamson · 118 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, depressing
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
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The Black Phone
2022 · Directed by Scott Derrickson · 103 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, alcoholic father · From the same decade (2020s)
Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use.
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The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Directed by Jonathan Demme · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison, kidnapping · 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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Girl in the Basement
2021 · Directed by Elisabeth Röhm · 88 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: depressing · Also thriller and crime · From the same decade (2020s)
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.
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Cape Fear
1991 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 128 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: prison · Also crime and thriller
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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Strange Darling
2024 · Directed by JT Mollner · 97 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: female protagonist · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (2020s)
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
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The Last Seduction
1994 · Directed by John Dahl · 110 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: femme fatale · Also thriller and crime
A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
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The Shawshank Redemption
1994 · Directed by Frank Darabont · 142 min8.7
Why you'll like itShares: prison
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden.
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Iron Man
2008 · Directed by Jon Favreau · 126 min7.7
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, aggressive
After being held captive in an Afghan cave, billionaire engineer Tony Stark creates a unique weaponized suit of armor to fight evil.