If You Liked Shutter Island, Watch These Next
Finished Shutter Island (2010) and want more of the same? These 20 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Shutter Island, most of them are drama, thriller, mystery.
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20 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Neverwas(2005)
6.4DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson, spent many years of his life.
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2.Twelve Monkeys(1995)
7.6Science FictionThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when Cole is mistakenly sent to 1990 instead of 1996, he's arrested and locked up…
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3.The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
8.3CrimeThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
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 various acts of murder and cannibalism. Crawford believes that Lecter may have insight into a case and…
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4.Devil in a Blue Dress(1995)
6.5ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and drama
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's…
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5.Point Blank(1967)
7.1CrimeThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
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6.The Professor and the Madman(2019)
7.1HistoryDramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
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7.Misery(1990)
7.8DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and forces him to write back to life the popular literary character he killed off.
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8.Motherless Brooklyn(2019)
6.7DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a private detective living with Tourette syndrome, tries to solve the murder of his mentor and best friend, armed only with vague clues and the strength of his obsessive mind.
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9.Reminiscence(2021)
6.5MysteryScience FictionThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and…
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11.Black Butterfly(2017)
6.2ThrillerMysteryDramaAlso thriller and mystery
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
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12.Stay(2005)
6.6MysteryThrillerDramaAlso mystery and thriller
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…
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13.The Woman in the Window(2021)
6.0CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
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14.Mr. Arkadin(1955)
6.8MysteryThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember anything before the late 1920s, and convict Guy Van Stratten is happy to take the job of exploring his new acquaintance's life story. Guy's research turns up stunning…
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15.Escape from Alcatraz(1979)
7.5DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan.
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16.The Wonder(2022)
6.6DramaMysteryAlso drama and mystery
Haunted by her past, a nurse travels from England to a remote Irish village in 1862 to investigate a young girl's supposedly miraculous fast.
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17.The Double(2014)
6.5ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
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18.The Woman in Cabin 10(2025)
6.2MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso mystery and thriller
On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth.
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19.Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon(2022)
6.4MysteryFantasyThrillerAlso mystery and thriller
A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
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20.The Infernal Machine(2022)
6.3ThrillerMysteryAlso thriller and mystery
Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he…
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