If You Liked Cape Fear, Watch These Next
Finished Cape Fear (1991) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Cape Fear, most of them are drama, crime, thriller.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
3.The Whisper Man(2026)
6.9CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
When his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer now linked to the case.
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5.Butterfly on a Wheel(2007)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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6.White Heat(1949)
7.7CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
A psychopathic criminal with a mother complex makes a daring break from prison and then leads his old gang in a chemical plant payroll heist. After the heist, events take a crazy turn.
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7.Sudden Impact(1983)
6.6ThrillerCrimeActionAlso thriller and crime
When a young rape victim takes justice into her own hands and becomes a serial killer, it's up to Dirty Harry Callahan, on suspension from the SFPD, to bring her to justice.
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8.Cohen and Tate(1989)
6.5CrimeThrillerActionAlso crime and thriller
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off…
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10.Eye for an Eye(1996)
6.3ThrillerDramaAlso thriller and drama
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
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11.At Close Range(1986)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Brad Whitewood Jr. lives in rural Pennsylvania and has few prospects. Against his mother's wishes, he seeks out his estranged father, the head of a gang of thieves in a nearby town. Though his new girlfriend supports his criminal ambitions, Brad Jr. soon learns that his father is a dangerous man.
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12.Violent Ends(2025)
6.3ThrillerCrimeDramaAlso thriller and crime
Lucas Frost, an honest man brought up in a crime family whose only legacy is violence, tries to make his own life with his fiancée, Emma. He is suddenly pulled back into the family business he so despises when his cousin, Eli, perpetrates an armed robbery on a local scrap yard and an innocent life is caught in the…
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13.King Ivory(2025)
7.0CrimeDramaThrillerAlso crime and drama
Based on extensive research involving law enforcement and gang members, a never-before-seen, authentic look inside the underworld of fentanyl trafficking from gangs inside the Oklahoma State Penitentiary at McAlester a.k.a. "Big Mac."
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14.Straw Dogs(2011)
5.9DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.
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15.Return to Sender(2015)
6.1DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A nurse mistakes a stranger who pays her a visit for her blind date and soon, the man rapes her and turns her life upside down. The woman works to reclaim her life and exact revenge on her assailant after he's paroled from prison.
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16.Chinatown(1974)
7.9CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso crime and thriller
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals…
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17.12 Rounds(2009)
5.9ActionThrillerCrimeAlso thriller and crime
When New Orleans Police Detective Danny Fisher stops a brilliant thief from getting away with a multimillion-dollar heist, the thief's girlfriend is accidentally killed. After escaping from prison, the criminal mastermind enacts his revenge, taunting Danny with 12 rounds of near-impossible puzzles and tasks that he…
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18.Righteous Kill(2008)
5.9CrimeThrillerMysteryAlso crime and thriller
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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