If You Liked Careful What You Wish For, Watch These Next
Finished Careful What You Wish For (2015) 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 Careful What You Wish For, most of them are drama, thriller.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Deep Water(2022)
5.8DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
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2.Fatale(2020)
6.0DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
After a wild one-night stand, successful sports agent Derrick Tyler watches his perfect life slowly disappear when he discovers the sexy and mysterious woman he risked everything for is determined police detective Valerie Quinlan who entangles him in her latest investigation. As he desperately tries to put the pieces…
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3.Dream Lover(1994)
6.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.
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4.Another Man's Poison(1951)
6.8CrimeDramaAlso drama
Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's…
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5.Hollywoodland(2006)
6.1CrimeDramaMysteryAlso drama
When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
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6.Graphic Desires(2023)
6.9ThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
When reclusive Franklin cheats on his partner with a mysterious girl he meets on a dating app, it becomes the start of a deadly obsession.
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8.Butterfly on a Wheel(2007)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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9.The Loft(2014)
6.4ThrillerAlso thriller
For five men, the opportunity to share a penthouse in the city -- in which to carry on extramarital affairs -- is a dream come true, until the dead body of an unknown woman turns up. Realizing that her killer must be one of their group, the men are gripped by paranoia as each one suspects another.
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11.In Cold Blood(1967)
7.5CrimeDramaAlso drama
After a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.
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12.Body Double(1984)
6.7CrimeMysteryThrillerAlso thriller
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 woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully…
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13.Manhattan Night(2016)
5.9DramaMysteryThrillerAlso drama and thriller
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…
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14.Crime of Passion(1956)
6.1DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Kathy leaves the newspaper business to marry homicide detective Bill, but is frustrated by his lack of ambition and the banality of life in the suburbs. Her drive to advance Bill's career soon takes her down a dangerous path.
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15.One Hour Photo(2002)
6.7DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Sy Parrish has lovingly developed photographs for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually convinces himself he's part of their family. When Sy's picture-perfect fantasy collides with an ugly dose of reality, a bizarre and…
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16.A Thousand and One(2023)
6.6DramaCrimeAlso drama
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a…
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17.Sleeping with the Enemy(1991)
6.5DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
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19.Drop(2025)
6.3MysteryThrillerAlso thriller
Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
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20.China Moon(1994)
6.1MysteryThrillerCrimeAlso thriller
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After she shoots her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but his partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.
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