If You Liked One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Watch These Next
Finished One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) 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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, most of them are drama.
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20 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Misery(1990)
7.8DramaThrillerAlso drama
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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2.Girl, Interrupted(1999)
7.6DramaAlso drama
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been…
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3.The Green Mile(1999)
8.5FantasyDramaCrimeAlso drama
A supernatural tale set on death row in a Southern prison, where gentle giant John Coffey possesses the mysterious power to heal people's ailments. When the cell block's head guard, Paul Edgecomb, recognizes Coffey's miraculous gift, he tries desperately to help stave off the condemned man's execution.
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4.The Professor and the Madman(2019)
7.1HistoryDramaMysteryAlso drama
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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5.Shutter Island(2010)
8.2DramaThrillerMysteryAlso drama
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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6.The Wonder(2022)
6.6DramaMysteryAlso drama
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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7.The Magdalene Sisters(2002)
7.5DramaHistoryAlso drama
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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9.Neverwas(2005)
6.4DramaThrillerAlso drama
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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10.Sleeping with the Enemy(1991)
6.5DramaThrillerAlso drama
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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11.Return to Sender(2015)
6.1DramaThrillerAlso drama
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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12.The Silence of the Lambs(1991)
8.3CrimeThrillerDramaAlso 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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13.Naked Lunch(1991)
7.0CrimeDramaAlso drama
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he accidentally kills Joan, takes orders from his typewriter-turned-cockroach, ends…
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14.Fight Club(1999)
8.4DramaThrillerAlso drama
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
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15.The United States of Leland(2003)
6.5CrimeDramaAlso drama
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the prison, decides to write about Leland's case. Meanwhile, others affected…
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16.The Double(2014)
6.5ThrillerDramaAlso 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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17.Kiss of the Spider Woman(1985)
7.0DramaAlso drama
The story of two radically different men thrown together in a Latin American prison cell. One is Valentin, a journalist being tortured for his political beliefs. The other is Molina, a gay window-dresser who fills their lonely nights by spinning romantic fantasies drawn from memories of old movies.
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18.Bringing Out the Dead(1999)
6.6DramaAlso drama
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
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19.Desperate Measures(1998)
6.0ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
San Francisco police officer Frank Connor is in a frantic search for a compatible bone marrow donor for his gravely ill son. There's only one catch the potential donor is convicted multiple murderer Peter McCabe who sees a trip to the hospital as the perfect opportunity to get what he wants most: freedom. With…
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20.The Unforgivable(2021)
7.4DramaCrimeAlso drama
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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