If You Liked Straw Dogs, Watch These Next
Finished Straw Dogs (2011) 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 Straw Dogs, most of them are drama, thriller.
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18 titles · updated 3rd October 2026
1.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama 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 trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have…
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3.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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4.May December(2023)
6.6DramaAlso drama
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
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5.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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6.Grandview, U.S.A.(1984)
5.8DramaAlso drama
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to her. She runs the local Demolition Derby place. Ernie "Slam" Webster is one of…
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7.Careful What You Wish For(2015)
6.1DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
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8.Die My Love(2025)
6.1DramaAlso drama
After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt…
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9.Cold in July(2014)
6.5DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.
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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.The Outrage(1964)
5.8DramaCrimeWesternAlso drama
At a disused railway station, three men -- a con artist, a preacher, and a prospector -- discuss the recent trial and sentencing of the outlaw Juan Carrasco for the murder of a man and the rape of his wife. In their recounting, the three explore the conflicting testimonies of the parties involved in the crimes.…
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12.Back Roads(2019)
5.9CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
A young man cares for his younger sisters after their mother is imprisoned for murdering their abusive father. When he strikes up an affair with a married woman, long-dormant family secrets bubble to the surface.
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13.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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15.Breaking In(2018)
5.9ActionCrimeThrillerAlso thriller
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on…
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16.The Lords of Discipline(1983)
6.6DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to…
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17.Martha Marcy May Marlene(2011)
6.6DramaThrillerAlso drama and thriller
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in the cult make peace hard to find. As flashbacks continue to torment…
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18.Boys Don't Cry(1999)
7.4CrimeDramaAlso drama
A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.
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