Movies like Hard Candy
Hard Candy (2006) is a thriller movie directed by David Slade. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Equalizer (2014)
★ 7.3 · 10,285 votes · Thriller, Action, Crime
McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.
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2. Cold Fish (2011)
★ 6.9 · 426 votes · Drama, Thriller, Crime
When fish shop owner Shamoto's teenage daughter Mitsuko is caught stealing, a generous middle-aged man named Murata helps resolve the situation. The man and his wife offer to have Mitsuko work at their opposing fish store. Shamoto soon discovers that something far more sinister lives behind Murata's friendly demeanor.
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3. The Neon Demon (2016)
★ 6.5 · 4,043 votes · Horror, Thriller
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
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4. The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
★ 6.5 · 824 votes · Horror, Mystery, Crime
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever seen.
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5. Caché (2005)
★ 7.0 · 1,320 votes · Mystery, Drama, Thriller
As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has known him for a very long time.
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6. The Crow (1994)
★ 7.5 · 4,710 votes · Fantasy, Action, Thriller
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.
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7. Death Proof (2007)
★ 6.8 · 5,843 votes · Action, Thriller
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
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8. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
★ 7.4 · 7,860 votes · Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
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9. Chinatown (1974)
★ 7.9 · 4,446 votes · Crime, Mystery, 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 that come crashing together.
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10. Basic Instinct (1992)
★ 7.0 · 4,575 votes · Thriller, Mystery
Catherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
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11. The Dark Knight (2008)
★ 8.5 · 36,970 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.
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12. Rear Window (1954)
★ 8.3 · 7,422 votes · Thriller, Mystery, Drama
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
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13. Irreversible (2002)
★ 7.2 · 3,460 votes · Drama, Thriller, Crime
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a natural impulse. Because most crimes remain unpunished.
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14. Trust (2010)
★ 6.6 · 1,069 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her parents are shattered by their daughter's actions and struggle to support her as she comes to terms with what has happened to her once innocent life.
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15. Valkyrie (2008)
★ 7.0 · 4,240 votes · Drama, Thriller, War
Wounded in Africa during World War II, Nazi Col. Claus von Stauffenberg returns to his native Germany and joins the Resistance in a daring plan to create a shadow government and assassinate Adolf Hitler. When events unfold so that he becomes a central player, he finds himself tasked with both leading the coup and personally killing the Führer.
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16. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
★ 7.0 · 4,618 votes · Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
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17. Saw III (2006)
★ 6.4 · 5,118 votes · Horror, Thriller, Crime
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detectives scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.
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18. Memories of Murder (2003)
★ 8.1 · 4,873 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A sadistic serial rapist and murderer of young women terrorizes a small province in 1980s South Korea. To prevent further crimes, three increasingly desperate detectives with conflicting methods race against time to unravel the violent mind of the killer in a futile effort to solve the case.
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19. Nightmare Alley (2021)
★ 6.9 · 3,516 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
An ambitious carnival man with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychologist who is even more dangerous than he is.
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20. Natural Born Killers (1994)
★ 7.0 · 3,949 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
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