Movies like Promising Young Woman
Promising Young Woman (2020) is a thriller movie directed by Emerald Fennell. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. The Last House on the Left (2009)
★ 6.5 · 2,038 votes · Crime, Thriller, Horror
When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.
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2. Nightcrawler (2014)
★ 7.7 · 12,159 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
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3. My Friend Dahmer (2017)
★ 6.5 · 666 votes · History, Drama, Crime
Jeffrey Dahmer struggles with a difficult family life as a young boy. During his teenage years he slowly transforms, edging closer to the serial killer he was to become.
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4. Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)
★ 6.9 · 11,048 votes · Action, Crime
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare diamond from a crime lord.
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5. The Iceman (2012)
★ 6.6 · 1,198 votes · Thriller, Crime, Drama
The true story of Richard Kuklinski, the notorious contract killer and family man.
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6. 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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7. Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)
★ 6.5 · 969 votes · Drama, Thriller, Mystery
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
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8. Cape Fear (1991)
★ 7.3 · 4,054 votes · Drama, Crime, 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 gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
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9. Copycat (1995)
★ 6.5 · 1,360 votes · Thriller, Crime, Mystery
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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10. Ms .45 (1981)
★ 6.7 · 422 votes · Crime, Thriller, Action
After being attacked and raped twice in one day, a timid, mute seamstress becomes a violent agent of revenge for wronged women.
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11. The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7 · 584 votes · Thriller, Drama
A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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12. Super Dark Times (2017)
★ 6.5 · 702 votes · Drama, Thriller
Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
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