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Movies that feel likeEyes Wide Shut (1999)

After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.

If you loved Eyes Wide Shut, the closest films we have are Basic Instinct (1992), Thelma (2017) and The Master (2012). All three share Eyes Wide Shut's obsessive feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Joint Security Area (2000).

πŸ… 77% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.5 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Stanley Kubrickcontemplativetensetwistyobsessivedread
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Basic Instinct
1992 Β· dir. Paul Verhoeven
πŸ… 56%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mysteryParamount+

Desire tipping into danger as a marriage-shaking obsession takes over

The difference: A murder-suspect thriller with a femme fatale, not a marital descent

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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Thelma
2017 Β· dir. Joachim Trier
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.9drama Β· mystery Β· thriller

A hidden self surfacing through obsession that can't be reasoned away

The difference: A supernatural coming-of-age story, not an adult marriage in crisis

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

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The Master
2012 Β· dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.1drama

A man pulled toward a charismatic, secretive world he can't quite leave

The difference: A postwar cult drama, not a single night's marital unraveling

Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World War II.

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Blue Velvet
1986 Β· dir. David Lynch
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.7mystery Β· thriller Β· crime

A respectable surface hiding a secret world of obsession and danger

The difference: A small-town crime investigation, not a marriage under strain

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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Joint Security Area
2000 Β· dir. Park Chan-wook
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.7drama Β· thriller Β· mystery

The same mix in both: stillness, then tension

The difference: Easier on the obsession than Eyes Wide Shut

Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The lead investigator (Lee Young-ae) receives differing accounts from the two sides.

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The Crimson Rivers
2000 Β· dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.9crime Β· mystery Β· thriller

Twisty and dread-soaked in the same breath

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Eyes Wide Shut does

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.

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The Number 23
2007 Β· dir. Joel Schumacher
πŸ… 7%β˜… 6.4thriller Β· mystery Β· crime

An obsession that quietly takes over a man's whole sense of reality

The difference: A numerology-thriller puzzle box, not a marriage's sexual undercurrent

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

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8MM
1999 Β· dir. Joel Schumacher
πŸ… 23%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· crime Β· mystery

One glimpse into a hidden sexual underworld a man can't walk away from

The difference: A snuff-film investigation thriller, far grimmer than a marital spiral

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

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The Ninth Gate
1999 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 44%β˜… 6.7mystery Β· thriller Β· horror

A quiet obsession leads somewhere far darker, one clue at a time

The difference: An occult book-hunting mystery, not a marriage's sexual reckoning

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

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The Girl on the Train
2016 Β· dir. Tate Taylor
πŸ… 44%β˜… 6.5crime Β· mystery Β· thrillerStarz

Both rooted in New York City

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

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The Devil's Advocate
1997 Β· dir. Taylor Hackford
πŸ… 65%β˜… 7.5horror Β· drama Β· mystery

Ambition and desire pulling someone into something dangerously secret

The difference: A literal deal-with-the-devil plot, more supernatural than psychological

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

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Unbreakable
2000 Β· dir. M. Night Shyamalan
πŸ… 71%β˜… 7.3thriller Β· drama Β· mystery

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead β€” and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his bones as fragile as glass.

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