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Movies that feel likeSecret Window (2004)

Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

If you loved Secret Window, the closest films we have are Red Eye (2005), Disturbia (2007) and Lost Highway (1997). All three share Secret Window's twisty and tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Three Days of the Condor (1975).

🍅 46% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. David Koepptwistytenseparanoidlonely
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Red Eye
2005 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 80%★ 6.4thriller · mysteryParamount+

Both land twists and tension at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

An overnight flight to Miami quickly becomes a battle for survival when Lisa realizes her seatmate plans to use her as part of a chilling assassination plot against the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security. If she refuses to cooperate, her own father will be killed. As the miles tick by, she's in a race against time to find a way to warn the potential victims before it's too late.

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Disturbia
2007 · dir. D.J. Caruso
🍅 69%★ 6.8thriller · drama · mysteryParamount+

One thread runs through both: paranoia

The difference: Trades the loneliness of Secret Window for an angle of its own

Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.

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Lost Highway
1997 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 70%★ 7.6drama · thriller · mystery

Both are working the same pair: jealousy, nightmare

The difference: Easier on the loneliness than Secret Window

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

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Pi
1998 · dir. Darren Aronofsky
🍅 88%★ 7.3mystery · drama · thrillerPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Secret Window does

A mathematical genius discovers a link between numbers and reality, and thus believes he can predict the future.

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The Conversation
1974 · dir. Francis Ford Coppola
🍅 94%★ 7.7crime · drama · mystery

Common ground: isolation

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

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Enemy
2014 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 74%★ 6.9thriller · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: nightmare

A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

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Angels & Demons
2009 · dir. Ron Howard
🍅 36%★ 6.7thriller · mysteryNetflixStarz

Paranoid mystery, and it commits to that

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

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Suicide Room
2011 · dir. Jan Komasa
★ 6.6drama · mystery · thrillerRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: isolation

Moody, dark, and handsome Dominik is terrorized at school, after video footage of his drunken kiss with classmate Aleksandr goes viral. Grappling with public humiliation, Dominik seeks solace in an avatar based "suicide room," where the pink-haired rebel Sylwia consoles him.

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Three Days of the Condor
1975 · dir. Sydney Pollack
🍅 88%★ 7.4thriller · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on thriller

When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

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The Gorge
2025 · dir. Scott Derrickson
🍅 62%★ 6.7romance · science fiction · thrillerApple TV+

Thriller with a pulse of loneliness, in both cases

Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.

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The Commuter
2018 · dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
🍅 55%★ 6.3action · thriller · mysteryHulu

Mystery built on tension, twice over

A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

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The Game
1997 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 77%★ 7.7drama · thriller · mystery

Paranoid mystery in both cases

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nary a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

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