20 movies like The Second Woman, ordered by similarity : Freaks(2018), Gone Girl(2014), The Headless Woman(2008), Killer Kate!(2018), The Rover(2014), Shadow of a Doubt(1943), Detour(2016), Don't Look Now(1973), The Holcroft Covenant(1985), Searching(2018), Evil Under the Sun(1982), Poltergeist(1982) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1951
91 Minutes
Robert Young Betsy Drake John Sutton Florence Bates Morris Carnovsky Henry O'Neill Jean Rogers Raymond Largay Shirley Ballard Vicki Raaf Jason Robards Sr.
architect insurance investigator psychologist father neighbor niece bleak brooding california beach household adultery guilt architecture bad luck paranoia car crash mystery revenge 1940s
In flashback from a 'Rebecca'-style beginning: Ellen Foster, visiting her aunt on the California coast, meets neighbor Jeff Cohalan and his ultramodern clifftop house. Ellen is strongly ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada
2018
105 Minutes
Emile Hirsch Zach Lipovsky Bruce Dern Lexy Kolker Amanda Crew Grace Park Matty Finochio Michelle Harrison Aleks Paunovic Dean Redman Ava Telek
young girl father stranger ice cream man agent mutant brooding dark bleak gripping house ice cream truck big city paranoia fear death threat truth danger growing up love
A bold girl discovers a bizarre, threatening, and mysterious new world beyond her front door after she escapes her father's protective and paranoid control.
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2014
149 Minutes
Ben Affleck Rosamund Pike Neil Patrick Harris Tyler Perry Kim Dickens Patrick Fugit Carrie Coon David Clennon Lisa Banes Missi Pyle Emily Ratajkowski
writer wife suspect police officer journalist police detective brooding dark intense bleak thrilling disheartening carthage house street police station car office disappearance illusions
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2008
89 Minutes
María Onetto Claudia Cantero César Bordón Daniel Genoud Guillermo Arengo Inés Efron Alicia Muxo Pía Uribelarrea María Vaner
businesswoman lover husband brother mother bleak dark profound argentina car house accident adultery guilt memory fall mystery temptation 21st century
Feelings of guilt haunt a woman (María Onetto) who might have killed someone in a hit-and-run accident.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
2018
80 Minutes
Alexandra Feld Danielle Burgess Tiffany Shepis Amaris Davidson Abby Eiland Grant Lyon Brandon Bales Preston Flagg
sister father bellhop killer dark bleak thrilling suspenseful party house desert car murder sisterhood self-defense revenge escape mystery pursuit 2010s
Kate attends her estranged sister's bachelorette party at the request of their dying father. The weekend, held at a remote cabin booked on a home sharing app, turns into a savage ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Australia|USA
2014
102 Minutes
Guy Pearce Robert Pattinson Scoot McNairy David Field Anthony Hayes Gillian Jones Susan Prior Richard Green Tawanda Manyimo James Fallon
drifter thief criminal gang leader gang member australian bleak brutal brooding wasteland camp outback town car house lawlessness revenge search greed battle
10 years after a global economic collapse, a hardened loner pursues the men who stole his only possession, his car. Along the way, he captures one of the thieves' brother, and the duo form an uneasy bond during the dangerous journey.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
1943
108 Minutes
Teresa Wright Joseph Cotten Hume Cronyn Macdonald Carey Henry Travers Patricia Collinge Edna May Wonacott Wallace Ford Irving Bacon Charles Bates Clarence Muse
uncle serial killer young girl neighbor detective widow dark suspenseful household small town murder surveillance poison newspapers paranoia infatuation pursuit mystery 1940s
A young girl, overjoyed when her favorite uncle comes to visit the family, slowly begins to suspect that he is in fact the "Merry Widow" killer sought by the authorities.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|South Africa|United Arab Emirates
2016
97 Minutes
Tye Sheridan Bel Powley Emory Cohen Gbenga Akinnagbe Jared Abrahamson John Lynch Stephen Moyer Reine Swart Nick Boraine Deon Lotz Danny Keogh
student stepfather mother grifter stripper bleak chilling engaging suspenseful house hospital car town murder plot family secrets mysterious strangers discovery escape fall mystery
A young law student blindly enters into a pact with a hoodlum who offers to kill his stepfather - a man he feels is responsible for the accident that sent his mother into a coma.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Italy
1973
110 Minutes
Julie Christie Donald Sutherland Hilary Mason Clelia Matania Massimo Serato Renato Scarpa Giorgio Trestini Leopoldo Trieste David Tree Ann Rye Nicholas Salter
architect wife daughter bishop psychic police detective emotional disturbing eerie venice, italy church england country house grief visions death of a child architecture psychic phenomena mystery 1970s
A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1985
112 Minutes
Michael Caine Anthony Andrews Victoria Tennant Lilli Palmer Mario Adorf Michael Lonsdale Bernard Hepton Richard Münch Carl Rigg André Penvern Andy Bradford
nazi nazi collaborator adolf hitler architect father son bleak thrilling suspenseful intense tense emotional new york city germany united states geneva nazi collaboration nazis money war crimes
The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Russia
2018
102 Minutes
John Cho Debra Messing Joseph Lee Michelle La Sara Sohn Alex Jayne Go Thomas Barbusca Gage Biltoft
daughter father police officer friend missing girl disturbing shocking intricate uneasy tense house room school party missing persons mystery father/daughter relationship investigation internet secrets
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1982
102 Minutes
Peter Ustinov Colin Blakely Jane Birkin Nicholas Clay Maggie Smith Roddy McDowall Sylvia Miles James Mason Denis Quilley Diana Rigg Emily Hone
murderer star murder victim investigator detective resort owner crafty engaging fascinating gripping passionate shocking yorkshire moors adriatic sea island resort hotel beach mystery murder
Trying to find how a millionaire wound up with a phony diamond brings Hercule Poirot (Sir Peter Ustinov) to an exclusive island resort frequented by the rich and famous. When a murder is committed, everyone has an alibi.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1982
114 Minutes
Craig T. Nelson JoBeth Williams Beatrice Straight Dominique Dunne Oliver Robins Heather O'Rourke Zelda Rubinstein Martin Casella Richard Lawson Michael McManus Virginia Kiser
father mother daughter son child parapsychologist creepy chilling fascinating frightening california household abduction ghosts television possession exorcism mystery transformation pursuit
A family's home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|UK|China
2014
101 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Michael Nyqvist Alfie Allen Willem Dafoe Dean Winters Adrianne Palicki Omer Barnea Toby Leonard Moore Bridget Moynahan John Alberto Leguizamo Ian McShane
assassin wife mobster thug puppy fat person brooding dark intense thrilling suspenseful sad house car club office street apartment retirement murder
An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
UK
2015
95 Minutes
Diana Vickers Tony Curran Rupert Hill Peter Woodward Adrian Bouchet Sophie Lovell Anderson
lawyer father daughter fiancée accident victim man bleak brutal intense suspenseful creepy dark house woods hideout horror accident father/daughter relationship murder tradition
Deep in the English moors, a sociopath preys on innocent people, until one day his secrets are finally revealed and an inevitable confrontation is at hand.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, History
USA|Sweden
2017
101 Minutes
Jason Clarke Kate Mara Ed Helms Bruce Dern Jim Gaffigan Olivia Thirlby Clancy Brown Taylor Nichols Andria Blackman Tamara Hickey Victor Warren
man politician victim coworker campaign manager investigator tense uneasy dark disturbing shocking massachusetts car house ocean study bridge true crime historical events political campaign
Depicting Ted Kennedy's involvement in the fatal 1969 car accident that claims the life of a young campaign strategist, Mary Jo Kopechne.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Ireland|UK|USA
2017
121 Minutes
Bill Camp Raffey Cassidy Denise Dal Vera Colin Farrell Barry Keoghan Nicole Kidman Alicia Silverstone Sunny Suljic Ming Wang Barry G. Bernson Herb Caillouet
surgeon mother child teen boy teen girl dead person dark creepy disturbing emotional tense uneasy suburb hospital house revenge mysterious illness psychology vendetta death of father
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Isle Of Man
2016
84 Minutes
Vivica A. Fox Gary Daniels Robbie Davidson Tracy Nelson Stevanna Jackson Johnny Whitaker Helene Udy Jason Faunt Alissa Latow Jackie Christie
sociopath teen boy architect estranged son father daughter frightful gripping uneasy creepy chilling disturbing america evil child identity vengeance murder family grudge discovery
The inspirational story of how Dr. George Daniels rose from Dickensian poverty to become the finest watchmaker of the modern era and how Roger Smith embarked on an obsessive, seven-year ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2016
116 Minutes
Amy Adams Jake Gyllenhaal Michael Shannon Aaron Taylor-Johnson Isla Fisher Armie Hammer Ellie Bamber Laura Linney Andrea Riseborough Michael Sheen Neil Jackson
art gallerist husband ex-husband author family member friend brooding chilling intense los angeles art gallery house bedroom beach car reading reality ex-husbands truth fiction writing
A wealthy art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a symbolic revenge tale.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Belgium|France
2016
113 Minutes
Adèle Haenel Jean-Pierre Dardenne Olivier Bonnaud Jérémie Renier Louka Minnella Christelle Cornil Nadège Ouedraogo Olivier Gourmet Pierre Sumkay Yves Larec Ben Hamidou
doctor intern mysterious girl murder victim detective family member brooding emotional intense belgium office france apartment police station car mystery guilt search intimidation determination
A doctor gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Chile|Israel
2015
99 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Ana de Armas Lorenza Izzo Ignacia Allamand Aaron Burns Colleen Camp Dan Baily Antonio Quercia
keanu reeves architect married man wife young woman seducer bleak chilling suspenseful rousing passionate thrilling house bathroom backyard seduction relationships marriage sexual abuse rape
A devoted father helps two stranded young women who knock on his door, but his kind gesture turns into a dangerous seduction and a deadly game of cat and mouse.