
44 Movies Like Shutter Island (2010) You Need to Watch Next
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a
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If you loved Shutter Island (2010) by Martin Scorsese, here are 44 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Deep Water, Gone Girl, Leave the World Behind. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
44 Movies Similar to Shutter Island

Deep Water
2022 · Adrian Lyne
A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Gone Girl
2014 · David Fincher
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.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Leave the World Behind
2023 · Sam Esmail
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Serenity
2019 · Steven Knight
The quiet life of Baker Dill, a fishing boat captain who lives on the isolated Plymouth Island, where he spends his days obsessed with capturing an elusive tuna while fighting his personal demons, is
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Mulholland Drive
2001 · David Lynch
Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmm
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Vertigo
1958 · Alfred Hitchcock
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Nightcrawler
2014 · Dan Gilroy
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
In common: Drama · Thriller

The Silence of the Lambs
1991 · Jonathan Demme
Clarice Starling is a top student at the FBI's training academy. Jack Crawford wants Clarice to interview Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist who is also a violent psychopath, serving life
In common: Drama · Thriller

Kiss the Girls
1997 · Gary Fleder
Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women an
In common: Drama · Mystery

The Sixth Sense
1999 · M. Night Shyamalan
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Drop
2025 · Christopher Landon
Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry b
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Rebecca
1940 · Alfred Hitchcock
Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died mysteriously several years earlier. The young wife must
In common: Drama · Mystery

The Housemaid
2025 · Paul Feig
Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dang
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Blink Twice
2024 · Zoë Kravitz
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic sett
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Arlington Road
1999 · Mark Pellington
Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed — and increasingly paranoid — since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. When a seemingly all-American couple set up hous
In common: Drama · Mystery

Unthinkable
2010 · Gregor Jordan
The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly
In common: Drama · Thriller

The Guilty
2021 · Antoine Fuqua
A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
In common: Drama · Thriller

Eyes Wide Shut
1999 · Stanley Kubrick
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
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

The Invisible Guest
2017 · Oriol Paulo
Barcelona, Spain. Adrián Doria, a young and successful businessman accused of murder, meets one night with Virginia Goodman, an expert interrogation lawyer, in order to devise a defense strategy.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Rear Window
1954 · Alfred Hitchcock
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Monster
2023 · Hirokazu Kore-eda
After an outburst at school involving her son, a concerned single mother demands answers, triggering a sequence of deepening suspicion and turmoil.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

The Game
1997 · David Fincher
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
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Wild Things
1998 · John McNaughton
When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighting to get his life b
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

The Killing of a Sacred Deer
2017 · Yorgos Lanthimos
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 fath
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

The Firm
1993 · Sydney Pollack
Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on h
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Disturbia
2007 · D.J. Caruso
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 beauti
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

The Village
2004 · M. Night Shyamalan
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Chloe
2010 · Atom Egoyan
Catherine and David Stewart are a well-to-do couple living in a posh area of Toronto, but all is not well in paradise. Catherine suspects that David is cheating on her, so she hires an escort named Ch
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Burning
2018 · Lee Chang-dong
Deliveryman Jong-su is out on a job when he runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Lost Highway
1997 · David Lynch
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

The Name of the Rose
1986 · Jean-Jacques Annaud
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, Willi
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Murder on the Orient Express
1974 · Sidney Lumet
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

Gosford Park
2001 · Robert Altman
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a s
In common: Drama · Mystery · Thriller

The Outfit
2022 · Graham Moore
Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town wher
In common: Drama · Mystery

Oldboy
2003 · Park Chan-wook
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
In common: Drama · Mystery

Basic Instinct
1992 · Paul Verhoeven
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.
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Identity
2003 · James Mangold
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other,
In common: Mystery · Thriller

The Girl on the Train
2016 · Tate Taylor
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
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · Brad Anderson
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Watcher
2022 · Chloe Okuno
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
In common: Mystery · Thriller

L.A. Confidential
1997 · Curtis Hanson
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Chinatown
1974 · Roman Polanski
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
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Bad Times at the El Royale
2018 · Drew Goddard
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemptio
In common: Mystery · Thriller

Misery
1990 · Rob Reiner
After an accident, acclaimed novelist Paul Sheldon is rescued by a nurse who claims to be his biggest fan. Her obsession takes a dark turn when she holds him captive in her remote Colorado home and f
In common: Drama · Thriller