50 Movies Like The Girl on the Train (2016) You Need to Watch Next
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
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If you loved The Girl on the Train (2016) by Tate Taylor, here are 50 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 Kiss the Girls, Along Came a Spider, The Housemaid. 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.
50 Movies Similar to The Girl on the Train
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
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Along Came a Spider
2001 · Lee Tamahori
After the harrowing death of his partner, forensic psychologist and best-selling author Alex Cross cannot forgive himself and has retreated to the peace of retirement. But when a brilliant criminal ki
In common: Crime · 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
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
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
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A Haunting in Venice
2023 · Kenneth Branagh
Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Forgotten
2017 · Chang Hang-jun
Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
8MM
1999 · Joel Schumacher
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
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
The Woman in Cabin 10
2025 · Simon Stone
On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth.
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Solace
2015 · Afonso Poyart
A psychic doctor, John Clancy, works with an FBI special agent in search of a serial killer.
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Copycat
1995 · Jon Amiel
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
The Accountant²
2025 · Gavin O'Connor
When an old acquaintance is murdered, Wolff is compelled to solve the case. Realizing more extreme measures are necessary, Wolff recruits his estranged and highly lethal brother, Brax, to help. In par
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
2011 · David Fincher
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander.
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Cleaner
2007 · Renny Harlin
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shock
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Death on the Nile
2022 · Kenneth Branagh
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut sho
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
The Killer
2023 · David Fincher
After a fateful miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.
In common: Crime · 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: Crime · Mystery
Panic Room
2002 · David Fincher
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and
In common: Crime · Thriller
Cape Fear
1991 · Martin Scorsese
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
In common: Crime · 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: Mystery · Thriller
The Chaser
2008 · Na Hong-jin
Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue t
In common: Crime · Thriller
Joker
2019 · Todd Phillips
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
In common: Crime · Thriller
American Psycho
2000 · Mary Harron
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
In common: Crime · Thriller
Zodiac
2007 · David Fincher
Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dwindles in the eyes o
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Mystic River
2003 · Clint Eastwood
The lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them suffers a family tragedy.
In common: Crime · Mystery
A Walk Among the Tombstones
2014 · Scott Frank
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
In common: Crime · Mystery
It Was Just an Accident
2025 · Jafar Panahi
An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor.
In common: Crime · Mystery
Reptile
2023 · Grant Singer
Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own
In common: Crime · Mystery
The Bone Collector
1999 · Phillip Noyce
Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder i
In common: Crime · Mystery
Edge of Darkness
2010 · Martin Campbell
As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's kil
In common: Crime · Mystery
Double Jeopardy
1999 · Bruce Beresford
Libby Parsons, wrongly convicted of her husband Nick's murder, thinks he is still alive. She survives the long years in prison with two burning desires sustaining her -- finding her son and solving th
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Primal Fear
1996 · Gregory Hoblit
Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His latest case involves an altar boy, accused of brutally murdering the archbishop of Chic
In common: Crime · Mystery
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: 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: Mystery · Thriller
Clue
1985 · Jonathan Lynn
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, th
In common: Crime · Mystery
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: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Striking Distance
1993 · Rowdy Herrington
Coming from a police family, Tom Hardy ends up fighting his uncle after the murder of his father. Tom believes the killer is another cop, and goes on the record with his allegations. Demoted to water-
In common: Crime · Mystery
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: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Survivor
2015 · James McTeigue
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.
In common: Crime · Mystery
The Call
2013 · Brad Anderson
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted
In common: Crime · Thriller
Eastern Promises
2007 · David Cronenberg
A Russian teenager living in London dies during childbirth but leaves clues in her diary that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
In common: Crime · 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
Get Out
2017 · Jordan Peele
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interr
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
Wind River
2017 · Taylor Sheridan
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
In common: Crime · Mystery
Blue Velvet
1986 · David Lynch
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
In common: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
Mindhunters
2004 · Renny Harlin
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were Non
In common: Crime · 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: Crime · Mystery · Thriller
The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Anthony Minghella
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy t
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