Movies like The Lost Patient (2022)
The best movies like The Lost Patient (2022) are Fever Dream (2021), My Son (2017) and Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019). If The Lost Patient hooked you with its thriller and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Invisible Guest (2017)8.1/10 from 5,209 votes
- NewestGod's Crooked Lines (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchMy Son (2017)Also in French
Fever Dream (2021)
A woman named Amanda lies stricken, far from home. A young boy named David questions her, trying to make her remember. She's not his mother, he's not her son. As her time is running out, he helps her unravel a powerful, haunting story of obsessive jealousy, an invisible danger, and the power of a mother's love for her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Son (2017)
The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the latter disappears, he is forced to stand still, and soon discovers things about his ex-wife and, above all, his son. A terrible feeling of guilt overwhelms him and he decides to find his son at all costs...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTwin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019)
Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, 2019. Two corpses appear in the crypt of the Old Cathedral. Police officer Unai López de Ayala, an expert in criminal profiling, must hunt down the ritual murderer who has been terrorizing the city for two decades.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGod's Crooked Lines (2022)
Alice Gould, a private investigator, pretends to be mentally ill in order to enter a psychiatric hospital and gather evidence for the case she is working on: the death of a patient in unclear circumstances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMirage (2018)
During a mysterious thunderstorm, Vera, a young mother, manages to save a life in danger, but her good deed causes a disturbing chain of unexpected consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hidden Face (2011)
A Spanish orchestra conductor deals with the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Treatment (2014)
Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known sex offender, was questioned but quickly released. Plettinckx lives close by and takes fiendish pleasure in harassing Nick. Then, when a disturbing case comes to light involving a missing nine-year-old, Nick heads a massive search which turns into a relentless manhunt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Body (2012)
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLights Out (2010)
March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for class. Blood stains are found in a class-room. Run-away, kidnap, suicide, murder? A few days later, Laetitia, a student from the same class goes missing without her parents knowing where she has gone. A young girl with no dark background or connection to Simon. The next day, Jean-Baptiste, a third student, also disappears. Rumors start to spread. The psychosis begins...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMarshland (2014)
The Spanish Deep South, 1980. A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters – both detectives in the homicide division – to investigate the cases.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Invisible Guest (2017)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisForgotten (2012)
During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years later. Hanna is now married, has a seven-year-old daughter and is the chief resident physician at the hospital where she reunites with Clarissa. Her old friend has been brought to the hospital ER for overdosing on sleeping pills. The two women pick up their friendship where they left off and spontaneously decide to spend a few days on the island, just like in the old days. When Hanna learns that Maria, a playmate of hers from the island’s village, disappeared as a child and was never seen or heard from again, she begins to search in the past. Something horrible must have happened on the island and they must have been involved.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLemming (2005)
After the death of his boss's wife, a young engineer faces the sudden psychological metamorphosis of his own wife, seemingly possessed by the soul of the deceased...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Look Back (2009)
Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken over by another woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisPainless (2012)
While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCut Off (2018)
A coroner finds a capsule in the head of a heavily mutilated corpse, containing a phone number and single word: the name of his daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Legacy of the Bones (2019)
Inspector Amaia Salazar must return to the Baztan valley in order to solve a series of suicides that seem to follow a similar pattern.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisExit Plan (2019)
Insurance broker Max's life is about one thing - keeping his walnut brain tumour in check. He eats properly, exercises and lives properly, but all of this self-consciousness makes him more and more depressed. When he realises that his beloved wife plans to leave him, he decides to take his own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Pact (2018)
Suddenly, Clara, Mónica's daughter, falls into a deep coma. With Clara left to die, a mysterious man proposes Monica to make a pact: Clara will be saved if Mónica does something for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMother (2019)
Ten years have gone by since Elena's six-year old son has disappeared. The last thing she heard of him was a phone call he gave her, saying that he was lost on a beach in France and couldn't find his father. Nowadays, Elena lives on this same beach and manages a restaurant. She is finally beginning to emerge from this tragic episode when she meets a French teenager who strongly reminds her of her lost son. The two of them will embark on a relationship which will sow chaos and distrust around them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlack Tide (2018)
When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBoy Missing (2016)
When her son's alleged kidnapper is released for lack of solid evidence, a reputable and well-known attorney takes matters into her own hands with unintended and spectacularly disastrous consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Chalk Line (2022)
After a couple finds a traumatized child of unknown origins, wife Paula must decipher the girl's strange behaviors to unlock her identity and dark past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFree Country (2020)
Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. Did they run away from home or did something more terrible happen to them?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll That Matters Is Past (2012)
Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past-and the menacing presence of William's pathologically jealous brother — in this haunting story from celebrated Norwegian director Sara Johnsen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
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 fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPerdida (2018)
A policewoman whose childhood friend disappeared in Patagonia years ago starts a new search to find answers, and soon finds her own life in danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Door (2009)
A successful artist loses control of his life after his young daughter's death. A chance for a new start appears, but all is not what it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Translators (2019)
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Kiss and a Promise (2012)
In a quiet Ontario town, a small Bed and Breakfast dwells with a perverse secret. David Beck, a closet sociopath, but seemingly normal man, runs the B & B with his wife Samantha, a fiery woman with masochistic tendencies. The harmony of the house is disrupted when a young girl's body is found on the edge of town and veteran police Detective Anthony Dolan suspects David of the murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Lost Patient?
The closest matches to The Lost Patient are Fever Dream (2021), My Son (2017) and Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Lost Patient?
People who watched The Lost Patient most often go on to Fever Dream (2021), My Son (2017) and Twin Murders: The Silence of the White City (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Lost Patient?
The Invisible Guest (2017), rated 8.1/10 by 5,209 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Lost Patient?
God's Crooked Lines (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Lost Patient?
Yes: My Son (2017), Lights Out (2010) and Lemming (2005).
How are movies similar to The Lost Patient chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Lost Patient, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.