Movies like The Baby Swindler (2023)
The best movies like The Baby Swindler (2023) are Expectant (2020), Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard (2023) and Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012). If The Baby Swindler hooked you with its tv movie and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedSuccubus (2024)8.3/10 from 280 votes
- NewestAnimals (2026)Released 2026
Expectant (2020)
A pregnant woman finds herself in serious danger when she agrees to live with the couple who plan to adopt her unborn child.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard (2023)
Based on a true story of best friends Magen and Heidi who have known each other for a decade. Pretending to be pregnant at the same time as her friend, Magen makes the journey from Houston to Austin to be by Heidi’s side once she learns she is ready to give birth. However, when Heidi goes missing with her newborn daughter just a few weeks after giving birth, suspicions about Magen’s loyalty and her true intentions are questioned. Authorities begin to suspect that she is hiding a huge secret as they begin to uncover her twisted and elaborate plan.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTaken Back: Finding Haley (2012)
Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Neighbor in the Window (2020)
A suburban wife finds herself and the security of her family threatened by another seemingly friendly neighborhood mom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHostage House (2021)
A realtor and her daughter are taken hostage by armed robbers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhen the Bough Breaks (2016)
A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBreaking In (2018)
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tall Man (2012)
When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCarolina Caroline (2026)
A young woman, desperate to leave her small town, runs away with a charming con man, embarking on a crime and passion-filled journey through the Southeast to find her estranged mother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecret Ceremony (1968)
A penniless woman meets a strange girl who insists she is her long-lost mother and becomes enmeshed in a web of deception, and perhaps madness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGone Girl (2014)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisBunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDrop (2025)
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 begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Runner (2026)
Maia Marten, a brilliant London lawyer, has her life shattered by a single call on her morning run: her son has been taken. To get him back, she must keep running, obey every ruthless command, and trust no one-each second a test of how far a mother will go to save her child.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCleveland Abduction (2015)
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Dead Girl (2006)
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGone (2012)
Jill Conway is trying to rebuild her life after escaping a terrifying kidnapping. Though she is having a difficult time, she takes small steps toward normalcy by starting a new job and inviting her sister, Molly, to move in with her. Returning home from work one morning, Jill discovers that Molly has vanished, and she is certain that the same man who previously abducted her has returned for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuccubus (2024)
A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he could have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisVillage of the Damned (1995)
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids are not human or humane.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnimals (2026)
When the son of an L.A. mayoral candidate is kidnapped, he and his wife have a few hours to come up with the ransom payment. With most of their money spent on his political campaign, they have to get their hands dirty and expose a side of their lives they never intended to see the light of day.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy Amish Double Life (2025)
By day Emma is a good Amish girl, but by night she sneaks out with her Amish friend, Rebecca, and together they lead a double life, going to clubs, flirting with boys, and falling in love in the forbidden “English” world. When Emma accidentally witnesses a murder while out, her life and community is thrown into peril.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Lethal Desire (2025)
When Ava and Julien discover that their new neighbors, Mackenzie and Theo, are swingers, they decide to try out the lifestyle in an effort to spice up their failing marriage. But after Theo turns up dead, Ava becomes the prime suspect in his murder. Desperate to prove her innocence, she searches for the truth even as her own husband comes to distrust her. Ava’s search leads her into the hidden world of swingers, where she encounters jealousy, lies and deceit, before uncovering a secret that’s been living closer to home than she ever realized.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
The Last Woman Who Lived Here (2025)
Seeking a fresh start, Charlotte and her husband, Joel, pack up their lives in the big city and head to the suburbs, where they find an incredible deal on a beautiful home. Yet all is not what it seems. Their house is “the murder house”, and Charlotte soon finds clues left by the former resident before her murder, making her question which one of their neighbors knew all along and have been covering it up.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden (1990)
Since the death of her husband, a yellow cheetah has been the companion of the attractive Miriam. When the animal falls ill, the woman seeks the help of veterinarian François. The married vet falls for Miriam's mysterious charm and cannot resist her mysterious attraction. Little by little, strange things begin to happen...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
The Wrong Obsession (2025)
Lisa tries to mend her marriage with Mark after her old boyfriend, Jake, starts working with her. While Lisa's boss, Sabrina warns her not to get too close, Jake's obsession with her becomes even more dangerous and unstable.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Deadly Girls Trip (2025)
On vacation with her gal pals, Lacey's friend Janice is found dead. The other women tell the police she must have fallen, but Lacey is sure they are each covering up a deadly secret that they'll do anything to protect.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Kidnapped by a Killer: The Heather Robinson Story (2025)
This is the TRUE STORY of how Heather Robinson grew up in a loving family in Illinois and, by the time she was a teen, had long known that she had been adopted as an infant. But in 2000, the then-15-year-old’s world was shattered when she learned that the man she knew as her uncle, John Robinson, was actually a serial killer accused of murdering multiple women in the Kansas City area, including her biological mother. Following her uncle’s arrest, Heather learns the shocking truth about her birth mother’s disappearance.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Caddo Lake (2024)
When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFlowers in the Attic (1987)
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHarvest Love (2017)
A young widow and her nine year-old son spend a week at her family’s pear farm in Washington state, where they both fall in love with small town farm life, and she falls for the guy who has been managing the farm.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Baby Swindler?
The closest matches to The Baby Swindler are Expectant (2020), Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard (2023) and Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Baby Swindler?
Start with Expectant (2020), the closest match to The Baby Swindler.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Baby Swindler?
Succubus (2024), rated 8.3/10 by 280 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Baby Swindler?
Animals (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Baby Swindler?
Yes: Expectant (2020), Stolen Baby: The Murder of Heidi Broussard (2023) and Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012).
How are movies similar to The Baby Swindler chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Baby Swindler, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.