Movies like Left Bank (2008)
The best movies like Left Bank (2008) are A New Life (2002), The Intruder (2005) and Loft (2008). If Left Bank hooked you with its drama and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)7.7/10 from 1,167 votes
- NewestMegalomaniac (2023)Released 2023
A New Life (2002)
A young American drifts through a decaying Eastern European city, where his fixation on an elusive woman pulls him deeper into an underworld fueled by possession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Intruder (2005)
Tom Vansant is an emergency physician from Brussels who is desperately searching for his daughter who ran away from home and is now missing for eighteen months. He meets a girl of whom he thinks that she knows what happened to his daughter but the girl doesn't want to talk about her past. In his search to find out why she doesn't talk about it he ends up in a small village in the Ardennes where no one wants to help him discover what really happened.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Loft (2008)
Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNothing Bad Can Happen (2013)
Tore, a young lost soul involved with an underground Christian punk movement, falls in with a dysfunctional family who test his seemingly unwavering faith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBo (2010)
Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Skin I Live In (2011)
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSombre (1998)
A serial killer stalks a woman he befriended after her car broke down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn the House (2012)
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Girl from Nowhere (2013)
Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrouble Every Day (2001)
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
The loss of their young daughter threatens to destroy the love and faith of two married musicians.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMidsummer (2003)
It is the last day of school for Christian and his younger sister Sophie. They are heading to a party at his friend Trina. High school graduation is just around the corner and after the freedom and future. But behind the idyllic facade lurks tragedy and secrets. That evening Sophie commits suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Angel (2007)
Edwardian England. A precocious girl from a poor background with aspirations to being a novelist finds herself swept to fame and fortune when her tasteless romances hit the best seller lists. Her life changes in unexpected ways when she encounters an aristocratic brother and sister, both of whom have cultural ambitions, and both of whom fall in love with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMegalomaniac (2023)
Felix and Martha, the two offspring of legendary serial murderer The Skinner of Mons, grapple with the grotesque legacy bequeathed to them. While Martha works a menial janitorial job, Felix continues his father's reign of terror. But following a brutal attack at work, Martha quickly descends into madness, finding she must come to terms with the infamous blood that flows through her veins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisCode 37 (2011)
A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes clear that more students are active in the prostitution. Enough reason for Hannah and her team to go undercover in club Sin City, a port for everyone who avoids the daylight and for girls who pick up their customers. When Hannah and her team investigate that the owner of both the sex-theatre as Sin City are Roos' uncle, the whole case takes a personal turn. In the first place for Hannah, because she knows as no-one else how heavy family secrets can weigh....
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Next Door (2005)
After Ingrid leaves John, he allows himself to be pulled into a mystical and scary world where it is impossible to separate truth from lies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome (2016)
After 17-year-old Kevin is released from prison for violent behavior he goes to live with his aunt and her family including Sammy, his cousin. While apprenticing as a plumber he starts to integrate with Sammy’s group of friends who are still in high school. Like all teenagers they just want to party and ignore any responsibilities, but one of them is hiding a problem at home that will put the entire group in jeopardy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Remember You (2017)
After an older lady hangs herself in a church, a new psychiatrist discovers she was obsessed with the disappearance of his eight-year-old son, who vanished three years earlier. Meanwhile, three city dwellers are restoring a house when they realize it is haunted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCaged (2011)
After years of suppressing her desires, Stella finds she can no longer ignore her deep-rooted longings. Breaking out of her cage and starting a secret double-life, Stella transforms into a "unicorn", a nickname for single women who indulge in a hedonistic lifestyle, visiting sex clubs and erotic parties, and flourishing with all the new attention. Even as her husband uncovers his Stella's secret life, he can't do much more than give her the freedom that she obviously needs, in the hope it's all just a phase. Then one day she finds herself lying unconscious in a basement cell, with no idea how she arrived there. Days go by when an other woman is brought into her cell. Christine, a woman about the same age. In the following days they reveal their life stories to one other. Christine is convinced that the reason for their captivity lies in Stella's lifestyle.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBerlin Syndrome (2017)
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in an abandoned Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBliss (2017)
After she gets into a film-production accident that leaves her crippled, successful actress Jane Ciego slowly transitions into madness after experiencing horrors and torture in her own home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Caged (2010)
Somewhere in Eastern Europe. Carole is a young nurse with a humanitarian aid group that has reached the end of its mission. But just then, the young woman and her two colleagues are kidnapped by strangers for mysterious reasons. Held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn Their Sleep (2010)
Sarah's life is in pieces after the brutal death of her 18 year-old son. One night, her car accidentally hits Arthur, a young man the same age as her boy who is running from a burglar. Sarah sympathizes with him and takes him in, only to be tracked down by the burglar whose murderous rage towards Arthur forces her to take action.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Caché (2005)
As the host of a literary TV show, Georges begins receiving anonymously filmed videos of his family alongside cryptic, disturbing drawings, but as the tapes become increasingly intimate, they reveal a stalker who has known him for a very long time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Misfortunates (2009)
13-year-old Gunther Strobbe grows up surrounded by alcohol, trash and his completely useless father and uncles. Slowly but surely, he's being prepared for the same hapless life. Can he defy his destiny?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet's Scare Jessica to Death (1971)
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady in a Cage (1964)
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Left Bank?
The closest matches to Left Bank are A New Life (2002), The Intruder (2005) and Loft (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Left Bank?
People who watched Left Bank most often go on to A New Life (2002), The Intruder (2005) and Loft (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like Left Bank?
The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012), rated 7.7/10 by 1,167 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Left Bank?
Megalomaniac (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Left Bank chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Left Bank, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.