Movies like Complete Unknown (2016)
The best movies like Complete Unknown (2016) are Black Butterfly (2017), Frank & Lola (2016) and Remember (2015). If Complete Unknown hooked you with its drama and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedRemember (2015)7.3/10 from 784 votes
- NewestCold Copy (2024)Released 2024
Black Butterfly (2017)
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrank & Lola (2016)
A talented Las Vegas chef falls in love with an aspiring fashion designer but turns violently jealous when he realizes that she's hiding dark secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisRemember (2015)
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLittle Men (2016)
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather's funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake's father, Brian, and Tony's mother, Leonor, threatens to become contentious.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Wife's Nightmare (2014)
Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBuster's Mal Heart (2017)
An eccentric mountain man on the run from the local sheriff recalls the mysterious events that brought him to his present fugitive state.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSand Storm (2016)
A Bedouin village in Northern Israel. When Jalila's husband marries a second woman, Jalila and her daughter's world is shattered, and the women are torn between their commitment to the patriarchal rules and being true to themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCome and Find Me (2016)
When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisKeane (2004)
William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day, as if hoping to change the outcome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUna (2017)
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCold Copy (2024)
A young broadcast journalism student is trying to win the approval of her influential mentor who pushes her to reconsider the meaning of truth if it means success.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Strangerland (2015)
Newly arrived to a remote desert town, Catherine and Matthew are tormented by a suspicion when their two teenage children mysteriously vanish.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisEden (2015)
After their plane crashes off the coast of a deserted Pacific island, the surviving members of an American soccer team find themselves in the most dire of circumstances with limited resources, dwindling food supply and no rescue coming any time soon. Team spirit evaporates as disagreements cause the group to separate into factions - a violent one lead by an unbalanced ruler, and a compassionate one led by a selfless player.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Motel Life (2013)
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnesthesia (2016)
Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFugitive Pieces (2008)
A child escapes from Poland during World War II and first heads to Greece before coming of age in Canada.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Felicia's Journey (1999)
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks an unsettling secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFierce People (2006)
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client in New Jersey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJamie Marks Is Dead (2014)
No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Wrong Roommate (2016)
Following a break-up with her unfaithful fiancé, a young college professor agrees to live at her sister’s and watch over the home and her 17 year old niece. Unbeknownst to her, a gorgeous tenant, who is friendly to her young niece, is living in the guest house. But things aren't that simple as this mysterious stranger turns out to have a troubled past with dangerous consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
The Fits (2016)
While training at the gym, 11-year-old tomboy Toni becomes entranced with a dance troupe. As she struggles to fit in, she finds herself caught up in danger as the group begins to suffer from fainting spells and other violent fits.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Quiet (2006)
After her widowed father dies, deaf teenager Dot moves in with her godparents, Olivia and Paul Deer. The Deers' daughter, Nina, is openly hostile to Dot, but that does not prevent her from telling her secrets to her silent stepsister, including the fact that she wants to kill her lecherous father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhite Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
In 1988, a teenage girl's life is thrown into chaos when her mother disappears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSilencio (2018)
In order to save her son's life, Ana embarks on a quest to find a powerful stone from the Zone of Silence in Mexico. Someone finds out the power the stone possesses and believes it is a power worth killing for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Bleeding Heart (2015)
Reserved yoga instructor May's peaceful, clean-living life is thrown out of balance by the arrival of her long-lost sister Shiva, a street-smart yet naive young woman trapped in an abusive relationship. May feels compelled to rescue the hapless Shiva, but she finds herself increasingly drawn out of her sedate world and deeper into Shiva's chaotic one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnconditional (2012)
A psychological romantic drama about teenage twins Owen and Kristen who fall under the sway of a charismatic young loan shark who offers love to one of them but on one condition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Tallulah (2016)
Desperate to be rid of her toddler, a dissatisfied Beverly Hills housewife hires a stranger to babysit and ends up getting much more than she bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbandoned (2016)
In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnduring Love (2004)
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, Claire. But as Joe and Claire prepare to open a bottle of champagne, their idyll comes to an abrupt end. A hot air balloon drifts into the field, obviously in trouble. The pilot catches his leg in the anchor rope, while the only passenger, a boy, is too scared to jump down. Joe and three other men rush to secure the basket. But fate has other ideas...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Complete Unknown?
The closest matches to Complete Unknown are Black Butterfly (2017), Frank & Lola (2016) and Remember (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Complete Unknown?
People who watched Complete Unknown most often go on to Black Butterfly (2017), Frank & Lola (2016) and Remember (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like Complete Unknown?
Remember (2015), rated 7.3/10 by 784 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Complete Unknown?
Cold Copy (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Complete Unknown?
Yes: Black Butterfly (2017), Frank & Lola (2016) and Remember (2015).
How are movies similar to Complete Unknown chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Complete Unknown, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.