Movies like Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (2016)
The best movies like Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl (2016) are American Fable (2017), The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and The House of the Devil (2009). If Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl 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 ratedWe Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)7.5/10 from 3,265 votes
- NewestDead Mail (2024)Released 2024
American Fable (2017)
When 11-year-old Gitty discovers that her father, Abe, a good and beloved farmer, is holding a wealthy man hostage in their abandoned silo in order to save their suffering farm, she befriends the captive in secret. As the truth unfolds about who he is and what will happen if he escapes, Gitty chooses to confront the thin line between reality and fiction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Eyes of My Mother (2016)
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe House of the Devil (2009)
A young college student who’s struggling financially takes a strange babysitting job which coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret, putting her life in mortal danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boy (2015)
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFound (2012)
Marty is the ideal fifth grader—he gets good grades, listens to his teachers and doesn't start trouble in class. But a darkness is beginning to fall over Marty's life, the kids at school won't stop picking on him, his parents just don't seem to understand him, and now Marty must grapple with a terrible secret that threatens to destroy life as he knows it—his big brother is a serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThey Look Like People (2016)
Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPossum (2018)
A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisProxy (2014)
While walking home from her latest OB appointment, a very pregnant Esther Woodhouse is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. This horrible event seems to be a blessing in disguise when Esther finds consolation in a support group. Her life of sadness and solitude is opened up to friendship, understanding, and even acceptance. However, friendship and understanding can be very dangerous things when accepted by the wrong people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Sublet (2015)
The Sublet is a suspense driven psychological thriller about Joanna, a new mom coping with her baby alone in an odd sublet apartment. As her husband neglects her to focus on his career, Joanna questions her sanity as she discovers a violent past to the apartment and suspects that the building may be haunted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Tilt (2017)
All seems normal with Joseph and Joanne. Joanne is pregnant with their first child. Life in their little urban house is cozy and familiar. But something is off about Joseph. He doesn’t seem excited about the baby. Work on his documentary is becoming increasingly untethered. As Joseph struggles to maintain the routines of his domestic life, his mask begins to slip. Late at night, while Joanne thinks he is working, Joseph prowls the streets of Los Angeles, deliberately courting danger. Joanne is growing worried about Joseph’s odd behavior. But not as worried as she should be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Raw (2017)
Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisSun Choke (2015)
Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisPearl (2022)
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thismother! (2017)
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe Are What We Are (2013)
The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family matriarch forces daughters Iris and Rose to assume special responsibilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDevoured (2012)
Malevolent forces within the walls of an old restaurant torment a cleaning woman who is trying to earn enough money to pay for her son's operation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Swerve (2018)
The dark secrets of Holly's seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBerberian Sound Studio (2012)
In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisAntichrist (2009)
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVinyan (2008)
Six months after losing her only child in the Southeast Asia tsunami, Jeanne is convinced she sees him in a film about orphans living in the jungles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDead Mail (2024)
An ominous help note finds its way to a 1980s post office, connecting a dead letter investigator to a kidnapped keyboard technician.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Neon Demon (2016)
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSlut (2014)
A naive young girl becomes the target of a murderous sociopath when she attempts to reinvent herself to impress the boys in her small Texas town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Joshua (2007)
The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAyla (2017)
A man haunted by the mysterious death of his 4-year-old sister brings her back to life thirty years later as an adult woman, with dire consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHenry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEat (2014)
Novella McClure is like most struggling actresses in Los Angeles: she's in her early 30s, her fake name sounded cooler ten years ago, and she hasn't landed a role in three years. To top it all off, she's developed a disturbing habit of eating her own flesh. Novella desperately tries to hide her strange condition from her motherly landlord, Eesha, and somewhat psychopathic best friend, Candice, but her body and mind continue to deteriorate in the depressing world of failed auditions and sketchy night clubs. Can a romantic relationship with her psychiatrist prevent her from self destruction? Or will her fatal habit continue to eat away at her?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl?
The closest matches to Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl are American Fable (2017), The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and The House of the Devil (2009). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl?
People who watched Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl most often go on to American Fable (2017), The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and The House of the Devil (2009).
What is the highest-rated movie like Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl?
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), rated 7.5/10 by 3,265 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl?
Dead Mail (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl?
Yes: American Fable (2017), The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and The House of the Devil (2009).
How are movies similar to Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sweet, Sweet Lonely Girl, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.