Movies like Lady in a Cage (1964)
The best movies like Lady in a Cage (1964) are Strait-Jacket (1964), The Terror (1963) and The Premature Burial (1962). If Lady in a Cage 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 ratedWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)7.9/10 from 1,218 votes
- NewestNight Watch (1973)Released 1973
Strait-Jacket (1964)
After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Terror (1963)
Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie baron.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Premature Burial (1962)
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational fear of premature burial consumes him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Night Walker (1964)
A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFanatic (1965)
A young woman is terrorized by her former fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death. Also known as Die! Die! My Darling!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightmare (1964)
A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Saw What You Did (1965)
Teenage friends Kit and Libby make prank phone calls for fun but then find themselves involved in a brutal double murder committed by one of their targets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisTaste of Fear (1961)
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhat Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969)
An aging widow hides a deadly secret which she will do anything to keep buried.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMacabre (1958)
After his wife and her blind sister have died under his care, a doctor's young daughter is kidnapped and reported as buried alive, leaving him with mere hours to find and rescue her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHomicidal (1961)
A woman named Emily checks into a hotel and offers the bellboy $2000 to temporarily marry her. We soon find out Emily is the caretaker of a wheelchair-bound mute named Helga, who was the childhood guardian of a pair of siblings: Miriam Webster and her half-brother, Warren, who is about to inherit the estate of their late father. Who is the mysterious Emily and what are her intentions?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDementia 13 (1963)
A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Usher (1960)
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop arrives at the crumbling estate to claim his bride, Roderick goes to ruthless—even deadly—lengths to keep them apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBerserk! (1967)
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCarnival of Souls (1962)
Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNightmare (1956)
Clarinetist Stan has a nightmare about killing a man in a mirrored room. But when he wakes up and finds blood marks on himself and a key from the dream, he suspects that it may have truly happened.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGames (1967)
Wealthy and bored, Paul and Jennifer Montgomery spend their time in a New York City apartment filled with various amusements. Their routine is upended when door-to-door saleswoman Lisa Schindler drops by and is suddenly taken ill. The couple let her spend the night, and soon, the sophisticated Lisa and her hosts embark on a new set of very adult – and very dangerous – games.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Screaming Woman (1972)
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Nanny (1965)
Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEye of the Devil (1966)
A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sadist (1963)
Three people driving into Los Angeles for a Dodgers game have car trouble and pull off into an old wrecking yard where they are held at bay by a bloodthirsty psycho and his crazy girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShock Corridor (1963)
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDead Ringer (1964)
The working class twin sister of a callous wealthy woman impulsively murders her out of revenge and assumes the identity of the dead woman. But impersonating her dead twin is more complicated and risky than she anticipated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
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: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight of Dark Shadows (1971)
Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Watch (1973)
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Lady in a Cage?
The closest matches to Lady in a Cage are Strait-Jacket (1964), The Terror (1963) and The Premature Burial (1962). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Lady in a Cage?
People who watched Lady in a Cage most often go on to Strait-Jacket (1964), The Terror (1963) and The Premature Burial (1962).
What is the highest-rated movie like Lady in a Cage?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), rated 7.9/10 by 1,218 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Lady in a Cage?
Night Watch (1973) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Lady in a Cage?
Yes: Strait-Jacket (1964), The Terror (1963) and The Premature Burial (1962).
How are movies similar to Lady in a Cage chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Lady in a Cage, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.