Movies like Shimmer Lake (2017)
The best movies like Shimmer Lake (2017) are Juggernaut (2017), Wind River (2017) and Bullet Head (2017). If Shimmer Lake hooked you with its thriller and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedWind River (2017)7.4/10 from 6,066 votes
- NewestDepravity (2024)Released 2024
Juggernaut (2017)
After a lengthy absence, a small-town outlaw returns to his hometown, violently obsessed with the notion that his Mother's death was not a suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Wind River (2017)
An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBullet Head (2017)
A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisArkansas (2020)
Kyle and Swin live by the orders of an Arkansas-based drug kingpin named Frog, whom they've never met. But when a deal goes horribly wrong, the consequences are deadly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHold the Dark (2018)
In the grim Alaskan winter, a naturalist hunts for wolves blamed for killing a local boy, but he soon finds himself swept into a chilling mystery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisDevil's Peak (2023)
In North Carolina's Appalachian Mountains, eighteen-year-old Jacob McNeely is torn between appeasing his meth-dealing kingpin father and leaving the mountains forever with the girl he loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlue Ruin (2014)
When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the doctor's life in gradually unsettling ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHell or High Water (2016)
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Quarry (2020)
A man on the run from his own sins, finds himself in a small border town in Texas, impersonating a reverend. The town are quickly drawn to the man's unorthodox sermons, but so is a police chief who has his suspicions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBad Day for the Cut (2017)
A middle-aged Irish farmer, who still lives at home with his mother, sets off on a mission of revenge when the old lady is murdered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHunting Lands (2019)
Reclusive veteran Frank Olsen yearns to escape from the complexities of the modern world. Unfortunately, despite his efforts, the world comes looking for him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMeeting Evil (2012)
Follows disillusioned young family man John as a mysterious stranger, Richie takes him on a murder-fueled ride that transforms the weak-willed John into a desperate hero willing to go to any length to protect his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNumb (2015)
Husband and wife, Will and Dawn, are in financial crisis after learning the job Will was counting on to salvage their financial future has disappeared in the midst of a market collapse. They set out to drive home on the winter highway back to their city, and in a moment of altruism, pick up siblings Lee and Cheryl, a pair of hitchhikers on their way to start a new life. In the midst of the night they nearly collide with an old man wandering on the snowy highway, hyperthermic and horrifically frostbitten. While searching for his ID they discover a wad of cash, a hand drawn map with GPS coordinates, and a single gold coin inside his coat. Will and Dawn reluctantly go along with Lee’s plan to report him to the police as a John Doe and pocket the money. In an attempt to save their financial struggles, all four venture off into the snowy wilderness in search of the buried gold.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDog Eat Dog (2016)
Ex-cons Troy, Mad Dog, and Diesel are hired by an eccentric mob boss to kidnap a baby and hold it for a large ransom. When the abduction goes awry, the men find themselves on the run from the mob and the cops. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, getting away with the crime is a matter of life and death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisInconceivable (2017)
A mother looks to escape her abusive past by moving to a new town where she befriends another mother, who grows suspicious of her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBrut Force (2022)
Newly-fired reporter Sloane Sawyer reluctantly returns to her rural California hometown to investigate the harassment of local vineyard workers and uncorks a tangled web of crime and corruption behind wine country's shiny facade.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
The Trust (2016)
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSmall Crimes (2017)
A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder, returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Devil All the Time (2020)
In Knockemstiff, Ohio and its neighboring backwoods, sinister characters converge around young Arvin Russell as he fights the evil forces that threaten him and his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDepravity (2024)
A group of residents begins to suspect that their strange neighbor might be hiding something dark.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Score to Settle (2019)
A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, punk computer hacker named Lisbeth Salander. As they work together in the investigation, Blomkvist and Salander uncover immense corruption beyond anything they have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisReptile (2023)
Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCop Car (2015)
Two kids find themselves in the centre of a deadly game of cat and mouse after taking a sheriff's cruiser for a joy ride.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCut Bank (2014)
25-year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in motion a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisSun Don't Shine (2013)
Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Thumper (2017)
In a town of low-income and fractured families, a group of teens are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives who hides a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Locksmith (2023)
A thief fresh out of prison, tries to work his way back into the life of his daughter and ex-fiancé. Determined, he is forced to use the skills he has as a gifted locksmith. Things take a tumultuous turn after an unexpected disappearance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Shimmer Lake?
The closest matches to Shimmer Lake are Juggernaut (2017), Wind River (2017) and Bullet Head (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Shimmer Lake?
People who watched Shimmer Lake most often go on to Juggernaut (2017), Wind River (2017) and Bullet Head (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Shimmer Lake?
Wind River (2017), rated 7.4/10 by 6,066 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Shimmer Lake?
Depravity (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Shimmer Lake?
Yes: Juggernaut (2017), Wind River (2017) and Bullet Head (2017).
How are movies similar to Shimmer Lake chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Shimmer Lake, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.