Movies like The Monitor (2011)
The best movies like The Monitor (2011) are Hidden (2009), The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015) and Next Door (2005). If The Monitor hooked you with its drama and thriller, 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
- NewestMothers' Instinct (2024)Released 2024
Hidden (2009)
Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015)
Anna Fritz is a beautiful and famous actress. Suddenly her body is found in a hotel and the news of her death goes around the planet. The young, shy caretaker Pau works at the hospital where they carried the body of Anna Fritz. He and his friends decide to take pictures of the body of Anna Fritz. They decide they could make love to her and nobody would know. They are in front of Anna Fritz ... and can do with it what they want.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNext 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 thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightMare (2022)
A woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment’s terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThelma (2017)
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGood Boy (2022)
Christian, a millionaire heir, meets Sigrid, a young student, on a dating app. They hit it off quickly, but there's only one problem: Christian lives with Frank, a man who dresses up and constantly acts like a dog.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll That Matters Is Past (2012)
Reunited after years apart, childhood sweethearts William and Janne are forced to confront the dark secrets of their past-and the menacing presence of William's pathologically jealous brother — in this haunting story from celebrated Norwegian director Sara Johnsen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Speak No Evil (2022)
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCadaver (2020)
In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family finds hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they wind up the spectators or the spectacle?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGoodnight Mommy (2015)
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAccused (2005)
On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is believed by seemingly eager social workers, their family is thrust into crisis. Could Henrik have done it? And when Stine prepares to return home, the ugly side of family life is exposed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Reading (2023)
After a deadly home invasion, Emma (Mo'Nique Hicks) copes by writing a book, but when a young psychic and her team perform a reading in her home, a new terror is unleashed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Fugue (2018)
Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother and daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWe 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 thisLouder Than Bombs (2015)
Three years after his wife, acclaimed photographer Isabelle Reed, dies in a car crash, Gene keeps everyday life going with his shy teenage son, Conrad. A planned exhibition of Isabelle’s photographs prompts Gene's elder son, Jonah, to return to the house he grew up in — and for the first time in a very long time, the father and the two brothers are living under the same roof.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFever Dream (2021)
A woman named Amanda lies stricken, far from home. A young boy named David questions her, trying to make her remember. She's not his mother, he's not her son. As her time is running out, he helps her unravel a powerful, haunting story of obsessive jealousy, an invisible danger, and the power of a mother's love for her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Souls (2010)
A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated and becomes pale and unresponsive. Similar attacks begin to happen, and Johanna’s father takes it on himself to find out the truth. He embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy, and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Ice Palace (1987)
One evening, in a remote Norwegian mountain-town, two 12 year old girls meet. For the first time in their lives they are thrown into a strong emotional confrontation. The next day, Unn is unable to meet Siss again. Instead, she ventures alone into the cold, lonely winter landscape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Whore (2009)
The young and aspiring writer, Rikke, heads out to the old and abandoned parental house in the remote Norwegian countryside. A girl, not even particularly beautiful one, all alone in a town full of sexually deviant yokels, that's just asking for trouble. After a couple of tense and unsettling encounters, three dimwits rape the poor girl and she plots an excruciatingly painful vengeance for all of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Homesick (2015)
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time as an adult, it becomes an encounter without boundaries, between two people who don't know what a normal family is. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never experienced it before? Homesick is an unusual family drama about seeking a family, and breaking every rule to be one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlind (2014)
Having recently lost her sight, Ingrid retreats to the safety of her home—a place where she can feel in control, alone with her husband and her thoughts. After a while, Ingrid starts to feel the presence of her husband in the flat when he is supposed to be at work. At the same time, her lonely neighbor who has grown tired of even the most extreme pornography shifts his attention to a woman across the street. Ingrid knows about this but her real problems lie within, not beyond the walls of her apartment, and her deepest fears and repressed fantasies soon take over.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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 thisTitane (2021)
A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPainless (2012)
While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like this13 Tzameti (2006)
Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMothers' Instinct (2024)
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The nail-biting suspense builds quickly in this chilling psychological thriller about deception and bitter revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDisturbia (2007)
Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has complete free reign of the house, and a beautiful young hottie named Ashley has just moved in next door. There’s only one problem—he’s not allowed to leave the house. Kale’s under court-ordered house arrest for three months, and if he takes one step beyond a 100-foot perimeter of the house, his next confinement will be in a real prison.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Monitor?
The closest matches to The Monitor are Hidden (2009), The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015) and Next Door (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Monitor?
People who watched The Monitor most often go on to Hidden (2009), The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015) and Next Door (2005).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Monitor?
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), rated 7.5/10 by 3,265 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Monitor?
Mothers' Instinct (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to The Monitor chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Monitor, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.