Movies like Grudge
If Grudge hooked you with its thriller and drama, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
The Way We Are (2020)
A group of old friends get together to be with their beloved aunt/grandmother who took care of them when they were kids for her last days. And things get complicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Cici (2022)
A family migrates to the city after a tragic loss. When they reunite in their hometown 30 years later, buried emotions and painful secrets resurface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStranger in My Pocket (2018)
The seven old friends decide to come together for dinner. Everyone is seated at the table, chatting, eating laughing accompaniment. During the meal, it is decided to play a game. The game is pretty simple; everyone will put their phones on the desk, every incoming message and notification will be read aloud. Their relationship begins to deteriorate. The group who thinks they are very close friends for so long are in fact alien to each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGodspeed (2022)
An ex-army captain travels to Dalyan to stop his friend's beloved from marrying another man, but grief and trauma from a combat tragedy mar his journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Chokehold (2023)
Evading a scandal, a couple from Istanbul starts over in a town on the Aegean coast — but quickly discover the locals are determined to get rid of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLove Me Instead (2021)
Accompanied by a ward, a prisoner travels to his hometown to reconnect with his daughter and make amends, but a tragic truth mars his journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDo Not Disturb (2023)
A middle-aged man emerges from a pandemic slump with a new job at a quiet hotel, until some eccentric guests turn his first night into a wild adventure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll the Light We Cannot See (2020)
A father and his son become the hunted ones in a hunt because of their rifles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Remember us (2018)
Kaan has difficulty getting a higher position in his work where he has built a good career. While he was occupied with his wife, children and his work, he has pretty much neglected his father. Until one day he is obliged to take care of him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Stuck Apart (2021)
Entrenched in a midlife crisis, Aziz seeks solace from his mundane job, lonesome friends and rowdy family while pretending to have his act together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHave You Ever Seen Fireflies? (2021)
Rebellious, irreverent wunderkind Gülseren navigates loneliness, love and loss against the current of political turmoil and social change.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEverything About Mustafa (2004)
A man is forced to confront his past after he loses everything in an accident. Mustafa is a successful business man living a seemingly great life with his family when an accident takes it all away from him and leaves him with many questions and a cab driver, Fikret, who can answer it all. Mustafa is due to get a lot more than what he bargained for, however, as his interrogations take him to long-forgotten childhood memories and force him to see his formerly perfect life from a very different perspective.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Good Hands 2 (2024)
A newly reunited father and son grapple with new beginnings after tragedy, but can they manage to fill the void left by a beloved wife and mother?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisComidark Films 2: Insane (2020)
Güven, a taxi driver is desperately in love with Meral, but he’s too shy to open up to her. One day he picks up a customer, gets accused of a crime he didn’t commit and his world is turned upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree Monkeys (2008)
A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIn Good Hands (2022)
Diagnosed with a terminal illness, a single mother encounters a suave bachelor as she grapples with the future of her headstrong six-year-old.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other (2017)
A successful man leads a happy life with his new lover Ece. But one day, the ambitious old lover Sara, joins her life again with a job offer that she can not refuse. The man who changed his city for his new job by taking his lover Ece with him is soon to be destroyed by the disappearance of Ece.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Inside (2012)
Muharrem faces his life, thoughts, and inner darkness at a party he does not want to attend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Leave (2022)
Semih's girlfriend suddenly breaks up with him. In search of answers about their relationship, he must soon confront what he had long ignored.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Portrait of a Beauty (2019)
Receiving important news about her father, whom she has not met for years, Nisan returns to her father's house with her husband and daughter. There are strange things happening in this mansion where she escaped away years ago. What is happening in the mansion.What is the mystery of the woman in the picture. Encountering her nightmares, Nisan has to illuminate this mystery as soon as possible in order to protect herself and her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
10 Days of a Good Man (2023)
A lawyer turned private investigator takes on a missing person case, propelling him on an unexpected and life-altering quest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNausea (2015)
Ahmet, who had recently lost his wife and little daughter in a traffic accident while he was away with his lover, is a prominent person dealing with "head work". As someone who does not care for anybody and does not knuckle under anything, he moves on quite unaffected. Yet some things start to change in himself and his life without any apparent reason.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Destiny (2019)
This film talks about the possibility of the course of two lives through the love between Umut and Deniz. It questions how one’s decisions can shape their fate. Sometimes small moments and decisions can entirely change the course of our lives. Umut’s decision to take his dog Oscar for an evening walk allows his path to cross Deniz’s. On that night, Umut will have to decide between a gateway which leads to love and a life which he needs to face and encounter on his own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Festival of Troubadours (2022)
An unexpected reunion between a traveling musician and his son opens old wounds as the two set out on a long journey to a troubadour festival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLet's Sin (2014)
Selman is a former boxer who once was interested in anthropology, an extraordinary imam who now works in a mosque. One day, while praying in the mosque, gunshots are echoed. One of the people inside collapses and dies. The police come to the scene and collect the first evidence and start the investigation process. He takes action after this event and decides to resolve the case through some people and circumstances he suspects. Every clue leads to an unexpected point and the events become increasingly mysterious.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like this180 (2026)
When an unexpected road rage incident puts his son in critical condition, an enraged father spirals down a dark path of emotional turmoil and vengeance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Organization (1971)
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTyler Perry's Duplicity (2025)
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – Marley’s search for what really happened leads her down a treacherous maze of deception and betrayal.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRun (1991)
When a law student accidentally kills the son of a mob boss in a fight, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by the mob and the police.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlood Ties (2013)
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Grudge?
The closest matches to Grudge are The Way We Are, Cici, Stranger in My Pocket.
How are movies similar to Grudge chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Grudge, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.