Movies like Where the Truth Lies (2005)
The best movies like Where the Truth Lies (2005) are Waterland (1992), Waking the Dead (2000) and The Tenth Circle (2008). If Where the Truth Lies 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 ratedThe Ice Storm (1997)6.9/10 from 778 votes
- NewestComplete Unknown (2016)Released 2016
Waterland (1992)
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWaking the Dead (2000)
A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tenth Circle (2008)
A family's well-kept secrets are exposed when the daughter accuses her ex-boyfriend of rape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
The Adjuster (1991)
An uptight insurance man and his film-censor wife become a kinky couple's landlords.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ice Storm (1997)
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFelicia's Journey (1999)
Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks an unsettling secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInterview (2007)
After falling out with his editor, a fading political journalist is forced to interview America's most popular soap actress.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdoration (2009)
For his French-class assignment, a high school student weaves his family history in a news story involving terrorism, and goes on to invite an Internet audience in on the resulting controversy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisQuid Pro Quo (2008)
A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Weight of Water (2001)
A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisArarat (2002)
Interrogated by a customs officer, a young man recounts how his life was changed during the making of a film about the Armenian genocide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Unsaid (2001)
A doctor dealing with the aftermath of his son's death tries to help a troubled young man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisConspiracy (2008)
A Gulf War veteran with PTSD heads to a small town to find his friend. When he arrives his friend and his family have vanished and the townsfolk afraid to answer questions about their disappearance. He soon discovers that the town is owned and controlled by one man, and he doesn't like people asking questions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTriage (2009)
The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Sweet Hereafter (1997)
A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and victims' families prepare a class-action suit, but his efforts only seem to push the townspeople further apart. At the same time, one teenage survivor of the accident has to reckon with the loss of innocence brought about by a different kind of damage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPossible Worlds (2000)
The same man lives out several parallel lives in different "worlds" and in different relationships at the same time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDream Lover (1994)
Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman he married.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisComplete Unknown (2016)
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn the Time of the Butterflies (2001)
Based on the book by Julia Alvarez. Three sisters become activists during the Dominican Republic's Trujillo regime when members of their family are killed by the government's troops.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe War at Home (1996)
Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Julia (2008)
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Door in the Floor (2004)
A writer's young assistant becomes both pawn and catalyst in his boss's disintegrating household.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Salton Sea (2002)
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDay Night Day Night (2006)
A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it’s impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision—she has made it already.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Hotel Laguna (2001)
Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, while his tortured past and the death of his parents come back to haunt him, he feels increasingly drawn to Thelma, his uncle's mysterious wife. Soon Thomas will learn the truth about the death of his parents and foment a vengeance of great heights.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Keane (2004)
William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City’s Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day, as if hoping to change the outcome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrauma (2004)
Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisManhattan Night (2016)
Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisEquus (1977)
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an opinionated but inwardly-timid father and a genteel, religious mother. As Dysart exposes the truths behind the boy's demons, he finds himself face-to-face with his own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTrue Crime (1999)
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Where the Truth Lies?
The closest matches to Where the Truth Lies are Waterland (1992), Waking the Dead (2000) and The Tenth Circle (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Where the Truth Lies?
People who watched Where the Truth Lies most often go on to Waterland (1992), Waking the Dead (2000) and The Tenth Circle (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like Where the Truth Lies?
The Ice Storm (1997), rated 6.9/10 by 778 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Where the Truth Lies?
Complete Unknown (2016) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Where the Truth Lies?
Yes: Waterland (1992), Waking the Dead (2000) and The Tenth Circle (2008).
How are movies similar to Where the Truth Lies chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Where the Truth Lies, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.