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Movies that feel likeTrap (2024)

A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.

If you loved Trap, the closest films we have are Thelma (2017), Prisoners (2013) and Strangers on a Train (1951). All three share Trap's tense and obsessive feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Holy Spider (2022).

🍅 57% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. M. Night Shyamalantensegrittyobsessive
7 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · Criterion Channel · MUBI

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Thelma
2017 · dir. Joachim Trier
🍅 92%★ 6.9drama · mystery · thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then obsession

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable abilities.

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Prisoners
2013 · dir. Denis Villeneuve
🍅 81%★ 8.2drama · thriller · crime

The same preoccupation in both: father

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Trap does

After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.

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Strangers on a Train
1951 · dir. Alfred Hitchcock
🍅 98%★ 7.9crime · thriller · drama

Thriller with a pulse of grit, in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Trap does

A charming psychopath tries to coerce a tennis star into his theory that two strangers can commit the perfect crime by exchanging murders—each killing the other’s most-hated person.

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Blue Velvet
1986 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 87%★ 7.7mystery · thriller · crime

Crime built on tension, twice over

The difference: 38 years apart, and the 1980s show

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
2006 · dir. Tom Tykwer
🍅 59%★ 7.5crime · fantasy · drama

Both lean on grit more than on crime

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Trap does

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, born in the stench of 18th century Paris, develops a superior olfactory sense, which he uses to create the world's finest perfumes. However, his work takes a dark turn as he tries to preserve scents in the search for the ultimate perfume.

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Killing Them Softly
2012 · dir. Andrew Dominik
🍅 74%★ 6.2crime · thriller

Tense thriller in both cases

The difference: Easier on the obsession than Trap

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

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The Girl on the Train
2016 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 44%★ 6.5crime · mystery · thrillerStarz

Obsessive thriller, and it commits to that

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

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The Number 23
2007 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 7%★ 6.4thriller · mystery · crime

Crime with a pulse of grit, in both cases

Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

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8MM
1999 · dir. Joel Schumacher
🍅 23%★ 6.6thriller · crime · mystery

Both run obsessive where it counts

A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate of a complete stranger. As his work turns into obsession, he drifts farther and farther away from his wife, family and simple life as a small-town PI.

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Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
2013 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 77%★ 6.9drama

A 2010s cousin in spirit

A man named Seligman finds a fainted wounded woman in an alley and he brings her home. She tells him that her name is Joe and that she is nymphomaniac. Joe tells her life and sexual experiences with hundreds of men since she was a young teenager while Seligman tells about his hobbies, such as fly fishing, reading about Fibonacci numbers or listening to organ music.

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The Unjust
2010 · dir. Ryoo Seung-wan
★ 6.5crime · thrillerNetflix

Both know what they want from thriller

An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.

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Holy Spider
2022 · dir. Ali Abbasi
🍅 82%★ 7.3thriller · drama · crime

One thread runs through both: serial killer

A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.

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