The Window

Movies Like

The Window (1949)

Thriller, Crime

If you loved The Window, you'll love these similar films. Handpicked based on shared themes, genre, and feel.

The People Under the Stairs

The People Under the Stairs

1991 ★ 6.6

Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.

Natural Born Killers

Natural Born Killers

1994 ★ 7.1

Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.

The Believers

The Believers

1987 ★ 6.0

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

Becky

Becky

2020 ★ 6.3

A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.

Fright

Fright

1971 ★ 6.0

Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.

The Children

The Children

2008 ★ 6.1

A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day

2010 ★ 6.5

Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.

The Devil's Candy

The Devil's Candy

2016 ★ 6.3

A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

2019 ★ 6.1

The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

Summer of Sam

Summer of Sam

1999 ★ 6.5

Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American Northeast Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.

Halloween

Halloween

1978 ★ 7.6

Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Haunt

Haunt

2019 ★ 6.7

On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.

Mirrors

Mirrors

2008 ★ 6.3

An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

Dolores Claiborne

Dolores Claiborne

1995 ★ 7.3

Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a witness who can place her at the scene of the crime. Things look bad for Dolores when her daughter Selena, a successful Manhattan magazine writer, returns to cover the story.

Barbarian

Barbarian

2022 ★ 6.8

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

Strange Darling

Strange Darling

2024 ★ 6.9

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

Housebound

Housebound

2014 ★ 6.6

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

Night of the Living Dead

Night of the Living Dead

1968 ★ 7.6

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1991 ★ 7.3

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Possession

Possession

1981 ★ 7.3

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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