Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Cortex

If you loved Cortex, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Squealer

Squealer

2023★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cortex for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When young women begin to disappear across a small town, a police officer and a street-smart social worker follow clues to a remote pig farm and discover the local butcher has been...

#2
Compulsion

Compulsion

2024★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cortex for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Two women—Diana, a flamboyant and ruthless thief, and Evie, a seemingly innocent young woman with a troubled past—become embroiled in a series of horrific murders on the island of ...

#3
Black Widow

Black Widow

1987★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cortex for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a ma...

#4
The Infernal Machine

The Infernal Machine

2022★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cortex for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account...

#5
Maniac

Maniac

1963★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cortex for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder....

#6
The Calling

The Calling

2014★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cortex for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Port Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face ...

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