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10 Best Movies Like Deceit

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

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#1
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deceit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#2
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

2021★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deceit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

#3
All Day and a Night

All Day and a Night

2020★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deceit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime....

#4
The Safety of Objects

The Safety of Objects

2002★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deceit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, an...

#5
The Trials of Cate McCall

The Trials of Cate McCall

2013★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deceit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicte...

#6
Fedora

Fedora

1978★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Deceit for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Down-on-his-luck Hollywood producer Barry 'Dutch' Detweiler attempts to lure Fedora, a famous but reclusive film actress, out of retirement, only to discover the horrifying truth b...

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