Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 11, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Ex

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

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#1
Dream Lover

Dream Lover

1994★ 6.4

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

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 real...

#2
The House That Jack Built

The House That Jack Built

2018★ 7.1

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

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his...

#3
A Perfect Murder

A Perfect Murder

1998★ 6.6

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

Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial...

#4
Jungle Fever

Jungle Fever

1991★ 6.4

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

A successful and married black man contemplates having an affair with a white girl from work. He's quite rightly worried that the racial difference would make an already taboo rela...

#5
Pacific Heights

Pacific Heights

1990★ 6.3

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

A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own....

#6
Asylum

Asylum

2005★ 5.9

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

A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife....

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