10 Best Movies Like The Pillowman
If you loved The Pillowman, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Deathtrap
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pillowman for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script....

The Onion Field
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pillowman for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted b...

Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pillowman for fans of Crime. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A struggling writer in the midst of a divorce befriends a retired serial killer who incidentally becomes his marriage counselor by day, and killing counselor for his next book by n...

The Legend of Barney Thomson
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pillowman for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the gr...

Nitram
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pillowman for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Based on true events, "Nitram" lives with his parents in suburban Australia in the mid-90s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never fitting in. As his anger grows, he...

Cop
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Pillowman for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him....