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10 Best Movies Like While the Door Was Locked

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

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#1
Faithless

Faithless

2000★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the Door Was Locked for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Scripted by Ingmar Bergman, this very personal film is about a destructive affair which wrecks the marriage of an actress (Marianne) and musician (Markus). Wanting to continue the ...

#2
Dream Lover

Dream Lover

1994★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the Door Was Locked 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...

#3
The Man from Elysian Fields

The Man from Elysian Fields

2001★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the Door Was Locked for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husb...

#4
Diary of a Mad Housewife

Diary of a Mad Housewife

1970★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the Door Was Locked for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she doe...

#5
Hello I Must Be Going

Hello I Must Be Going

2012★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the Door Was Locked for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An affair with a 19-year old actor helps reinvigorate life for thirty-something Amy after she moves home to her parents’ house following her divorce....

#6
Strictly Sexual

Strictly Sexual

2008★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to While the Door Was Locked for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two successful women, sick and tired of dating and relationships, decide to keep two young men in their pool house for strictly sexual purposes....

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