What movies are similar to Under the Silver Lake?

Start with films such as Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Blue Velvet, The Unforgivable, Strange Days. Each title on this page is chosen to mirror the vibe, themes, and style that make Under the Silver Lake memorable, with short explanations to help you pick where to begin.

What should I watch if I liked Under the Silver Lake?

Use the ranked list above: it highlights 10 close cousins—similar tension, character dynamics, and storytelling ambition—so you can queue something tonight without endless browsing.

Are there movies with the same vibe as Under the Silver Lake?

Yes. The recommendations here lean into overlapping moods and motifs, not just shared genre labels, so you get films that “feel” related in pacing, tone, and emotional payoff.

What should I watch after Under the Silver Lake?

Try Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Blue Velvet, The Unforgivable—each shares DNA with Under the Silver Lake while changing the setting enough to feel fresh.

What genre is Under the Silver Lake?

Under the Silver Lake (2018) is best described as Crime, Drama, Mystery. Stores and algorithms use different labels, but that mix is what fans actually recognize on a rewatch.

Is Under the Silver Lake worth revisiting?

Viewer scores sit around 6.4/10 on TMDB—high enough that replays are common for people who like this crime lane.

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Under the Silver Lake (2018) works because people revisit Under the Silver Lake for the same reason it broke through in 2018: clear stakes, memorable faces, and a drama rhythm that doesn't stall in the middle. David Robert Mitchell keeps the ensemble pointed in one direction. The crime and drama blend is the engine: it lets the film shift registers without feeling like two different movies stitched together. The concrete hook is young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night., and that gives this guide a clear center of gravity. For movies like Under the Silver Lake, we prioritized crime, drama, mystery films that share crime, drama, mystery, divisive without flattening everything into one broad genre bucket. The useful comparison point is not only genre; it is how the movie controls attention from scene to scene. Each recommendation names the shared texture and the difference, which makes the page more useful than a plain list. These 10 recommendations are ordered to keep the Under the Silver Lake feeling intact while still giving you different characters, stakes, and endings.

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1.Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
★ 7.0 · Comedy · Crime · Mystery · 2h 20m
Why it fits
The afterglow from Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a sharp, often funny tone: different residue than Under the Silver Lake, even when crime, mystery, comedy read familiar. Trace the fork to Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. versus.
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2.Blue Velvet (1986)
★ 7.6 · Mystery · Thriller · Crime · 2h
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crime, mystery, thriller surface in both films, yet Blue Velvet keeps the temperature a dark, uncompromising tone, not a tonal echo of Under the Silver Lake. Compare The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation against Young and disenchanted Sam meets a.
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3.The Unforgivable (2021)
★ 7.4 · Drama · Crime · 1h 52m
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Character pressure in The Unforgivable accumulates around A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society, echoing how Under the Silver Lake tightened the screws with Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one.
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4.Strange Days (1995)
★ 7.0 · Crime · Drama · Science Fiction · 2h 25m
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Strange Days handles In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the with a Crime bias that Under the Silver Lake did not foreground in its Crime read of Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his.
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5.The Enforcer (2022)
★ 7.0 · Action · Crime · Drama · 1h 31m
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Under the Silver Lake and The Enforcer split at the plot: Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. on one side, A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has on the.
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6.The Long Good Friday (1980)
★ 7.2 · Crime · Thriller · Drama · 1h 54m
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If Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. is what locked you into Under the Silver Lake, The Long Good Friday hands you In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul,.
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7.Lone Star (1996)
★ 7.0 · Drama · Mystery · Romance · 2h 15m
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In Under the Silver Lake, the spine is Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night.; Lone Star finds its spine in When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in. drama, mystery,.
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8.The Woman in the Window (1944)
★ 7.4 · Crime · Drama · Thriller · 1h 39m
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A 1944 frame changes how A seductive woman gets an innocent professor mixed up in murder. lands next to Under the Silver Lake (2018) and its Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night.. crime, drama, thriller survive the era shift without forcing the stories to match.
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9.The Doom Generation (1995)
★ 6.5 · Comedy · Crime · Drama · 1h 23m
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The Doom Generation is pitched a sharp, often funny tone, which is the first thing you feel beside Under the Silver Lake. crime, drama, comedy still braid the two films, but The Doom Generation leans on Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. where.
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10.Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
★ 6.4 · Action · Crime · Thriller · 1h 42m
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Surface texture differs—Action treatment of Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants. beside Crime treatment of Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night.—while crime, action, thriller stay legible. Sin City: A.
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Why You'll Love These Movies

Across these recommendations, you will see recurring fingerprints from Under the Silver Lake: crime, drama, thriller, mystery, plus a dark through-line that keeps scenes charged even when the plots diverge. The emotional appeal is consistent—films that ask for attention, then reward it with momentum, specificity, and a clear point of view. As a viewing experience, the list is built to feel like a guided night at the movies: enough variety to stay surprising, enough overlap to feel intentional, and pacing that respects how Under the Silver Lake trained you to watch. If you want the same satisfaction you felt during Under the Silver Lake—that mix of craft, stakes, and atmosphere—these picks are meant to land in the same neighborhood without repeating the same story.

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What movies are similar to Under the Silver Lake?: Start with films such as Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Blue Velvet, The Unforgivable, Strange Days. Each title on this page is chosen to mirror the vibe, themes, and style that make Under the Silver Lake memorable, with short explanations to help you pick where to begin.
What should I watch if I liked Under the Silver Lake?: Use the ranked list above: it highlights 10 close cousins—similar tension, character dynamics, and storytelling ambition—so you can queue something tonight without endless browsing.
Are there movies with the same vibe as Under the Silver Lake?: Yes. The recommendations here lean into overlapping moods and motifs, not just shared genre labels, so you get films that “feel” related in pacing, tone, and emotional payoff.
What should I watch after Under the Silver Lake?: Try Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, Blue Velvet, The Unforgivable—each shares DNA with Under the Silver Lake while changing the setting enough to feel fresh.
What genre is Under the Silver Lake?: Under the Silver Lake (2018) is best described as Crime, Drama, Mystery. Stores and algorithms use different labels, but that mix is what fans actually recognize on a rewatch.
Is Under the Silver Lake worth revisiting?: Viewer scores sit around 6.4/10 on TMDB—high enough that replays are common for people who like this crime lane.

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1.Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)

2.Blue Velvet (1986)

3.The Unforgivable (2021)

4.Strange Days (1995)

5.The Enforcer (2022)

6.The Long Good Friday (1980)

7.Lone Star (1996)

8.The Woman in the Window (1944)

9.The Doom Generation (1995)

10.Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

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