15 Movies Like The Girl with the Needle

Loved The Girl with the Needle? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Queen of Hearts
#1

Queen of Hearts

Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.

Nuremberg
#2

Nuremberg

In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a complex battle of intellect and ethics with Hermann Göring, Hitler's right-hand man.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Girl with the Needle.

The Last Viking
#3

The Last Viking

After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.

Good Boy
#4

Good Boy

Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Girl with the Needle.

The Hunt
#5

The Hunt

A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.

Another Round
#6

Another Round

Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.

Speak No Evil
#7

Speak No Evil

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.

The Unforgivable
#8

The Unforgivable

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.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Girl with the Needle.

The Idiots
#9

The Idiots

A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile
#10

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Girl with the Needle.

The Promised Land
#11

The Promised Land

Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Girl with the Needle.

The Salvation
#12

The Salvation

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.

Breaking the Waves
#13

Breaking the Waves

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.

The Stanford Prison Experiment
#14

The Stanford Prison Experiment

In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked The Girl with the Needle.

Pusher
#15

Pusher

A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to The Girl with the Needle.