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10 Best Movies Like Detective Notes

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

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#1
Bubble

Bubble

2006★ 6.3

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

Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory....

#2
Cult of Chucky

Cult of Chucky

2017★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detective Notes for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Confined to an asylum for the criminally insane for the past four years, Nica is wrongly convinced that she, not Chucky, murdered her entire family... until a string of grisly deat...

#3
Child's Play 3

Child's Play 3

1991★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detective Notes for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Eight years after seemingly destroying the killer doll, teen Andy Barclay is placed in a military school, and the spirit of Chucky returns to renew his quest and seek vengeance aft...

#4
Child's Play

Child's Play

1988★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detective Notes for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city....

#5
Curse of Chucky

Curse of Chucky

2013★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detective Notes for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to the mounting bloodshed and ...

#6
May

May

2003★ 6.6

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

A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands....

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