Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Iris

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

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#1
Helen

Helen

2009★ 6.5

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

On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depressio...

#2
The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Rule of Jenny Pen

2025★ 6.2

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

Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's resident...

#3
Fathers and Daughters

Fathers and Daughters

2015★ 7.1

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

A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own....

#4
Brain on Fire

Brain on Fire

2017★ 7.0

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

Susannah Cahalan, an up-and-coming journalist at the New York Post becomes plagued by voices in her head and seizures, causing a rapid descent into insanity....

#5
Strange Weather

Strange Weather

2016★ 5.8

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

Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea....

#6
Safe House

Safe House

1998★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Iris for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of ...

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