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10 Best Movies Like Painkillers

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

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#1
Fractured

Fractured

2019★ 6.8

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

Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with ...

#2
Extreme Measures

Extreme Measures

1996★ 6.0

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

Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail ...

#3
Reversal of Fortune

Reversal of Fortune

1990★ 6.6

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

Wealthy Sunny von Bülow lies brain-dead, husband Claus guilty of attempted murder; but he says he's innocent and hires Alan Dershowitz for his appeal....

#4
Angel Face

Angel Face

1953★ 7.1

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

Ambulance driver Frank Jessup is ensnared in the schemes of the sensuous but dangerous Diane Tremayne....

#5
The Killing of a Sacred Deer

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017★ 7.0

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

Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existen...

#6
The Life of Chuck

The Life of Chuck

2025★ 7.3

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

In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us....

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