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10 Best Movies Like Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love

If you loved Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl

1998★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). ...

#2
Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs

2011★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love for fans of Thriller & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control....

#3
Hider in the House

Hider in the House

1989★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in....

#4
God Is a Bullet

God Is a Bullet

2023★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the ...

#5
Extremities

Extremities

1986★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love for fans of Thriller & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the ...

#6
Suburbia

Suburbia

1984★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Shameless: Abnormal and Abusive Love for fans of Thriller & Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When household tensions and a sense of worthlessness overcome Evan, he finds escape when he clings with the orphans of a throw-away society. The runaways hold on to each other like...

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