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10 Best Movies Like The Occupant

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

#1
Secrets & Lies

Secrets & Lies

1996★ 7.6

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

After her adoptive mother dies, Hortense, a successful black optometrist, seeks out her birth mother. She's shocked when her research leads her to Cynthia, a working class white wo...

#2
The Unholy Trinity

The Unholy Trinity

2025★ 6.4

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

Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1870s Montana, in the moments before the execution of Isaac Broadway, he gives his estranged son, Henry, an impossible task: murder the man wh...

#3
Descendent

Descendent

2025★ 5.7

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

After a traumatic brain injury triggers terrifying visions of extraterrestrials and a newfound talent for drawing, a father-to-be begins to question his reality and becomes obsesse...

#4
El Gringo

El Gringo

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Occupant for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

A man crossing into Mexico with a satchel of $2,000,000—and a bloody past—finds himself under sudden attack in the sleepy town of El Fronteras....

#5
Shell

Shell

2025★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Occupant for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Desperate to reclaim her career, once-beloved actress Samantha Lake is drawn into the glamorous world of wellness mogul Zoe Shannon -only to uncover a monstrous truth beneath its f...

#6
Words of War

Words of War

2025★ 6.8

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

World-renowned journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya went from being a local print journalist to braving the Chechen killing fields and exposing Russian state cor...