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10 Best Movies Like The Snake Pit

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

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#1
Neverwas

Neverwas

2005★ 6.4

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

Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time o...

#2
Girl, Interrupted

Girl, Interrupted

1999★ 7.6

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

Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wond...

#3
Twelve Monkeys

Twelve Monkeys

1995★ 7.6

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

In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and...

#4
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

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

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#5
Every Breath You Take

Every Breath You Take

2021★ 5.8

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

A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter....

#6
Stay

Stay

2005★ 6.6

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

Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- e...

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