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10 Best Movies Like When the Bough Breaks

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

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#1
No Night Is Too Long

No Night Is Too Long

2002★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Bough Breaks for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A chance meeting, a stolen kiss and a sudden flare of passion sets a handsome young university student on a journey of betrayal, heartbreak and murder....

#2
The Substitute 2: School's Out

The Substitute 2: School's Out

1998★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Bough Breaks for fans of Crime & Thriller & TV Movie. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercen...

#3
The Assault

The Assault

2014★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Bough Breaks for fans of Crime & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to ...

#4
Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder

Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder

2017★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Bough Breaks for fans of Crime & Drama & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jenn buys an old reel-to-reel recorder at a garage sale only to find that it includes the sound of a man pleading for his life. When the former owner of the recorder, a retired the...

#5
Hailey Dean Mysteries: Dating Is Murder

Hailey Dean Mysteries: Dating Is Murder

2017★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Bough Breaks for fans of Crime & TV Movie. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Attorney turned therapist Hailey Dean is pulled into another investigation when a popular new dating app links multiple missing persons cases from around the city. Reuniting with h...

#6
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1983

2009★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Bough Breaks for fans of Crime & Drama & Thriller & TV Movie. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance of Clare Kemplay, who was found dead in 1974, and the subsequent imprisonment of ...

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