Movies like Snakes and Earrings: 20 to watch next
If you loved Snakes and Earrings (2008) — a romance, thriller and crime film directed by Yukio Ninagawa — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Snakes and Earrings most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like based on novel or book, pain and love-hate relationship. 9 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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Body Brokers 2021★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body broker Wood and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to treatment center mogul Vin. Wood and Vin bring Utah in on their lucrative and illegal dealings, where saving lives comes second to the bottom line.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Number 23 2007★ 6.4
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Attraction 2001★ 6.9
Shares: Thriller, Romance
A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.
Stream in India on Movie Sphere+
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The Marsh King's Daughter 2023★ 6.4
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Helena, a woman living a seemingly ordinary life, hides a dark secret—her father is the infamous 'Marsh King', the man who kept her and her mother captive in the wilderness for years. After a lifetime of trying to escape her past, Helena is forced to face her demons when her father unexpectedly escapes from prison.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Awake 2007★ 6.6
Shares: Thriller, Crime
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Killers 2014★ 6.3
Shares: Crime, Thriller
A psychotic executive triggers a journalist's dark side, and they begin to form a strange bond through the internet.
Stream in India on JioHotstar
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Wardriver 2026★ 7.4
Shares: Thriller, Crime
He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, JioHotstar
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The Woman in the Window 2021★ 6.0
Shares: Crime, Thriller
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Stream in India on Netflix
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All the Devils Are Here 2025★ 6.2
Shares: Crime, Thriller
After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The System 2022★ 7.3
Shares: Crime, Thriller
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Faces in the Crowd 2011★ 6.1
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Plex
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Until Death 2007★ 5.9
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Anthony Stowe is a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin—and everyone hates him. After a serious accident, he is placed into an induced coma, but emerges from it a better person who wants to put things right.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Killer 2024★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Zee is a feared contract killer known as "the Queen of the Dead," but when she refuses to murder a young blind woman, she finds herself hunted both by criminal colleagues and a determined police detective.
Stream in India on VI movies and tv
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6 Bullets 2012★ 6.3
Shares: Thriller, Crime
An ex-mercenary known for finding missing children is hired by a mixed martial arts fighter whose daughter has been kidnapped.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman 2021★ 6.6
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Set in a gritty and decadent 1970s America, American Boogeyman follows the elusive and charming killer and the manhunt that brought him to justice involving the detective and the FBI rookie who coined the phrase ‘serial killer’.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, JioHotstar
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Canary Black 2024★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Top level CIA agent Avery Graves is blackmailed by terrorists into betraying her own country to save her kidnapped husband. Cut off from her team, she turns to her underworld contacts to survive and help locate the coveted intelligence that the kidnappers want.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Cleaner 2007★ 6.1
Shares: Crime, Thriller
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover-up.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Shade 2003★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller, Crime
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Wild at Heart 1990★ 7.0
Shares: Crime, Thriller, Romance
Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Character 2021★ 7.4
Shares: Thriller, Crime
A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as idealized that are no more. He uses the real-life situation for his work.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now