IN THE SAME KEY
Movies like Cape Fear (1991)
Cape Fear runs on anxious dread, tightly wound, and claustrophobic tension. We scored our full corpus against that fingerprint: the films below sit closest to the same key.
Cape Fear
1962
Hounds of Love
2016
Straw Dogs
2011
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
2025
Mom
2017
Fatal Attraction
1987
Butterfly on a Wheel
2007
Raising Cain
1992
Security
2021
The Lie
2018
180
2026
Speak No Evil
2024
Karla
2006
Orphan
2009
Red Hill
2010
Irresistible
2006
A History of Violence
2005
The Bad Seed
2018
Seven Days
2010
Lakeview Terrace
2008
Lipstick
1976
Run
2020
Joshua
2007
The Front Room
2024