5 films like The Good Nurse you must watch

By Miguel Fernández
Published: November 3, 2022 (Last updated: December 31, 2023)
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We discuss 5 films like Netflix’s The Good Nurse you must watch. Check out these brilliant recommendations and bookmark them. 

On October 26, Netflix released the film The Good Nurse, starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne, two nurses who come across a series of disturbing deaths in their ICU units. When the police begin to turn their eyes to the case, they start to suspect Redmayne’s character, Charles Cullen, might be behind them, and Chastain’s character is forced to confront him, uncovering one of the biggest serial killers in the history of America. If you enjoyed that film, there are a bunch of other serial killer movies similar to it that you might enjoy. Here are five of them.

5 films like The Good Nurse you must watch

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile (2019)

Zac Efron stars as serial killer Ted Bundy, responsible for the kidnapping, raping, and murder of multiple young women in the 1970s in the U.S. Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil, and Vile follows the true story of how Lily Collins’ Liz Kendall fell in love with him and would not believe the police when they arrested him. It’s essentially The Good Nurse but inside the Bundy home, instead of a hospital, with Zac Efron being as charming as it gets, and Lily Collins’ character being forced to rat out the most special person in her life.

American Psycho (2000)

Definitely one of Christian Bale’s best performances, in probably his most iconic character other than Bruce Wayne, American Psycho follows Patrick Bateman (Bale) through the streets of New York City. He’s a young investment banker that keeps a façade most of his time to hide his deep, dark secret — he’s in secret a serial killer. The cast also includes Willem Dafoe as a private investigator, Jared Leto as Bateman’s co-worker, and Samantha Mathis as someone having an affair with Bateman.

The House that Jack Built (2018)

Matt Dillon stars as Jack in this Lars Von Trier movie that follows him as he recounts, in five different episodes, a series of murders he committed over a period of 12 years. Being a failed architect, he considers each of his murderings as a work of art that will define his life’s work. It also stars Uma Thurman and Riley Keough.

My friend Dahmer (2017)

Very topical right now, with Dahmer breaking all sorts of streaming records on Netflix, My friend Dahmer stars Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer, a shy adolescent who goes on to become one of the most dangerous serial killers in American history. It is an adaptation of a 2012 graphic novel by a former high school classmate of Dahmer.

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Definitely not very similar plot-wise to The Good Nurse, but if we are talking about serial killer movies, we cannot leave out the grand-daddy of them all. The Silence of the Lambs is easily one of the best movies of the 1990s, and there’s very little I can say about it that hasn’t been said before. Iconic, thrilling, and nail-biting, it features two of the best performances from the past 40 years in film, by Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, who won his first Best Actor Oscar for playing Hannibal Lecter in 16 minutes of screentime.

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