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| Best Movies Like Verity. |
Verity has all the ingredients of a psychological thriller designed to make you suspicious of absolutely everyone: a damaged family, a secluded house, a questionable marriage, buried secrets and a manuscript that may be more dangerous than fiction has any right to be. Released in 2026, Michael Showalter’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel follows Lowen Ashleigh, played by Dakota Johnson, after she is hired by Jeremy Crawford, played by Josh Hartnett, to finish the work of his incapacitated wife Verity, played by Anne Hathaway.
Once Lowen discovers Verity’s hidden autobiography, the writing assignment becomes something far more disturbing. If that combination of mystery, manipulation, romance, family secrets and psychological suspense is exactly your thing, these 23 films and series should be next on your watchlist.
Movies Like Verity
1. The Undoing (2020)
HBO’s The Undoing is an easy recommendation for anyone who enjoyed the uncomfortable marriage dynamics in Verity. Nicole Kidman plays Grace Fraser, a successful therapist whose apparently perfect family life begins collapsing after a brutal murder exposes secrets surrounding her husband Jonathan. Like Verity, it keeps asking whether the person closest to you is actually the person you think they are. The wealthy setting, troubled marriage and constant uncertainty make this one particularly addictive.
2. Sharp Objects (2018)
Sharp Objects takes the psychological darkness considerably further, following journalist Camille Preaker as she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders of two young girls. Amy Adams leads the series with a performance built around trauma, family dysfunction and buried memories. Its connection to Verity comes through its complicated mother-daughter relationships, disturbing secrets and increasingly unreliable understanding of events. It is less romantic, but considerably more interested in what happens when a family refuses to confront its own history.
3. Behind Her Eyes (2021)
Netflix's Behind Her Eyes begins with what looks like a fairly straightforward affair involving a married man, his secretary and his mysterious wife. Naturally, things become much stranger. The series shares Verity's interest in relationships built on secrets, manipulation and incomplete information, while both stories deliberately make viewers question which characters deserve their trust. It also understands the value of saving something properly bizarre for later, rather than throwing every card onto the table immediately.
4. The Girl Before (2021)
The Girl Before revolves around a woman who moves into an unusually minimalist house designed by a controlling architect. She soon becomes fascinated by the previous woman who lived there and begins uncovering disturbing similarities between their experiences. The isolated property immediately recalls the Crawford estate in Verity, while the story's shifting timelines and psychological control create a similar atmosphere of unease. If houses with suspiciously interesting histories appeal to you, this one practically hands you the keys and tells you not to ask questions.
5. Gone Girl (2014)
David Fincher's Gone Girl remains one of the most obvious companions to Verity because both stories are fascinated by marriage, manipulation, deception and competing versions of the truth. Ben Affleck plays Nick Dunne, whose wife Amy disappears on their anniversary, turning their private relationship into a public mystery. Like Verity's manuscript, Amy's carefully constructed narrative changes how viewers understand the people involved. The two stories also share a delicious distrust of appearances.
6. The Girl on the Train (2016)
Emily Blunt stars as Rachel Watson, a woman whose daily train journey gives her a seemingly perfect view into another couple's life. After witnessing something alarming, she becomes entangled in a disappearance and a web of unreliable memories. It mirrors Verity through its combination of fractured perception, complicated relationships and questions surrounding what really happened. Both stories also understand that seeing something does not necessarily mean understanding it.
7. A Simple Favor (2018)
A Simple Favor* has a much lighter and more playful tone than Verity, but its central mystery is built around a woman disappearing and leaving behind a mountain of secrets. Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively play two mothers whose friendship becomes increasingly strange as revelations pile up. The film mixes mystery, manipulation, relationships and dark humour, making it a good choice if you want the same sort of twisted domestic intrigue without spending the entire runtime looking emotionally exhausted.
8. Big Little Lies (2017)
Big Little Lies places secrets, marriages, motherhood and buried resentment inside an apparently polished community. Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Shailene Woodley and Zoë Kravitz lead the ensemble, with the story gradually revealing what has gone wrong behind the expensive houses and carefully maintained appearances. Its connection to Verity comes from the way family life becomes a mask for much darker problems. Everyone appears fine, which is usually the first warning sign.
9. The Couple Next Door (2023)
The Couple Next Door digs into the dangerous consequences of relationships crossing boundaries. The series centres on a married couple whose lives become tangled with their neighbours, leading to secrets, attraction and increasingly complicated consequences. That combination of marriage, desire, deception and psychological tension makes it a natural follow-up to Verity. It also shares the feeling that one questionable decision can turn an ordinary domestic situation into an absolute mess.
10. The Voyeurs (2021)
Sydney Sweeney stars in The Voyeurs, a psychological thriller about a young couple who become fascinated by the private lives of their neighbours. What begins as harmless curiosity gradually turns into something far more dangerous. The film fits alongside Verity because both stories are interested in voyeurism, obsession, attraction and the risks of uncovering information that was never meant to be found. The lesson, unsurprisingly, is that minding your own business remains underrated.
11. The Watcher (2022)
The Watcher follows a family that moves into their dream home only to receive increasingly disturbing letters from someone claiming to be watching them. The series shares Verity's ominous house setting and its fascination with the possibility that danger may be much closer than expected. Suspicion spreads through the neighbourhood, relationships become strained and nobody seems completely trustworthy. It is basically another reminder that buying a beautiful house can sometimes be the beginning of a terrible financial decision.
12. The Perfect Couple (2024)
The Perfect Couple starts with a wedding that goes spectacularly off course after a body is discovered, turning a wealthy family's celebration into a murder investigation. Nicole Kidman leads the ensemble alongside Liev Schreiber, Dakota Fanning and others. Like Verity, it puts family relationships, wealth, secrets and suspicious behaviour under a microscope. The major difference is that the mystery expands across an entire family rather than staying largely inside one troubled household.
13. Anatomy of a Scandal (2022)
This Netflix series explores the fallout from an accusation involving a powerful politician and his wife. Sienna Miller, Rupert Friend and Michelle Dockery lead a story involving marriage, privilege, competing accounts and a past that refuses to remain buried. Like Verity, it is interested in how people construct narratives around themselves and how those narratives can collapse when someone starts looking more closely. Truth here is less a solid object and more something everyone appears to have edited.
14. You (2018)
You follows Joe Goldberg, a bookstore manager whose romantic interest in women quickly becomes an obsession. Penn Badgley leads the series through multiple seasons of manipulation, surveillance, relationships and carefully maintained identities. It shares Verity's interest in obsessive attraction and the disturbing gap between how someone presents themselves and what they are actually capable of doing. If Lowen's growing suspicions kept you watching, Joe's version of romance will certainly keep that paranoia alive.
15. The Stranger (2020)
Netflix's The Stranger follows Adam Price after a mysterious woman reveals a devastating secret about his wife. What begins as one shocking revelation develops into a larger mystery involving several interconnected characters. The connection to Verity lies in the way one hidden piece of information completely changes the understanding of a relationship. Both stories are driven by the uncomfortable idea that the person beside you might have a life you know almost nothing about.
16. Clickbait (2021)
Clickbait begins with a family man appearing in an online video under deeply troubling circumstances. As his family searches for answers, different aspects of his private life emerge. The series jumps between perspectives, gradually revealing how little the people closest to someone may actually know about them. That structure makes it a strong match for Verity, particularly if the appeal was the mystery surrounding private lives, hidden motives and conflicting versions of events.
17. The Sinner (2017)
The Sinner is an anthology crime drama built around seemingly inexplicable crimes and the investigations that uncover the psychology behind them. Rather than simply asking who committed an act, it spends considerable time asking why it happened. That psychological focus connects strongly with Verity, particularly its interest in trauma, memory, guilt and the secrets people bury. It is less romance-driven, but considerably more interested in digging through the emotional wreckage.
18. The Woman in the Window (2021)
Amy Adams stars as Anna Fox, an agoraphobic woman who becomes convinced she has witnessed something terrible inside a neighbouring home. As she attempts to work out what she saw, her own perception becomes increasingly difficult to trust. The film shares Verity's isolated setting, psychological tension and uncertainty over what is real. Both stories also place a woman in an environment where apparently ordinary domestic details gradually start looking extremely sinister.
19. Deep Water (2022)
Deep Water centres on a wealthy married couple whose relationship is defined by jealousy, affairs and psychological games. Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas play Vic and Melinda Van Allen, whose marriage becomes increasingly dangerous as their behaviour spirals. The film connects with *Verity through its focus on marital secrecy, attraction, manipulation and the uncomfortable question of how well spouses really know each other. It is not exactly a guide to healthy communication.
20. The Invisible Man (2020)
Leigh Whannell's The Invisible Man follows Cecilia Kass after she escapes an abusive relationship and begins believing her supposedly dead former partner is still stalking her. Elisabeth Moss leads a tense psychological thriller built around fear, control and uncertainty over what others can see or believe. While its story is very different from Verity, both explore manipulation inside intimate relationships and the terrifying consequences of discovering that someone close to you may not be what they seem.
21. Tell Me Lies (2022)
Tell Me Lies focuses on a complicated relationship between Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco, tracing how attraction, dishonesty and emotional manipulation can reshape people's lives over several years. Its connection to Verity is strongest in the messy relationship dynamics and the gap between romantic attraction and genuine trust. If the Jeremy and Lowen storyline was one of the elements that kept you invested, this series offers considerably more relationship chaos to work through.
22. The Gift (2015)
The Gift follows a married couple whose comfortable life is disrupted when an acquaintance from the husband's past suddenly reappears. Joel Edgerton, Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall star in a thriller where old secrets become increasingly difficult to contain. Like Verity, the film slowly changes the audience's understanding of its characters, using hidden history and psychological pressure to keep everyone under suspicion. It is another excellent example of why some dinner invitations should simply be declined.
23. The Fall (2013)
The Fall stars Gillian Anderson as detective Stella Gibson, who investigates a series of murders while the audience already knows the identity of the killer. That makes it different from Verity structurally, but the psychological focus is remarkably similar. The series explores how someone can maintain a convincing public identity while hiding an entirely different private reality. Its slower, more methodical approach also gives the characters and their motivations far more room to breathe.
Verity works because it turns a writing job into a trap where every room, document and relationship feels suspicious. For me, the best follow-ups are not necessarily carbon copies of Lowen’s story; they are the ones that understand the same deliciously uncomfortable trick of making you question who is telling the truth. Some lean harder into marriage and betrayal, others into missing people, secret identities or houses that clearly should have come with a warning label.
That variety is what makes this list useful rather than another pile of thrillers wearing the same black coat. If you liked the mix of romance, manipulation, grief and mystery in Verity, there is plenty here to keep the paranoia going. A few are slower burns, but that can be a blessing when the alternative is explaining the twist every five minutes. Basically, trust nobody and keep watching. Really.
If Verity left you wanting more stories where marriages hide secrets, houses feel suspicious and nobody is quite as innocent as they look, these 23 picks cover plenty of ground. Which one would you put on next, and which thriller do you think deserves a place on a future list? Share your pick — preferably before someone discovers another mysterious manuscript.