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Netflix Original thrillers really thrive on worst-case existential nightmares, and The Secret Woman is all the proof one needs.

Imagine living a peaceful life with a loving partner in a far-off land, only to be bombarded with unfounded claims by a stranger one sudden day who insists you’ve lived a different life before this. The question is: would you leave it all to believe a complete stranger and search for the forgotten, or would you reflect on whether you had reasons to leave that life in the first place?

Well, thank god wisdom is relative because otherwise bad decisions and good thrillers wouldn’t exist.

But if you’re already done with the Danish thriller and still want more, here are five Netflix movies that are the perfect follow-ups to The Secret Woman.

Five Netflix movies to binge after The Secret Woman:

The Woman in Cabin 10 (Simon Stone, 2025)

If you like how The Secret Woman punctures suspense with an inciting incident that makes you question right from the start, The Woman in Cabin 10 is the textbook fit to start the post-viewing marathon. Simon Stone’s gripping psychological thriller adapts Ruth Ware’s eponymous novel, focusing on Laura “Lo Blacklock, a traumatised investigative journalist who boards a superyacht to cover its maiden voyage and to take a break from serious cases.

Richard Bullmer is the host of the voyage, who plans to honour his terminally ill wife, Anne Lyngstad, before she donates her massive fortune to a charitable foundation. While that sounds like a noble reason, Lo’s journey is soon upended with a late-night disturbance that leads to her witnessing a woman being tossed overboard from cabin 10. But when she reports the incident almost immediately, no one believes her, making viewers question what Lo, and more importantly, they saw was real or imagination.

The Woman in the Window (Joe Wright, 2021)

Based on AJ Finn’s 2018 novel, The Woman in the Window spotlights an unreliable narrator just like The Secret of Woman and The Woman in Cabin 10. Directed by Joe Wright, the psychological thriller follows an agoraphobic child psychologist, Anna Fox, living all by herself in a Manhattan brownstone, who has developed a habit of spying on her neighbours, including the Russells, who just moved in across the street.

While she also takes medication and drinks heavily, Anna soon befriends the Russells’ teenage son before briefly meeting his mother, Jane. But one night, during her routine surveillance, Anna witnesses Jane being stabbed to death through the apartment window across the street, resulting in a frantic 911 call. However, when police arrive and assure her nothing of the sort has happened, a different woman claiming to be Jane enters, suggesting she’s fine and fanning her doubts.

The Girl on the Train (Ribhu Dasgupta, 2021)

Adapted from Paula Hawkins ’ debut novel of the same name, The Girl on the Train retrieves the dark DNA of The Secret Woman, passing off as an amnesia thriller as well. The 2021 Hindi-language adaptation centres on sharp-witted criminal lawyer Parineeti Chopra, whose life completely spirals after she loses her unborn child to a violent car crash. Unable to cut through grief and diagnosed with anterograde amnesia, Mira resorts to extreme alcoholism, ultimately upending her marriage.

The Girl on the Train follows Mira on her daily train commutes in London, where she becomes fixated on a stranger, Nusrat, who comes across as living the ideal life. But a drunk confrontation with Nusrat, driven by a fit of rage, one fine day, culminates in a complete blackout, and Mira wakes up bloodied with no memory whatsoever to discover Nusrat dead, making her the prime suspect in her murder.

The Marked Woman (Gabe Ibáñez, 2026)

While the questions around Louise Andersen’s identity trigger the events of The Secret Woman, the discovery of a tortured, unidentified woman kicks off The Marked Woman. The Spanish thriller opens with an unknown woman found bound, gagged, and brutally tormented inside a shipping container at the port of Barcelona, suffering from total memory loss about who she is, where she is from, and who did this to her.

As detective Anna Ripoll returns to work following a personal tragedy, partnering with a new eccentric officer to investigate this high-profile case, the unlikely duo quickly realise they’re in a race against time to join the dots as multiple attempts on the victim’s life are made after the rescue. The Marked Woman follows Anna and her law enforcement partner, who dig deep into the woman’s past, uncovering the existence of a dangerous human trafficking ring that holds the answer to every question.

The Strays (Nathaniel Martello-White, 2023)

Lastly, to finish off the marathon, we have The Strays to pull the curtains on the post-The Secret Woman binge session. The British psychological thriller tells the story of Neve, a light-skinned Black woman, who has carefully reconstructed her identity. Once a struggling working-class woman named Cheryl, who abandoned her young kids to reinvent herself as Neve, truly believes she has left her past behind.

After all, not only has she changed her name, but also adopted a posh British accent, changed her hair, married a white insurance broker, and has two new children. But her meticulously curated life starts to fall apart when her abandoned kids, now young adults, reappear in town, slowly infiltrating her community and developing a bond close to her children, which, of course, Neve identifies as a clear threat.