Movies Like Poison Ivy (1992)

Poison Ivy is a 1992 drama, thriller film from Katt Shea with a MovieMagicScore of 5.4/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Poison Ivy 2: Lily and Poison Ivy: The New Seduction.

Drama Thriller

Poison Ivy 2: Lily

1996

A young and naive college art student becomes obsessed with assuming the identity and personality of a departed coed who used to live in her room, and in so doing causes complications that result in two men, a student and her art professor, lusting after her.

4.6

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Poison Ivy: The New Seduction

1997

A sinister seductress vows to destroy a suburban family.

4.7

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Poison Ivy: The Secret Society

2008

A mysterious death of a young college student occurs late one night at a prestigious New England college...

4.5

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Hard Candy

2005

Hayley’s a smart, charming teenage girl. Jeff’s a handsome, smooth fashion photographer. An Internet chat, a coffee shop meet-up, an impromptu fashion shoot back at Jeff’s place. Jeff thinks it’s his lucky night. He’s in for a surprise.

6.8

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The Crush

1993

A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

6.6

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My First Mister

2001

Leelee Sobieski is brash, abrasive and vulnerable as a teenage child of divorce who hides her pain behind a mask of hard-edged gothic rebellion. Albert Brooks plays a man who is her total opposite, a precise and well-ordered menswear store owner of forty-nine who manages limited expectations and protects lonely secrets with pleasant ritual and quiet, ironic reserve. These two total opposites collide in conflict then come together in a surprising alliance, changing each other's lives forever.

6.5

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The Babysitter's Seduction

1996

The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually "seduced" by the father.

5.6

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Reckless Summer

2021

15-year-old Solange lives in a little town in the French Alps. When her parents get divorced, she discovers her femininity and has her first sexual experiences.

6.1

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Year of the Jellyfish

1984

Chris, a sexy teenager who appears mostly bare-breasted on the French Riviera, has a crush on Romain, her mother's lover. In reaction to her inability to attract his attention, she experiments with other risque affairs.

5.8

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#10

Once Were Warriors

1994

A drama about a Maori family living in Auckland, New Zealand. Lee Tamahori tells the story of Beth Heke’s strong will to keep her family together during times of unemployment and abuse from her violent and alcoholic husband.

7.4

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#11

Daisies

1966

Two teenage girls embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world around them.

7.3

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#12

According to Greta

2009

Dumped on her grandparents for the summer by her indifferent mother, acerbic and self-destructive teenager Greta disrupts the elderly couple's staid life on the Jersey Shore. Eventually, a romance helps Greta face down her demons.

6.0

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#13

Lolita

1962

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.

7.3

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#14

Lolita

1997

7.1

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#15

The Lover

1992

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

7.0

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#16

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

2017

After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle between Mildred and Ebbing's law enforcement is only exacerbated.

8.1

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#17

The Diary of a Teenage Girl

2015

Minnie Goetze is a 15-year-old aspiring comic-book artist, coming of age in the haze of the 1970s in San Francisco. Insatiably curious about the world around her, Minnie is a pretty typical teenage girl. Oh, except that she’s sleeping with her mother’s boyfriend.

6.6

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#18

Worst Case, We Get Married

2017

Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it’s love at first sight for her; the real kind, the one that hurts. Baz wants to help this lost little girl, but she wants much more from him, and is ready to do anything to get it.

6.3

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#19

I Have Electric Dreams

2023

Eva a 16-year-old girl lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him, she tries to balance between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life.

6.3

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#20

The Key

1983

Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...

6.0

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Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Poison Ivy?

The top films similar to Poison Ivy by MovieMagicScore are Poison Ivy 2: Lily (4.6), Poison Ivy: The New Seduction (4.7), Poison Ivy: The Secret Society (4.5). Each shares drama/thriller themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Poison Ivy worth watching?

Poison Ivy holds a MovieMagicScore of 5.4/10 from 384 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Poison Ivy?

Poison Ivy (1992) is a drama, thriller film directed by Katt Shea, starring Drew Barrymore, Sara Gilbert, Tom Skerritt.

Where can I find more recommendations like Poison Ivy?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more drama recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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About movies like Poison Ivy

This ranked list pairs Poison Ivy (1992), a drama and thriller film from Katt Shea, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Drew Barrymore take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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