If you loved Sleeping with the Enemy, try Return to Paradise
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Return to Paradise has roughly 3.9× fewer votes than Sleeping with the Enemy — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Joseph Ruben, and they both carry the paranoid mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to Sleeping with the Enemy, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Return to Paradise is
Malaysian jungle summer air thick with humidity and a distant orangutan call, a tattered backpack lies abandoned. Two friends face a haunting choice: share a sentence or abandon one of their own. A tense moral dilemma unfolds in 90s thriller style.

