Films like The Desperate Hours

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1. 1

   Mother's Day

   Film · 2010 · also crime and thriller

   Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.

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   Panic Room

   Film · 2002 · also crime and thriller

   Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah...

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3. 3

   Breaking In

   Film · 2018 · also crime and thriller

   Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome...

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4. 4

   Trapped

   Film · 2002 · also crime and thriller

   Held hostage in different cities after their daughter is kidnapped by a master extortionist, a desperate couple must find a way to outsmart a seemingly foolproof plot.

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5. 5

   Fear of Rain

   Film · 2021 · also thriller

   A teenage girl living with schizophrenia begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her parents try desperately to help her live a normal life, without exposin...

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   Cleveland Abduction

   Film · 2015 · also crime

   A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

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7. 7

   Good Boy

   Film · 2026 · also thriller

   Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He...

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   Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

   Film · 1986 · also crime and thriller

   Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.

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   Butterfly on a Wheel

   Film · 2007 · also crime and thriller

   A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

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    Dead Man's Wire

    Film · 2026 · also crime and thriller

    In 1977, former real estate developer Tony Kiritsis puts a dead man's switch on himself and the mortgage banker who did him wrong, demanding $5 million and a personal apo...

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