Movies like Elsewhere
If Elsewhere's mix of small town, dreams and corruption stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Elsewhere's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Silencing
2020 · Directed by Robin Pront · 93 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: small town, investigation, disappearance · Also thriller and crime
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
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Trust
2010 · Directed by David Schwimmer · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: internet, online dating · Also crime and drama
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be.
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Inception
2010 · Directed by Christopher Nolan · 148 min8.4
Why you'll like itShares: dreams, kidnapping
Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the…
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Cleveland Abduction
2015 · Directed by Alex Kalymnios · 88 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping · Also crime and drama
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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The Yakuza
1974 · Directed by Sydney Pollack · 112 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping · Also crime and drama
When George Tanner does business with high-ranking Yakuza Tono, Tono kidnaps his daughter, and George summons his old friend, private eye Harry Kilmer, to Japan to investigate.
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Strange Days
1995 · Directed by Kathryn Bigelow · 145 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: dreams · Also crime and thriller
In the last days of 1999, ex-cop turned street hustler Lenny Nero receives a disc which contains the memories of the murder of a prostitute.
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A Working Man
2025 · Directed by David Ayer · 116 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping · Also crime and thriller
Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to…
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Luther: The Fallen Sun
2023 · Directed by Jamie Payne · 129 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping · Also crime and thriller
A gruesome serial killer is terrorizing London while brilliant but disgraced detective John Luther sits behind bars. Haunted by his failure to capture the cyber psychopath who now taunts him, Luther decides to break…
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Get Out
2017 · Directed by Jordan Peele · 104 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping, disappearance
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial…
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8MM
1999 · Directed by Joel Schumacher · 123 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: investigation · Also thriller and crime
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path.
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed
2009 · Directed by J Blakeson · 100 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: kidnapping · Also crime and drama · From the same decade (2000s)
A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.