20 movies like The Chinese Cat, ordered by similarity : Searching(2018), A Simple Favor(2018), The Clovehitch Killer(2018), I'll Follow You Down(2013), Before I Hang(1940), Us(2019), Anything for Her(2008), The Wrong Child(2016), An Inspector Calls(1954), Terror by Night(1946), Time Without Pity(1957), Lisbon(1999) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1944
65 Minutes
Sidney Toler Benson Fong Joan Woodbury Mantan Moreland Weldon Heyburn Ian Keith Sam Flint Cyrus W. Kendall Anthony Warde John Davidson Betty Blythe
charlie chan daughter chess player fiancé son chauffeur playful spirited confident fun house hotel family home murder case family honor investigation deception father/son relationship chess mystery discovery
The Cisco Kid and Pancho hold up a stagecoach and kidnap Ellen Roth. They take the girl, who is wanted on a murder charge, to the mission where Padre Angelo will look after her. She tells ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Russia
2018
102 Minutes
John Cho Debra Messing Joseph Lee Michelle La Sara Sohn Alex Jayne Go Thomas Barbusca Gage Biltoft
daughter father police officer friend missing girl disturbing shocking intricate uneasy tense house room school party missing persons mystery father/daughter relationship investigation internet secrets
After his teenage daughter goes missing, a desperate father tries to find clues on her laptop.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
Canada|USA
2018
117 Minutes
Anna Kendrick Blake Lively Henry Golding Ian Ho Joshua Satine Andrew Rannells Kelly McCormack Aparna Nancherla Rupert Friend Bashir Salahuddin Jean Smart
widow son friend husband single mother missing person sultry tense intricate confident dark thrilling suburb house school kitchen river airplane missing persons mysterious past
Stephanie is a single mother with a parenting vlog who befriends Emily, a secretive upper-class woman who has a child at the same elementary school. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie takes it upon herself to investigate.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
110 Minutes
Dylan McDermott Charlie Plummer Samantha Mathis Madisen Beaty Brenna Sherman Lance Chantiles-Wertz Kat Pérez Jonathan Riggs
family father son murder suspect killer chilling creepy dark disturbing eerie engaging frightful gripping intense shocking suspenseful thrilling tense uneasy america
A picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home.
Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
2013
92 Minutes
Haley Joel Osment Gillian Anderson Rufus Sewell Victor Garber Sarah Manninen Sherry Miller John Paul Ruttan Brandon Firla Kiara Glasco Susanna Fournier
scientist college student time traveler missing person father son emotional engaging gripping rousing somber princeton, n.j. university time portal city home lecture hall time travel relationships family
After a scientist disappears during a business trip, his son (Haley Joel Osment) and wife (Gillian Anderson) struggle to cope, then they make a bizarre discovery years later that may bring him home.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
1940
71 Minutes
mad scientist doctor prisoner daughter police captain fiancé creepy dark eerie suspenseful prison laboratory house death row aging scientific experiments murder prison life euthanasia father/daughter relationship
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Japan|USA
2019
116 Minutes
Lupita Nyong'o Winston Duke Elisabeth Moss Tim Heidecker Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Anna Diop Evan Alex Shahadi Wright Joseph Madison Curry Cali Sheldon Noelle Sheldon
husband son daughter masked man stranger uneasy frightening creepy gory brutal chilling beach beach house car woods bedroom living room home invasion survival family
During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.
Crime, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Spain
2008
96 Minutes
Vincent Lindon Diane Kruger Lancelot Roch Olivier Marchal Hammou Graïa Liliane Rovère Olivier Perrier Moussa Maaskri Rémi Martin Thierry Godard Slimane Hadjar
wife husband son police officer judge counterfeiter brash suspenseful emotional france prison house courtroom suburbia family wrongful conviction desperation jailbreak husband/wife relationship murder case
With no legal means left to him, a high school teacher devises a daring plan to rescue his wrongfully imprisoned wife from jail.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Isle Of Man
2016
84 Minutes
Vivica A. Fox Gary Daniels Robbie Davidson Tracy Nelson Stevanna Jackson Johnny Whitaker Helene Udy Jason Faunt Alissa Latow Jackie Christie
sociopath teen boy architect estranged son father daughter frightful gripping uneasy creepy chilling disturbing america evil child identity vengeance murder family grudge discovery
The inspirational story of how Dr. George Daniels rose from Dickensian poverty to become the finest watchmaker of the modern era and how Roger Smith embarked on an obsessive, seven-year ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1954
79 Minutes
Alastair Sim Arthur Young Olga Lindo Brian Worth Eileen Moore Bryan Forbes Jane Wenham George Woodbridge Olwen Brookes
wealthy man wealthy woman inspector son daughter pretty woman emotional melodramatic uneasy england household death investigation family wealth social standing class distinctions discovery mystery 1910s
When a young girl is found dead an inspector is sent to investigate a prosperous Yorkshire household. It emerges that each member of the family has a guilty secret - each one is partly responsible for her death.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
60 Minutes
Basil Rathbone Nigel Bruce Alan Mowbray Dennis Hoey Renee Godfrey Mary Forbes Billy Bevan Frederick Worlock Leland Hodgson Geoffrey Steele Boyd Davis
sherlock holmes doctor watson major son lady villain suspenseful crafty london train station train compartment car jewelry theft murder false accusations impersonation mother/son relationship investigation mystery
When the fabled Star of Rhodesia diamond is stolen on a London to Edinburgh train and the son of its owner is murdered, Sherlock Holmes must discover which of his suspicious fellow passengers is responsible.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1957
88 Minutes
father convict girlfriend wealthy man wife son suspenseful dark melodramatic london england countryside prison mansion courtroom murder investigation wrongfully accused father/son relationship vigilantism cover-up
The day before a young man is to be executed for killing his girlfriend, his alcoholic father shows up to try to prove his innocence.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain|Argentina
1999
99 Minutes
Carmen Maura Federico Luppi Sergi López Antonio Birabent Laia Marull Miguel Palenzuela
salesman hitchhiker daughter husband son father tense dark suspenseful sultry spain madrid restroom highway lisbon, portugal car travel on the run family marriage
Joao sells video tapes in road bars between Portugal and Spain. One day he finds a middle aged woman in the middle of nowhere. Somebody is looking for her and she has to escape to Lisboa. ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1941
63 Minutes
George Sanders Wendy Barrie James Gleason Allen Jenkins Mona Maris Victor Kilian Frank Moran Russ Clark Ed Gargan Eddie Dunn Alec Craig
private detective fiancée police officer scientist twin thug suspenseful thrilling emotional taxi hotel room apartment nightclub new york city street missing persons wrongfully accused schemes marriage investigation
Gay Lawrence, aka The Falcon, is about to depart the city to marry his fiancée, Helen Reed, when a mystery girl, Rita Mara, asks for his aid in disposing of a secret formula for making ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
66 Minutes
Tom Conway Paula Corday Sharyn Moffet Edward Brophy Fay Helm Robert Armstrong
detective partner young girl butler wealthy woman bootlegger dark suspenseful train san francisco household jail hotel room ship murder racketeering smuggling impersonation father/daughter relationship investigation
The Falcon and his friend Goldie Locke check into what appears to be a silk-smuggling racket in San Francisco.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
69 Minutes
Sidney Toler Mantan Moreland Edwin Luke Hardie Albright Frank Reicher Janet Warren Cyril Delevanti Alan Bridge
scientist chauffeur detective family member son charlie chan cheeky suspenseful intricate mansion laboratory car vault missing persons investigation science murder plot assumed identity government secrets mystery
Eccentric scientist Harper lives in a spooky mansion with all the trimmings: hidden lab, secret panels, inscrutable butler, and greedy relatives with unusual talents. When Harper seems to ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2019
85 Minutes
Bethany Anne Lind Will Patton Elisabeth Röhm Jared Ivers Jimmy Gonzales Chandler Head Tony Vaughn Joshua Mikel Bryant Carroll
dead person family murderer father son bleak chilling dark gripping united states crime scene accidental death cover-up guilt escape mystery sacrifice 2010s
A woman's panicked decision to cover up an accidental killing spins out of control when her conscience demands she return the dead man's body to his family.
Crime, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
South Korea
2009
128 Minutes
Kim Hye-ja Won Bin Ku Jin Je-mun Yun Mi-Seon Jeon Byoung-Soon Kim
mother widow son suspect police detective defense attorney dark emotional gripping small town south korea shop family home mother/son relationship murder investigation incarceration framed vigilantism love
A mother desperately searches for the killer who framed her son for a girl's horrific murder.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1945
81 Minutes
Joel McCrea Gail Russell Herbert Marshall Phyllis Brooks Isobel Elsom Norman Lloyd Mikhail Rasumny Elisabeth Risdon Tom Tully Nona Griffith Richard Lyon
widower governess murderer son child dark intricate gripping suspenseful new england house neighborhood murder police work investigation suspicion crime quest discovery mystery
A secretive widower hires a governess for his children, a willful boy and impressionable girl. Strange occurrences and the governess's curiosity lead her to unlock the secrets of the mysterious and uninhabited brownstone next door.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
2011
90 Minutes
Bill Pullman Marcia Gay Harden Alfred Molina Richard Schiff Callard Harris Mariana Klaveno Tahmoh Penikett
judge son wife tense disturbing dark bleak courtroom house town illinois trial murder affair father/son relationship fall mystery 2010s
After a judge (Bill Pullman) is accused of murdering his wife, an affair from his past threatens to destroy his defense.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada|Germany|France
2009
123 Minutes
Vera Farmiga Peter Sarsgaard Isabelle Fuhrman CCH Pounder Aryana Engineer Jimmy Bennett Margo Martindale Karel Roden Rosemary Dunsmore
mother father daughter son orphan nun dark suspenseful tense chilling orphanage household hospital family home loss adoption deception insanity marriage husband/wife relationship
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.