20 movies like The Franchise Affair, ordered by similarity : The Guilty(2018), The Bouncer(2018), Kahaani 2: Durga Rani Singh(2016), The Invisible Guest(2016), Cold Hell(2017), Female Agents(2008), High Season for Spies(1966), Halloween(2018), Patient Killer(2014), May God Save Us(2015), Zero Tolerance(2015), North by Northwest(1959) ...
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1951
88 Minutes
Michael Denison Dulcie Gray Ann Stephens Anthony Nicholls Marjorie Fielding Athene Seyler Hy Hazell John Bailey Avice Landone Kenneth More Moultrie Kelsall
mother daughter kidnapper missing girl orphan suspect thrilling suspenseful engaging gripping intense emotional great britain kidnapping investigation starvation innocence danger adventure discovery
Michael Denison plays a lawyer investigating kidnapping charges against Dulcie Gray. Based on a novel of Josephine Tey.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Denmark
2018
85 Minutes
Jakob Cedergren Jessica Dinnage Omar Shargawi Johan Olsen Jacob Hauberg Lohmann Katinka Evers-Jahnsen Jeanette Lindbæk Larsen Simon Bennebjerg Laura Bro
police officer ex-cop woman kidnapper villain suspect suspenseful thrilling engaging gripping intense emotional denmark police station kidnapping emergencies investigation murder danger fear
A police officer assigned alarm dispatch duty enters a race against time when he answers an emergency call from a kidnapped woman.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
France|Belgium
2018
82 Minutes
Jean-Claude Van Damme Sveva Alviti Sami Bouajila Sam Louwyck Kaaris Kevin Janssens Alice Verset Dimitri Thivaios Laurent D'Elia Cécilia Ngô
bodyguard bouncer daughter strip-club owner police detective stripper thrilling engaging suspenseful gripping brutal intense nightclub strip club investigation undercover operations working undercover father/daughter relationship fighting danger
A nightclub bouncer in his fifties who's taken punches, literally and figuratively, struggles to raise his 8-year-old daughter.
Mystery & Thriller
India
2016
119 Minutes
Vidya Balan Arjun Rampal Naisha Khanna Jugal Hansraj Tota Roychoudhury Kharaj Mukherjee
mother teenager daughter kidnapper kidnapped child investigator engaging suspenseful melodramatic gripping emotional india kidnapping secrets secret past investigation accident discovery escape rescue
A woman with a mysterious past is charged with kidnapping and murder.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2016
106 Minutes
Mario Casas José Coronado Bárbara Lennie Ana Wagener Francesc Orella Paco Tous David Selvas San Yélamos Iñigo Gastesi
businessman dead person murder suspect lawyer wife lover emotional engaging suspenseful thrilling intense apartment murder murder plot innocence relationships investigation suspicion adventure discovery
A successful entrepreneur accused of murder and a witness preparation expert have less than three hours to come up with an impregnable defense.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
2017
92 Minutes
Violetta Schurawlow Tobias Moretti Robert Palfrader Sammy Sheik Friedrich von Thun Murathan Muslu Nursel Köse Ercan Kesal Verena Altenberger Susanne Gschwendtner Edis König
taxi driver young woman turkish woman killer murder victim investigator engaging thrilling bleak suspenseful intense emotional taxi vienna street murder danger suspicion fear murder case
Mystery & Thriller, Action
France
2008
120 Minutes
Sophie Marceau Julie Depardieu Marie Gillain Déborah François Moritz Bleibtreu Maya Sansa Julien Boisselier Vincent Rottiers Volker Bruch Robin Renucci
frenchwoman resistance fighter british officer geologist ss officer german officer thrilling engaging suspenseful intense gripping emotional france london germany airplane hospital world war ii danger saving the world
London, 1944: SOE's section for French ops parachute 4 women into France, plus a woman there, to free an English geologist and kill SS colonel Heindrich.
Crime, Comedy, Action, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|Portugal|West Germany
1966
89 Minutes
Antonio Vilar Letícia Román Peter Van Eyck Américo Coimbra Mikaela Artur Semedo Klausjürgen Wussow Corny Collins Ricardo Rubinstein José Cardoso Ricardo Valle
professor inventor kidnapper gangster agent secret agent engaging gripping suspenseful thrilling intense lisbon, portugal kidnapping secret secret formula fighting dangerous mission adventure rivalry pursuit
A scientist discovers the formula of a particular resistant steel, and a spy ring from an enemy power sets after him to obtain it.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Other
USA|UK
2018
106 Minutes
Jamie Lee Curtis Judy Greer Andi Matichak Will Patton Virginia Gardner Nick Castle Haluk Bilginer James Jude Courtney Miles Robbins Dylan Arnold Drew Scheid
victim serial killer murderer rival psychopath creepy uneasy tense gory gripping thrilling haddonfield, ill. house forest mental institution suburb bus murder escape revenge
Laurie Strode confronts her long-time foe Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2014
88 Minutes
Victoria Pratt Barbie Castro Casper Van Dien Richard Burgi Patrick Muldoon Stacey Dash Antoni Corone David Chokachi
hypnotherapist woman doctor suicidal person suicide killer thrilling suspenseful engaging gripping intense doctor's office hypnosis suicide prevention danger fighting fear murder adventure discovery
In an effort to uncover the truth behind her patient's nightmares, a psychiatrist suggests hypnosis without realizing the deadly consequences.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2015
127 Minutes
Antonio de la Torre Roberto Álamo Javier Pereira Luis Zahera Raúl Prieto Mónica López Alfonso Bassave
serial killer pope religious person detective investigator government official engaging thrilling suspenseful intense dark madrid spain police station street crime scene big city investigation murder mysterious deaths
Inspectors Velarde and Alfaro must find what appears to be a serial killer. This hunt against the clock will make them realize something they'd never thought about: neither one of them is that different from the killer.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
Thailand
2015
89 Minutes
Dustin Nguyen Scott Adkins Sahajak Boonthanakit Gary Daniels Way Prinya Kane Kosugi Ammy Chanicha Natalie Lorence Yuhkoh Matsuguchi
young girl dead person daughter murderer colleague police officer engaging emotional melodramatic thrilling gripping suspenseful thailand bangkok murder murder investigation investigation personal vendetta grief fighting
Johnny and Peter, former paramilitary operatives, search Bangkok - leaving carnage in their wake - to find the men who killed Johnny's daughter, Angel.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1959
136 Minutes
Cary Grant Eva Marie Saint James Mason Leo G. Carroll Martin Landau Jessie Royce Landis Philip Ober Adam Williams Josephine Hutchinson Edward Platt Robert Ellenstein
ad executive spy secret agent mother henchman police officer amusing suspenseful engaging thrilling new york city long island, n.y. south dakota cornfield mount rushmore hotel room mistaken identity espionage romance fugitives
A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
2015
86 Minutes
Ali Larter Arjun Gupta Max Rose Chloe Perrin Kurt Carley Merrin Dungey Patrick Fischler Wilmer Calderon Tom Wright Laura Margolis Joe Egender
single mother mother ghost spirit boyfriend enemy brutal shocking thrilling suspenseful gripping creepy house demons danger horror evil spirits adventure discovery quest
A single mother, and her children, are awoken nightly by an intense presence. She asks her scientist boyfriend to destroy the violent spirit, that paranormal experts are too frightened to take on.
Mystery & Thriller
France
2001
118 Minutes
Vincent Cassel Emmanuelle Devos Olivier Gourmet Olivia Bonamy Olivier Perrier Bernard Alane David Saracino Pierre Diot Serge Boutleroff
young woman secretary deaf woman colleague criminal bully engaging thrilling suspenseful intense gripping emotional office bullying corporate office life danger deafness relationships criminals discovery
She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Russia
2015
107 Minutes
Svetlana Khodchenkova Isabelle Allen Lia Sinchevici Ada Condeescu Pavel Derevyanko Claudiu Trandafir Lucas Bond Paul Diaconescu
orphan child countess villain woman sibling dark thrilling suspenseful gripping emotional shocking transylvania market castle dark secrets fear orphans danger fighting evil
Based on a story of Countess Bathory, a serial killer in 16th century Transylvania who supposedly killed hundreds of children.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK|USA
2019
94 Minutes
Noomi Rapace Sophie Nélisse Indira Varma George Georgiou Christopher Sciueref Eoin Macken Charley Palmer Rothwell Akin Gazi Huw Parmenter Olivia Jewson Mimi Keene
bodyguard woman terrorist teenager heiress killer engaging thrilling suspenseful gripping intense dense sudan terrorism kidnapping protection money danger fear adventure
A female bodyguard is hired to protect an heiress on the run from assassins.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|USA
1955
84 Minutes
Terry Moore Robert Beatty William Sylvester Geoffrey Keen Josephine Griffin Allan Cuthbertson Henry Oscar William Lucas
actress artist diamond smugglers blackmailer murder suspect killer melodramatic brooding tense suspenseful engaging intense england murder blackmail crime syndicate alibi diamond smuggling father/daughter relationship discovery
A woman's painted portrait and a post card with a sketch of a woman's hand holding a Chianti bottle are the main clues used by the Scotland Yard to solve a string of murders connected to a diamond-smuggling ring.
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.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1957
73 Minutes
young boy parent media expert journalist expert engaging thrilling emotional suspenseful gripping bank vault dramatization danger trapped family tragedy adventure discovery escape 1950s
A boy is accidentally locked in a bank vault. With less than ten hours of oxygen left in the vault, it becomes a race to save the boy.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA
2010
94 Minutes
Denzel Washington Chris Pine Rosario Dawson Kevin Dunn Ethan Suplee Kevin Corrigan Jessy Schram Jeff Wincott Elizabeth Mathis Lew Temple Meagan Tandy
engineer conductor safety inspector yardmaster father daughter tense thrilling emotional intense suspenseful train railway railyard pennsylvania runaway train toxic chemicals disaster father/daughter relationship death
With an unmanned, half-mile-long freight train barreling toward a city, a veteran engineer and a young conductor race against the clock to prevent a catastrophe.