20 movies like Breakdown, ordered by similarity : Transporter 2(2005), A Simple Favor(2018), Air Force One(1997), The Other Side of the Door(2016), Suddenly(1954), Captain Phillips(2013), Vinyan(2008), The Bay of Silence(2020), The Stolen(2016), Anything for Her(2008), The Clovehitch Killer(2018), The Fury(1978) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1997
93 Minutes
Kurt Russell J.T. Walsh Kathleen Quinlan M.C. Gainey Jack Noseworthy Rex Linn Ritch Brinkley Moira Harris Kim Robillard Thomas Kopache Jack McGee
husband wife truck driver sheriff townsperson thrilling tense new mexico desert small town farm car café missing persons deception kidnapping breakdown isolation quest rescue
A man searches for his missing wife after his car breaks down in the middle of the desert.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
France|USA|Germany
2005
88 Minutes
Jason Statham Amber Valletta Alessandro Gassman Hunter Clary François Berléand Jason Flemyng Jeff Chase Keith David Matthew Modine Tim Ware
driver politician son bodyguard terrorist wife frenetic unrestrained thrilling intense brutal miami laboratory convention center airplane warehouse school kidnapping drug trafficking biological warfare
Transporter Frank Martin, surfaces in Miami, Florida and is implicated in the kidnapping of the young son of a powerful USA official.
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, Action
USA|Germany
1997
124 Minutes
Harrison Ford Gary Oldman Glenn Close Wendy Crewson Paul Guilfoyle William H. Macy Liesel Matthews Dean Stockwell Xander Berkeley Bill Smitrovich Elya Baskin
president terrorist wife daughter vice president dictator thrilling intense airplane moscow white house survival terrorism kidnapping deception family showdown quest sacrifice rescue
Communist Radicals hijack Air Force One with The U.S. President and his family on board. The Vice President negotiates from Washington D.C., while the President, a Veteran, fights to rescue the hostages on board.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|USA|India
2016
96 Minutes
Sarah Wayne Callies Jeremy Sisto Sofia Rosinsky Suchitra Pillai-Malik Logan Creran Javier Botet Shoa Hussain Mishti Bangera
mother son priest spirit husband native creepy emotional intense town temple cave car river house ancient curse death grief danger survival
After her young son is killed in a tragic accident, a woman learns of a ritual which will bring him back to say goodbye, but when she disobeys a sacred warning, she upsets the balance between life and death.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1954
75 Minutes
Frank Sinatra Sterling Hayden James Gleason Nancy Gates Willis Bouchey Kim Charney Paul Frees Christopher Dark Charles Smith
assassin husband wife sheriff repairman henchmen tense chilling family home small town california assassination kidnapping pursuit rescue 1950s
In the city of Suddenly, three gangsters trap the Benson family in their own house, on the top of a hill nearby the railroad station, with the intention of killing the president of the USA.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
USA
2013
133 Minutes
Tom Hanks Catherine Keener Barkhad Abdi Barkhad Abdirahman Faysal Ahmed Mahat M. Ali Michael Chernus Corey Johnson Max Martini Chris Mulkey Yul Vazquez
navy seal captain wife seaman hostage gunman dark emotional tense intense somalia coast cargo ship boat airport lifeboat hijacking kidnapping rescue terrorism
The true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the U.S.-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|Belgium|UK|Australia
2008
96 Minutes
Emmanuelle Béart Rufus Sewell Julie Dreyfus Petch Osathanugrah Amporn Pankratok Josse De Pauw Omm Kurlab Lay
father mother guide criminal son friend thrilling tense disturbing thailand burma jungle village underworld city kidnapping tsunami parent/child relationship culture clash husband/wife relationship
A couple are looking for their child who was lost in the tsunami - their search takes them to the dangerous Thai-Burmese waters, and then into the jungle, where they face unknown but horrifying dangers.
Mystery & Thriller
UK
2020
80 Minutes
Claes Bang Olga Kurylenko Brian Cox Assaad Bouab Alice Krige Caroline Goodall Shalisha James-Davis Litiana Biutanaseva Lilibet Biutanaseva Duncan Duff Maroussia Frank
wife husband son murder suspect missing person photographer creepy chilling shocking tense gripping mansion upscale neighborhood french countryside murder accusation mysterious past unsolved murder husband/wife relationship affliction downward spiral
Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.
Adventure, Action, Western, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|Germany|United Arab Emirates|New Zealand
2016
95 Minutes
Alice Eve Graham McTavish Jack Davenport Richard O'Brien Cohen Holloway Gillian MacGregor Glen Levy Stan Walker Stig Eldred Lukas Hinch Emily Corcoran
mother son missing person maori englishwoman murderer intense gripping tense new zealand countryside missing persons kidnapping violence rescue revenge gold rush discovery pursuit rescue
The story of a woman who must find her kidnapped son, navigating a world she doesn't know, on the edge of danger with every heartbeat.
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
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.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1978
118 Minutes
Kirk Douglas John Cassavetes Amy Irving Carrie Snodgress Fiona Lewis Andrew Stevens Charles Durning Gordon Jump Marland Proctor
father cia agent son scientist teen girl dark tense chicago clinic betrayal deception kidnapping psychic phenomena superhuman abilities research quest rescue 1970s
A former CIA agent uses the talents of a young psychic to help retrieve his telekinetic son from terrorists, who want to use his mental powers for evil.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1985
117 Minutes
Gene Hackman Matt Dillon Gayle Hunnicutt Herbert Berghof Josef Sommer Viktoria Fyodorova
businessman race car driver wife cia agent spy son cool intense thrilling europe dallas airport hotel abandoned building kidnapping secret life reconnaissance retribution chase family
When American Donna Lloyd is kidnapped during a trip to Europe, her son Chris and her husband Walter start searching for her.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Norway|China|Canada|USA|France
2019
118 Minutes
Liam Neeson Tom Bateman Tom Jackson Emmy Rossum Domenick Lombardozzi Julia Jones John Doman Laura Dern Raoul Trujillo William Forsythe Benjamin Hollingsworth
driver son drug lord henchman vigilante wife tense brutal emotional thrilling confident mountain garage mansion hotel shop revenge mysterious deaths drugs drug trade
A grieving snowplow driver seeks out revenge against the drug dealers who killed his son.
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
Japan
1995
109 Minutes
Makiko Esumi Takashi Naitô Tadanobu Asano Midori Kiuchi Akira Emoto Mutsuko Sakura Hiromi Ichida
wife husband son widower daughter dark emotional family home japan village marriage depression love mourning transformation quest 1990s
A young woman's husband apparently commits suicide without warning or reason, leaving behind his wife and infant.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
UK
1965
109 Minutes
Michael Caine Nigel Green Guy Doleman Sue Lloyd Gordon Jackson Aubrey Richards Frank Gatliff Thomas Baptiste Oliver MacGreevy Barry Raymond Pauline Winter
spy scientist intelligence officer guard love interest thrilling intense gripping london office apartment train warehouse investigation espionage kidnapping brainwashing corruption deception mystery
In London, a counter espionage Agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2015
95 Minutes
Luis Tosar Goya Toledo Javier Gutiérrez Pedro Alonso Fernando Cayo Elvira Mínguez Antonio Mourelos María Mera Ricardo de Barreiro Luis Zahera
banker father child blackmailer psychopath son suspenseful thrilling intense gory brooding car street city helicopter docks bank blackmail bomb police pursuit
Breakfast, kiss to his wife, take the children to the school, a bomb under the car, one neverending day ahead.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA|UK
1996
97 Minutes
Frances McDormand Steve Buscemi William H. Macy Peter Stormare Harve Presnell John Carroll Lynch Kristin Rudrüd Steve Reevis Stephen Park
salesman wife wealthy man thug police officer quirky witty dark minnesota car motel kidnapping deception money violence crime corruption quest rescue 1980s
Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
2018
89 Minutes
Daniel Radcliffe Grace Gummer Pablo Schreiber Robert Wisdom César Pérez David Joseph Martinez Renée Willett Ashton Tatum
drug smuggler drug enforcement agent drug trafficker pilot sick wife police officer tense intense suspenseful thrilling solemn emotional doctor's office airplane field hotel house runway drug cartel drug smuggling
Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.