20 movies like Facing the Enemy, ordered by similarity : Fair Game(2010), The Housemaid(2010), The Departed(2006), The Gift(2015), John Wick(2014), Zeher(2005), The Constant Gardener(2005), Anything for Her(2008), Killer Assistant(2016), Lemming(2005), Aftermath(2017), In a Glass Cage(1987) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2001
98 Minutes
Linden Ashby Maxwell Caulfield Alexandra Paul Melanie Wilson Cynthia Preston Bruce Weitz Max Gail
cop wife beautiful girl killer boyfriend young boy intense sultry suspenseful san fernando valley los angeles apartment bedroom family home vendetta husband/wife relationship accidental death police work seduction suicide
Griff McCleary is a cop, now his son shot himself with Griff's gun. A year later both he and his wife are still reeling from it. Griff feeling shut out by his wife Olivia, decides to move ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|United Arab Emirates
2010
107 Minutes
Naomi Watts Sean Penn Sam Shepard Ty Burrell David Andrews Brooke Smith Noah Emmerich Bruce McGill Michael Kelly Liraz Charchi Khaled Nabawy
cia agent wife husband writer diplomat government official thrilling tense suspenseful washington, d.c. new york city government offices city home secret identity journalism corruption leaked information chase betrayal
CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.
Mystery & Thriller
South Korea
2010
106 Minutes
Jeon Do-yeon Jung-jae Lee Yeo-jeong Yoon Seo Woo Ji-Young Park Jung-min Whang Moon So-ri
pregnant woman husband daughter maid nanny friend suspenseful melodramatic sultry striking mansion bedroom apartment street vacation home roof class distinctions infidelity jealousy poverty
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to dark consequences.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA|Hong Kong
2006
152 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Matt Damon Jack Nicholson Mark Wahlberg Martin Sheen Ray Winstone Vera Farmiga Alec Baldwin James Badge Dale David O'Hara Mark Rolston
mobster criminal cop informant girlfriend wife dark intense gritty tense suspenseful frightening boston police station bar vehicle city apartment secret hideout crime mafia
An undercover cop and a mole in the police attempt to identify each other while infiltrating an Irish gang in South Boston.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|Australia|China
2015
108 Minutes
Jason Bateman Rebecca Hall Joel Edgerton Allison Tolman Busy Philipps Beau Knapp Wendell Pierce David Denman Katie Aselton
husband wife old friend co-worker family member friend brooding intense dark house office backyard store party bedroom obsession the past danger trust secrets
A married couple, Simon and Robyn, run into Gordo, an old acquaintance. Things take a turn when Gordo begins to drop in unannounced at their house and inundates them with mysterious gifts.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|UK|China
2014
101 Minutes
Keanu Reeves Michael Nyqvist Alfie Allen Willem Dafoe Dean Winters Adrianne Palicki Omer Barnea Toby Leonard Moore Bridget Moynahan John Alberto Leguizamo Ian McShane
assassin wife mobster thug puppy fat person brooding dark intense thrilling suspenseful sad house car club office street apartment retirement murder
An ex-hit-man comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that killed his dog and took everything from him.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
India
2005
132 Minutes
Udita Goswami Emraan Hashmi Shamita Shetty Sameer Kochhar Vishwajeet Pradhan
young man young woman police officer husband wife thrilling intense gripping melodramatic india city house bungalow police station restaurant death murder loss of money husband/wife relationship investigation
Siddharth and Sonia are happily married to each other until Anna walks into Siddharth's life. Things takes a worst turn, when Anna gets killed and Siddharth finds himself in deep trouble.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|Germany|Kenya|France|USA|Switzerland
2005
128 Minutes
Ralph Fiennes Rachel Weisz Danny Huston Bill Nighy Pete Postlethwaite Richard McCabe Donald Sumpter Juliet Aubrey Hubert Koundé Archie Panjabi Gerard McSorley
diplomat activist husband wife doctor friend emotional intense suspenseful london kenya berlin canada espionage corruption conspiracy big business romance investigation quest
A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife's murder, big business, and corporate corruption.
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, Drama
USA
2016
89 Minutes
Arianne Zucker Brando Eaton George Stults Natalie Lander Joanne Baron Todd Cahoon Josh Drennen Theodora Greece Catherine Lazo Sierra Love Brett Ryback
magazine editor husband assistant wife daughter babysitter creepy disturbing frightening intense shocking suspenseful tense united states home magazine office secret plans revenge murder revenge
A magazine editor's life and career simultaneously begin to unravel after she takes on a new assistant with secret motives of his own.
Mystery & Thriller
France
2005
130 Minutes
Laurent Lucas Charlotte Gainsbourg Charlotte Rampling André Dussollier Jacques Bonnaffé Véronique Affholder
husband wife boss spirit animal chilling intricate suspenseful laboratory house bedroom france possession strange happenings seduction unusual behavior death career discovery metamorphosis
After developing a flying web-cam Alain has his boss and wife over for dinner. She turns up to be very rude, and the same night Alain finds a live rare Scandinavian lemming clogging up the kitchen sink. The night things start going wrong.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
UK|USA
2017
92 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger Scoot McNairy Maggie Grace Judah Nelson Larry Sullivan Jason McCune Glenn Morshower Mariana Klaveno Martin Donovan Hannah Ware Christopher Darga
air traffic controller construction worker foreman father daughter wife family brooding tense thrilling suspenseful sad united states office home revenge death of child death of spouse guilt loss
Two strangers' lives become inextricably bound together after a devastating plane crash.
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
1987
112 Minutes
Günter Meisner David Sust Marisa Paredes Gisela Echevarria Imma Colomer David Cuspinera
nazi young boy wife daughter nurse pedophile bleak suspenseful chilling disturbing germany family home roof bedroom hospital nazism dark secrets medical experiments pedophilia suicide attempt
A former nazi child-killer is confined in an iron lung inside an old mansion after a suicide attempt. His wife hires him a full-time carer, a mysterious young man who is driven slowly mad by the old man's disturbing past.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
1955
116 Minutes
Simone Signoret Vera Clouzot Paul Meurisse Charles Vanel Jean Brochard Noel Roquebert Thérèse Dorny Pierre Larquey Michel Serrault Yves Marie Maurin Georges Poujouly
teacher headmaster detective wife mistress suspenseful tense dark frightening france boarding school apartment murder adultery revenge deception revenge mystery 1950s
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Iran|France
2016
125 Minutes
Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti Babak Karimi Farid Sajjadi Hosseini Mina Sadati Maral Bani Adam Mehdi Kooshki Emad Emami Shirin Aghakashi Mojtaba Pirzadeh Sahra Asadollahe
husband wife tenant actor intruder bleak brooding emotional gripping touching intense tehran, iran apartment building apartment stage theater school violence domestic life mysterious strangers
While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1955
92 Minutes
Robert Mitchum Shelley Winters Lillian Gish Evelyn Varden Peter Graves James Gleason Billy Chapin Sally Jane Bruce
boy girl preacher wife murderer chilling brooding creepy dark suspenseful small town west virginia river murder child abuse deception greed escape pursuit discovery
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2002
103 Minutes
Val Kilmer Vincent D'Onofrio Adam Goldberg Luis Guzman Doug Hutchison Anthony LaPaglia Glenn Plummer Peter Sarsgaard Deborah Kara Unger Chandra West BD Wong
drug addict drug dealer cop musician husband friend suspenseful gripping gritty southern california desert drug house apartment drugs vengeance double life murder grief the past pursuit
After a tragic incident, a man drifts into a world populated by thugs and speed junkies.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
India
2015
123 Minutes
Varun Dhawan Nawazuddin Siddiqui Huma Qureshi Yami Gautam Divya Dutta Vinay Pathak Radhika Apte
mother son father partner wife robber brash confident dark emotional gritty intense india house car apartment police station vengeance tragic death bank robbery
An innocent man turns brutal when his family gets killed in a bank robbery and one of the perpetrators escapes. 15 years later, he begins his deadly game of vengeance.
Mystery & Thriller
West Germany|France
1977
127 Minutes
Dennis Hopper Bruno Ganz Elisabeth Kreuzer Gérard Blain Nicholas Ray Samuel Fuller Peter Lilienthal Daniel Schmid Jean Eustache Rudolf Schündler Sandy Whitelaw
art dealer husband artist forger friend wife uneasy profound dark suspenseful hamburg, germany car train city apartment murder plot unlikely criminal family desperation terminal illness
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
92 Minutes
Michael Shannon Douglas Ligon Barlow Jacobs Natalie Canerday Glenda Pannell
son brother half brother girlfriend wife older brother brooding brutal arkansas cemetery family home farm family dysfunction feud family death violence crime rivalry revenge
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2008
100 Minutes
Jakob Cedergren Kim Bodnia Lene Maria Christensen Lars Brygmann Anders Hove Anh Lé Jens Jørn Spottag Henrik Lykkegaard Peter Hesse Overgaard Niels Skousen Lars Lunøe
police officer thug wife townsperson abusive husband seductress bleak suspenseful amusing emotional copenhagen, denmark small town bar apartment police work mental breakdown relocation infidelity corruption quest
Following a nervous breakdown, a police officer (Jakob Cedergren) from Copenhagen pulls duty in a small town, where his big-city attitude clashes with the residents' bizarre behavior.