20 movies like Restraint, ordered by similarity : The Hitch-Hiker(1953), The Machine(2013), Trash(2014), High Season for Spies(1966), Wolf Creek(2005), Big Driver(2014), Here Comes the Devil(2012), Transference: Escape the Dark(2020), Brimstone(2016), Lady of Csejte(2015), North by Northwest(1959), The Wailing(2016) ...
Mystery & Thriller
Australia
2008
92 Minutes
Travis Fimmel Teresa Palmer Stephen Moyer Philip Holder Margie McCrae Peter Davies Nate Jones Alyssa McClelland
hostage gangster couple suspenseful villa australia fear secret fugitives escape
A young couple on the run hole up in a country estate with a hostage in tow.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1953
71 Minutes
hitchhiker sociopath victim hostage escaped convict creepy suspenseful chilling california mexico car hostage situation manhunt serial murders survival pursuit escape 1950s
Two fishermen pick up a psychotic escaped convict who tells them that he intends to murder them when the ride is over.
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
UK
2013
91 Minutes
Caity Lotz Toby Stephens Denis Lawson Lee Nicholas Harris Sam Hazeldine Helen Griffin Sule Rimi Jonathan Byrne Ben McGregor Jade Croot Pooneh Hajimohammadi
scientist soldier researcher cyborg android mother brutal disturbing patriotic suspenseful tense uneasy military base secret location underground office ocean laboratory cyborgs artificial intelligence
In efforts to construct perfect android killing machines in a war against China, UK scientists exceed their goal and create a sentient robot.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy, Adventure, Drama
UK|Brazil|Germany
2014
113 Minutes
Selton Mello Wagner Moura Rooney Mara Martin Sheen Rickson Tevis Eduardo Luís Gabriel Weinstein Nelson Xavier André Ramiro Jesuíta Barbosa Daniel Zettel
young boy friend young man police officer villain engaging emotional melodramatic suspenseful slum rio de janeiro secret past secret danger money adventure discovery growing up escape mystery
Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
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
Australia
2005
95 Minutes
John Jarratt Nathan Phillips Cassandra Magrath Kestie Morassi Andy McPhee Guy Petersen Jenny Starvall Gordon Poole
friend backpacker bushman killer monster shocking frightening suspenseful tense frightful australia australian outback stranded horror escape murder killer among us murderous rampage escape rescue
Three backpackers stranded in the Australian outback are plunged inside a hellish nightmare of insufferable torture by a sadistic psychopathic local.
Mystery & Thriller
2014
90 Minutes
Maria Bello Olympia Dukakis Joan Jett Will Harris Ann Dowd Jennifer Kydd Juanita Peters Mary Colin Chisholm
young woman author rape survivor rape victim man villain suspenseful thrilling gripping shocking brutal emotional street car rape rape aftermath horror films fear danger dark secrets
Her mind shattered, a novelist (Maria Bello) seeks revenge on the man who brutally assaulted her on a desolate New England road.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Mexico
2012
97 Minutes
Francisco Barreiro Laura Caro Alan Martinez David Arturo Cabezud Enrique Saint-Martin Michele Estrada Jessica Iris Dana Dorel Juan Carlos Arreguin Giancarlo Ruiz Barbara Perrin Rivemar
wife husband parent couple son daughter thrilling engaging suspenseful shocking dark intense cave mexico tijuana tijuana, mexico horror danger fear change
A married couple lose their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation, but it becomes clear that they are not who they ... See full summary »
Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller
Canada
2020
88 Minutes
Jeremy Ninaber Ethan Mitchell Aaron Tomlin Marlo Milstone
twin secret agent superhuman teen creepy dark spectacular secret headquarters hideout government secrets superhuman abilities super powers escape escape pursuit transformation 2010s
Joshua must protect his twin-sister, Emma, who possesses supernatural abilities and keep her safe from an unstoppable secret agent hunting them for an experiment in a classified government program.
Mystery & Thriller, Western
Netherlands|France|Germany|Belgium|Sweden|UK|USA
2016
148 Minutes
Dakota Fanning Guy Pearce Emilia Jones Kit Harington Carice van Houten Paul Anderson Carla Juri William Houston Ivy George Jack Roth Bill Tangradi
frontier woman fugitive priest preacher suspenseful tense thrilling frontier united states fugitives escape on the run vengeance frontier justice frontier life adventure escape quest pursuit revenge
From the moment the new reverend climbs the pulpit, Liz knows she and her family are in great danger.
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
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.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2016
156 Minutes
Kwak Do-won Jun Kunimura Jeong-min Hwang Woo-hee Chun So-yeon Jang Heo Jin
villager stranger murderer serial killer suspenseful thrilling tense shocking village korea murder murder accusation village life strangers strange behavior discovery mystery 2010s
Suspicion leads to hysteria when rural villagers link a series of brutal murders to the arrival of a mysterious stranger (Kunimura Jun).
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, Drama, History
USA|UK
2012
120 Minutes
Ben Affleck Bryan Cranston Alan Arkin John Goodman Victor Garber Tate Donovan Clea DuVall Scoot McNairy Rory Cochrane Christopher Denham Kerry Bishé
cia agent specialist hostage revolutionary ambassador wife brutal tense suspenseful thrilling tehran, iran cia office canada united states airplane protest iran hostage crisis on the run political intrigue schemes
Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA|UK
2018
93 Minutes
Robert Redford Casey Affleck Sissy Spacek Danny Glover Tom Waits Tika Sumpter Ari Elizabeth Johnson Teagan Johnson Gene Jones John David Washington Barlow Jacobs
prisoner prison guard bank robber wife detective escape artist amusing gutsy bleak suspenseful tense california san quentin penitentiary prison bank car escape bank heist life story prison
Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker and his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public.
Mystery & Thriller
UK|France
2015
95 Minutes
Andrew Simpson Joséphine de La Baume Frédéric Pierrot Barbara Crampton Féodor Atkine Pierre Boulanger Susanna Cappellaro Edward Hogg
hitchhiker couple drifter killer kidnapper brutal creepy gripping suspenseful thrilling france french countryside car house bedroom mystery kidnapping hitchhiking murder escape
The sun drenched days of summer turn dark and ominous for hitchhiking duo Jack and Véronique when they become inexplicably entangled with a mysterious married couple and a local road kill collector in rural France.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Sweden
2019
145 Minutes
Florence Pugh Jack Reynor William Jackson Harper Will Poulter Vilhelm Blomgren Isabelle Grill Gunnel Fred Archie Madekwe Ellora Torchia Anna Åström Liv Mjönes
young woman young man couple villager cult member disturbing brooding raw chilling sweden village festival local customs cult human sacrifice family tragedy escape mystery fall sacrifice
A couple travels to Eastern Europe to visit a rural hometown's fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Mexico
2012
96 Minutes
Mel Gibson Daniel Giménez Cacho Jesús Ochoa Roberto Sosa Dolores Heredia Kevin Hernandez Peter Stormare Dean Norris Bob Gunton Scott Cohen Patrick Bauchau
bank robber american mexican border patrol officer gangster young boy engaging gripping moving amusing playful brutal mexico prison robbery bank robbery relationships gangsters organ harvesting fear
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a young boy.
Gay & Lesbian, Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA|Germany|Sweden|Hungary
2017
115 Minutes
Charlize Theron James McAvoy Eddie Marsan John Goodman Toby Jones James Faulkner Roland Møller Sofia Boutella Bill Skarsgård Sam Hargrave Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson
spy partner secret agent police officer double agent cool dark intense spectacular sultry suspenseful berlin city government building espionage gunfight secret mission sex appeal discovery pursuit
An undercover MI6 agent is sent to Berlin during the Cold War to investigate the murder of a fellow agent and recover a missing list of double agents.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Canada
2020
94 Minutes
Catherine Walker Jared Abrahamson Hannah Anderson Sean McGinley Don McKellar Geraldine O'Rawe Jessica Reynolds Anna Cummer
villager daughter religious person occultist pagan frightening suspenseful gory village canada house cult religion bloodlust discovery escape fall 1970s
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.