20 movies like A Stranger in Paradise, ordered by similarity : Blood and Bone(2009), Zero Tolerance(2015), The Bouncer(2018), The Commuter(2018), Bad Times at the El Royale(2018), Under the Silver Lake(2018), Cold Hell(2017), Collateral Damage(2002), Inception(2010), John Wick(2014), The Vanishing(2018), Breach(2007) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Action
Thailand
2013
85 Minutes
Colin Egglesfield Catalina Sandino Moreno Byron Mann Stuart Townsend Gary Daniels Sonia Couling James With Elina Loukas Jay Acovone
stranger manager local engaging bangkok paradise conspiracy danger investigation fall
On the verge of making partner, Josh Pratt's life is turned upside down when the SEC investigates the head of his multibillion-dollar hedge fund for insider trading. Forced into a ... See full summary »
Action, Sports & Fitness
USA
2009
90 Minutes
Michael Jai White Julian Sands Eamonn Walker Dante Basco Nona Gaye Michelle Belegrin Bob Sapp Richard Williams Ron Yuan
prisoner fighter enemy manager man engaging thrilling suspenseful intense gripping brutal los angeles ghetto fighting underground scene prison released from prison danger anger rivalry
In Los Angeles, an ex-con takes the underground fighting world by storm in his quest to fulfill a promise to a dead friend.
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, 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, Action
USA|UK|France|China|Canada|Spain
2018
104 Minutes
Liam Neeson Vera Farmiga Patrick Wilson Jonathan Banks Sam Neill Elizabeth McGovern Florence Pugh Shazad Latif Letitia Wright Killian Scott Clara Lago
insurance salesman husband wife son mysterious woman stranger brooding crafty rousing suspenseful gripping thrilling train house train station train tracks mysterious strangers conspiracy train travel unlikely criminal
An action-thriller in which an insurance salesman/ex-cop is caught up in a life-threatening conspiracy during his daily commute home.
Drama, Crime, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
141 Minutes
Jeff Bridges Cynthia Erivo Jon Hamm Dakota Johnson Cailee Spaeny Lewis Pullman Chris Hemsworth Nick Offerman
stranger singer cleric salesman sister manager thrilling sultry gory unrestrained uneasy dark hotel hotel room living room california nevada lake tahoe rivalry mysterious strangers
Early 1970s. Four strangers check in at the El Royale Hotel. The hotel is deserted, staffed by a single desk clerk. Some of the new guests' reasons for being there are less than innocent and some are not who they appear to be.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
139 Minutes
Andrew Garfield Riley Keough Topher Grace Patrick Fischler Grace Van Patten Callie Hernandez Zosia Mamet Jeremy Bobb Sydney Sweeney Jimmi Simpson David Yow
girl next door mysterious girl friend man conspiracy theorist amusing witty intricate endearing uneasy los angeles hollywood, calif. apartment apartment building pool park mysterious strangers disappearance clues conspiracy
Sam, a disenchanted young man, finds a mysterious woman swimming in his apartment's pool one night. The next morning, she disappears. Sam sets off across LA to find her, and along the way he uncovers a conspiracy far more bizarre.
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
USA|Mexico
2002
109 Minutes
Arnold Schwarzenegger Elias Koteas Francesca Neri Cliff Curtis Miguel Sandoval Harry Lennix John Alberto Leguizamo John Turturro Michael Milhoan Lindsay Frost Raymond Cruz
firefighter special agent terrorist drug trafficker wife father thrilling engaging dense gripping suspenseful government building colombia jungle waterfall terrorism investigation drug smuggling kidnapping prison break
After his family is killed by a terrorist act, a firefighter goes in search of the one responsible.
Sci-Fi, Action, Mystery & Thriller
USA|UK
2010
148 Minutes
Leonardo DiCaprio Joseph Gordon-Levitt Elliot Page Tom Hardy Ken Watanabe Dileep Rao Cillian Murphy Tom Berenger Marion Cotillard Michael Caine Pete Postlethwaite
con artist architect chemist forger billionaire wife creative engaging suspenseful intricate somber subconscious mind los angeles paris japan morocco dreamworld dreams corporate espionage guilt
A thief who steals corporate secrets through the use of dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a C.E.O.
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
UK
2018
107 Minutes
Gerard Butler Peter Mullan Connor Swindells Ólafur Darri Ólafsson Gary Lewis Søren Malling Emma King Ken Drury Gary Kane Roderick Gilkison
lighthouse keeper rival man seaman gory brutal incredible disturbing thrilling scotland lighthouse island destruction fight to the death hidden treasure jealousy isolation revenge rivalry rise
Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flannan Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance.
Drama, Action, Biography, Mystery & Thriller, Crime
USA
2007
110 Minutes
Chris Cooper Ryan Phillippe Laura Linney Dennis Haysbert Gary Cole Bruce Davison Mary Jo Deschanel Clare Stone Jonathan Watton Catherine Burdon Aaron Abrams
spy fbi agent boss wife enemy suspenseful household office elevator washington, d.c. espionage computers investigation surveillance deception mystery fall 2000s
FBI upstart Eric O'Neill enters into a power game with his boss, Robert Hanssen, an agent who was put on trial for selling secrets to the Soviet Union.
Action, Mystery & Thriller
2018
98 Minutes
Alexandra Daddario Minka Kelly Henry Cavill Stanley Tucci Sara Thompson Ben Kingsley Eliana Jones Brendan Fletcher Emma Tremblay Mpho Koaho
lieutenant young woman profiler criminal profiler murder victim judge engaging suspenseful thrilling emotional brutal murder case serial murders teamwork investigation danger suspicion adventure discovery rivalry
A police lieutenant, his entire force, and a vigilante become caught up in a dangerous scheme involving a troubled man who's linked to years of female abductions.
Mystery & Thriller, Action
USA
1987
109 Minutes
Mel Gibson Danny Glover Gary Busey Mitchell Ryan Tom Atkins Darlene Love Traci Wolfe Jackie Swanson
police detective partner criminal daughter prostitute wife tense gritty gutsy los angeles household police station nightclub investigation suicide dangerous assignment drug trafficking organized crime friendship mystery
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
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.
Adventure, Comedy
France|Italy
1967
104 Minutes
Jean Marais Louis De Funès Mylène Demongeot Françoise Christophe Jean-Roger Caussimon Henri Serre André Dumas Max Montavon
masked man man detective murder victim commissar lord amusing hilarious engaging playful charming scotland murder murder investigation wealth investigation blackmail danger adventure discovery
Famous but unlucky pursuers of Fantomas from France go to weird Scotland for a final attempt to bring the impudent criminal to justice.
Sci-Fi, Adventure, Comedy, Action, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2013
90 Minutes
Tara Reid Ian Ziering John Heard Cassie Scerbo Jaason Simmons Alex Arleo Neil H. Berkow Heather Jocelyn Blair
man daughter ex-wife drunk police officer shark campy emotional intense los angeles house bar street truck helicopter tornado shark attack danger survival stress
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.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Action
2014
92 Minutes
Manuela Velasco Paco Manzanedo Héctor Colomé Ismael Fritschi Críspulo Cabezas Mariano Venancio María Alfonsa Rosso Carlos Zabala Cristian Aquino Emilio Buale Paco Obregón
woman fighter doctor sick person enemy survivor intense engaging shocking brutal thrilling suspenseful ship science fiction danger illness virus fighting adventure discovery
Survivors of a strange contagion which turns humans into ghouls find themselves aboard a ship where a doctor is trying to isolate the source of the outbreak.
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.