Movies like Nowhere
If Nowhere hooked you with its thriller and drama, these are the films to watch next. Every pick says why it matches.
Not Without Hope (2025)
A group of friends' fishing boat capsizes off the coast of Mexico and they're left alone stranded at sea and struggling for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFirebreak (2026)
Little Lide disappears in the forest while her family packs up their home. As a fire breaks out, her mother must race to reach her before the flames do.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPressure (2015)
Four divers are stuck deep underwater in a vessel after a freak storm destroys their ship. Will they survive?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBuried (2010)
As an American civilian truck driver working in Iraq, Paul Conroy's convoy is attacked by a group of Iraqi insurgents. Some time later, Paul awakes in a coffin with only a lighter, a cell phone, and his ever-growing anxiety. Faced with a dwindling oxygen supply and a dying battery, he must fight panic, despair, and delirium as he races against time to escape the claustrophobic death trap.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like this127 Hours (2010)
The true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolated canyon in Utah.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRetribution (2015)
While Carlos, a banking executive, takes his two kids to school in his car, he gets a phone call telling him that there is a bomb under the seats and he must to gather a large amount of money; otherwise, his car will blow up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Tale (2005)
Cubelles, Spain, Christmas 1985. Five friends make an unexpected discovery in the forest: a woman disguised as Santa Claus trapped in a deep hole dug in the middle of nowhere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe End We Start From (2023)
As London is submerged below floodwaters, a woman gives birth to her first child. Days later, she and her baby are forced to leave their home in search of safety. They head north through a newly dangerous country seeking refuge from place to place.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSolo (2018)
After falling off a cliff and suffering substantial injures, for 48 long hours a young surfer must face a merciless nature and his own physical and mental agony to try to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBreaking Surface (2020)
Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPrime Time (2021)
On the last day of 1999, 20-year-old Sebastian locks himself in a TV studio. He has two hostages, a gun, and an important message for the world. The story of the attack explores a rebel’s extreme measures and last resort.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeast of War (2025)
When their boat sinks while crossing the Timor Sea during World War II, a troop of young Australian soldiers must find a way to survive the harsh seas on a quickly shrinking raft. Hundreds of miles from anywhere, they must confront interpersonal conflicts, enemy attacks, and the advances of one very large, very hungry great white shark.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lost Bus (2025)
A determined father risks everything to rescue a dedicated teacher and her students from a raging wildfire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Breath (2025)
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Impossible (2012)
In December 2004, close-knit family Maria, Henry and their three sons begin their winter vacation in Thailand. But the day after Christmas, the idyllic holiday turns into an incomprehensible nightmare when a terrifying roar rises from the depths of the sea, followed by a wall of black water that devours everything in its path. Though Maria and her family face their darkest hour, unexpected displays of kindness and courage ameliorate their terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Warning (2018)
Ten-year-old Nico receives a threatening letter and now his life is in danger. No one seems to believe him except one person that he doesn't know.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBird Box (2018)
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom the Ashes: The Pit (2026)
Trapped in an underground pit during a storm, three students from an all-girls school must confront their personal conflicts as they fight to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Room (2015)
Held captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the boy to experience the outside world for the first time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisThe Burning Sea (2021)
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYour Son (2018)
Jaime, a doctor who lives in Seville, finds his life radically changed when his son is left fighting for his life after being beaten up during a robbery. The feelings of pain and helplessness soon change to feelings of hate and anger, converting a good dad into a dehumanised man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMediterraneo: The Law of the Sea (2021)
Autumn 2015. Profoundly affected by the picture of a little boy who drowned in the Mediterranean Sea, lifeguards Oscar and Gerard travel to Lesbos (Greece). Once there, the reality is horrific: thousands of people risk their lives every day, crossing the sea in precarious boats and fleeing from armed conflicts. But nobody bothers to rescue them. With Esther, Nico and other members of the team, they will fight to do what they came to do, helping those who need it. For all of them, this initiation voyage will become a life-changing odyssey. Mediterráneo is the struggle to survive in the sea, an often hostile medium where every life counts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Hijacking (2012)
Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEncounter (2021)
A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCutterhead (2019)
Rie is a PR-coordinator visiting a tunnel boring machine to portray the well-oiled European cooperation in the Metro construction when an accident suddenly occurs. Unable to escape, she takes refuge in an airlock with Croatian miner Ivo and Bharan, a worker from Eritrea.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blackout (2014)
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Abandoned (2016)
In 1989 the trimaran Rose Noelle set sail from Picton, New Zealand, bound for Tonga with four crew. After a freak wave capsized the yacht, they drifted for 119 days before landing on Great Barrier Island.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tunnel (2019)
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSirāt (2025)
A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in hopes Marina will be there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Nowhere?
The closest matches to Nowhere are Not Without Hope, Firebreak, Pressure.
How are movies similar to Nowhere chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Nowhere, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.
Are there Spanish movies like Nowhere?
Yes: Firebreak, Retribution, A Christmas Tale.