Movies like Cold Comes the Night (2013)
The best movies like Cold Comes the Night (2013) are Penthouse North (2013), McCanick (2014) and First Kill (2017). If Cold Comes the Night hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedWe Own the Night (2007)6.7/10 from 1,596 votes
- NewestA Mother's Worst Fear (2018)Released 2018
Penthouse North (2013)
After losing her sight while working as a photojournalist in Afghanistan, Sara Frost, now reclusive, lives quietly in a New York penthouse with her boyfriend, until a smooth but sadistic criminal looking for a hidden fortune enters her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMcCanick (2014)
Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective and his reluctant partner frantically track down a recently released convict who knows a secret from the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFirst Kill (2017)
A police chief tries to solve a kidnapping that involves a bank robber holding a young boy hostage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Betrayed (2008)
Kidnappers force a young mother to recover money stolen by her shady husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dead Girl (2006)
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated women begin to intersect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrespass (2011)
Kyle and Sarah Miller have it all: a huge gated house on the water, fancy cars, and the potential for romance in their relationship. He's just back from a business trip and their teen daughter Avery is sneaking out to a party, when four thugs in security uniforms and ski masks stage a home invasion. They want what's in the safe: cash and diamonds. As Kyle stalls them, trying to negotiate for Sarah's freedom, the fault lines in Kyle and Sarah's marriage and the pasts of the four robbers come into play. Is there room here for heroism?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Neighbor (2016)
In the town of Cutter, most people keep to themselves. But when John comes home to find his girlfriend missing, he sneaks into his neighbor's house, finding his girlfriend and several other kidnapped people tied up in the basement. When the neighbor come home, John is forced to get out of the house alive and lead the group to safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Captive (2014)
Eight years after their daughter Cassandra's abduction tore them apart, an estranged couple discover disturbing clues that indicate that she is still alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Single Shot (2013)
The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisFirst Snow (2006)
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTen 'til Noon (2007)
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what exactly happened...and why.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Sweet Virginia (2017)
A former rodeo star, now a motel manager, meets a young man who is responsible for the violence that suddenly has seized his small town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisInconceivable (2017)
A mother looks to escape her abusive past by moving to a new town where she befriends another mother, who grows suspicious of her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisBadge of Honor (2015)
Two Narcotics Detectives find themselves in an intense investigation lead by a determined Internal Affairs Detective after a child is wrongfully shot dead in a violent drug bust.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Own the Night (2007)
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Killing Jar (2010)
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFaces in the Crowd (2011)
Anna is living with "face-blindness" after surviving a serial killer's attack. As she lives with her condition, one in which facial features change each time she loses sight of them, the killer closes in.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPawn (2013)
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDouble Identity (2009)
In Chechnya, an American doctor takes a detour in life when he helps a mysterious woman escape from her would-be assailant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Entitled (2011)
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course of one long night, Paul and his accomplices hold the rich kids hostage awaiting the ransom with little idea of the secrets that will surface between the fathers when they are forced to choose between their children and their money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHiding (2012)
New York City teenager Jo (Ana Villafañe) witnesses the gruesome murder of both her parents and is sent to rural Montana as part of the Witness Protection Program. On top of having no cell phone, email or any contact with her past life, plus hiding from a dangerous hitman out to finish her off, Jo must also deal with the drama of being the new kid in the small town's high school (www.tribute.ca).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Blue Caprice (2013)
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisStuck (2007)
A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Mother's Worst Fear (2018)
When her daughter is abducted with no demand for ransom, an ex-hostage negotiator will do anything to find her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Three Way (2004)
Lew is a small time loser with a troubled past and a very big secret. Overhearing a couple plan a kidnapping, Lew is tempted to come up with a scheme of his own. He decides to get to the victim first and then blackmail the real criminals. His plan soon spins out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & drama
Dirty Lies (2016)
An under-appreciated intern entrusted with a million dollar necklace races to find out which of his money hungry room-mates betrayed him as he battles a desperate criminal duo bent on stealing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
The Lookalike (2014)
Two crooks looking out for a drug lord's love interest scramble to find a look-alike after she dies unexpectedly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like this96 Minutes (2011)
The story of 4 lives slammed together in a shocking moment. Intercutting between a carjacking and the separate stories of the 4 kids, we watch as they hurtle toward a life-changing end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Merry Gentleman (2008)
A woman who leaves an abusive relationship to begin a new life in a new city, where she forms an unlikely and ironic relationship with a suicidal hit man (unbeknownst to her). Enter a worn, alcoholic detective to form the third party in a very unusual triangle as this story begins to unfold.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & crime
Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013)
The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town's pawn shop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Cold Comes the Night?
The closest matches to Cold Comes the Night are Penthouse North (2013), McCanick (2014) and First Kill (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Cold Comes the Night?
People who watched Cold Comes the Night most often go on to Penthouse North (2013), McCanick (2014) and First Kill (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Cold Comes the Night?
We Own the Night (2007), rated 6.7/10 by 1,596 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Cold Comes the Night?
A Mother's Worst Fear (2018) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Cold Comes the Night?
Yes: Penthouse North (2013), McCanick (2014) and First Kill (2017).
How are movies similar to Cold Comes the Night chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Cold Comes the Night, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.