Movies like Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)

Cleveland Abduction (2015)

A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)

Based on a true story. 15-year-old Kara Robinson was kidnapped, assaulted and held captive for 18 hours. With her survival instincts kicking in, she plots a daring escape from the serial killer and leads police to his apartment.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)

The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

Cape Fear (1991)

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

Girl in the Bunker (2018)

When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Eden (2013)

After a night out with friends, Hyun Jae accepts a late night ride home from a young fire fighter. What begins as a night of promise quickly turns into a nightmare when she is abducted and imprisoned outside Las Vegas as a sex slave.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

Prisoners (2013)

After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the investigation, setting both men on a collision course as the search descends into obsession and moral compromise.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2010)

Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

The Whisper Man (2026)

When his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer now linked to the case.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

Cohen and Tate (1989)

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

The Onion Field (1979)

An LA police officer is murdered in the onion fields outside of Bakersfield. However, legal loopholes could keep his kidnappers from receiving justice, and his partner is haunted by overwhelming survivor's guilt.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

In Her Skin (2009)

Tale of a 15-year-old Australian girl who went missing.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

Cape Fear (1962)

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

Panic Room (2002)

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

The Boston Strangler (1968)

Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

Blood Work (2002)

Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)

A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

The Betrayed (2008)

Kidnappers force a young mother to recover money stolen by her shady husband.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

Changeling (2008)

Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, her quest for truth exposes a world of corruption.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

McVicar (1980)

John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the true story of his life, his criminal exploits and his eventual rehabilitation.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both crime & drama

Lady Joker (2004)

Men and women caught up in a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both crime & drama

Hero and the Terror (1988)

Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & crime

Ned Kelly (1970)

Unable to support his family in the Australian outback, a man turns to stealing horses in order to make money. He gets more deeply drawn into the outlaw life, and eventually becomes involved in murders. Based on the life of famed 19th-century Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Rockers (2003)

Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their make-up skills. Bassist Gaku-chan keeps a bucket in the wings for whenever his nerves get the better of him, and drummer Momo-chan is doomed to forever carrying the botched childhood attempts at self-tattooing. It's not until this foursome is forced to look for an additional guitar player after Jin's dad burns his Stratocaster, that attitude and musical ability enter into the equation. Leather-clad, shade-wearing Tani (Tamaki), inseparable from his black Les Paul, is introduced as the king of R'n'R cool and Jinnai keeps him firmly seated on his throne throughout the film, retroactively proclaiming the guitarist, rather than himself, as the band's true hero.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Dead Time (2007)

A police and a journalist uncover series of murders that lead into one problem: A treasure many parties were fighting for and caused many casualties.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both crime

The John Perkins Tapes (2024)

This is the recovered footage of serial killer Johns Perkins, who filmed his victims, creating what he believed to be artistic videos.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both crime

Downsizing (2017)

A kindly occupational therapist undergoes a new procedure to be shrunken to four inches tall so that he and his wife can help save the planet and afford a nice lifestyle at the same time.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Blonde (2022)

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the lines of fact and fiction to explore the widening split between her public and private selves.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Bumerang Korelasyonu (2024)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both crime