Movies like Selling Isobel (2019)
The best movies like Selling Isobel (2019) are Girl in Room 13 (2022), Blood (2012) and Doing Money (2019). If Selling Isobel hooked you with its drama and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNowhere to Run (1993)6.6/10 from 882 votes
- NewestMonster in the Family: The Stacey Kananen Story (2025)Released 2025
Girl in Room 13 (2022)
A teenage girl is imprisoned by her former boyfriend in a motel room and forced to consume drugs and alcohol so she can be sold into human trafficking. Her only hope is her mother, who is determined to rescue her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Blood (2012)
When police discover a young girl brutally murdered, brothers Joe Fairburns and Chrissie Fairburns join their supervisor Robert to investigate main suspect Jason Buliegh, a local sex offender and social outcast. Forced to release Jason from police custody, the Fairburns take matters into their own hands in an attempt to coerce a confession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDoing Money (2019)
A young Romanian woman is snatched in broad daylight from a London street, trafficked to Ireland and used as a sex slave in a series of pop-up brothels. Her shocking true story offers a tense and thought-provoking thriller exposing how, in modern Britain, slavery can hide in plain sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Girl in the Shed: The Kidnapping of Abby Hernandez (2022)
The true story of 14-year-old freshman Abby Hernandez who vanished while walking home from school in North Conway, New Hampshire. Kicking off the state’s largest search, Abby’s disappearance left her family, especially her mother Zenya , investigators and the community mystified of her whereabouts. Taken by Nathaniel Kibby, Abby was kept is a soundproof container and forced to wear a shock collar while enduring psychological, sexual and emotional abuse. Despite suffering daily torture, Abby kept hope alive that she would one day be able to see her family again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare (2021)
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. Quickly, Belton realizes that Allison was coerced by a young handsome boy she met on social media and had been trafficked, and they are on a race against time to get her back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Coyote Lake (2019)
Two dangerous and unwanted guests threaten a young woman and her overbearing mother at a small bed-and-breakfast near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrafficking (2023)
Fresh out of prison, a former debt collector working for a gangland boss is told he has a terminal brain tumour. In an attempt to atone for his past he rescues a young girl from trafficking, forcing him into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with his boss.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManyak (2023)
Desire and her boyfriend, Adam, stay at her sister's house while they are on vacation. Things turn chaotic when a mysterious man intrudes the house and rapes her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Fare (2017)
A ride-share driver finds himself transporting the man who is secretly sleeping with his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Monster in the Family: The Stacey Kananen Story (2025)
Stacey survives a childhood of abuse and fear, only to face a shocking twist when her brother Rickie confesses to her that he killed their parents. She is further betrayed when Rickie claims she helped him commit the crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Stolen from the Suburbs (2015)
A single mother from the suburbs searches for her kidnapped daughter before human traffickers sell her on the international market.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice (2021)
Mari Gilbert searches for the truth behind what happened to her daughter Shannan, a sometime escort who disappeared after a ‘date’ on Long Island. After Shannan fails to come home, her mother Mari knows something is terribly wrong. Pleading to police to take her concerns seriously, she keeps pushing the police for answers. Mari’s insistence that her daughter not be overlooked eventually leads to a horror hidden on Long Island for more than a decade – 19 bodies of young women discovered buried in shallow graves along Ocean Parkway in the area of Jones Beach State Park.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Locked In (2010)
Josh decides to leave his advertising career at its peak and walks away from fame and success. But his life turns upside down when a car accident leaves his daughter in a strange coma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Silent Fear (2015)
Sabine is looking for the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend twenty years ago. An encounter with the handsome Olaf, a man she remembers from her teenage years, and the announcement of a high school reunion turn her life upside down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Catch Hell (2014)
Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds himself in the middle of a twisted scheme with little chance to survive. With no rescue in sight, Reagan must use every ounce of strength he has left to break free and get his revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCompliance (2012)
On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPsycho Escort (2020)
Diane is not ready to date but also does not want to attend a work event alone. Her sister suggests a rent-a-date where she can hire a fake boyfriend. Soon, it becomes evident that she has rented a liar with a disturbing past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Init (2024)
When a young barrio lass moves in to the city to study, she lives in a boarding house with other college students. Unknown to them, behind her shy and timid personality is a woman with insatiable hunger for sex.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
I Am All Girls (2021)
A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & 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
Cinnamon (2023)
Follows a struggling small-town gas station attendant and aspiring singer, Jodi Jackson, whose life is sent into a tailspin when there’s a robbery at work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
8 Days (2014)
After sneaking to a party with her friends, 16-year-old Amber Stevens goes missing. Forced into the world of sex trafficking, her family and community fight to get her back. Inspired by actual events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Baby Sellers (2013)
Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job spins out of control, Joe's nightmares overtake him as a conspiracy is uncovered—leading to what may be his death trip or his awakening.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRogue Agent (2022)
Conman Robert Freegard poses as an undercover MI5 agent and kidnaps countless victims amidst a high-stakes manhunt, until the woman who fell for him brings him to justice.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Company You Keep (2012)
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Operative (2019)
A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBosco (2024)
Based on the true story of Quawntay “Bosco” Adams. Sentenced to 35 years for attempted possession of marijuana, Adams miraculously escaped from a Federal maximum-security prison while under 24-hour surveillance in solitary confinement with the help of an older woman he met through a lonely-hearts ad.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNowhere to Run (1993)
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Selling Isobel?
The closest matches to Selling Isobel are Girl in Room 13 (2022), Blood (2012) and Doing Money (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Selling Isobel?
People who watched Selling Isobel most often go on to Girl in Room 13 (2022), Blood (2012) and Doing Money (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Selling Isobel?
Nowhere to Run (1993), rated 6.6/10 by 882 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Selling Isobel?
Monster in the Family: The Stacey Kananen Story (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Selling Isobel?
Yes: Girl in Room 13 (2022), Blood (2012) and Doing Money (2019).
How are movies similar to Selling Isobel chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Selling Isobel, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.