Movies like American Refugee (2021)
The best movies like American Refugee (2021) are Hidden (2015), The Call (2020) and You're Not Alone (2020). If American Refugee hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHidden (2015)6.9/10 from 1,297 votes
- NewestThe Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)Released 2024
Hidden (2015)
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Call (2020)
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou're Not Alone (2020)
After the premature death of her estranged husband, Emma (Winter) regains custody of their young daughter Isla (Jones) and hopes to rebuild their relationship after many years apart. But when an evil entity begins to torment them, mother and daughter are forced to face the inexplicable presence that inhabits the walls of their new home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhat We Become (2015)
A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRed River Road (2021)
A family of four isolating against a pandemic virus that spreads through the internet and robs you of your ability to perceive reality - often violently - begins to unravel when they suspect one or all of them might be infected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Sightless (2020)
After an attack renders her blind, Ellen withdraws from the world to recover. But soon she plunges into paranoia, unable to convince anyone that her assailant has returned to terrorize her by hiding in plain sight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invitation (2016)
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKnock at the Cabin (2023)
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Comes at Night (2017)
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024)
After their car breaks down in an eerie small town, a young couple are forced to spend the night in a remote cabin. Panic ensues as they are terrorized by three masked strangers who strike with no mercy and seemingly no motives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAwait Further Instructions (2018)
A dysfunctional family awake on Christmas morning to discover they’re sealed inside their house by a mysterious black substance. On television, a single line of text reads: “Stay Indoors and Await Further Instructions.”
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisRammbock: Berlin Undead (2010)
When lovelorn Michael arrives in Berlin to return a set of keys to his ex-girlfriend, Gabi, as an excuse to see her again, he finds her apartment empty save for a couple of plumbers making repairs to the central heating. Just as Michael learns from the plumber’s apprentice, Harper, that Gabi has popped out for a while but will return soon, the apprentice is attacked by his boss who has unexpectedly and inexplicably transformed into a raging madman. Together, Michael and Harper manage to bundle the crazed plumber out of the apartment and barricade themselves safely inside. Within minutes, they find themselves trapped in apartment block under siege from a horde of similarly insane people, apparently hungry for human flesh.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe World Over (2018)
When a reclusive mother-to-be discovers a door leading to a mirror image of her home, her husband goes snooping inside and never returns. Fearing the worst, she gathers her courage and goes in search of him, but instead finds her doppelganger on the other side.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
[REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014)
Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisContainment (2015)
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFeedback (2019)
A radio host is kidnapped on air and forced to tell secrets about his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBarbarians (2021)
A civilized dinner party in a country house sees four friends, Lucas, Adam, Chloe, and Eve, coming together for a birthday celebration. As the night progresses secrets and lies force themselves into the light and polite pretensions are dropped. A knock at the door reveals three masked intruders with an agenda of their own. Will their friendship stand the test? Can they survive the night or will their secrets eventually catch up with them?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHeld (2020)
A couple's ailing marriage is put to the test when they are held hostage in an isolated vacation rental by an unseen Voice that commands their every move and threatens harm if they don’t obey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSound of Silence (2023)
After her father ends up in the hospital, Emma flies back from New York to her hometown in Italy and stays at her parents' home. All alone in the house, she faces an evil entity that is connected to a cursed radio. Emma will have to unveil the dark secret behind the radio to survive the night and protect the ones she loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Dark (2015)
A disturbed young woman must confront her worst fears when she finds herself trapped alone in a New York City loft during the 2003 blackout.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWake Up (2024)
A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security guard with a gruesome passion for primitive hunting. As the night fills with violence and terror, the teenagers find themselves in a desperate fight for their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCargo (2017)
After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll Eyes (2022)
A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Sadness (2021)
A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Visit (2015)
A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a week, where they discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCulture Shock (2019)
A young Mexican woman crosses the border in search of the American dream, only to instead find her worst nightmare lying within.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLast the Night (2022)
During the pandemic, a burned-out teacher on the verge of a breakdown overhears his students making fun of him in a Zoom class and vows revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Follow (2015)
When he blacks out after receiving a strange Christmas gift from his girlfriend, Quinn wakes the next morning to find his whole world crumbling around him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Divide (2012)
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou'll Never Find Me (2024)
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave. Soon she begins to question Patrick’s intentions, while Patrick begins to question his own grip on reality...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like American Refugee?
The closest matches to American Refugee are Hidden (2015), The Call (2020) and You're Not Alone (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after American Refugee?
People who watched American Refugee most often go on to Hidden (2015), The Call (2020) and You're Not Alone (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like American Refugee?
Hidden (2015), rated 6.9/10 by 1,297 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like American Refugee?
The Strangers: Chapter 1 (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like American Refugee?
Yes: Hidden (2015), The Call (2020) and You're Not Alone (2020).
How are movies similar to American Refugee chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside American Refugee, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.