Movies like I Came By (2022)
The best movies like I Came By (2022) are Don't Tell a Soul (2020), The Intruder (2024) and Blue Ruin (2014). If I Came By hooked you with its crime and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPrisoners (2013)8.1/10 from 13,752 votes
- NewestNo Ordinary Heist (2026)Released 2026
Don't Tell a Soul (2020)
Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Intruder (2024)
A young man's paranoia spirals when he becomes convinced that someone is sneaking into his home every night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Blue Ruin (2014)
When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance. However, he proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEndangered (2022)
Alison, a down-on-her-luck young professional, spends her evenings trying to make ends meet as a rideshare driver. Wrapping her shift, she decides to take on one last passenger — only to find herself in unexpected danger when she discovers the mysterious stranger is not what he appears to be. Through a twisted turn of events, Alison must turn to her enigmatic passenger for help and is now stuck with him. In over her head, Alison must fight to get through the night covering her tracks, avoiding the police, and discovering who her inscrutable passenger truly is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Green Room (2016)
Members of a punk rock band and a tough young woman are forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYou 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 crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUncut Gems (2019)
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPrisoners (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: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisRun Hide Fight (2021)
A 17-year-old girl uses her wits, survival skills, and compassion to fight for her life, and those of her fellow classmates, against a group of live-streaming school shooters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAmerican Dreamer (2019)
A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Bull (2021)
Ten years after he was last seen, a vicious mob enforcer returns home to find his son and methodically track down the gang that double-crossed him. His quest for revenge soon leads to a savage showdown between his wife and her mob boss father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBelow Zero (2021)
When a prisoner transfer van is attacked, the cop in charge must fight those inside and outside while dealing with a silent foe: the icy temperatures.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Silencing (2020)
A reformed hunter becomes involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse when he and the local sheriff set out to track a vicious killer who may have kidnapped his daughter years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBorrego (2022)
A young botanist relocates to a small desert town to study an invasive plant species. While out on research, she comes to the aid of a downed plane only to find herself taken captive by an inexperienced drug mule who forces her to lead a trek across the sweltering desert to his drop. A local sheriff is drawn into the hunt as his rebellious daughter sets out to find the missing botanist, all the while being pursued by a local drug receiver.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Courier (2024)
After shrewdly seizing his chance to join a money-laundering scheme, a modest valet dives into a world of fast cash, fast cars — and an inevitable crash.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAdverse (2021)
In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWardriver (2026)
He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGood Time (2017)
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNightcrawler (2014)
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCult Killer (2024)
A private investigator is forced into a dangerous alliance with a killer in order to uncover a quiet town’s grisly criminal underbelly and clear the name of her mentor, who is implicated in the crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Breathe (2016)
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNight Call (2024)
Mady, a student, works as a locksmith by night. He helps Claire get into her apartment and soon realizes that she lied to him about her identity and robbed something that belonged to a dangerous man, Yannick. Mady gets embroiled in a manhunt and will have one night to prove his innocence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGood People (2014)
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisNo Ordinary Heist (2026)
Inspired by the true 2004 Northern Bank robbery, two feuding bank employees are forced to execute Ireland’s biggest heist after criminals kidnap their families and threaten to kill them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
The Guilty (2018)
Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNight Always Comes (2025)
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat We Found (2020)
Close friends Marcus and Holly begin their freshman year at a tough public high school in Baltimore County, Maryland. When Cassie, a well liked senior at the school, disappears suspiciously, both of their lives change forever. Together, will they find out what happened to Cassie? And after a dramatic confrontation, will any of them ever be the same?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Locked In (2023)
A kindly nurse tries to unlock the secrets of a coma patient's injuries — and discovers the bitter rivalry, infidelity, betrayal and murder behind them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Gift (2015)
Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSearching (2018)
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like I Came By?
The closest matches to I Came By are Don't Tell a Soul (2020), The Intruder (2024) and Blue Ruin (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after I Came By?
People who watched I Came By most often go on to Don't Tell a Soul (2020), The Intruder (2024) and Blue Ruin (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like I Came By?
Prisoners (2013), rated 8.1/10 by 13,752 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like I Came By?
No Ordinary Heist (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like I Came By?
Yes: Don't Tell a Soul (2020), The Intruder (2024) and Blue Ruin (2014).
How are movies similar to I Came By chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside I Came By, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.