Movies like Panic Room
Panic Room (2002) is a crime movie directed by David Fincher. The list below collects the movies that people who loved it enjoyed most, best known first.
1. Con Air (1997)
★ 6.8 · 4,906 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
Newly-paroled former US Army ranger Cameron Poe is headed back to his wife, but must fly home aboard a prison transport flight dubbed "Jailbird" taking the “worst of the worst” prisoners, a group described as “pure predators”, to a new super-prison. Poe faces impossible odds when the transport plane is skyjacked mid-flight by the most vicious criminals in the country led by the mastermind — genius serial killer Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom, and backed by black militant Diamond Dog and psychopath Billy Bedlam.
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2. The Italian Job (2003)
★ 6.8 · 6,248 votes · Action, Crime
Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, pedal-to-the-metal chase that careens up, down, above and below the streets of Los Angeles.
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3. Thief (1981)
★ 7.2 · 914 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.
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4. Rififi (1955)
★ 7.8 · 659 votes · Crime, Thriller, Drama
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
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5. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
★ 8.1 · 810 votes · Comedy, Crime
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
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6. Nightcrawler (2014)
★ 7.7 · 12,159 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
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7. Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
★ 7.9 · 3,541 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
Based on the true story of would-be Brooklyn bank robbers John Wojtowicz and Salvatore Naturile. Sonny and Sal attempt a bank heist which quickly turns sour and escalates into a hostage situation and stand-off with the police. As Sonny's motives for the robbery are slowly revealed and things become more complicated, the heist turns into a media circus.
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8. The Sixth Sense (1999)
★ 8.0 · 13,454 votes · Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
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9. Shutter Island (2010)
★ 8.2 · 26,598 votes · Drama, Thriller, Mystery
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
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10. Black Swan (2010)
★ 7.7 · 15,971 votes · Drama, Thriller, Horror
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
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11. Inside Man (2006)
★ 7.4 · 6,626 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
When an armed, masked gang enter a Manhattan bank, lock the doors and take hostages, the detective assigned to effect their release enters negotiations preoccupied with corruption charges he is facing.
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12. Prisoners (2013)
★ 8.1 · 13,629 votes · Drama, Thriller, Crime
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.
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13. Cleveland Abduction (2015)
★ 7.2 · 449 votes · Crime, TV Movie, Drama
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
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14. The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
★ 6.5 · 611 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
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15. The Call (2013)
★ 6.8 · 3,153 votes · Crime, Thriller
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.
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16. Butterfly on a Wheel (2007)
★ 6.4 · 589 votes · Crime, Drama, Thriller
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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17. Cape Fear (1991)
★ 7.3 · 4,054 votes · Drama, Crime, Thriller
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.
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18. Girl in the Basement (2021)
★ 7.6 · 901 votes · Thriller, Crime, TV Movie
Sara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.
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19. The Siege (1998)
★ 6.3 · 1,563 votes · Drama, Action, Thriller
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent and his team attempt to locate and decommission the enemy cells, but must also deal with an Army General gone rogue and a female CIA agent of uncertain loyalties.
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20. Hostage (2005)
★ 6.4 · 1,834 votes · Action, Thriller, Crime
When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.
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