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10 Best Movies Like Detainment

If you loved Detainment, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Before and After

Before and After

1996★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend....

#2
A Perfect World

A Perfect World

1993★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal....

#3
No One Would Tell

No One Would Tell

1996★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Shy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by...

#4
Deceiver

Deceiver

1997★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxt...

#5
Reality

Reality

2023★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Augusta, Georgia, United States, June 3, 2017. After running some errands, Reality Winner returns home, where she is approached by two men....

#6
Marlowe

Marlowe

1969★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it leads Marlowe into the underbelly...

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