
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.

Skin
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war tha...

Fauve
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer....

Swing Kids
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Rebellious Ki-soo from North Korea is mesmerized by tap dance in prison camps. Ki-soo joins as a team member of a dance team named 'Swing Kids'. Yet suddenly, their dreams about da...

Lone Star
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town....

Speckles: The Tarbosaurus
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
The story is set 70 million years ago, when dinosaurs ruled the Korean Peninsula the same way they ruled the rest of the earth. Spotty is a curious and playful Tarbosaurus child, a...

Spellbound
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Detainment for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
This documentary follows 8 teens and pre-teens as they work their way toward the finals of the Scripps Howard national spelling bee championship in Washington D.C....