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10 Best Movies Like The Captive

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

#1
Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

1960★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Captive for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reaction...

#2
Neighboring Sounds

Neighboring Sounds

2012★ 7.1

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

An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil....

#3
Oh, Canada

Oh, Canada

2024★ 5.7

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

Famed Canadian-American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife was one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Now in his ...

#4
Murderous Maids

Murderous Maids

2000★ 6.1

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

Based on the true story of two chambermaids of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter....

#5
So Much Water

So Much Water

2013★ 5.4

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

A family vacation is bogged down by unrelenting rain, as a teenage girl and her divorced father try to find common ground....

#6
Contempt

Contempt

1963★ 7.0

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

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," ...