Dynamic Watchlist Hub: May 10, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Refuge

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

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#1
The House on Carroll Street

The House on Carroll Street

1988★ 5.9

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

A reporter, fired after refusing to give names to a 1951 House Un-American Activities Committee, takes a part-time job as companion to an old lady. While working she overhears a no...

#2
Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue

1997★ 6.1

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

Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who...

#3
Coldwater

Coldwater

2013★ 6.4

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

A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmat...

#4
Hunting Season

Hunting Season

2025★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Refuge for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

When a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confro...

#5
Bosco

Bosco

2024★ 6.9

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

Based on the true story of Quawntay “Bosco” Adams. Sentenced to 35 years for attempted possession of marijuana, Adams miraculously escaped from a Federal maximum-security prison wh...

#6
The Operative

The Operative

2019★ 5.8

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

A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject....

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