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10 Best Movies Like Try Not to Breathe

If you loved Try Not to Breathe, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland

Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland

2017★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Try Not to Breathe for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Based on the best-selling book, Remember the Time: Protecting Michael Jackson in His Final Days, and told through the eyes of Jackson's trusted bodyguards, Bill Whitfield and Javon...

#2
Goodbye June

Goodbye June

2025★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Try Not to Breathe for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season....

#3
The Human Voice

The Human Voice

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Try Not to Breathe for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master ha...

#4
Tuesdays with Morrie

Tuesdays with Morrie

1999★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Try Not to Breathe for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A journalist finds himself questioning his own life when his best friend, a dying man, offers him some very powerful wisdom and advice for coping in relationships, careers and soci...

#5
The Life of Chuck

The Life of Chuck

2025★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Try Not to Breathe for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us....

#6
Mikey and Nicky

Mikey and Nicky

1976★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Try Not to Breathe for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob boss wants him killed. Terrified, he calls Mikey, his friend since childhood an...

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