
Movies that feel likeMother's Day (2023)
If you loved Mother's Day, the closest films we have are Furie (2019), Haywire (2011) and Twisters (2024). All three share Mother's Day's tense and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Plagues of Breslau (2018).
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If Mother's Day hit the spot, these will too

Common ground: child kidnapping
The difference: Leans harder into drama than Mother's Day does

The same mix in both: tension, then momentum

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Mother's Day does

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Action built on momentum, twice over

Both are thriller through and through


The thriller is handled with the same confidence

Cut from the same action cloth

Both know what they want from thriller
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

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