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Movies that feel likeThe Guilty (2021)

A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.

If you loved The Guilty, the closest films we have are Compliance (2012), The Guilty (2018) and The Housemaid (2025). All three share The Guilty's tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is When Evil Lurks (2023).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Antoine Fuquacontemplativetenseunsettling
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Compliance
2012 · dir. Craig Zobel
🍅 89%★ 6.4drama · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: psychological thriller and police officer

On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food restaurant, manager Sandra receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee has stolen money from a customer.

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The Guilty
2018 · dir. Gustav Möller
🍅 98%★ 7.5thriller · drama · crimePrime Video

Common ground in both: police station and cellular phone trace

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Police officer Asger Holm, demoted to desk work as an alarm dispatcher, answers a call from a panicked woman who claims to have been kidnapped. Confined to the police station and with the phone as his only tool, Asger races against time to get help and find her.

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The Housemaid
2025 · dir. Paul Feig
🍅 74%★ 6.7mystery · thrillerMaxStarz

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychological thriller

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than The Guilty does

Trying to escape her past, Millie Calloway accepts a job as a live-in housemaid for the wealthy Nina and Andrew Winchester. But what begins as a dream job quickly unravels into something far more dangerous—a sexy, seductive game of secrets, scandal, and power.

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The Gift
2015 · dir. Joel Edgerton
🍅 92%★ 7thriller · mystery · drama

Both land stillness and tension at once

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than The Guilty does

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

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Hannibal
2001 · dir. Ridley Scott
🍅 39%★ 6.8crime · drama · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Unsettling drama in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

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Panic Room
2002 · dir. David Fincher
🍅 76%★ 6.8crime · drama · thriller

Thriller built on stillness, twice over

Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.

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The Call
2013 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 43%★ 6.7crime · thrillerStarz

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

The difference: Trades the stillness of The Guilty for an angle of its own

Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, Jordan is the one called upon to use all of her experience, insights and quick thinking to help Casey escape, and not just to save her, but to make sure the man is brought to justice.

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Verity
2026 · dir. Michael Showalter
★ 6.3mystery · thrillerRent or buy

Both lean on unease more than on drama

Lowen Ashleigh, hired to ghostwrite for best-selling author Verity Crawford, uncovers Verity's autobiographical notes, and becomes involved in what may prove to be a lethal conspiracy.

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Nightcrawler
2014 · dir. Dan Gilroy
🍅 95%★ 7.8crime · drama · thrillerNetflix

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.

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When Evil Lurks
2023 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · thrillerRent or buy

Common ground: police officer

When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.

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Titane
2021 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 90%★ 6.4drama · thriller · horrorRent or buy

Different title, same corner of the shelf

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

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The Chaser
2008 · dir. Na Hong-jin
🍅 82%★ 7.8crime · thriller · action

Both work the same unease

Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp, who's in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same client, whom one of his girls is meeting with right now.

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