20 best movies like Oldboy (2003)


List of the best movies like Oldboy (2003): Prisoners, Moebius, Seven Days, Rider on the Rain, Heli, A Single Shot, Red Hill, The Skin I Live In, Bedevilled, Secret in Their Eyes.

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

    When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:29

    A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:45

    Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. From then on, the world of the Hamel family collapses. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" and make him pay for his crime. The day the murderer appears in Court, Hamel, who had prepared his plan in great detail, kidnaps the monster and later sends the police a brief message stating that the rapist and murderer of his daughter was going to be tortured for 7 days and then executed. Once this task accomplished, he will then give himself up.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Italy
    Duration01:59

    A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryMexico, Netherlands, Germany, France
    Duration01:45

    Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration01:56

    The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:37

    Young police officer Shane Cooper's first day on duty, after relocating to the small town of Red Hill, rapidly turns into a nightmare. News of a prison break, involving convicted murderer Jimmy Conway, sends the local law enforcement officers - led by the town's ruling presence, Old Bill - into a panic and leads to a terrifying and bloody confrontation.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration02:00

    A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:54

    A woman subject to mental, physical, and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
    Duration02:32

    A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A gritty coming of age thriller about a young girl sent to juvenile prison for the murder of her abusive step father. The film follows Anna Nix's journey into the dark world of an all girls jail where she discovers complex relationships, drugs, mental illness and her eventual search for redemption.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:30

    When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    A lurid, dark look into the lives of sex workers, where victims of child abuse deal with the consequences later in life.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:25

    During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:05

    Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:26

    A girl who lost her father to a serial killer, a detective and a killer are intertwined in a chaotic relationship and are met with an unprecedented series of events.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Australia
    Duration02:18

    A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryRomania, United Kingdom

    In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:37

    The region where the borders of North Korea, China, and Russia come together, forms a sort of modern day wild west, where more than half of the population relies on illegal activity in order to survive. In Yanbian, on the Chinese side of the border, Gu-nam wiles away his days driving a cab and spends his nights getting drunk and gambling. His wife went to Seoul to work and send back money, but it’s been months since he has heard from her. When local crime lord Myun offers to erase Gu-nam’s debts in exchange for a contract killing in Seoul, Gu-nam reluctantly accepts.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryAustria
    Duration01:48

    Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountrySpain, France, Portugal

    Two speleologists, Esteban and Pedro, travel to a mountainous area located in northern Spain, near a small village, to study a newly discovered cave and determine if it is of scientific interest, while Gabi, Esteban's wife, awaits their return on a lonely road at the foot of the mountain.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany
    Duration02:02

    A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

      Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:58

      Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his seven-year sentence, he gets in touch with his brother's former associate "Tricks," hermit and blind master player "The Lord," and skillful junkyard owner Mok-su; together, they begin formulating a plan to get back at Sal-soo and his men. Tae-seok slowly penetrates Sal-soo's inner circle and his gambling joint, and eliminates Sal-soo's men one by one. But Sal-soo discovers Tae-seok's true identity and engages him in one final game that will seal the fates of the two men involved.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      In post-Katrina New Orleans, a disgraced detective encounters the ghost of a murdered woman who wants to help him identify her killer.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean's dual life wears on his psyche and his two worlds careen dangerously close to colliding. Like a graphic novel you can't put down, Boy Wonder challenges morality, distorting perceptions of what is right and what is justified, as it races to its shocking conclusion.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

        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.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration02:05

        A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:43

        Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, USA

        This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:14

        A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:34

        Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
        Duration02:02

        Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryGermany

        Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic. As Schrader and Minks investigate the murder, the case is complicated by a finger found in the stomach of the victim. Forensic examination proves the finger belongs to Nobert Günzel, who was previously convicted of rape and assault. The police raid Günzel’s residence, and discover a blood-stained table with restraints and bits of human flesh in his basement. They also find video equipment and preserved, tattooed skin from the victim’s back. Soon, they found dead bodies buried in the garden. Günzel then goes missing.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

          This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ex-convict who has found in his Christian faith the strength to raise a family. They will be brought together by a terrible accident that will change their lives. By the final frame, none of them will be the same as they will learn harsh truths about love, faith, courage, desire and guilt, and how chance can change our worlds irretrievably, forever.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:52

          A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountrySouth Korea
          Duration01:50

          A bad guy, a cruel guy, a lame guy, a cowardly guy and the meanest woman gets involved in a beautiful university student's murder case.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
          Duration01:45

          A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA

          When a family of four rent a beautiful house for their summer vacation, the price seems too good to be true. Unbeknownst to them, the lascivious owner has set up a series of spy cams throughout the house, documenting their most intimate moments and live streaming them to the dark web.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:51

          Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the operator of an illicit gambling ring while garnering the attention of Frank, a paternalistic loan shark. As his relationship with a student deepens, Bennett must risk everything for a second chance.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryFrance, Germany, Belgium
          Duration01:51

          When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:26

          Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:34

          Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

          Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.




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