20 best movies like The Cellar (2018)

List of the best movies like The Cellar (2018): In the Shadow, Child 44, Fathers, Russian Temper, Masha, Selfie, Someone to Watch Over Me, Undertow, The Cage, Rustom.

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Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryCzech Republic, Slovakia, Poland

In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The investigation leads him onto thin ice. Can he beat a stronger enemy and save his family and his own life?

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
Duration02:21

Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

Mark
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:30

A humble history teacher Alexander Lvov, happily married to Anna, a woman with a child. His adopted son, 8-year-old Vanka, has long become Alexander's family. But here comes back from the army paratrooper Vadim Kotov, who served under the contract, Anna’s ex-husband and Vanka’s father. He wants to get his son back. In men, a serious conflict is brewing.

Markimdb: 1.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:27

Year 2013. Ukraine. Navy officer Maxim Fadeev comes from St. Petersburg to the Crimea, after receiving a telegram about the death of his grandfather.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountryRussia

A 13-year-old girl grows up between a boxing ring and the street. Her friends are guys who kill and rob. In the 1990s the whole city hates them, but for Masha they are the best people in the world, who love and protect her. She sings them jazz and dreams of becoming a singer. But one day Masha learns who they actually are and what they have done to her life and family. She matures, leaves the small city for Moscow, trying to break with her past. But one day the past stands directly before her.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryRussia
Duration02:12

He was his absolute copy – his gestures, body language and jokes were so real, no one suspected the change. Bogdanov looked at the screen as if it was mirror. the double has taken over his tV-show, held meetings with his fans, lived with his women and had drinks with his friends. Bogdanov’s life and identity were erased in an instant. Popular, successful and cynical writer Bogdanov lost everything he has been working on for years building his career. As he clearly sees that the double is better and sincerer than he, he realizes the battle of his life is lost. the only one who wants to have real Bogdanov back is his daughter...

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

While Mike Keegan is celebrating his recent promotion to detective, in a fancy nightclub socialite Claire Gregory witnesses the murder of the owner by powerful mobster, Joey Venza. Mike is assigned to protect her in the night shift in her Manhattan apartment. When Venza threatens Claire, Mike and Claire eventually become closer—and Mike finds himself divided between the love for his family and his heated passion for Claire and his fascination of her world.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

After his car breaks down, Jack seeks shelter, lost in a thunderstorm in a remote shack in the woods. He finds himself held at gunpoint by a deranged mountain man who lives there with his young wife. As the storm rages on, tension mounts in the small cabin. Matters reach a climax when Jack falls for the beautiful woman and tries persuading her to escape with him. Soon, the situation escalates into deadly violence...

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryRussia

They don't really know each other. She lives in penury. He holds a pawnshop. Poverty makes her marry him, despite she doesn't love him and even despises. After the marriage takes place, the family war begins. Based on a novel 'A Gentle Creature' by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration03:08

Rustom Pavri, an honourable officer of the Indian Navy shoots his friend Vikram to death after discovering that his wife Cynthia had an affair with the rich businessman. The Commander surrenders himself to the Police immediately and admits to have killed Vikram but pleads 'not guilty' in court. Is he convicted or acquitted?

Markimdb: 5
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Russia
Duration01:31

Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genredrama, detective
CountryRussia
Duration01:14

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryArgentina, Spain, Germany, USA

Pedro, a humble beekeeper who lives in the mysterious Argentinian region of the Delta del Tigre, travels to Buenos Aires to visit his twin brother Agustín, a successful but troubled pediatrician with marital issues, to give him bad news and ask him for a favor hard to fulfill, a unexpected arrival which will change Agustín's life forever.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

    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: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryPoland, Russia, Netherlands
    Duration01:47

    Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    After Jack and Lucy rescue a woman from freezing cold in the middle of Scottish mountains, they come to realize that the woman is not who she says she is.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryBelarus
    Duration01:44

    World renowned journalist Sara Ogden is traversing the world in pursuit of carriers of a fatally dangerous "Stamp of Cain" in order to prevent seemingly unrelated events such as mass murders, turmoil, revolutions and chaos. She doesn't even suspect how close she is to the edge of the abyss, when in her search she ends up in Belarus to meet face to face with the one, whom she has been searching for her entire life.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    Negative is set in the American southwest and follows Natalie, a former British spy who flees Los Angeles for Phoenix after a deal with a cartel goes wrong. She's joined by Hollis, a street photographer who has put his life at risk by taking Natalie's photo at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:22

    A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    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.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryBelarus, Germany, USA, Russia
    Duration01:09

    Young Evelina has a law degree, but her dream is to travel to the USA and earn a living as a professional DJ. But it’s 1997 and the girl is living in post-Soviet Minsk...

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genreaction, drama, crime
    CountryDenmark
    Duration01:31

    Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival Björn, he jumps at the chance for a better life, making his way into a world of drugs and prostitution. As things escalate between Björn and Jamal, Casper finds himself and his family dead center of a conflict, that threatens to destroy them.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, biography
    CountrySpain, USA, United Kingdom

    When Andrew Briggman—a young soldier in the US invasion of Afghanistan—witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sadistic Sergeant, he considers reporting them to higher-ups. However, the heavily-armed and increasingly-violent platoon becomes suspicious that someone in their ranks has turned on them, and Andrew begins to fear that he'll be the next target.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain

    Sara, the daughter of Oliver and Julia suddenly disappears. Days pass by without any news about the girl. But one morning, the family receives a letter from someone who claims to have retained Sara and wants to talk with them that night.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genredrama, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Russia, United Kingdom
    Duration02:30

    Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into his own hands.

    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: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryDenmark
    Duration01:43

    Tensions are high after a Danish freighter is captured and held for ransom by Somali pirates, leading to weeks of high-stakes negotiations – and an escalating potential for explosive violence.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

    Markimdb: 4
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryRussia
    Duration01:56

    Young father agrees to fulfill three criminal boss's wishes in order to get money for his son's surgery abroad.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    Two strangers find their lives colliding in an impossible way. Alex is a methodical cargo thief working for a dangerous cartel. Sam is a determined paramedic trying to save the world while running from her past.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic, Thailand
    Duration01:36

    When carrying out a hit, assassin Joe (Cage) always makes use of the knowledge of the local population. On arriving in Bangkok, Joe meets street kid Kong and he becomes his primary aide. But when Kong is nearly killed, he asks Joe to train him up in the deadly arts and unwittingly becomes a target of a band of killers.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genredrama, sport
    CountryRussia

    Following her divorce, Marina thinks that she’ll never meet love again. Little does she know that one day, she’ll find the love of her life in freediving, one of the most extreme sports in existence, built on diving as deep as possible on a single breath. In the vast, mysterious realm of the sea, Marina not only regains her sense of peace and well being, but also redefines her existence.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration01:39

    A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    When their car breaks down, a couple on the run headed southbound for a fresh start in the Sunshine State break into a nearby house looking for a new set of wheels. What they find instead is a dark secret, and a sweet-as-pie pair of homeowners who will do anything to keep it from getting out.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure
    CountryChina
    Duration02:01

    At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi decided to retire and move to the United States with his girlfriend Shirley. But before his wedding, Bayi discovers his first love Ding Shitian, who supposedly had died in the "One Hundred Cave" 20 years ago, is actually still alive. Together with Shirley and his old exploration partner, Bayi unravels a terrible millennium-old secret...

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Russia
    Duration01:34

    After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.

    Markimdb: 4.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Brought together at their childhood home over their dying mother, an estranged family is thrust into a deadly fight for their own survival.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryIceland

    A college student begins working as a cam girl, with support from her best friend.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryDenmark
    Duration01:39

    Just as David and Freja arrive at their newly bought country house close to the Cliffs of Møn the harmony is disturbed by an inexplicably suicide. When David realizes that their new craftsman Roar is linked to the person who fell of the cliff he starts being suspicious. David is also certain that Roar is hitting on Freja. She denies this and all Davids theories. David joins forces with the widow Veronica to solve the case and prove to Freja that he is right. But the closer he gets the truth the further away he gets from Freja. David has to risk everything to unveil circumstances that go far beyond his imagination...

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:01

    HONG Gildong is an infallible private detective with an exceptional memory and quirky personality. While chasing the only target he failed to find, he gets entangled in a much bigger conspiracy than he bargained for.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountrySpain, France
    Duration01:39

    Pablo is a Spanish army doctor sent on a peace mission to Iraq during the 2003 war. In a routine out his convoy is attacked in the desert. He and his friend Diego manage to take refuge in an empty house, but become embroiled in a conflict that puts their lives in danger ...

    Markimdb: 4
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his blood brother Jacob. Billy and Rae are boyfriend and girlfriend, much to the dismay of Jacob who has always loved Rae from afar. Billy's philosophy of life, and how that interfaces with having a deadly virus, comes to a head when Billy and Jacob compete in a very unique game of "Tag", with the future of Rae and "the family" dependent upon the outcome.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryFrance

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    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUkraine
    Duration01:14

    Everything is destined, isn't it?

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryAustria
    Duration01:32

    The successful politician Robert is going on a romantic weekend trip with his pregnant wife Katharina as a unexpected old friend of Robert, Wolfgang, suddenly appears on the surface and starts to stalk the couple.




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