20 best movies like The Employer (2012)

List of the best movies like The Employer (2012): Blind Turn, Poker Night, Catch Hell, Run, Seeking Justice, Freezer, Man on a Ledge, Dragon Wasps, Paranoia, After.

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Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness when he loses everything he ever cared about. One year later, Bruce decides to give Samantha the punishment he believes she escaped. Samantha has struggled with her own demons since that fateful night, and Bruce will take her struggles to the edge when he implements a demented plan to teach her a twisted lesson that may cost her the ultimate price.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryCanada, USA
Duration01:44

When you become a detective in Warsaw Indiana - you go to Poker Night, where you play against some of the best cops in the business. They tell you stories about their time on the job - their successes and failures. When new Detective Stan Jeter leaves the game, he is caught by a vicious psychopath and locked in a basement. Using the stories he heard at Poker Night, he must match wits against his captor - and save not only himself, but the young girl trapped in the basement with him. Like Seven and Usual Suspect, Poker Night combines thrills and twists and turns that will leave you guessing till the very end.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds himself in the middle of a twisted scheme with little chance to survive. With no rescue in sight, Reagan must use every ounce of strength he has left to break free and get his revenge.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

A street smart, 17-year-old named Daniel practices Parkour and is both hero and thief.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrethriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:22

Robert Saunters, a mechanic is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked up inside the restaurant's freezer. Knowing nothing of why he's there, he realizes he has been mistaken as someone else.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

    An ex-cop turned con threatens to jump to his death from a Manhattan hotel rooftop. The NYPD dispatch a female police psychologist to talk him down. However, unbeknownst to the police on the scene, the suicide attempt is a cover for the biggest diamond heist ever pulled.

    Markimdb: 3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    A scientist enlists the help of the US army to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father, deep in the Belizean jungle. Caught in the crossfire between a brutal guerrilla army controlled by a mystical warlord, they are also confronted by an even bigger terror giant mutated wasps that are, for some reason, thirsty for blood.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA, India, France
    Duration01:46

      An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price: he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, family, detective
      CountryUSA

      When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
      CountryUSA

      Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genreaction, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:28

      Danny, a respected cop, is setup after an investigation goes wrong. While laying low in his new jail cell, Danny is forced to get involved in the inmates underground cage fighting circuit. With the help of Irving, a former mixed martial arts champion, Danny devises a scheme to bring justice and innocence to his family's name, if he can get out of the cage alive.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Canada

      A heroic high school teacher leads a band of students trapped in school by violent drug-runners.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and withdrawn from those around him. Billy teams up with another old friend to find out what's going on and as they probe Stanley's recent activities, their friend's behaviour seems more and more bizarre and frightening.

      Markimdb: 2.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      In Nightscape, an emotionally guarded drifter, Kat (Galesh), crosses paths with a phantom car responsible for a wave of supernatural violence. The drifter must learn to trust again if she is to end a lifetime of bad luck and help her new found companions survive the growing chaos and carnage.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what exactly happened...and why.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      Actor Lester Blaine has all but landed the lead in Myra Hudson's new play when Myra vetoes him because, to her, he doesn't look like a romantic leading man. On a train from New York to San Francisco, Blaine sets out to prove Myra wrong...by romancing her. Is he sincere, or does he have a dark ulterior motive?

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genreaction, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers who are out to collect the bounty on the heads of her and her family.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
      Duration01:38

      The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:39

      Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, documentary, crime, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:39

      It’s 1994: a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas. Three and a half years later, he is found alive, thousands of miles away, in Spain. Disoriented and quivering with fear, he divulges his shocking story of kidnap and torture. His family is overjoyed to bring him home. But all is not what it seems. Sure, he has the same tattoos, but he looks decidedly different, and he now speaks with a strange accent. Why doesn't the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It's only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Poland
      Duration01:47

        A troubled hedge fund magnate, desperate to complete the sale of his trading empire, makes an error that forces him to turn to an unlikely person for help.

        Markimdb: 2.8
        Genreaction, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA

        When a solar storm wipes out the air traffic control system, Air Force One and a passenger jet liner are locked on a collision course in the skies above the midwest.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
        Duration01:59

          Two leading computer scientists work toward their goal of Technological Singularity, as a radical anti-technology organization fights to prevent them from creating a world where computers can transcend the abilities of the human brain.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA

          Dr. Michael Cayle thought leaving the chaotic lifestyle of New York City behind for the quiet, small town of Ashborough would bring his family closer together. Soon after arriving, however, he discovers the town's deepest secret: a terrifying and controlling race of creatures that live amongst the darkness in the woods behind his home.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:42

          Two families go to an open house and can't leave

          Markimdb: 3.8
          Genreaction, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA

          A special agent's plans to reconcile with his ex-fiancé are ruined when she boards a private jet that is targeted by hijackers working for the same crime lord that he is chasing.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          A Pentecostal pastor, Lemuel Childs, and his believers handle venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. Lemuel’s daughter, Mara holds a secret that threatens to tear the church apart: her romantic past with a nonbeliever, Augie. As Mara’s wedding to a devoted follower looms, she must decide whether or not to trust the steely matriarch of their community, Hope, with her heart and life at stake.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:28

          A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrethriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:27

          Based on a novella from Stephen King, A famous mystery writer sets out for revenge after a brutal attack.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryAustria, USA
          Duration01:40

          Two young orphans in the Tirolian Mountains come under siege by a vicious band of hunters. Frightened of being separated by child services following the death of their mother, a self-sufficient 16-year-old girl and her 10-year-old brother - who hasn't spoken a word since seeing his father killed by the mayor - strive to live off the land in peace. Their innocence is shattered, however, when a group of hunters led by the mayor's son brutalizes and rapes the free-spirited girl. Later, when a well-meaning social services worker arrives too late to protect the terrorized siblings, the girl and her brother prepare to take a stand against their ruthless attackers.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genreaction, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          A Moscow charity concert turns bloody when armed extortionists take the headlining American pop-star, Venus, and the Russian President with his family, hostage. The drummer of a heavy metal warm-up band, an ex-bad ass biker played by Lundgren, and a young Russian F.S.B. agent team up to fight back. Our two heroes are seriously outnumbered, and things aren't as simple as they appear, when old ghosts from the Soviet Union appear to haunt the present in this fast paced action piece.

          Markimdb: 7.9
          Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:10

          A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, adventure, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:00

          After being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the island, and that getting discovered could be deadly.

          Markimdb: 3.8
          Genrethriller, fantasy
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:32

          Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving boss, while Hauer plays a man-of-the-cloth who aids the cop on his mission.

          Markimdb: 3.7
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:08

          With his business in shambles, a mounting criminal record, and a cheating wife, today is the day that Buddy Hutchins snaps.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrehorror, action, thriller
          CountryUSA, Australia, Canada
          Duration01:30

          See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to survive as this deranged psychopath once again starts to pick them apart one by one.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration00:15

          Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the FBI and forced to inform on her own "brothers," she'll have to walk the fine line between love, loyalty, honor and betrayal, and try to keep it together for her daughter's future.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, short
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:27

          Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:40

          In rural Connecticut, baseball players Ben and Mickey are trying to survive a zombie plague. They are forced to form a battery: a catcher and a pitcher who work together to outwit the batter, the one who hits the ball. And the batter in this case just happens to be a zombie. Tough Ben and gentle Mickey frequently disagree on the best way to go about the situation. Then they suddenly hear a human voice through their walkie-talkies. Is salvation nearby, like Mickey thinks, or is Ben’s suspicion justified?

          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: 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: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:31

            Four young men have won a trip with their favorite social network. On board the private plane that took him to New York, they are invited to participate in an in-flight entertainment: a new online gaming experience. But this is no ordinary Thurs Trapped at 30,000 feet, they will play for their lives and those of their families. They will discover the hard way that put his life online can have dire consequences ...

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
            CountryFrance, USA
            Duration02:08

            Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.

            Markimdb: 4
            Genreaction, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:21

            A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.

            Markimdb: 4.8
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:27

            After a series of bad experiences with men, Shae teams up with her co-worker, Lu, who has a simple, deadly way of dealing with the opposite sex.

            Markimdb: 4.7
            Genreaction, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:38

            When former black ops operative Tom Steele and his partner Manning are assigned to decommission an old prison, they must oversee the arrival of two mysterious female prisoners. Before long, an elite force of mercenaries assault the prison in search of the new arrivals. As the true identities of the women are revealed, Steele realizes he's caught in the middle of something far bigger than he had imagined.




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