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10 Best Movies Like Cry Wolf

If you loved Cry Wolf, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Sweet Hereafter

The Sweet Hereafter

1997★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Wolf for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and vi...

#2
Ruthless People

Ruthless People

1986★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Wolf for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully inte...

#3
Area of Conflict

Area of Conflict

2017★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Wolf for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Human traffickers wipe out a young girl's family and village. She then seeks revenge on those responsible, eventually becoming first the hunted then turning into the hunters with t...

#4
Cosy Dens

Cosy Dens

1999★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Wolf for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two families, Sebkovi and Krausovi, are celebrating Christmas, but not everyone is in a good mood. The teenage kids think that their fathers are totally stupid, and the fathers are...

#5
Unfaithfully Yours

Unfaithfully Yours

1948★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Wolf for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Before he left for a brief European visit, symphony conductor Sir Alfred De Carter casually asked his staid brother-in-law August to look out for his young wife, Daphne, during his...

#6
Brother 2

Brother 2

2000★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Cry Wolf for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Arriving in Moscow, Chechen War veteran Danila meets Konstantin, an old friend who tells him that his twin brother has been forced into signing a crooked contract with a US ice hoc...