
10 Best Movies Like Desperate
If you loved Desperate, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Wild Things
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
When teen-socialite Kelly Van Ryan and troubled bad girl Suzie Toller accuse guidance counselor Sam Lombardo of rape, he's suspended by the school, rejected by the town, and fighti...

Daybreak
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing....

City on Fire
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; his girlfriend wants him to co...

Oppenheimer
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II....

Joker
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
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....

12 Angry Men
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begi...