
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.

The Damned Don't Cry
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob....

The Web
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his hea...

They Made Me a Fugitive
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Thriller & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge....

Pitfall
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An insurance man wishing for a more exciting life becomes wrapped up in the affairs of an imprisoned embezzler, his model girlfriend, and a violent private investigator....

Cry of the City
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome, in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, still refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles clear his client by confessing to another cri...

They Live by Night
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Desperate for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
An escaped convict, injured during a robbery, falls in love with the woman who nurses him back to health, but their relationship seems doomed from the beginning....