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10 Best Movies Like Panic Room

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

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#1
Flightplan

Flightplan

2005★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Panic Room for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Flying at 40,000 feet in a state-of-the art aircraft that she helped design, Kyle Pratt's 6-year-old daughter Julia vanishes without a trace. Or did she? No one on the plane believ...

#2
Speak

Speak

2004★ 7.0

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

Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her paren...

#3
The Game

The Game

1997★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Panic Room for fans of Drama & Thriller. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a cold-hearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad: a gift...

#4
Phone Booth

Phone Booth

2003★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Panic Room for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A slick New York publicist who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red light from a laser rifle sight is pro...

#5
Zodiac

Zodiac

2007★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Panic Room for fans of Crime & Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Over the course of a decade, editors of the San Francisco Chronicle entice themselves in the murders of the Zodiac Killer. However, as time runs its course, interest in the case dw...

#6
Insomnia

Insomnia

2002★ 7.0

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

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen....