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

Pitfall
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate for fans of Drama & 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....

High and Low
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway....

The Mask of Dimitrios
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career...

The Big Knife
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Movie star Charlie Castle draws the ire of Hollywood producer Stanley Hoff when he refuses to sign a new seven-year contract. Castle is sick of the low quality of the studio's film...

The Bad Sleep Well
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice presid...

Panic
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Desperate for fans of Drama & Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for hi...