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10 Best Movies Like The Trap

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

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#1
Safe

Safe

1995★ 7.0

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

Carol White, a Los Angeles housewife in the late 1980s, comes down with a debilitating illness with no clear diagnosis....

#2
Sky Hook

Sky Hook

2000★ 7.8

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

Belgrade during the height of the war Yugoslavia in 1999. Kaja struggles with daily destruction and the constant threat of being drafted, but also with his impending divorce from h...

#3
Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels

1939★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Trap for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance betwee...

#4
Boomerang

Boomerang

2001★ 6.4

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

Caffe 'Boomerang' is one of Belgrade's many cafes. Seemingly just a backdrop for our cast of crazy characters, but in reality much more than that....

#5
Premeditated Murder

Premeditated Murder

1995★ 8.5

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

Men, women, and war. Jelena Panic is a young woman in Belgrade in the early 1990s, during Serbia's war with Croatia; she's making a book of her grandmother's diaries from the end o...

#6
The Aerial

The Aerial

2007★ 7.2

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

An entire city has lost its voice. Mr. TV, the owner of the city's only television channel, is carrying out a sinister plan to control all of the city's inhabitants....