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Movies Like The arrest

If you liked The arrest (1975), a movie directed by Raphael Rebibo, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Equilibrium

    Equilibrium (2002)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In a dystopian future, a totalitarian regime maintains peace by subduing the populace with a drug, and displays of emotion are punishable by death. A man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

  2. 2The Girl in the Book

    The Girl in the Book (2015)

    ★ 5.8/10

    The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.

  3. 3Blackwater Lane

    Blackwater Lane (2024)

    ★ 6/10

    An American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to…

  4. 4Richard Jewell

    Richard Jewell (2019)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Richard Jewell thinks quick, works fast, and saves hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives after a domestic terrorist plants several pipe bombs and they explode during a concert, only to be falsely suspected of the crime…

  5. 5Chaos

    Chaos (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A bourgeois couple, modern yet conventional. One night by accident, a young prostitute barges into their lives. Hounded down, beaten up, threatened, she will continue to struggle, with the help of a well off lady…

  6. 6The Dead Zone

    The Dead Zone (1983)

    ★ 7/10

    Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an…

  7. 7Three Days of the Condor

    Three Days of the Condor (1975)

    ★ 7.3/10

    When bookish CIA researcher Joe Turner finds all his co-workers dead, he, together with a woman he has kidnapped, must work together to outwit those responsible until he determines who he can really trust.

  8. 8Fahrenheit 451

    Fahrenheit 451 (1966)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In the future, the government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group of enforcers, known as “firemen,” to perform the necessary book burnings. Fireman Montag begins to…

  9. 9Limitless

    Limitless (2011)

    ★ 7.2/10

    The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that…

  10. 10You Should Have Left

    You Should Have Left (2020)

    ★ 6.1/10

    In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a…

  11. 11THX 1138

    THX 1138 (1971)

    ★ 6.4/10

    People in the future live in a totalitarian society. A technician named THX 1138 lives a mundane life between work and taking a controlled consumption of drugs that the government uses to make puppets out of people. As…

  12. 12Cairo Conspiracy

    Cairo Conspiracy (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the…

  13. 13The Long Walk

    The Long Walk (2025)

    ★ 6.8/10

    In a dystopian America, fifty teenage boys take part in a deadly annual walking contest, forced to maintain a minimum pace or be executed, until only one survivor remains.

  14. 14The Wretched

    The Wretched (2019)

    ★ 6/10

    A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.

  15. 15The Crush

    The Crush (1993)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.

  16. 16Stonehearst Asylum

    Stonehearst Asylum (2014)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

  17. 17The Wave

    The Wave (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A man on the verge of a promotion takes a mysterious hallucinogenic drug that begins to tear down his reality and expose his life for what it really is.

  18. 18The Purge

    The Purge (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a…

  19. 19Safe Haven

    Safe Haven (2013)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.

  20. 20The Call

    The Call (2013)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a…

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