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Movies Like 12 Desperate Hours

If you liked 12 Desperate Hours (2023), a tv movie and drama movie directed by Gina Gershon, 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. 1Winged Creatures

    Winged Creatures (2009)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an…

  2. 2Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side

    Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side (1992)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and tv movie

    A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss Marple is not so sure. She sets out to discover the true identity of…

  3. 3Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery

    Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery (1989)

    ★ 6.7/10Also tv movie

    While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is actually the work of a murderer planning yet another killing.

  4. 4Ray Donovan: The Movie

    Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each…

  5. 5Oslo

    Oslo (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also tv movie and drama

    The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that…

  6. 6Bad Sister

    Bad Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also tv movie

    As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a…

  7. 7I Am Elizabeth Smart

    I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.

  8. 8Dr. Strange

    Dr. Strange (1978)

    ★ 6/10Also tv movie

    A psychiatrist becomes the new Sorcerer Supreme of the Earth in order to battle an evil Sorceress from the past.

  9. 9Hands of Stone

    Hands of Stone (2016)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    The legendary Roberto Duran and his equally legendary trainer Ray Arcel change each other's lives.

  10. 10Kisses

    Kisses (2008)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

  11. 11Girl in the Bunker

    Girl in the Bunker (2018)

    ★ 7.1/10Also tv movie and drama

    When Elizabeth is abducted by a fugitive sexual predator, she realizes she must take matters into her own hands and plot her escape. Based on a true story.

  12. 12Outlaws - For Greater Glory

    Outlaws - For Greater Glory (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929), which was touched off by a rebellion against the Mexican government's attempt to secularize the country.

  13. 13Above the Rim

    Above the Rim (1994)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Story of a promising high school basketball star and his relationships with two brothers, one a drug dealer and the other a former basketball star fallen on hard times and now employed as a security guard.

  14. 14The Enforcer

    The Enforcer (2022)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A noir thriller set in Miami, the film follows an enforcer who discovers his femme fatale boss has branched out into cyber sex trafficking, putting a young runaway he’s befriended at risk. He sacrifices everything to…

  15. 15Scum

    Scum (1977)

    ★ 7.2/10Also tv movie and drama

    Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of…

  16. 16Dead Man's Folly

    Dead Man's Folly (1986)

    ★ 6.4/10Also tv movie and drama

    During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.

  17. 17Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

    Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

  18. 18Convict

    Convict (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    Set in the dark and old Parramatta prison built by the original convicts our lead character Ray a war veteran finds himself serving 18 months for manslaughter after defending his fiance. He soon realizes that the…

  19. 19Fast Charlie

    Fast Charlie (2023)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama

    When his aging mob boss is whacked, Charlie Swift, a loyal friend and hired gun, will stop at nothing to destroy the upcoming crew that took him out.

  20. 20Hierarchy

    Hierarchy (2025)

    ★ 6/10Also tv movie

    In an undisclosed area of Texas after two adoptive brothers become entangled in criminal activity, forced to evade law enforcement and the greedy Russian mafia.

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