Movies Like Malevolent Ascent
If you liked Malevolent Ascent (2010), a thriller movie directed by Dave Wascavage, 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.
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Captive (2020)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerA teenage runaway who’s trapped by a delusional man, pretends to be his daughter in order to escape.
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The Call (2013)
★ 6.8/10Also thrillerJordan 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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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
★ 7/10Also thrillerAfter a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
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The Experiment (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
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Containment (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerNeighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
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Bloody Hell (2020)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerA man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience.
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The Maze Runner (2014)
★ 7.2/10Also thrillerA teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to…
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Stolen Girl (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerIn 1993, Maureen’s six-year-old daughter Amina is snuck out of the country by her ex-husband, Karim. After years of unsuccessful attempts to find her, Maureen intersects with a professional retriever of internationally…
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Nowhere to Run (1993)
★ 6.6/10Also thrillerEscaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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Shock Corridor (1963)
★ 7/10Also thrillerWith the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
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Protector (2026)
★ 8.4/10Also thrillerNikki's life is shattered when her daughter is kidnapped. Thrust into the criminal underworld while hunted by cops and military, she must fight to rescue her child.
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also thrillerA young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
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God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerVice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the…
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Hider in the House (1989)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerA deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
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Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also thrillerAn 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.
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Grave Encounters (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also thrillerA crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
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Hunting Season (2025)
★ 7.4/10Also thrillerWhen a reclusive survivalist and his daughter rescue a mysterious, wounded woman from a river, they become entangled in a deadly web of violence and revenge, forcing them to confront a brutal criminal to survive.
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Hunted (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also thrillerA woman flees two serial killers who are hot on her heels in a forest.
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In Cold Light (2026)
★ 5.9/10Also thrillerFresh out of prison, Ava's attempt to reclaim her drug operation collapses when she witnesses a brutal crime, forcing her to flee into a nightmarish underworld where allies are scarce and enemies multiply by the minute.
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Girl in the Basement (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also thrillerSara is a teen girl who is looking forward to her 18th birthday to move away from her controlling father Don. But before she could even blow out the candles, Don imprisons her in the basement of their home.