Movies Like The Waiting Place

If you liked The Waiting Place (2001), a thriller movie directed by Cristobal Araus Lobos, 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
The Night Visitor (1971)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
2
Dark Passage (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller
A man convicted of murdering his wife escapes from prison and works with a woman to try and prove his innocence.
3
The Next Three Days (2010)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
Life seems perfect for John Brennan until his wife, Lara, is arrested for a murder she says she didn’t commit. Three years into her sentence, John is struggling to hold his family together, raising their son and…
4
The Lazarus Project (2008)
★ 6/10Also thriller
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an…
5
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for…
6
6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller
An adrenaline seeking snowboarder gets lost in a massive winter storm in the back country of the High Sierras where he is pushed to the limits of human endurance and forced to battle his own personal demons as he…
7
Brute Force (1947)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller
Timeworn Joe Collins and his fellow inmates live under the heavy thumb of the sadistic, power-tripping guard Captain Munsey. Only Collins' dreams of escape keep him going, but how can he possibly bust out of Munsey's…
8
The Dream Team (1989)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
Four mental patients on a field trip in New York City must save their caring chaperone, who ends up being taken to a hospital in a coma after accidentally witnessing a murder, before the killers can find him and finish…
9
Night Watch (1973)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
10
The Astronaut (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening…
11
Peeping Tom (1960)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He…
12
The Parts You Lose (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
13
John Q (2002)
★ 7.2/10Also thriller
John Quincy Archibald is a father and husband whose son is diagnosed with an enlarged heart and then finds out he cannot receive a transplant because HMO insurance will not cover it. Therefore, he decides to take a…
14
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
The story of former Ulster Volunteer Force member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffin's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
15
The Medusa Touch (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
16
Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
17
Spellbound (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the…
18
Super 8 (2011)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
In late 1970s Ohio, a group of friends filming a homemade zombie movie witness a devastating train derailment. Soon after, their quiet town is gripped by unexplained disappearances, strange phenomena, and a growing…
19
Labor Day (2013)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
Two strangers are drawn together under incredible circumstances. What starts as an unforeseen encounter over a long holiday weekend soon becomes a second chance love story.
20
Quicksand (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order…