Movies Like The Guard

If you liked The Guard (2017), a thriller movie directed by Ryan Turner and Cory Naquin, 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
Hider in the House (1989)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.
2
The Town that Dreaded Sundown (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
3
Wardriver (2026)
★ 7.4/10Also thriller
He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.
4
Lights Out (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.
5
A Patch of Fog (2015)
★ 6.5/10Also thriller
A university teacher gets caught shoplifting by a security guard, who won’t let him go. He becomes his new best friend and says ‘I won’t call the cops if you come and have a pint with me’. From there a twisted romance…
6
King of Killers (2023)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
Garan is a part of a group of international hitmen who are contracted to take out the most dangerous killer in the world, only to find out that they're the ones being hunted.
7
Security (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
An ex-special services veteran, down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the door to a distraught and…
8
Bloodline Killer (2024)
★ 6/10Also thriller
Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.
9
Whisper (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
10
Frank and Penelope (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…
11
God Is a Bullet (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
Vice 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…
12
Off the Grid (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
After a morally-bankrupt company tries to weaponize a brilliant scientist's revolutionary technology, he goes off the grid to safeguard humanity. When the company sends a strike force to find him, they make their…
13
Bloodline (2019)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
14
Cheat (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek…
15
The Calling (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
Detective Hazel Micallef hasn't had much to worry about in the sleepy town of Port Dundas until a string of gruesome murders in the surrounding countryside brings her face to face with a serial killer driven by a…
16
In Cold Light (2026)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
Fresh 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.
17
One Ranger (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller
A Texas Ranger is recruited by British Intelligence to track down a dangerous terrorist and stop him from attacking London.
18
Section 8 (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
After avenging the murder of his family, a former soldier is sprung from prison and recruited by a shadowy government agency.
19
Wake Up (2024)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
A group of young activists set out to make an environmental statement by vandalizing a home superstore as it closes. But their plan goes terribly wrong when they become trapped inside and must face a deranged security…
20
The Hit List (2011)
★ 6/10Also thriller
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.