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Films like The Guest.

The Guest (2014) reads as Heavy, breathless, extreme mystery / thriller, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Abduction (2011) poster
1. Abduction2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Unknown (2011) poster
2. Unknown2011

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Commuter (2018) poster
3. The Commuter2018

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

From Paris with Love (2010) poster
4. From Paris with Love2010

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Transporter 3 (2008) poster
5. Transporter 32008

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Last Man Down (2021) poster
6. Last Man Down2021

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

The Transporter Refueled (2015) poster
7. The Transporter Refueled2015

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Absolution (2024) poster
8. Absolution2024

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Non-Stop (2014) poster
9. Non-Stop2014

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Honest Thief (2020) poster
10. Honest Thief2020

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

A Working Man (2025) poster
11. A Working Man2025

Keeps the cold, bleak undertow and the white-knuckle intensity — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Homefront (2013) poster
12. Homefront2013

Keeps the white-knuckle intensity and the dense, packed storytelling; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

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