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Key Features:
Home invasion, Cat and mouse, Elderly couple, Twist ending, Desperation, Survival, Violence-high, Thriller, Criminals, Amateur criminals
Tone:
serious, gritty, suspense-driven
Target Audience:
Horror fans, Thriller enthusiasts, Fans of suspenseful plots
Emotional Arc:
Anticipation → Terror

The Owners

2020-08-27
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A group of friends think they found the perfect easy score - an empty house with a safe full of cash. But when the elderly couple that lives there comes home early, the tables are suddenly turned. As a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, the would-be thieves must fight to save themselves from a nightmare they could never have imagined.

Genres
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Cast
Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Jake Curran, Andrew Ellis, Ian Kenny, Stacha Hicks
Crew
Julius Berg, Mathieu Gompel, Julius Berg
Rating
5.6(423 votes)
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The Watcher
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6.434

A young couple purchase their new home to start a life together, only to find out the elderly couple next door have other plans for them.



Breaking In
5.971

Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.



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Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.



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Bad Samaritan
6.738

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The Goldsmith
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Determined to rob a goldsmith, three young robbers break into his country house. The man and his wife turn out to be less defenseless than they seem.



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Them(2006)
6.1

Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.



Open House
4.698

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6.657

A young married couple and their daughter are terrorized by a pride of ferocious feral felines.



The Rental
5.55

Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.



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4.753

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A Bad Idea Gone Wrong
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Crawlspace
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The Burglars
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Home Invasion
5.513

Terror arrives at the one place we all feel safest... When a wealthy woman, Chloe, and her stepson, Jacob, are targeted by a trio of expert thieves in their remote mansion, her only form of help comes from a call with Mike, a security systems specialist. But as the intruders become increasingly hostile and the connection wavers, will she trust him to be her eyes and navigate her to safety?



The Domestics
6.132

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5.9

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The Desperate Hours
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The Neighbors
7.3

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Funny Games
6.6

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Stream
Stream(2024)
5.6

As the Keenans try to bring their family closer together, they unwittingly enter themselves into a game of life or death. With four deranged killers patrolling the halls of their hotel and competing for the most creative kills, the odds are definitely stacked against them.



The Adventurers
6

The world's top thieves join forces to pull off the heist of a lifetime. But when they find themselves pursued across Europe by a legendary French detective, they'll have to take their game to the next level.



Good People
5.5

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Hosts
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5

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Fright
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6

Young babysitter Amanda arrives at the Lloyd residence to spend the evening looking after their young son. Soon after the Lloyds leave, a series of frightening occurrences in the gloomy old house have Amanda's nerves on edge. The real terror begins, however, when the child's biological father appears after recently escaping from a nearby mental institution.



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5.663

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6.1

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White Settlers
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The Ladykillers
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Cingöz Recai
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An ex-thief returns for the revange of his father's murder makes an intelligent plan to reach the killer, a godfather named as Ghost. During his robbery operations, he plays with the police chief who is trying to stop him. In his final robbery, he finds something different than what he expects, something bigger.



Door Lock
Door Lock(2018)
7.404

Kyung-min lives alone in a one-room apartment. One day, she finds traces of a stranger breaking into her room and soon a mysterious murder case begins to unravel.



The Neighbor
5.7

In the town of Cutter, most people keep to themselves. But when John comes home to find his girlfriend missing, he sneaks into his neighbor's house, finding his girlfriend and several other kidnapped people tied up in the basement. When the neighbor come home, John is forced to get out of the house alive and lead the group to safety.



In Their Skin
5.303

A couple and their young son retreat to their woodland vacation home, only to face sinister neighbors who intend to kill them and steal their identities.



Players
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4.895

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Trespassers
4.87

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Edge of Fear
4.7

After being stabbed in the heart by ruthless home invaders, a man is left for dead. Now weak, outnumbered, and knife sticking from his chest, he attempts to do the impossible: save his wife from these murderers before he bleeds to death.



The Home
The Home(2025)
6.5

A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.



The Thieves
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A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface.



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Adam and Margo's housewarming party goes well enough except there's this one mysterious couple lingering after the other guests have left.



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The Weasel's Tale
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A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.



The Perfect Host
6.416

Warwick Wilson is the consummate host. He carefully prepares for a dinner party, the table impeccably set and the duck perfectly timed for 8:30 p.m. John Taylor is a career criminal. He’s just robbed a bank and needs to get off the streets. He finds himself on Warwick’s doorstep posing as a friend of a friend, new to Los Angeles, who’s been mugged and lost his luggage.



The Guest
The Guest(2014)
6.6

A soldier introduces himself to the Peterson family, claiming to be a friend of their son who died in action. After the young man is welcomed into their home, a series of accidental deaths seem to be connected to his presence.



The Strays
5.45

A Black woman's meticulously crafted life of privilege starts to unravel when two strangers show up in her quaint suburban town.



The Snare
The Snare(2017)
4.7

Three friends head to the seafront for a drunken weekend, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force.



Sweet Home
5

A couple decides to spend a romantic evening in a floor of a semi-abandoned building that slip because she works as a consultant for the council house and got the keys. During the evening they discover that a hooded murderer is the only tenant left in the building...and they have become the new target.



Outlaws and Angels
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A gang of cold-blooded outlaws narrowly escapes a blood-soaked bank robbery in a grimy frontier town. With a notorious bounty hunter hot on their trail, these nefarious criminals desperately need a place to hide out before night falls. Fate brings them to the home of the Tildons, a seemingly innocent family with two feisty daughters. As the men settle in, an impetuous game of cat and mouse plays out during the cold, black night. Come morning, nothing will ever be the same.



The Attic
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3.824

Emma has a strong aversion towards her family’s new house, especially the attic. After moving in, she becomes miserable and reclusive. The rest of her family also seems unhappy and unsettled. The situation escalates one day when Emma is in the attic alone. All of a sudden someone who looks exactly like Emma attacks her viciously.



The Mouse Trap
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Sleuth
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7.675

A man who loves games and theater invites his wife's lover to meet him, setting up a battle of wits with potentially deadly results.



The Gift
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6.7

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Trapped
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6.2

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The Victim
4.75

Annie's life is in jeopardy after she's witnessed the horrific rape and murder of her closest friend. Fleeing from two attackers she stumbles across Kyle, a recluse living in the middle of the woods. Kyle finds the stillness of the woods comforting. The ruggedly handsome loner stays far from civilization - that is - until a single knock on his door throws his solitary life into chaos.



The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

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The Rats: A Witcher Tale

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Masquerade
5.5

A young girl struggles to survive after a group of home invaders break into her house to steal her family's priceless artwork.



Ghost Story
6

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.



Get In
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5.8

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The Island
5.2

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Realms
Realms(2017)
4.314

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Trick
Trick(2019)
5.8

A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.



The Dark Hours
5.7

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The Thieving Magpie
6.253

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Hush
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6.729

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5.9

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The Haunted
6.4

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The Ancestral
6.362

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The Cottage
5.952

In a remote part of the countryside, a bungled kidnapping turns into a living nightmare for four central characters when they cross paths with a psychopathic farmer and all hell breaks loose.



Sleuth
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6.3

Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife: the woman both are sleeping with.



Body
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5.333

A night out turns deadly when three girls break into a seemingly empty mansion.



The Canal
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5.75

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The Price We Pay
5.81

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Caught
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5.42

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The Inhabitant
6

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Inside
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4.948

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Survive the Night
4.8

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Play Dirty
6.6

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The Scarehouse
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Tiger House
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The Witches
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