If You Liked Topside, Watch These Next
Finished Topside (2022) and want more of the same? These 18 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like Topside, most of them are drama.
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18 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.Night Always Comes(2025)
6.1DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama
Facing eviction in a city her family can no longer afford, a woman plunges into a desperate and increasingly dangerous all-night search to raise $25,000.
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2.Panic Room(2002)
6.8CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the…
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3.Butterfly on a Wheel(2007)
6.4CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
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4.Nowhere to Run(1993)
6.6ActionDramaThrillerAlso drama
Escaped convict Sam Gillen single-handedly takes on ruthless developers who are determined to evict a widow with two young children.
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5.Bastard Out of Carolina(1996)
7.1DramaAlso drama
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
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6.Cape Fear(1991)
7.3DramaCrimeThrillerAlso drama
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have…
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8.Eye for an Eye(1996)
6.3ThrillerDramaAlso drama
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
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9.The Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain(2021)
7.2MysteryThrillerDramaAlso drama
Based on the true story of the events that led to the death of Kenneth Chamberlain Sr., an elderly African American veteran with bipolar disorder, who was killed during a conflict with police officers who were dispatched to check on him.
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10.My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done(2010)
6.1CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
Brad has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place.
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11.Dream House(2011)
6.2MysteryDramaThrillerAlso drama
Publisher Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby, and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help…
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12.The Kindness of Strangers(2019)
6.4DramaAlso drama
Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter. While stealing food at a Russian restaurant called ‘Winter Palace’, Clara meets Marc, who has been given…
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13.The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete(2013)
7.2DramaAlso drama
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
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16.Sweet Girl(2021)
6.6ActionThrillerDramaAlso drama
A man vows to bring justice to those responsible for his wife's death while protecting the only family he has left, his daughter.
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17.Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri(2017)
8.1CrimeDramaAlso drama
After seven months have passed without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes makes a bold move, painting three signs leading into her town with a controversial message directed at Bill Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command Officer Jason Dixon, an immature mother's…
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18.Brooklyn's Finest(2010)
6.3CrimeDramaThrillerAlso drama
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and wrong.
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