If you loved The Desperate Hour, try Catch a Fire

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Catch a Fire has roughly 3.3× fewer votes than The Desperate Hour — it's a deeper cut, not a mainstream recommendation. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Desperate Hour

2022 · dir. Phillip Noyce

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Catch a Fire

2006 · dir. Phillip Noyce

What they share

Both films are directed by Phillip Noyce, and they sit in Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Desperate Hour, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

What Catch a Fire is

Secunda CTL fuel plant winter dawn alarms blaring A timid foreman's life upends in accusation and torture Phillip Noyce directs a tense thriller of radicalized insurgency.

If you loved The Desperate Hour, try Catch a Fire

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What they share

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