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Best Home Invasion Movies

Our home is our shelter, our castle, and the place where we feel safest. The best home invasion movies feature the terrifying experiences of occupants resisting invaders.

Tuesday, February 27, 2024
| by Mehmet Demir
Best Home Invasion Movies

The first rule of living in a house is to always keep our doors and windows locked. However, this is not enough to prevent undesirable events. The proof of this is in the best home invasion movies. Invaders, malicious criminals, sometimes step into a home as guests or sometimes enter a home by breaking locks or threatening with a gun. In any such case, the fate of everyone in the house at that moment is in the hands of the invaders. When we look at history, we see that even cities surrounded by giant walls were invaded. How is it possible to protect a house?

In some of the best home invasion movies, the invaders are criminals who are focused on a target and act after much planning. Their goals may include reaching a safe full of money, finding secret documents, or obtaining information from one of the people living in the house. Sometimes, the invaders in the best home invasion movies are criminals who choose their targets randomly or knock on the door of the first house they find as a result of the forces of the current circumstances. However, both situations are extremely frightening for the residents of the house. The curse of possessing something valuable or the misfortune of becoming a random target is something the victims in the best home invasion movies have in common.

The best home invasion movies, which can range from comedy to horror, are full of events we would never want to experience. Home invasion movies, which contain all the elements of a thriller, manage to create the need to check our door and window locks once again after watching them. What creates this effect is the natural and successful acting performances in these films. The fact that there is a movie starring four Oscar-winning actors and actresses among the best home invasion movies reveals the importance of acting performance.

In home invasion movies, which generally have a gentle beginning, the tension increases moment by moment, and when it reaches its peak, final plans begin to be implemented. It's time to choose the best home invasion movies that combine crime, action, and tension. To decide the best home invasion movies, I looked at a lot of movies and selected the most impressive ones. Before I started researching, I was already sure that some of them would be on this list, but I was also very curious about which movies would fill the empty spots on the list. I brought together the best home invasion movies for you. Let's take a look at the best home invasion movies.

Best Home Invasion Movies
Director
Sam Peckinpah
Release Year
1971
Stars
Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan, T.P. McKenna
Director
Michael Haneke
Release Year
1997
Stars
Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch, Frank Giering
Director
Chris Columbus
Release Year
1990
Stars
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard
Director
Martin Scorsese
Release Year
1991
Stars
Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange, Juliette Lewis
Director
Terence Young
Release Year
1967
Stars
Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist Jr.
Director
Fede Alvarez
Release Year
2016
Stars
Stephen Lang, Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto
Director
David Fincher
Release Year
2002
Stars
Jodie Foster, Kristen Stewart, Forest Whitaker, Dwight Yoakam
Us
Director
Jordan Peele
Release Year
2019
Stars
Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker
Director
Chris Peckover
Release Year
2016
Stars
Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould, Aleks Mikic
Director
Mike Flanagan
Release Year
2016
Stars
John Gallagher Jr., Kate Siegel, Michael Trucco, Samantha Sloyan
Director
Dennis Iliadis
Release Year
2009
Stars
Garret Dillahunt, Monica Potter, Tony Goldwyn, Michael Bowen
Director
Florent-Emilio Siri
Release Year
2005
Stars
Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Serena Scott Thomas, Jimmy Bennett
Director
Richard Loncraine
Release Year
2006
Stars
Harrison Ford, Virginia Madsen, Paul Bettany, Carly Schroeder
Director
Bryan Bertino
Release Year
2008
Stars
Scott Speedman, Liv Tyler, Gemma Ward, Alex Fisher
Director
James DeMonaco
Release Year
2013
Stars
Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, Max Burkholder, Adelaide Kane