List of films featuring home invasions

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The Lonely Villa (1909), a silent short film featuring a home invasion
In Suddenly (1954), Frank Sinatra plays an assassin who takes over a family's home as a venue to target the President of the United States.

There is a body of films that feature

horror films.[2] The home invasion subgenre goes as far back as D. W. Griffith's 1909 film The Lonely Villa.[3]

This list only covers films containing actual or attempted home invasions, and does not include movies based around assaults on other places such as Assault on Precinct 13, which dealt with a police station being invaded, or intrusion under false pretenses, such as Orphan.

List of films

Film Year Ref.
36 Ghante 1974 [4]
388 Arletta Avenue 2011 [5]
3615 code Père Noël
1989 [6]
Absurd (Italian: Rosso Sangue) 1981 [7]
The Aggression Scale 2012 [8]
Alone in the Dark 1982 [9]
The Anderson Tapes 1971 [10]
Angst 1983 [11]
As Good as It Gets 1997
August Underground 2001
August Underground's Mordum 2003
August Underground's Penance 2007
Bad Influence 1990 [12]
The Bat 1926
The Bat 1959 [13]
Becky 2020 [14]
Better Watch Out 2016 [15]
Black Christmas 1974 [2]
Black Christmas 2006 [2]
Black Christmas 2019 [2]
Blind Alley 1939 [12]
Blood Simple 1985
Blue Steel 1990 [12]
Bone
1972 [16]
Breaking In 2018 [17]
The Cable Guy 1996 [18]
The Call 2013 [19]
Cape Fear 1962 [20]
Cape Fear 1991 [20]
Captain Magal 1993 [21]
Cherry Tree Lane 2010 [22]
A Clockwork Orange 1971 [1]
Clownhouse 1989 [23]
Cold in July 2014 [24]
The Collector 2009 [25]
Corruption 1968 [26]
Count the Hours 1953 [27]
Creep 2014 [28]
Crimewave 1985
Cul-de-sac 1966 [29]
Curfew 1989 [30]
The Dark Hours 2005 [1]
The Dark Past 1948
Deadfall 2012 [31]
Deadly Virtues 2014 [32]
Death Game 1977 [33]
Death Weekend 1976 [11]
Death Wish 1974 [34]
Death Wish II 1982 [35]
Demon Seed 1977 [36]
The Desperate Hours 1955 [37]
Desperate Hours 1990 [38]
Devil in a Blue Dress 1995 [39]
Dial M for Murder 1954 [2]
Disorder 2015 [40]
Don't Breathe 2016 [41]
Don't Say a Word 2001
Dream Lover 1993 [12]
The Dress 1996 [42]
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial 1982 [43]
The Edukators (German: Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei) 2004 [44]
Emelie 2015 [45]
Extremities 1986 [46]
Eye for an Eye 1996 [47]
Fargo 1996
Farmer's Daughters 1973 [48]
Fatal Attraction 1987 [49]
Fear 1996 [2]
The Fear Inside 1992 [11]
Fight for Your Life 1977 [50]
Firewall 2006 [25]
Five Minutes to Live 1961 [51]
The Fugitive 1993 [25]
Funny Games 1997 [1]
Funny Games
2008 [1]
Game Over 2019 [1]
The Gift 2015 [52]
Grotesque 1988 [53]
Halloween 1978
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle 1992 [49]
Hangman 2015 [54]
Hate Crime
2012 [55]
Heart and Souls 1993
Hell High 1989 [56]
Hellions 2015 [57]
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 1986 [58]
He Ran All the Way 1951 [37]
Hider in the House 1989 [2]
High Tension 2003 [59]
Home Alone (franchise)[nb 1] 1990 [59]
Home Sweet Home 2013 [25][61]
Hostage 2005 [62]
The House on the Edge of the Park 1980 [11]
Hush 2016 [63]
If I Die Before I Wake 1998 [11]
In Cold Blood 1967 [64]
Incident in a Ghostland 2018 [65]
Inside (French: À l'intérieur) 2007 [1]
In Their Skin 2012 [66]
Intruder 2016 [67]
Intruders
(Alternate Title: Shut In)
2015 [68]
I Saw What You Did 1965
I See You 2019 [69]
I Spit on Your Grave 1978 [70]
John Wick 2014 [71]
Kala 2021 [72]
Keep Watching 2017 [73]
Key Largo 1948 [74]
Kidnapped (Spanish: Secuestrados) 2010 [75]
Kimi 2022 [76]
Kitten with a Whip 1964 [12]
Knock at the Cabin 2023
Knock Knock 2015 [77]
Kristy 2014 [67]
Kung Fu Ghost 2022 [78]
Lady in a Cage 1964 [38]
Lady Stay Dead 1981 [79]
Lakeview Terrace 2008 [25]
Last House on Dead End Street 1977 [50]
The Last House on the Left
1972 [59]
The Last House on the Left 2009 [25]
Law Abiding Citizen 2009 [80]
The Lonely Villa 1909 [3]
Malice 1993 [12]
Man Bites Dog (French: C'est arrivé près de chez vous) 1992 [81]
Manhunter 1986 [82]
Martyrs 2008 [25]
Martyrs
2016 [83]
Masquerade 2021 [84]
Mercy 2016 [57]
Memento 2000 [25]
Mischief Night
2013 [70]
Mother! 2017 [85]
Mother's Day 2010 [86]
The Neighbor 1993 [12]
The Night God Screamed 1971 [12]
The Night Holds Terror 1955 [87]
No Country for Old Men 2007
No Good Deed 2014 [88]
No One Will Save You 2023 [89]
Obsessed 2009 [90]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood 2019
Of Unknown Origin 1983 [91]
Outlaws and Angels 2016 [92]
The Owners 2020 [93]
Pacific Heights 1990 [49]
Panic Room 2002 [38]
Parasite 2019 [94]
The Penthouse 1967 [95]
The People Under the Stairs 1991 [2]
The Perfect Guy 2015 [96]
Play Misty for Me 1971 [97]
The Plumber 1979 [98]
The Purge 2013 [99]
Raggedy Man 1981 [100]
Raising Arizona 1987
Red Dragon 2002 [28]
The Ref 1994 [25]
Restraint 2008 [101]
Rolling Thunder 1977 [102]
Romper Stomper 1992 [103]
Saw
2004 [104]
Saw X 2023
Scary Movie 2000
Scream 1996 [47]
Scream for Help 1984 [105]
Season of the Witch
1972
See No Evil 1971 [41]
Signs
2002 [106]
The Silent House 2010 [107]
Silent House 2011 [108]
Single White Female 1992 [49]
The Sixth Sense 1999 [25]
Skyfall 2012 [109]
Sleep Tight 2011 [110]
The Slumber Party Massacre 1982
Sorry, Wrong Number 1948 [2]
Southbound 2015 [111]
The Spiderwick Chronicles 2008 [112]
Static 2012 [113]
The Stepfather 1987 [12]
Strange Behavior 1981
The Strangers 2008 [114]
The Strangers: Prey at Night 2018 [115]
Straw Dogs 1971 [116]
Straw Dogs 2011 [25]
Suddenly 1954 [117]
Supremacy 2014 [118]
Survive The Night 2020 [119]
Sweet Savior 1971 [12]
Swimfan 2002 [120]
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
Them (French: Ils) 2006 [1]
To Make a Killing 1988
There Goes the Neighborhood 1993
Tiger House 2015 [121]
Torso 1973 [122]
The Town That Dreaded Sundown 1976 [123]
Trespass 2011 [25]
Unbreakable 2000 [124]
The Uninvited Guest 2004 [125]
Unlawful Entry 1992 [25]
Us 2019
Varathan 2018 [126]
Vigilante 1983 [127]
Violent Night 2022 [128]
Visiting Hours 1982 [129]
Wait Until Dark 1967 [38]
When a Stranger Calls 1979 [74]
When a Stranger Calls 2006 [130]
When a Stranger Calls Back 1993 [110]
White Settlers (Alternate Title: The Blood Lands) 2014 [131]
Wolves at the Door 2016 [132]
Wonderland 2003
You're Next 2011 [99]

Notes

  1. ^ The family film lampoons the element of home invasion, which is more common in thriller films.[60]

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