Film

Catch Me Daddy

Name: Catch Me Daddy
Genre: Thriller
Released: 2015
Cast: Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Gary Lewis, Barry Nunney, Adrian Hussain, Ali Ahmad

Thriller
Action
Very dark

Catch Me Daddy is a taut British thriller about a young woman fleeing her family's control, forced into increasingly desperate survival on the Yorkshire moors. Intimate and claustrophobic despite its open landscape, it's a visceral study of honour-based violence and how quickly safety collapses. For those who want their thrillers to feel real and personal rather than spectacular.

TMDb rating

3.0

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Complicity2020

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