Movies like Dead of Winter

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Dead of Winter (1987)
 6.2
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Dead of Winter (1987)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Style: suspense, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary, neo noir, christmas horror, twisted, serious, realistic ...
Plot: danger, snow, insanity, winter, isolation, woman in danger, audition, psychopath, missing person, survival, blood, imprisonment, victim, attic, hagsploitation, kidnapping, murder, psychiatrist, trapped, christmas, ghost, macabre, trap, terror, cold weather ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, usa, boston
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Most similar movies to Dead of Winter

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about deadly, danger, psychopath, murder, serial killer, blood and woman in danger mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Dead of Winter: Wind Chill (2007), The Collector (1965), Cujo (1983), The Fan (1981), Devil's Pond (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wind Chill (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, winter, danger, on the road, road trip, frostbite, snow, wilderness, haunted, haunting, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 2000s, 50s, year 1953 ...
Place: pennsylvania
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100%
 7.5
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The Collector (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country ...
Style: tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, dark ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, dangerous attraction, collector, confined, loneliness, woman in danger, danger, missing person, mentally unstable, serial killer ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
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Cujo (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style: tense, suspense, scary, natural horror, serious ...
Plot: dog, rabies, dangerous animal, macabre, boy, monster, stephen king, blood, creature feature, brutality, killer dog, survival ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 3K
The Fan (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, murder, stalking, obsessed fan, actress, stalker, woman in danger, price of fame, maniac, psychopath, actor's life, secretary ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Devil's Pond (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: What starts out as a romantic honeymoon on a deserted island turns into a horrible nightmare as Julianne discovers that her new husband is psychotic...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, island, couple relations, newlyweds, danger, isolation, honeymoon, love and romance, wilderness, insanity ...
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You're Next (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: home invasion, survival, gory, masked killer, murder, massacre, deathtrap, twists and turns, parents and children, trap, blood, plot twist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 4K
Gone (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
Plot: road trip, infidelity, wilderness, psychopath, couples, missing person, dishonesty, couple relations, mysterious character, woman in danger, on the road, vacation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 153K
Hush (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, trapped, home invasion, survival, deaf, female protagonist, deafness, violence, masked killer, brutality, murder, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 6.9
 21K
Coma (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, neo noir, scary ...
Plot: conspiracy, medical, amateur detective, investigation, hospital, coma, serial killer, transplant, black market, danger, intern, twists and turns ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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See No Evil (1971)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton (Mia Farrow), recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, disability, investigation, insanity, trapped, trap, ghost, conflict, disabled, home invasion, killings ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the ...
Style: suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, killer child, orphan, pedophilia, poisoning, child, underage sex, friendship, murder, father, life is a bitch, introspection ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Cellar Door (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, master criminal, danger, rivalry, gory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.8
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Cold Storage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, missing person, mentally unstable, confined, danger, isolation, hostage, woods, car accident, graphic violence, corpse, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Lady in a Cage (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot: elevator, home invasion, isolation, hagsploitation, woman in jeopardy, violence, serial killer, kidnapping, murder, woman in danger, sociopath, brutality ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
You'll Like My Mother (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pregnant Los Angeles widow journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family, but she quickly discovers they're a very strange--and homicidal--lot. Director Lamont Johnson's 1972 thriller stars ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, mind bending ...
Plot: snow, sexploitation, wedding, macabre, family relations, mind game, pregnancy, mansion, psychopath, family problems, estate, danger ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Vanishing (1993)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, intense, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, obsession, buried alive, psychopath, serial killer, kidnapped, slow burn, hostage, killer, redneck, marriage ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Lost Signal (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: New Years Eve, 2004- Kevin Healy(Santos) and Tiffany Matthews(McCoy) head out to celebrate the New Year and a new beginning in their 7-year relationship. In the midst of the celebration the young couple decide to mark the occasion by experimenting ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, serious, dark, scary ...
Plot: danger, stalking, isolation, confined, friendship, survival, wilderness, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, blood, new year ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Horrible Way to Die (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, kidnapping, woman in danger, revenge, violence spree, small town, haunted by the past, remorse, fanatic, female psychopath ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Tomb (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
Style: lovecraft, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, rivalry, supernatural, confined, escapades, survival, ancient mystery, woman in danger, gory, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Home Movie (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot: killer child, husband wife relationship, twins, evil child, psychopath, family problems, found footage, danger, family life, siblings relations, thanksgiving, halloween ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Chair (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Psychology student Danielle inadvertently wakes a evil spirit while renting a century old Victorian house. In setting out to prove his existence, Danielle inadvertently frees and becomes a puppet of the spirit of serial killer Edgar Crowe. ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious
Plot: serial killer, good versus evil, supernatural, ghost, psychopath, supernatural ability, danger, woman in danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, curses spells and rituals, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
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31%
The Awakening of Lilith (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Plot: survival horror, death of loved one, survival, insanity, danger, mind game, isolation, confinement indoors, death, characters in danger, trap, race against time ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
He Knows You're Alone (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A reluctant bride to be is stalked by a serial killer who only kills brides and the people around them. While her friends get whacked one by one, a hard boiled renegade cop whose bride had been killed years before tries to hunt him down before it is ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, danger, chase, wedding, psychopath, insanity, stalking, law enforcement, woman in danger, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, investigation, master criminal, gory ...
Place: usa
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31%
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Craig (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, danger, mental illness, gory, split personality, obsession, rivalry, suburban life, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Disappointments Room (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.
Style: scary, tense, serious, mysterious, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, child in peril, family in danger, parents and children, estate, parent child relationship, isolation, family problems, danger, mind game, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Don't Let Him In (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, survival, danger, isolation, countryside, couples, murder, fear, violence, travel, violent, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Rest Stop: Don't Look Back (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, gas station, kidnapping, psychopath, danger, strong violent content, escapades, on the road, religious fanatic, gory, twins ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.7
 25K
ATM (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.
Style: scary, slasher, psychological, tense, christmas horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: trapped, evil wins, psychopath, stalking, escape attempt, confinement indoors, serial killer, unknown killer, survival, confined, trap, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.6
 6K
Deadline (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Style: scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, mental breakdown, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, haunted by the past, woman in danger, mind game, confined, writer's life, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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