Movies like The Fury 1978

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The Fury (1978)
 6.3
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The Fury (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, stylized, exciting, serious, cult classic, scary, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, supernatural, vengeance, telekinesis, chase, rescue, family relations, visceral, danger, espionage, parents and children, secret government organization, parent child relationship, macabre, psychic power, levitation, mind power, psychic, telepathy, revenge, violence, death, betrayal, murder, gunfight ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1978, year 1977
Place: chicago, middle east
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Most similar movies to The Fury

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending and serious films with plots about murder, danger, death, fear, blood, violence and corpse mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Fury: Firestarter (1984), Spontaneous Combustion (1989), The Dead Zone (1983), Body Parts (1991), Scanners (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Firestarter (1984)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style: scary, rough, suspense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, psychic, experiment gone awry, creepy child, little girl, psychic power, father daughter relationship, on the run, supernatural ability, danger, government agency ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, vermont
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100%
Spontaneous Combustion (1989)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young man finds out that his parents had been used in an atomic-weapons experiment shortly before he was born, and that the results have had some unexpected effects on him.
Style: suspenseful, rough, gothic, tense, medical horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, experiment gone awry, danger, supernatural ability, government agency, body horror, secret past, monster, murder, conspiracy, burned alive, exploitation ...
Time: 90s, 50s, 80s, year 1955, 20th century ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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The Dead Zone (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, dark hero, serial killer, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, destiny, macabre, investigation, premonition, murder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 5K
Body Parts (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to ...
Style: psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot: body horror, serial killer, police investigation, murder, medical, criminal psychologist, surgery, amputation, danger, supernatural, gory, death row ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Scanners (1981)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style: disturbing, intense, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: body horror, scientist, psychic power, investigation, exploitation, violence, telekinesis, human experiment, murder, mind reading, supernatural ability, misfit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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The Brood (1979)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher, creepy ...
Plot: body horror, killer child, murder, creepy child, transformation, supernatural, child abuse, psychiatrist, mental illness, strangulation, monster, surrealism ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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100%
 4.6
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Firestarter (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has ...
Style: suspense, action adventure, psychotronic, crying, neo noir ...
Plot: psychic, stephen king, fear, superpower, telepathy, pyrokinesis, fire, supernatural, evil, white supremacy, wife, loss of mother ...
Time: 2020s
Place: massachusetts
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31%
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Watchers (1988)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A boy takes in a stray dog, later finding out that its an ultra-intelligent runaway from a genetic research lab. Unknow to him, the dog is being stalked by another escaped creature thats not quite so friendly.
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: creature feature, dog, creature, laboratory, genetic mutation, experiment gone awry, survival, genetic engineering, mad scientist, danger, on the run, boy dog relationship ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Dreamscape (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A government funded project looks into using psychics to enter people's dreams, with some mechanical help. When a subject dies in his sleep from a heart attack Alex Gardner becomes suspicious that another of the psychics is killing people in ...
Style: surreal, psychological, cult classic, futuristic, suspense ...
Plot: dream, psychic, psychic power, conspiracy, nightmare, lucid dream, nuclear holocaust, scientist, train, monster, surrealism, u.s. president ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: washington d.c., illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On ...
Style: suspense, brutal, intense, psychological, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, distopia, election, politics, survival, vigilante, revenge, social decay, class differences, fighting the system, gunfight, death ...
Time: near future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: washington d.c., florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Blob (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
24 Hours to Live (2017)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, China, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.
Style: suspense, disturbing, exciting, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot: redemption, gunfight, reincarnation, female warrior, spy, revenge, haunted by the past, rescue, conspiracy, near death experience, mercilessness, murder ...
Time: 2010s
Place: south africa, cape town south africa, africa, hong kong, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Terminal Man (1974)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: As the result of a head injury, brilliant computer scientist Harry Benson begins to experience violent seizures. In an attempt to control the seizures, Benson undergoes a new surgical procedure in which a microcomputer is inserted into his brain. ...
Style: futuristic, cyber, medical horror, cult classic, depressing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: space and aliens, cyberpunk, home invasion, serial killer, murder, human experiment, cognitive science, machine, paranoid, evil computer, computer, medicine ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Ghost in the Machine (1993)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Karl, a technician in a computer shop, is also the "Address Book Killer," who obtains the names of his victims from stolen address books. Terry and her son Josh come into the store to price software, and a salesman uses Terry's ...
Style: scary, slasher, futuristic, suspenseful, tech noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, hospital, cyberpunk, virtual reality, computer, murder, androids and robots, cybersecurity, death, violence, internet, computer hacker ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: midwest, ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Hideaway (1995)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, afterlife, psychopath, psychic, suicide, satanism, secrets, supernatural ability, car accident, psychic link, demon, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: washington d.c., los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Contamination (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Style: scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alien, mars, macabre, alien monster, murder, investigation, good versus evil, danger, survival, race against time, space travel, ghost ship ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: new york, latin america, usa, florida, south america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Altered States (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Phantoms (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado something evil has wiped out the community. And now, its up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, small town, monster, military, gory, hotel, survival, extinction, creature feature, good versus evil, danger, disaster ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.9
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Dracula 2000 (2000)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the millenium version of this classic Gothic horror we find Abraham Van Helsing (Plummer), who has tangled with Count Dracula (Butler) in the past, working as an English antiques dealer. Simon (Miller) is a vampire hunter in training under his ...
Style: gothic, scary, sexy, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: vampire, dracula, chase, supernatural, death, betrayal, violence, blood, brutality, good versus evil, danger, legends and myths ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new orleans, london, usa, europe, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Dark Breed (1996)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Captain Saxon, and agent for the top secret Omega agency, has been given the assignment of tracking down and either capturing or killing the crew members of a secret space mission who returned to Earth against orders. It seems that they were all ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien, rescue, astronaut, heroic mission, save the world, against the rules, race against time, heroes, space travel, danger, supernatural, undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Urban Legends: Bloody Mary (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a prom-night dare, a trio of high school friends chant an incantation, unleashing an evil spirit from the past with deadly consequences.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, afterlife, spirit, ghost, supernatural, murder, danger, haunted by the past, profanity, legends and myths, supernatural ability, vengeance ...
Time: 2000s, year 1969, 60s, 21st century
Place: utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Final Destination (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, death, life & death, survival, characters killed one by one, destiny, danger, group of friends, disaster, freak accident, psychic, gory ...
Time: 2000s, year 2000, year 2003, y2k, 20th century ...
Place: usa, new york, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Criminal (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict ...
Style: suspense, exciting, intense, action adventure, disturbing ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cia, spy, cia agent, terrorism, espionage, swat team, female agent, violence, brutality, prison, husband wife relationship, one against many ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: london, big ben london, west virginia, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Lord of Illusions (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Style: dark, neo noir, scary, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, magic, investigation, occult, private detective, fanatic, violence, good versus evil, desert, murder, telekinesis, demon ...
Time: 90s, year 1982, 80s
Place: los angeles, new york, mojave desert, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.9
 44K
Near Dark (1987)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Style: scary, road movie, gothic, dark, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, supernatural, femme fatale, hitchhiker, goth, farm, truck, motel, blood, small town, monster, kidnapping ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: oklahoma, nebraska, austin texas, usa, kansas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.6
 265K
Glass (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In a series of escalating encounters, security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an ...
Style: twist ending, psychological thriller, bad ending, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: dissociative identity disorder, mental illness, psychology, pig, twists and turns, feminine beauty, psychic, mental patient, sociopath, cheerleader, plot twist, psychopath ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Midnight Ride (1990)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin McKay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.
Style: grindhouse, independent film, slasher, fast, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cannon, killer, truck, terror, trucker, automobile, immigrant, psychopath, hostage, murder, stalking ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: california, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A couple encounters a perverted gas station attendant who threatens them with a shotgun. They take a deserted path in Texas to seek help, but only meet up with a cannibalistic clan interested in helping themselves to fresh meat.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, splatter, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, gory, cannibalism, torture, texas chainsaw massacre, survival, psychopath, murder, masked killer, psychological torture, hitchhiker ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas, florida, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.3
 217K
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style: disturbing, dark fantasy, suspense, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: psychic power, supernatural, stephen king, psychic, ghost, murder, doctor, native american, fear, haunted house, terror, magician ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 80s, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, iowa, colorado, ohio, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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