Movies like The Ruins

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The Ruins (2008)
 5.9
 83K
The Ruins (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of friends whose leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when they, along with a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, slasher, suspense, creepy, atmospheric, bloody, disturbing, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, jungle, gory, ruins, vacation, death, self sacrifice, chase, ancient mystery, danger, murder, parasite, group of friends, friendship, tourist, survival horror, mercy killing, twists and turns, creature, blood, amputation, friends, ancient, travel, body horror ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century, contemporary
Place: mexico, oceania, latin america
Keyword: mexican, attack, american, german, change

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Most similar movies to The Ruins

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, slasher and serious films with plots about survival, danger, gore, deadly, blood, gory and trapped mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Ruins: Chernobyl Diaries (2012), The Descent: Part 2 (2009), The Descent (2005), Frozen (2010), The Cave (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chernobyl Diaries (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: virus, radiation, survival, tourist, nuclear power plant, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, stranded, mutant, zombie, vacation, abandoned building, death ...
Time: year 2012
Place: chernobyl, ukraine, kiev ukraine, london, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Descent: Part 2 (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, scary, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cave, monster, survival, creature, sole survivor, deadly creature, supernatural, survival horror, gory, expedition, claustrophobia, missing person ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 245K
The Descent (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, cave, survival horror, creature, trapped, survival, expedition, claustrophobia, fear, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.2
 80K
Frozen (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, isolation, stranded, snow, survival horror, frostbite, ski resort, animal attack, winter, mountain, youth, danger ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: utah, antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 5.1
 41K
The Cave (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a group of biologists discovers a huge network of unexplored caves in Romania and, believing it to be an undisturbed eco-system that has produced a new species, they hire the best American team of underwater cave explorers in the world. While ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, scary, underground horror ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: cave, survival, diver, deadly creature, danger, creature, supernatural, monster, underwater, parasite, diving, transformation ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place: romania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.3
 7K
Kill Theory (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style: scary, surprise ending, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, murder, mind game, torture, trapped, confined, friendship, trap, rivalry, game of death, murderer, psycho ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 41K
Turistas (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of young backpackers' vacation turns sour when a bus accident leaves them marooned in a remote Brazilian rural area that holds an ominous secret.
Style: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: jungle, survival, torture, gory, murder, youth, strong violent content, transplant, violence, brutality, chase, group of friends ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: brazil, south america, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 83K
Cabin Fever (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of five college graduates rent a cabin in the woods and begin to fall victim to a horrifying flesh-eating virus, which attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, rough, splatter ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: virus, gory, infected, disease, body horror, plague, danger, fear, woods, survival, cabin in the woods, friendship ...
Time: year 2002, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.1
 41K
Splinter (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When their plans for a nature trip go awry, Polly and boyfriend Seth decide to check into a motel. On their way, they're carjacked and kidnapped by low-rent crooks Dennis and Lacey, who take the victims and their SUV to a nearby gas station. ...
Style: scary, bloody, psychological, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: creature, zombie, infection, infected, macabre, monster, virus, parasite, death, body horror, supernatural, transformation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.1
 130K
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 ⇓
57%
 4.5
 4K
Indigenous (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Panama
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of five American friends on the cusp of adulthood travel to Panama to relax and reconnect. They befriend a local woman in their hotel bar—and despite some ominous whispers—she goes against the specific instructions of her brother and ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creature, jungle, survival, chupacabra, tourist, murder, vacation, stalking, creature feature, monster, stranded, travel ...
Place: panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 94K
Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 27K
Devil's Pass (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Russia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Five young filmmakers retrace the steps of a doomed group of hikers in pursuit of an unsolvable mystery.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, factual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, found footage, supernatural, snow, mountain, danger, secrets, uncover truth, winter, mountain climbing, murder, missing person ...
Time: year 1980, 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 3K
The Reeds (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A weekend boating party turns into a nightmare for a group of young Londoners when they stumble upon a terrifying secret hidden in the reeds.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: boat, supernatural, survival, curse, danger, deadly creature, psychopath, gory, curses spells and rituals, redneck, time loop, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hostel: Part II (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, controversial, brutal ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: torture, gory, psychopath, murder, sadistic horror, travel, kidnapping, castration, violence, tourist, sadism, killed by a dog ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: europe, rome italy, slovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibalism, gory, desert, survival, torture, rape, fear, human monster, victim, kidnapping, danger, massacre ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.6
 27K
The Pyramid (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Morocco, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A team of U.S. archaeologists unearths an ancient pyramid buried deep beneath the Egyptian desert. As they search the pyramid's depths, they become hopelessly lost in its dark and endless catacombs. Searching for a way out, they become ...
Style: scary, serious, intense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: monster, supernatural, found footage, archaeologist, archaeology, archeological dig, pyramid, creature, survival, desert, mythology, characters killed one by one ...
Time: year 2014, year 2013, 21st century
Place: egypt, cairo egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, rough, serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, gory, evil spirit, survival, mental institution, supernatural horror, danger, murder, haunted by the past, isolation ...
Time: 90s, 1930s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Cabin in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style: scary, mind bending, bloody, surreal, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: monster, supernatural, creature, survival, cabin in the woods, trapped, zombie, fear, werewolf, dark humor, death, danger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2000, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
The Green Inferno (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Chile, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style: bloody, scary, disturbing, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, survival, gory, decapitation, ant, sadistic horror, suicide, violence, sadistic violence ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.9
 6K
Primal (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Anja and five friends join anthroplogy student, Dace, on a journey to study a remote, ancient rock painting. Their excitement vanishes when Mel becomes delirious after skinny-dipping in the waterhole. Feverish, bleeding, confused, she physically and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, bloody ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: supernatural, group of friends, zombie, wilderness, infected, transformation, danger, violence spree, expedition, mutation, creature, vacation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.2
 107K
Vacancy (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, trapped, hotel, murder, hostage, survival horror, macabre, danger, estranged couple, masked killer, kidnapped, motel ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.1
 54K
The Collection (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the ...
Style: slasher, bloody, scary, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, trap, kidnapping, torture, masked killer, sadistic horror, massacre, survival, psychopath, escape, crazy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 78K
[Rec] 2 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
Style: scary, rough, demonic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: zombie, virus, gory, supernatural, found footage, trapped, infection, quarantine, demon, isolation, demonic possession, monster ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 16K
Black Water (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying tale of survival in the mangrove swamps of Northern Australia.
Style: scary, realistic, suspenseful, rough, christmas horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: crocodile, survival, animal attack, swamp, trapped, tourist, couples, shark, killer animal, creature, vacation, creature feature ...
Time: 2000s
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 109K
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%
 6.5
 128K
The Crazies (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: epidemic, infected, virus, plague, insanity, deadly virus, survival, gory, infection, chaos and mayhem, quarantine, transformation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s
Place: iowa, usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 196K
Evil Dead (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style: scary, bloody, suspenseful, slasher, demonic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: gory, demon, supernatural, zombie, demonic possession, blood, violence, extreme violence, cabin in the woods, addiction, woods, fear ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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