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Acolytes (2008)
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, mumblecore, suspense, surreal, psychological horror, action thriller, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, woods, psychopath, murder, friendship, vengeance, youth, teenage life, rivalry, suburbs, teenager, revenge, investigation, manipulation, wanted, survival, kidnapping, missing person, witness, suburban life, maniac, love triangle, house, blackmail, psycho killer ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
australia
Keyword:
outburst, norwegian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary and serious films with plots about murder, blood, death, psychopath, violence, serial killer and deadly mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Acolytes: Snowtown (2011), Disturbia (2007), Macabre (2009), Tormented (2009), The Shortcut (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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21K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, true crime, male rape victim, murder, mother's boyfriend, tortured to death, torture, suspicion, manipulation, single mother, gang ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1999
Place:
australia, oceania, south australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
247K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, neighbor, murder, voyeurism, house arrest, paranoia, homicidal maniac, investigation, psychopath, death, arrest, teenager ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Macabre, international title for Rumah Dara (Indonesian title), and in Singapore titled Darah) is an Indonesian horror/slasher film in 2010. The movie tells about a group who attempt to escape from a house that owned by mysterious lady named Dara ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
cannibal, psychopath, danger, isolation, cannibalism, murder, violence, struggle for survival, deathtrap, rivalry, serial killer, survival ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The film centers on Darren Mullet, a bullied asthmatic, driven to suicide by his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers and bullied at school. He returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors a final visit.
Style:
scary, slasher, semi serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, revenge, ghost, bullying, vengeance, bully, serial killer, supernatural, dead teenager, suicide, school, prank ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the ...
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, urban legend, woods, chase, danger, murder, friendship, missing person, trespassing, high school, child in peril, serial killer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1955, year 1953, year 1946, year 1945 ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, cult classic, classic horror ...
Plot:
serial killer, gang rape, murder, exploitation, oedipus complex, mental disorder, sexual abuse, psychopath, mentally unstable, nudity, female nudity, strangulation ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
lovers on the run, couples, murder, lgbt, youth, confined, mind game, psychopath, hostage, sexual manipulation, teenage life, violence ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
28K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.
Style:
slasher, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, prank, school, death, psycho killer, plot twist, high school, youth, murder mystery, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
gangster, interrogation, violence, complex characters, justice, investigation, drug dealer, character study, vengeance, law enforcement, bad mother, power struggle ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne, oceania, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, home invasion, captive, investigation, violence, sadism, psycho killer, obsession, held captive, murder, sadist ...
Place:
portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor (Fabio Testi) who is involved with a student becomes a suspect, along with several other male and female teachers.
Style:
slasher, detective, grindhouse, suspense, deep ...
Plot:
serial killer, voyeurism, murder, obsession, sexual obsession, psycho killer, murder of a nude woman, infidelity, misogynist, lust, voyeur, brutality ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Style:
detective, slasher, sexy, suspense, erotic ...
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massage parlor, serial killer, gay, maniac, murder, wedding, erotica, affair, psycho killer, murderer, lgbt, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
72K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style:
surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, investigation, uncover truth, missing person, adulterous husband, car accident, mistress, morgue, vengeance, adultery, haunted by the past ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
133K
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 ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, sexual torture, teenage girl, abduction, husband wife relationship, murderous pair, danger, domestic violence, murder, extreme, survival ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
Place:
australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, revenge, tragedy, extortion, infidelity, nothing goes right, dishonesty, crime gone awry, danger, disorder, life turned upside down ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous kids when their school comes under siege after hours.
Style:
scary, slasher, disturbing, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
high school, danger, murder, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, isolation, high school life, violence spree, hardcase students, self defense, violent content, high school teacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following ...
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, detective, slasher horror, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
male objectification, high school, serial killer, high school student, cheerleader, cheerleading, murder, psychopath, teenager, survival, dead teenager, killer ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, danger, gay, family life, mind game, lust, sadist, small town, killer ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1996
Place:
germany, europe, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
156K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style:
psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, split personality, police investigation, murder, imaginary friend, macabre, killer, schizophrenia, maniac, murder mystery, double life ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, oregon, palo alto california, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The opening film of the 16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival(PiFan) is HORROR STORY, the horror omnibus film of four episodes by five filmmakers including Jeong Bum Shik(EPITAPH), Kim Gok and Kim Sun(WHITE), Hong Ji Young(THE NAKED ...
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anthology, psychotronic, rough, scary, slasher ...
Plot:
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37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?
Style:
slasher, gothic, slasher horror, freeze frame, crying ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, drifter, killing spree, love triangle, psychotic, terror, woman with a gun, female psychopath, violence, female sexist, rape ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
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Plot:
serial killer, maniac, serial murder, death penalty, violence, killer as protagonist, ted bundy, murder, police investigation, serial killer as protagonist, prison, true crime ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This slasher movie follows a relentless killer who is out to avenge the death of a young girl who died after being bullied and teased by four of her classmates. Now high-school students, the guilt-ridden kids have kept their involvement a secret, ...
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, suspense, sexy, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
high school, serial killer, teenager, masked killer, prom, revenge, murder, teenage sex, high school prom, bullying, prom queen, sexual predator ...
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37%
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Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, youth, danger, woods, survival, strong violent content, rivalry, vengeance, friendship, mind game, teenager, camp ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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37%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Norway, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her ...
Style:
dark, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
chess, serial killer, investigation, murder, police investigation, sex scene, revenge, serial murder, police, protagonist as suspect, psychopath, haunted by the past ...
Time:
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37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Suddenly, Clara, Mónica's daughter, falls into a deep coma. With Clara left to die, a mysterious man proposes Monica to make a pact: Clara will be saved if Mónica does something for him.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, tense, bleak, scary ...
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Time:
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37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
There is instant chemistry between Alice (Gillian Anderson), a businesswoman, and Adam (Danny Dyer), a younger working-class man who installs a security system in her London apartment. She takes him to a party in the country, and they end up making ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A killer of young women is loose in an exclusive apartment complex and a detective is out to stop him. The chief suspect is a Shakespeare-spouting doorman who lives with his invalid mother. Meanwhile, an undercover cop moves into the apartment ...
Style:
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Plot:
serial killer, police detective, murder, danger, brutality, psychopath, manipulation, law enforcement, female nudity, disability, dishonesty, criminal ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
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37%
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