Movies like Buried Alive

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Buried Alive (1990)
 6.6
 3K
Buried Alive
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Clint is an every day working man whose wife Joanna is having an affair with a doctor. They plot to kill him and get the insurance money. Only trouble the drug overdose they give him doesn't kill him. Lucky for Clint he's buried in a cheap wooden box and he unburies himself. Just remember, Hell hath no fury like a man buried alive!
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, realistic, tense
Plot: tragic hero, betrayal, vengeance, buried alive, poison, couple relations, infidelity, cons and scams, confined, crimes, dishonesty, rivalry, couples, love affair, unlikely criminals, unsupportive spouse, crumbling marriage, investigation, mind game, lethal injection, stalking, woman in danger, family problems, poisoning, overdose ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa

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Witness
Witness (1985)
Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
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The Hitcher
The Hitcher (1986)
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and scary films with plots about crimes, murder, deadly, danger, couples, psychopath and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Horror and Romance genres. Some movies like Buried Alive: Fair Game (1988), White of the Eye (1987), To Die For (1988), Death Ride (2006), Across the Hall (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fair Game (1988)
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Fair Game
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When Gene, a maniacally deranged computer-game designer, gets dumped by his beautiful artist wife, he devises a masochistic plan for revenge. Taking his spouse prisoner, Gene locks her in her windowless Los Angeles loft but leaves her with something ...
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Time: 80s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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Buried Alive II (1997)
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Buried Alive II
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman inherits a fortune, causing her husband and his lover to plot her demise by poisoning her. The only trouble is it only places her in a deep coma that resembles death. When an accident occurs in the embalmer's office he doesn't ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, psychological
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Time: 90s
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White of the Eye (1987)
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White of the Eye
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Evidence of mutilated housewives points to a sound expert (David Keith) living unhappily with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) in Arizona.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: amateur detective, protagonist as suspect, crime, serial killer, investigation, mystery, slasher, psychopath, murder, mind game, dangerous attraction, who done it ...
Time: 80s
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To Die For (1988)
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To Die For
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: L.A. real estate agent Kate Wooten gets a new lease on life when she learns that her new client, a mysterious and handsome man named Vlad, is looking for a house isolated in the Hollywood Hills where he wants to live and doesn't want to be ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful
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Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
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Death Ride (2006)
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Death Ride
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An American photographer has an affair with a mysterious woman (Yoshikawa), which leads him into a confrontation with the occult.
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot: vengeance, love affair, wilderness, crimes, deadly, mentally unstable, murder, infidelity, gambling, fashion, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time: contemporary, 21st century
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Across the Hall (2009)
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Across the Hall
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Convinced that his fiancee is cheating on him, a man follows her to a hotel and calls his best friend to help him avoid a calamity.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, scary, tense
Audience: teens
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Other Voices
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
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An Unfinished Affair (1996)
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An Unfinished Affair
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a man ends a regretful love affair that occurred during his wife's illness, his mistress plots revenge by targeting his family's most treasured possessions, a priceless painting and his son.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, rough
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The Heist (1989)
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The Heist
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    User:   64%
 
Disturbed (1990)
 5.4
 537
Disturbed
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Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, scary ...
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Death on a Rainy Sunday (1986)
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Death on a Rainy Sunday
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Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, disturbing ...
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: switzerland
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Rough Draft (1998)
 3.2
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Rough Draft
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Victim of Love
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Purgatory Flats
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Duration: 102 min.
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The Night Walker
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Hitched (2001)
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Hitched
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
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Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
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Psycho IV: The Beginning
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Method (2004)
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Method
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Switzerland, USA
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Story: The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing.
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Eyes of a Stranger (1981)
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Eyes of a Stranger
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A TV newswoman (Lauren Tewes) catches a pervert (John DiSanti) watching her sister (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who cannot see, hear or speak.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, mind bending ...
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Tempted (2001)
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Tempted
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.
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Plot: femme fatale, betrayal, manipulations, mind game, vengeance, infidelity, obsession, dangerous attraction, love affair, love triangle, cons and scams, murder ...
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The Incubus
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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The Stepfather (1987)
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The Stepfather
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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The Art of Murder
Genre: Thriller
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The House on Sorority Row (1983)
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The House on Sorority Row
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
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Time: 20th century, 80s
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The Neighbor (1993)
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The Neighbor
Genre: Thriller, Horror
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Story: A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, mind bending ...
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Time: 90s, year 1993
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Laid to Rest (2009)
 5.3
 7K
Laid to Rest
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terrifying story of a young girl who wakes up in a casket with a traumatic head injury and no memory of her identity. She quickly realizes she was abducted by a Deranged Serial Murderer and in an isolated rural town she must survive the night and ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: contemporary, 21st century, 2000s
Place: usa, florida
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Backwoods (1987)
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Backwoods
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Karen and Jamie bike out to a remote wooded area for camping. Jamie saves a young girl’s life with an emergency tracheotomy and her grateful father, Eben, invites the campers to his place for some dinner...where they also meet William, Eben’s ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, scary, surprise ending
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Time: 20th century, 80s
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A House in the Hills (1993)
 5.7
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A House in the Hills
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An aspiring actress gets a housesitting job and finds herself in a cat-and-mouse game with a deadly ex-con.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough, psychological
Plot: murder, vengeance, crimes, deadly, dishonesty, investigation, stalking, revenge, cons and scams, heist, mistaken identity, woman in danger ...
Time: 90s
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