Movies like The Car

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The Car (1977)
 6.1
 12K
The Car (1977)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff (John Marley), it becomes the job of Captain Wade Parent (James Brolin) to stop the murderous driver.
Style: suspense, scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, cult classic, psychotronic, road movie, experimental, satanic ...
Plot: killer car, desert, car, carsploitation, police, vengeance, violence spree, supernatural, psychopath, chase, danger, on the run, small town life, car chase, cemetery, small town, monster, occult, urban legend, redneck, native american, killer, machine, macabre, pandemic ...
Time: 20th century, 70s

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Most similar movies to The Car

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about deadly, danger, murder, supernatural, terror, chase and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Car: Duel (1971), The Wraith (1986), The Car: Road to Revenge (2019), Christine (1983), Joy Ride (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.6
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Duel (1971)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Style: road movie, atmospheric, suspense, exciting, tension ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, car chase, truck, chase, on the road, road rage, psychopath, truck driver, driving, car, stalking, mysterious villain ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: california, persia, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 19K
The Wraith (1986)
Genre: Action, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Packard Walsh and his motorized gang control and terrorize an Arizona desert town where they force drivers to drag-race so they can 'win' their vehicles. After Walsh beats the decent teenager Jamie Hankins to death after finding him with ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, cult classic, road movie ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, righting the wronged, danger, killer car, reincarnation, chases and races, car, chase, car chase, gang, nudity, female nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Car: Road to Revenge (2019)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In a dilapidated cyberpunk city plagued by crime and corruption, an unscrupulous District Attorney is savagely murdered and tossed out of a building onto his brand new car. Mysteriously, the District Attorney and his car come back to life as a ...
Style: suspense, captivating, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: car, car chase, supernatural power, supernatural, violence spree, chases and races, danger, psychopath, chase, on the run, vengeance, chaos ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 92K
Christine (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, creepy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: car, obsession, killer car, macabre, classic car, supernatural, stephen king, murder, bullying, friendship, objects come to life, brutality ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s, year 1978, year 1957 ...
Place: california, los angeles, southern california, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.6
 75K
Joy Ride (2001)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style: suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: kidnapping, prank, truck driver, road trip, psychopath, truck, paranoia, twists and turns, brother brother relationship, revenge, murder, on the road ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey, salt lake city utah, wyoming, san diego california, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style: slasher, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, gory, crazy, psycho killer, lake, maniac, serial murder, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Race with the Devil (1975)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For old friends Roger (Peter Fonda) and Frank (Warren Oates) and their wives (Lara Parker of Dark Shadows and Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H), it was supposed to be "the best damn vacation they ever had." But their RV road trip takes a deadly ...
Style: road movie, grindhouse, satanic, psychotronic, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: car chase, satanic cult, car, occult, witchcraft, carsploitation, supernatural, witch, folk horror, vacation, devil, exploitation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: usa, colorado, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Black Cadillac (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Three young men become terrorized in a high-speed car chase with a mysterious pursuant.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: car chase, mind game, friendship, danger, escapades, chase, survival, murder, rivalry, car, redneck, on the road ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.3
 3K
Octane (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson (Madeleine Stowe) is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat (Mischa Barton), down an ominous highway in the middle of the night. After they pick up a weird teenage hitchhiker (Bijou ...
Style: slasher, suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: road trip, nightmare, parents and children, psychopath, teenage life, gory, family relations, disorder, violence spree, danger, chase, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Appearing (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, curse, curses spells and rituals, danger, human host, small town, showdown, evil, murder, ghost, paranormal, possession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 52K
The Hitcher (1986)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style: road movie, slasher, psychological, scary, neo noir ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psycho killer, hitchhiker, psychopath, desert, on the road, insanity, stalker, stalking, car chase, sociopath, road trip ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Shallow Ground (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he ...
Style: psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: vengeance, investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, psychopath, murder, gory, public nudity, small town, teenage life, serial killer, supernatural ...
Time: year 2004
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, psychopath, obsession, stalking, stalker, home invasion, serial killer, babysitter, private detective, murder, threatening telephone call, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
No Man's Land: The Rise of Reeker (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
Style: scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, desert, burned alive, murder, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, survival, ghost, supernatural ability, fugitives ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 8K
From Within (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The residents of a small American town begin to die one-by-one apparently by suicide...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, psychological horror, religious horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, curse, ghost, clergy, small town, suicide, social misfits, vengeance, mass suicide, social relations, society, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 11K
Reeker (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Strangers trapped at an eerie travel oasis in the desert must unravel the mystery behind their visions of dying people while they are preyed upon by a decaying creature.
Style: suspense, scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, survival, psychopath, youth, confined, danger, gory, murder, characters killed one by one, heaven and hell, monster, terror ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min.
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Story: A young couple moves to a quiet New England village, only to soon find themselves mixed up in mysterious rituals.
Style: slasher, spooky, gothic, satanic, thrilling ...
Plot: folk horror, religion, small town, occult, mythology, folklore, conspiracy, ghost, paranormal, autumn, witch, ritual ...
Time: 70s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dying Room Only (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Style: crime thriller, thrilling, spooky, independent film, serious ...
Plot: diner, missing husband, redneck, vanished man, terror, murder, desert, sheriff, missing person, hotel, confined, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Boy Behind the Door (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin’s screams for help and realizes he can’t leave his friend ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: child murderess, friendship, kidnapping, danger, friends, pursuit, vengeance, teenage life, death, violence, youth, violent ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.9
 4K
Trucks (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on the short story by Stephen King, this tells the tale of trucks suddenly coming to life and attacking their owners.
Style: suspense, dark, serious, scary, tense ...
Plot: truck, stephen king, car, supernatural, toxic, machine, doomsday, trucker, carsploitation, trucking, killer car, androids and robots ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.7
 5K
Down (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After the elevators at a New York City skyscraper begin inexplicably malfunctioning, putting its passengers at risk, mechanic Mark Newman (James Marshall) and reporter Jennifer Evans (Naomi Watts) begin separate investigations. Newman gets ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: elevator, mad scientist, gory, supernatural, mechanic, disorder, psychopath, technology gone awry, woman in danger, murder, journalism, danger ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 2K
The Hearse (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
Style: cult classic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, killer car, supernatural, haunted house, woman in danger, small town, car, cemetery, living dead, exploitation, machine, macabre ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The California Kid (1974)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A sadistic small-town sheriff has a habit of deliberately forcing speeders to their deaths on the mountain roads leading into town. The brother of one of the victims rolls into town in his hot rod to investigate his brother's death.
Style: spooky, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car, serial killer, small town, murder, racing, auto mechanic, automobile, redneck, sheriff, car crash, motivation, cop ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, year 1958, 1950s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: cannibalism, desert, gory, blood, cannibal, rape, serial killer, dog, murder, violence, disturbed individual, rape and revenge ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.4
 572
Plasterhead (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a ...
Style: slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, supernatural, danger, vengeance, survival, psychopath, murder, blood, violence, feral man, diner, small town ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 2.3
 692
Speed Demon (2003)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In this supernatural take on The Fast and the Furious, college student Jesse returns home only to find that his old stomping ground has been overrun by a gang of street racers that dabbles in the black arts. But things take a bloody turn for the ...
Style: serious, bleak, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, vigilantism, supernatural ability, serial killer, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, terrorism, stalking, hidden identity, small town ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.0
 312K
Death Proof (2007)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Style: road movie, sexy, grindhouse, suspense, absurd ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, violence, exploitation, dark humor, revenge, car chase, vengeance, killer, stalking, stuntman, violent ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tennessee, texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.5
 15K
Dead & Buried (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Style: slasher, grindhouse, atmospheric, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, small town, zombie, murder, violence, serial killer, monster, exploitation, undead, body horror, living dead, hospital ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.6
 9K
Highwaymen (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, road movie, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, car chase, revenge, obsession, murder, hit and run, death of wife, psychopath, homicidal maniac, car accident, danger, paraplegic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.3
 407
Greed (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Raven (Darlena Tejeiro) and Ashley (Andrea Bogart), two young women returning from a rock-climbing expedition, find themselves harassed by a group of bikers at a dusty bar in the desert. With surprise and guile on their side, the girls escape by ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, scary ...
Plot: woman in danger, on the run, obsessive quest, gang, serial killer, rivalry, chases and races, danger, cons and scams, stolen money, desert, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, california, usa, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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