Movies like The Abandon 2022
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The Abandon (2022)
3K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Injured U.S. soldier Miles Willis awakens to discover he is trapped in a mysterious cube armed only with his combat gear. As Miles begins to question his sanity, he finds a lifeline – a voice on the other end of his satellite phone who claims to be a prisoner in a similar space. As the walls close in, these two strangers must put their heads together if they are to outwit their captors and unlock this deadly puzzle.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, intense, tension, psychological, captivating, thrilling, mind bending, dark, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival horror, survival, isolation, confined space, deathtrap, struggle for survival, escape, soldier, claustrophobia, locked room, trap, threat, race against time, military, puzzle, desperation, mind game, wounded soldier, paranoia, single, psychological torture, experiment, war veteran, post traumatic stress, cat and mouse ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Abandon
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, dark and psychological thriller films with plots about claustrophobia, isolation, survival, paranoia, cat and mouse, slow burn and trap mostly in Thriller, Horror and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Abandon: Escape the Field (2022), Shadowplay (2007), Captors (2020), Double Blind (2023), Soul Mates (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Six strangers suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in ...
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, bleak, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
group of strangers, trapped, cornfield, struggle for survival, trap, stranger, isolation, escape, survival game, game of death, cat and mouse, paranoia ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three people are trapped in a room with no windows, no doors, and no memory of how or why they are there. They must figure out the mystery of what is happening and how they are connected.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, intense, mind bending ...
Plot:
confined space, amnesia, claustrophobia, memory loss, trap, mind game, identity crisis, character study, puzzle, isolation, paranoia, single ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, sex trafficking, serial killer, paranoia, trauma, human trafficking, kidnapping, female protagonist, struggle for survival, trap, trapped, murderer ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
Style:
suspenseful, medical horror, psychological thriller, tension, thrilling ...
Plot:
insomnia, scientific experiment, sleep deprivation, isolation, experimental drug, race against time, experiment, human experiment, problem, threat, experiment gone awry, paranoia ...
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two unsuspecting strangers, Jason and Allison, find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service. Led by the Matchmaker, it forces the two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their soul mates, or die trying.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
maze, survival horror, threat, stranger, problem, dating show, survival, mind game, twisted game, psychological manipulation, isolation, dating service ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The Dark Below is an experimental thriller set on Michigan's Great Lakes.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, tension, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, underwater, danger, isolation, frostbite, ice, hypothermia, struggle for survival, survival, fear, lake, cold ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A couple find themselves trapped while on a run around a pond.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
couples, married couple, trap, trapped, threat, entrapment, survival, isolation, fear, pond, claustrophobia, confrontation ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former marine awakens to an apocalyptic sight outside of his window and barricades himself from evil creatures that surround his apartment door and terrorize the city.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, demon, apartment building, fantasy world, fight, monster, post apocalypse, survival horror, isolation, claustrophobia, post apocalyptic, home invasion ...
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ryan Hinds awakes inside a sealed industrial kiln. He is set challenges by a voice with no face, pushed to the limits of human endurance as the temperature within the kiln begins to rise.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, intense, captivating ...
Plot:
locked in, isolation, survival, claustrophobia, race against time, trap, murderer, homicidal maniac, death threat, psycho killer, stock broker, burned alive ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Pedro receives a desperate message from an ex-girlfriend asking him to look after her senile mother, Alicia. What seems like a simple mission soon becomes his worst nightmare. Pedro needs to escape; but Alicia won’t let him...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, creepy, dark ...
Plot:
mature, desperation, escape, claustrophobia, survival, isolation, male protagonist, single, mind game, cat and mouse, moral dilemma, guilt ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
28-year-old medicine student Malina wakes up disoriented in a locked trunk and realizes, to her horror, that she is missing more than just her memory of what happened. With her phone as the only link to the outside world, the intelligent young woman ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, survival, female protagonist, memory loss, claustrophobia, car trunk, medical student, confined space, race against time, threat, abduction, amnesia ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Helen and her daughter Emily reluctantly accompany Helen’s father Stan on a family camping trip, driving deep into the forest for a real outdoors experience, only to have angry landowner Howard arrive and force them to leave. When their RV gets ...
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival horror, struggle for survival, backwoods, forest, family relations, secret, escape, isolation, danger, deathtrap, female protagonist, death threat ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a botched robbery, two men take refuge in a remote and lifeless scientific facility, inadvertently awakening a monster within.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, psychological
Plot:
monster, robbery, heist gone wrong, artificial intelligence, threat, burglar, struggle for survival, survival horror, death threat, problem, deathtrap, advanced technology ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After a near-fatal car accident, Sam wakes to discover he is trapped in an abandoned hospital by mysterious and sinister forces that have no intention of letting him leave…
Style:
suspenseful, medical horror, tense, intense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
supernatural, paranormal, hospital, isolation, threat, mysticism, trapped, paranormal phenomena, trap, deathtrap, supernatural horror, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While working the night shift alone, Laurie Saltair discovers a comatose man, Clayton, in Unit 234 of her family’s storage facility. What transpires is a thrill ride of a cat-and-mouse game for Laurie and Clayton to survive the night.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, intense, psychological thriller, crime thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, cat and mouse, nightshift, claustrophobia, desperation, criminal gang, single, isolation, suspicion, panic, showdown, hostage ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, apocalyptic, psychological ...
Plot:
survival horror, survival, pandemic, deadly virus, threat, humanity, post apocalypse, virus, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, apocalypse, post apocalyptic ...
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2K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Charismatic Nolan Bentley wakes up in the middle of a remote forest, tied to a tree with no recollection of how he got there. With his time relentlessly running out, a mysterious stranger appears and he must finally reckon with the demons of his ...
Style:
suspense, mysterious, psychological thriller, tense, dark ...
Plot:
struggle for survival, mysterious stranger, forest, memory loss, amnesia, isolation, survival, confrontation, trauma, paranoia, dark past, escape ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
A man wakes from a concussion to find himself trapped in a cargo elevator, and as his time in isolation grows, so too does his paranoia.
Style:
psychological thriller, intense, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
claustrophobia, paranoia, isolation, confined, entrapment, survival, mental breakdown, character study, mind game, single, obsession, male protagonist ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
It Crawls Beneath is a horror-thriller from Dale Fabrigar. Michael Pare (The Lincoln Lawyer) and Joseph Almani (Law of Attraction) star in the story of a young cop working on his uncle’s classic vintage car on a secluded ranch when a major ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, serious, disturbing, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
claustrophobia, survival, creature feature, survival horror, deadly creature, fight, trapped, nightmare, trap, deathtrap, panic, isolation ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After an unsuccessful attack on an online sensation, an enraged follower stalks a group of millennials on vacation.
Style:
thrilling, psychological horror, psychological thriller, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
stalker, psycho killer, masked killer, obsession, fear, social media, problem, murder, blogger, murderer, threat, attempted murder ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young couple leave behind their party lifestyle and find tranquility in an isolated rental cabin only to realize they have checked into a sinister nightmare as the locals reveal the true reason for their solitude.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
survival, cabin in the woods, isolation, family relations, dark secret, threat, undercover, trapped, secret, husband wife relationship, trap, remote location ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Shy, introverted Karian Edwards looks forward to a weekend at her aunt's house in the desert with her best friend, Cloudy, and their friend, Jessica. Things take a turn for the worse when Cloudy invites along a childhood friend, Sasha Mills, a ...
Style:
psychological horror, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
nightmare, drug, nightmare comes true, recurring nightmare, women, sleeping, hallucination, drug trip, mental breakdown, paranoia, desert, isolation ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After a drug deal goes south, four heroin addicts barricade themselves in a country bar as the cops close in. Withdrawal sets in, further complicating their hostage situation, while a secret one of them is hiding could destroy them all.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
drug addiction, drug addict, creature feature, heroin addict, hostage situation, deathtrap, drug dealer, drug deal, trap, threat, drug, problem ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Five medical students discover a way to capture what you can't see when you blink and the results are terrifying. A frightening journey into the macabre world that will make you never blink again. In a blink of an eye, you will die.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological thriller, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fear of death, macabre, claustrophobia, supernatural, paranoia, isolation, body horror, university, urban, parallel universe, monster, scientific research ...
Similarity:
46%
894
Genre: Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A grieving mother lures her daughter's killer into her smart home in order to take revenge, becoming involved in a distorted game where life and death are at stake.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tension, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, trap, murder, cat versus mouse, killing, deathtrap, avenge, problem, murderer, intrigue, mind game ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A dejected young photographer, turned low level drug peddler, bites off more than he can chew when his customer goes missing and he is left to look after the man's audacious sister days before the world is set to end.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
distopia, end of the world, photographer, race against time, desperation, drug dealing, criminal underworld, urban, moral ambiguity, missing person, character study, violence ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
44%
452
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kathleen Quinlan is a woman working late in her locked High-Rise office building who along with Bruce Abbot struggle to elude a killer (Ben Loggins) trying to kill them.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, dark, action thriller ...
Plot:
isolation, murder, cat and mouse, female protagonist, claustrophobia, office, survival, fear, elevator, trapped, chase, stalker ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
10 high school students including Yuka Kabayama are suddenly led to a room and must play the jinrou game. Yuka Kabayama has the jinrou card. She has to hide that fact and kill the players who have the citizens cards one by one. Yuka Kabayama gets ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
mind game, murder, high school student, game of death, deception, hidden identity, survival game, japanese schoolgirl, most dangerous game, trap, schoolboy, schoolgirl ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An amnesiac must reach back into his mind for memories that will help him save the love of his life before a virus completely takes over.
Style:
psychological, exciting, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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584
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a cataclysmic event, five strangers sealed inside an emergency shelter with all the comforts of home must learn to cope with their situation and with each other.
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, bleak, serious, tension ...
Plot:
survival, disaster, trapped, post apocalypse, apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, nuclear holocaust, survival horror, isolation, confined space, bunker ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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