Movies like Believer 2024
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Believer (2024)
581
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young writer is attacked by a notorious cult leader and mass murderer, a man who exerts an inexplicable control over his followers. When she claims no memory of the attack, her family begins to question her motives.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, dark, psychological horror, neo noir
Plot:
investigative journalism, memory loss, manipulation, cult leader, trauma, serial killer, amnesia, mind control, brainwashing, paranoia, suspicion, investigation, obsession, family drama, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, survival, conspiracy, isolation, intimate, urban, writers, murder, cult, gaslight ...
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Most similar movies to Believer
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, suspense and dark films with plots about isolation, investigation, paranoia, moral ambiguity, obsession, claustrophobia and slow burn mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like Believer: #Unknown (2021), You Will Die in 6 Hours (2024), The Fugue (2012), Remember Me (2022), Levels (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
309
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Years after a series of random murders took place in 2017, book author Michael Lane suddenly begins receiving haunting calls from the unknown. Instead of focusing on the encore to his successful debut book, he becomes obsessed with this mystery and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, crime thriller, suspense, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, serial killer, obsession, trauma, investigation, paranoia, dark past, fear, cat and mouse, stalker, slow burn, isolation ...
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95%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jung-yoon was approached by a random stranger named Jun-woo, who told her she'd be dead in six hours. As she follows him for answers, she begins to question whether he's her savior or the one trying to put her in danger.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
manipulation, female protagonist, mistrust, paranoia, investigation, survival, suspicion, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, psychological manipulation, serial killer, stalker ...
Similarity:
92%
104
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
After a woman survives a bizarre attack at an abandoned well, her mental state deteriorates as she tries to prove to others what really happened.
Style:
psychological thriller, mysterious, tense, psychological horror, dread ...
Plot:
isolation, trauma, survival, paranoia, emotional breakdown, hallucination, female protagonist, obsession, claustrophobia, slow burn, obsessive quest, investigation ...
Place:
mulholland drive
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Rose awakes in an unknown house following a serious car accident with memory loss and no ability to walk. Her Mother and boyfriend are there to help her. Rose wants to piece together her life before the accident. All is not what it seems.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, car accident, accident, memory, wheelchair bound, woman in a wheelchair, female protagonist, amnesiac, memory lapse, family secret, identity ...
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After witnessing his girlfriend's murder, a man risks everything - including reality itself - to discover the truth.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, dark, intense ...
Plot:
murder, male protagonist, grief, loss, obsession, investigation, trauma, identity crisis, isolation, moral ambiguity, paranoia, revenge ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, suspicion, murder, danger, losing-it hero, hallucination, serial killer, uncover truth, youth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An amnesiac suspects that the friends trying to help her recalls her memories are hiding the truth about her near fatal accident.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, intense, sinister ...
Plot:
found footage, memory loss, amnesia, paranoia, identity, suspicion, uncertainty, secrets, betrayal, female protagonist, deception, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sang-woo survived a car explosion. He lost his memory but he was able to return to a normal life thanks to his wife Yoon-hee who takes care of him with devotion. However, Sang-woo starts to feel alienated from himself in the past and the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
amnesia, husband wife relationship, memory loss, marital infidelity, cheating wife, relationships, intrigue, affair, memory lapse, infidelity, family relations, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Olga discovers the unfinished diary of a notorious killer and becomes captivated by its dark secrets. As she delves deeper, she uncovers a mysterious connection between them, putting her life—and the lives of those around her—in grave danger.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric, crime drama ...
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, danger, investigation, paranoia, cat and mouse, flashback, stalker, moral ambiguity, isolation, foreshadowing, betrayal ...
Similarity:
66%
4K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man wakes in a hospital bed with no recollection of who he is, and learns that he's wanted by the police for a committing a series of murders.
Style:
suspense, talky, non-linear, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
amnesia, serial killer, hospital, investigation, police, murder, false accusation, identity, memory loss, escapades, psychopath, father son relationship ...
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65%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A desperate man kills a mother of twins, takes them to a house in the woods, and locks them up. His madness escalates keeping his dark secret. When a house fire causes a collapse on all of them, the story is buried until a young woman stumbles on ...
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, creepy, disturbing ...
Plot:
child abduction, murder, dark secret, kidnapping, madness, home invasion, isolation, obsession, investigation, cold case, traumatic past, violent ...
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62%
Genre: Mystery, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ulrik Hansson is 45 years old and lives a secure life in a Swedish residential district together with his wife Monika and their two children. He's got a well-paid job as an architect and builds a new detached house which the family will move ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
murder, memory loss, on the run, family problems, grief, paranoia, obsession, isolation, family drama, midlife crisis, alienation, claustrophobia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist evaluating a self-confessed serial killer unravels a twisted web of trauma, deceit, and psychological manipulation—only to question if the killer is truly guilty or just another victim in a larger, darker game.
Style:
psychological thriller, crime thriller, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, trauma, serial killer, moral ambiguity, psychological manipulation, dark past, investigation, character study, obsession, mistrust, claustrophobia, psychoanalysis ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A medical student is desperate to solve a murder to prove that she's not having a psychological breakdown, as her family and friends believe her to be.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, schizophrenia, medical student, murder mystery, murder investigation, physician, uncover truth, unsolved crime, crime investigation, sleuth, suspicion ...
Similarity:
59%
108
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
You can run into anything in the Danish woods, but a naked woman covered in blood is not something you see every day. Her name is Robin and she not only claims to have witnessed a gruesome murder but also to having killed her assailant in ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, noir
Plot:
woman in peril, forest, female protagonist, trauma, self defense, survival, paranoia, crime investigation, isolation, claustrophobia, slow burn, realism ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A promising novelist finds himself trapped in a terrifying reality as he reckons with the notion that a murderer is in his midst.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, psychological horror ...
Plot:
novelist, whodunit, murder investigation, suspicion, mature, claustrophobia, slow burn, isolation, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, obsession, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
56%
324
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A struggling actress tracks down the star of a movie she hopes will be remade, only to uncover dark secrets.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, noir
Plot:
female protagonist, celebrity culture, confrontation, obsession, dark past, ambition, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia, female rivalry, identity crisis, manipulation ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A renowned wellness influencer invites one of her recently overdosed followers to seek recovery at her small-town manor. Once the follower arrives, she realizes the dark world existing within the manor is not what she–nor millions of ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, gothic
Plot:
abuse of power, psychological manipulation, manipulation, deception, isolation, dark secret, cult leader, claustrophobia, mistrust, obsession, moral ambiguity, paranoia ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Jason Shepherd awakens in hospital in an amnesiac state. Discovering that he is a police detective he tries to solve the mystery of how he came to lose his memory and uncovers some shocking truths.
Style:
crime thriller, detective, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
amnesia, memory loss, investigation, identity crisis, police procedural, moral ambiguity, conspiracy, paranoia, self discovery, urban, corruption, police corruption ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Arthur Sydenham Sharp, a travelling spiritual medium, arrives in Finland for the final seance of his tour. Immersed in the oppressive atmosphere of an unwelcoming hotel, Arthur's sense of reality becomes increasingly distorted by eerie visions ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological horror, psychological thriller, dark, tense ...
Plot:
spiritualism, seance, medium, haunted hotel, supernatural, paranoia, hallucination, mental illness, claustrophobia, paranormal, isolation, obsession ...
Place:
finland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Soo Jin, a woman suffering from post-traumatic memory loss, returns to her daily life with her husband after an accident. But her recovery takes an unexpected turn when she starts experiencing eerie visions: One day, she sees a vision of a child ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
a vision, investigation, amnesia, supernatural power, memory lapse, uncover truth, repressed memory, confronting the past, tragic past, memory, supernatural, secret past ...
Similarity:
49%
413
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
insomnia, mental illness, paranoia, murder, psychiatrist patient relationship, mental breakdown, mental institution, siblings relations, mistrust, parents and children, dishonesty, pretense ...
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48%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A photographer’s road trip takes a dark turn when he befriends a reckless couple, plunging him into a nightmarish neo-noir spiral of unpredictable horror.
Style:
psychological horror, neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, cynical ...
Plot:
road trip, desert, isolation, moral ambiguity, survival, obsession, private detective, ghost town, photographer, anti hero, paranoia, character study ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Anne is convinced she has found her husband's corpse, but Dr. Mark can only find out that the man has gone home. When he comes back, his wife does not trust Mark, who believes she suffers from schizophrenia.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, paranoia, isolation, cat and mouse, murder mystery, investigation, female protagonist, european, serial killer, urban, betrayal, folk horror ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A sociopath gathers and drugs groups of college students to bring out their existing suicidal tendencies to the surface then walks among them to enjoy and record their deaths.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
sociopath, suicide, group therapy, serial killer, mind game, college campus, paranoia, nightmare, trauma, manipulation, campus, psychological manipulation ...
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43%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Reed Rodney, a disillusioned, world-famous novelist, is recovering at his remote mountain home from major reconstructive jaw surgery, which has rendered him physically unable to speak. Reed receives an unexpected visit from his estranged daughter, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, secret, family relations, father and daughter, father daughter estrangement, writers, writer's life, relationship problems, isolation, family drama, survival, redemption ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
43%
325
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure ...
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, serial killer, writers, writer's block, small town, killing spree, murder mystery, murderer, novelist, woods, sheriff ...
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42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Jill Danvers is trying to put her life back together after her divorce. But someone is watching her; following her every move...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
stalker, suspicion, paranoia, surveillance, female protagonist, obsession, cat and mouse, sexual abuse, isolation, voyeurism, personal safety, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Relationship Therapist, Dr. Jill Peterman, had the highest-rated call-in radio show when her world was pulled out from under her following the on-air suicide of a female caller named Alexis. Shaken to her core, Dr. Jill walked away from her show ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, exciting, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, investigation, stalker, pursuit, danger, serial killer, female psychologist, radio station, murder, dialogue, telephone call, anxiety ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young woman rents a cursed house, forcing her to solve the mystery to find a way out.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
haunted house, isolated house, female protagonist, escape, investigation, supernatural, isolation, paranormal, claustrophobia, mysterious past, confined, family secret ...
Similarity:
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