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Wake (2024)
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:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, psychological horror, noir
Plot:
female protagonist, obsession, ambition, dark past, confrontation, celebrity culture, betrayal, claustrophobia, mature, isolation, manipulation, female rivalry, cat and mouse, identity crisis, paranoia, moral ambiguity, slow burn, revenge, gaslight, unreliable narrator, wheelchair
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Most similar movies to Wake
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, suspense and psychological horror films with plots about isolation, claustrophobia, slow burn, paranoia, moral ambiguity, obsession and female protagonist mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Wake: #Unknown (2021), Sugar Baby (2024), The House That Cried Murder (1973), By Deception (2022), The Fugue (2012). 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 ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An enterprising Sugar Baby is offered $30,000 to move in with her Sugar Daddy for the week, but soon discovers the sinister secrets trapped within his home.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, noir
Plot:
female protagonist, manipulation, psychological abuse, seduction, betrayal, isolation, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, slow burn, surveillance, urban ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The neurotic and newlywed Barbara (Robin Strasser) finds her husband (Arthur Roberts) in bed with his old flame Eva (Iva Jean Saraceni). Robin doesn't get mad-she gets even. Using funds supplied by her wealthy daddy John Beal, the scorned bride ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, psychotronic, intense ...
Plot:
wedding, revenge, betrayal, female protagonist, jealousy, sexual jealousy, sadism, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity, dungeon, female villain ...
Similarity:
80%
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:
71%
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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:
68%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A psychological body horror following a sleep-deprived new mother fearing for her baby's safety as she cycles through night and day, nightmare and reality seamlessly. But when help is offered... can she trust it?
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, surreal, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
body horror, sleep deprivation, female protagonist, paranoia, manipulation, slow burn, character study, claustrophobia, isolation, body transformation, motherhood, newborn baby ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A remote helpline volunteer is targeted by a stranger who lures women from their homes with a recording of a crying baby.
Style:
creepy, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
killer, cold blooded killer, problem, secret, psychological manipulation, stalker, cat and mouse, paranoia, isolation, manipulation, female protagonist, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Grayson Ellsworth is writing his next novel. While stuck on a train he realizes his worst fears. Once the pen hits the paper, the results are shocking!
Style:
metafiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
obsession, character study, unsettling, transformation, paranoia, mental illness, claustrophobia, identity crisis, split personality, isolation, moral ambiguity, urban ...
Place:
new york, austin texas
Similarity:
55%
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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:
54%
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:
53%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Amy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who ...
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
stalker, paranoia, psychiatrist, obsession, female protagonist, isolation, stepmother, mental illness, family conflict, urban, slow burn, woman in danger ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Kristen decides to take a break from college and return home, she finds Jake, a handsome stranger, living in her old room. Her mother, Moira, explains that she invited Jake to live as a tenant to help with the house expenses. Soon, Kristen ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family relations, dark past, secret, male female relationship, family problems, parents and children, relationship problems, secret identity, female protagonist, betrayal, manipulation ...
Similarity:
50%
2K
Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
when Arun enters their lives, altering the course of their relationship. The consequence of their toxic relationship leads them into a dark world, as the narrative unfolds in a horror setting.
Style:
dark, tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspense
Plot:
toxic relationship, love triangle, obsession, jealousy, betrayal, manipulation, emotional breakdown, domestic drama, claustrophobia, guilt, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
49%
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:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Photographers Brooke Konrad and Tanner Behlman travel to rural, abandoned buildings to capture the inherent beauty of long-forgotten locations, but far from forgotten are the traumatic memories that surface in Brooke when they meet The Man Upstairs, ...
Style:
creepy, psychological horror, tense, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
trauma, photography, haunting, female protagonist, memory, suspicion, isolation, confrontation, slow burn, obsession, settler, macabre ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Claire has everything - money, a loving husband and a desired child. But suddenly her life changes. Doubts and lies bring her to the edge of insanity.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
deception, husband wife relationship, family problems, mental breakdown, infidelity, relationships, male female relationship, marriage crisis, marital problem, family relations, changing lives, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being whisked away to Los Angeles by a handsome Hollywood star, Katie is left alone in his apartment, where strange and scary things begin to happen.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
mental disorder, female protagonist, isolation, trauma, paranoia, survival horror, secret, psychopath, survival, struggle for survival, loneliness, character study ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Estranged couple Anne and Patrick encounter ghostly apparitions while taking a ride from a mysterious cabbie with sinister intentions.
Style:
suspense, sinister, psychological thriller, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, paranormal, isolation, estranged couple, road trip, nightmare, slow burn, character study, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, obsession ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Amy, a young woman is on the run with her young son Adrian from her abusive ex-girlfriend. When the past rises up to haunt them, they must confront the forces threatening them from both outside and in.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, psychological, gothic horror, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, problem, threat, confronting the past, troubled past, family problems, dark past, life is a bitch, mother and son, on the run, escape, paranoia ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Marilyn Monroe obsessed serial killer.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, crime drama, dark ...
Plot:
framed for murder, evidence, murder mystery, falsely accused, paranoia, claustrophobia, investigation, betrayal, conspiracy, identity crisis, isolation, perjury ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Anna and Mike are married. Paul is Celia's father. They all have secrets to hide. They all are contacted by a mysterious group with unclear intentions who knows the truth.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
secrets, family secret, intrigue, manipulation, suspicion, claustrophobia, domestic drama, moral ambiguity, betrayal, paranoia, blackmail, slow burn ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alyssa moves into a luxury apartment complex but is unaware she is being watched by her disturbed landlord, Robert, via hidden cameras. Robert will do anything to fill the void left by his estranged daughter–even if that means replacing her.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, female protagonist, landlord tenant relationship, stalker, surveillance, estrangement, female comedian, secretly observing, cat and mouse, danger, voyeurism, isolation ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During their annual vacation at an isolated beach, Ben and Vee unexpectedly encounter a mysterious backpacker who draws them into a twisted web of lies, deceit and ultimately, revenge.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, dark, twist ending
Plot:
revenge, betrayal, isolation, psychological manipulation, mind game, mysterious stranger, beach, paranoia, moral ambiguity, summer vacation, tourist, confrontation ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Barbara adjusts to her new life behind bars, her crimes start to haunt her. Her new cellmate Evelyn is about to start an obsessive and ghostly friendship with her, one that Barbara cannot escape from.
Style:
dark, tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
confined space, claustrophobia, character study, obsession, female protagonist, guilt, supernatural, isolation, paranoia, manipulation, power struggle, slow burn ...
Similarity:
44%
111
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Following the murder of his wife and son, an agoraphobic man becomes convinced that someone, or something is invading his home... Kindred is a tense psychological thriller set entirely inside the home of the protagonist.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, atmospheric, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
isolation, grief, family tragedy, loneliness, mourning, mental breakdown, paranoia, male protagonist, claustrophobia, supernatural, guilt, character study ...
Similarity:
44%
147
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young woman seeks independence from her protective mother, only to be questioning her own sanity when newfound friends die, and her mother suggests she is the cause of their death.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, claustrophobia, isolation, mental illness, accusation, self doubt, paranoia, unsettling, dysfunctional family, identity, domestic drama ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nefeli (Nefeli Papaioannou) moves to her boyfriend's (Iraklis Savvopoulos) flat. After a while she discovers that strange hallucinations invade her life. Being afraid of her boyfriend's reaction to the bad news, she decides not to let him ...
Style:
psychological thriller, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hallucination, female protagonist, paranoia, mental breakdown, zombie, mental illness, uncertainty, isolation, supernatural, secrets, claustrophobia, obsession ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Alpines is a psychological thriller that follows seven friends coming together for a weekend getaway after several years of little to no contact. They've grown apart. They've moved on with their lives. But the secrets of their past ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
secrets, isolation, friendship, betrayal, motive, dark past, paranoia, whodunit, high school friend, slow burn, intimate, confined ...
Similarity:
41%
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: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
How far will Ted Harbor dig to find his soulmate? As young women vanish, his dark secrets unravel, pushing him to the edge. Horrendous truths surface in this gripping thriller, Under the Palm Tree, keeping you on the edge of your seat.
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, creepy, tense ...
Plot:
danger, obsession, female victim, obsessive love, isolation, murder, stalker, paranoia, investigation, romantic obsession, character study, slow burn ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
40%
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