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Uncontained (2025)
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the wintry forests of North America, a mysterious drifter struggles to protect an abandoned boy and his little sister from an infection that turns people into a feral-like state.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, grim
Plot:
survival horror, survival, forest, isolation, infected, winter, loneliness, infection, post apocalyptic, violence, drifter, cat and mouse, stranded, paranoia, man versus nature, pursuit, slow burn, zombie, minimalism, post-apocalyptic future, apocalypse
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, bleak and grim films with plots about survival, isolation, claustrophobia, survival horror, slow burn, paranoia and moral ambiguity mostly in Horror, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Uncontained: Almost Dead (2016), A Hard Place (2025), Eradication (2022), Don't Open the Door (2024), In Extremis (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Hope, a researcher who studies infectious diseases, the struggle for survival in a world where a deadly virus but decimated the population .
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suspenseful, tense, bleak, intense, grim ...
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of criminals on the run in a cold, winter forest find themselves caught in the middle of an ancient feud between the monsters that rule the day and the creatures that rule the night.
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92%
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 ...
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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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Genre: Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Far from civilization, in a frozen forest on an inhospitable mountainside, a group of researchers is attacked by an unidentified figure. The sole survivor, a young biologist, takes refuge in the isolated cabin of a mysterious man.
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tense, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alex is a man with everything – the well-paid executive job, the impressive house in the country and the beautiful wife and child. When he inexplicably decides to leave work early one Friday nothing will ever be the same again. Within hours of his ...
Style:
psychological horror, intense, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
nightmare, supernatural, isolation, storm, paranoia, family drama, claustrophobia, uncertainty, country house, suspicion, survival, violence ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After suffering a terrible injury while hiking the Pacific Crest Trail, Irving must find a way to escape the woods alive and confront her inner demons with the help of a stranger.
Style:
tense, emotional, suspenseful, contemplative, surreal
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isolation, wilderness, survival, hiking, man versus nature, stranded, loneliness, character study, danger, self discovery, female protagonist, empathy ...
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67%
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 ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When a kind of rabies that transforms people into aggressive creatures spreads across the planet, Manel isolates himself at home with his cat, relying on his wits to survive; but soon they must go out in search of food, by land and by sea, dodging ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The Dark Below is an experimental thriller set on Michigan's Great Lakes.
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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:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Plan 9 is the story of Nilbog, a small town with a big story. The beginning of an invasion! However, instead of lasers, space ships, and epic force, these aliens have a different plan for the inhabitants of Earth. To resurrect their dead as their ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
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64%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Cora is set decades into the future, after a deadly mist has covered earth, effectively wiping out most of humanity. Now, we follow Cora, a woman working for an organization trying to reverse the effects of the apocalypse.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, survival, dystopia, female protagonist, desolation, isolation, haunting, conspiracy, slow burn
Time:
near future
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
What seems to be the ideal setting for fun and relaxation quickly turns deadly when six vacationing college students encounter a cursed spirit with an insatiable appetite.
Style:
creepy, dark, tension, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Plot:
wendigo, supernatural, forest, wilderness, isolation, creature feature, fear, haunting, college student, survival horror, survival, desperation ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Long after the end of the world people wander the fields and woods that once housed the cities of Britain, in search of food, warmth and anything that may help them survive. One of these survivors is The Man (Max Curtis), haunted by the terrible ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalyptic, survival, end of the world, violence, isolation, wasteland, desolation, ruins, desperation, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Similarity:
60%
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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 ...
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struggle for survival, mysterious stranger, forest, memory loss, amnesia, isolation, survival, confrontation, trauma, paranoia, dark past, escape ...
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59%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a zombie-ravaged world, a resourceful teen and her protector fight for survival, facing relentless dangers and testing the limits of hope and loyalty.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, emotional
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57%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Charlie, a notorious serial killer known as the Midnight Mangler finds himself trapped, reliving the same violent night over and over. Initially embracing his grisly urges, Charlie soon becomes desperate to escape the endless nightmare.
Style:
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55%
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Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows best friends Maddie and Trish as they find themselves trapped in a remote lagoon with the dangerous killer whale named Ceto.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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51%
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Genre: Short, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
Two sisters struggle to exist after an apocalyptic virus has turned the entire human population into flesh eating zombies.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, emotional, independent film
Plot:
zombie, survival, zombie outbreak, infected, post apocalyptic, isolation, sisters, survival horror, desperation, pandemic, infection, violence ...
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Yesterday follows the lives of complete strangers in the middle of a zombie outbreak. As each person struggles to survive we find their actions begin to affect the lives of others around the dying city, culminating in a stand off at the local ...
Style:
tense, bleak, grim, suspense
Plot:
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Similarity:
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302
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
The main character was forgotten during an excursion to the Chernobyl exclusion zone. He will meet with the inhabitants of the zone and pass many obstacles in order to survive.
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, tense, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
mutant, found footage, survival, nuclear disaster, radiation, isolation, contamination, ruins, loneliness, haunting, man versus nature, loss ...
Time:
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Place:
chernobyl, ukraine, russia
Similarity:
46%
764
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A lethal virus forces humanity to remote regions for survival, one family fights to try to save its children from a band of marauders bent on revenge.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, apocalyptic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
forest, supernatural horror, supernatural, isolated house, blind man, isolation, remote location, paranormal phenomena, creature feature, survival horror, survival, blindness ...
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A small town widow faces a grisly confrontation with her would-be extortionists.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, intense, dark, grim ...
Plot:
danger, threat, extortion, revenge, small town, survival, isolation, confrontation, vigilante, justice, grief, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After their school bus crashes, a group of high school students is thrown into a terrifying fight for survival as they try to take down a group of unhuman savages… before they kill each other first.
Style:
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