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The Plague (2025)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates, USA, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer...
Style:
tense, realistic, intense, atmospheric, independent film, psychological horror, ambiguous ending, teen horror, psychological thriller
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, summer camp, summer, adolescence, coming of age, teen angst, character study, social anxiety, mental illness, isolation, self discovery, outsider, peer pressure, hierarchy, emotional breakdown, male protagonist, obsession, claustrophobia, rivalry, humiliation, identity crisis, social commentary, trauma, slice of life, teenager ...
Time:
year 2003
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Most similar movies to The Plague
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, intense, psychological thriller and suspense films with plots about isolation, character study, obsession, claustrophobia, psychological drama, coming of age and slow burn mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Plague: Ice Scream (2016), Apotheosis (2018), 13 (2014), Another Girl (2021), In Darkness (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A shy young man attempts to buy ice cream for his girlfriend when faced by two of the town's worst bullies. This is the beginning of a day he will never forget.
Style:
tense, realistic, intense, tragicomedy, dark comedy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
bullying, small town, confrontation, peer pressure, embarrassment, school, humiliation, coming of age, toxic masculinity, awkwardness, teen angst, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The dark twisted tale of a man who's accused of murdering his girlfriend, told from his shadow's perspective.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, crime drama, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, alienation, obsession, mental breakdown, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis, morality, slow burn, surveillance ...
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The lack of communication between the mother and the father of a 13 year old, leads inevitably to a divorce. During this ordeal their son, feeling out of place, befriends some troubled older kids and gets involved in murder.
Style:
realistic, poignant, melancholic, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, loss of innocence, coming of age, family drama, peer pressure, character study, identity crisis, social realism, bullying, alienation, juvenile delinquency, isolation ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elle Overton, a college student, becomes obsessed with Katie Kampenfelt, the mysterious heroine of a novel she's just finished reading. When Elle, battling depression, becomes convinced that Katie is actually a flesh-and-blood human being, it ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, depression, mental illness, obsessed fan, possessed woman, female protagonist, problem, paranoia, character study, internet culture, identity crisis, stalking ...
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, family drama, character study, overbearing parent, male protagonist, advertising agency, claustrophobia, identity crisis, obsession, moral ambiguity, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
66%
305
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When 15-year-old rebellious Stefi goes missing, her mother Helena has nothing left to lose. Why cling to sanity when madness offers a chance for reconciliation and love?
Style:
emotional, tense, intense, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, family crisis, grief, loss, trauma, missing person, intimate, family drama, desperation, love ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drifter searching for answers to a mystery from her past takes on a job looking after a sick teen who is undergoing a mysterious transformation her family will do anything to stop.
Style:
psychological horror, creepy, tense, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
transformation, body horror, drifter, female protagonist, family secret, identity crisis, claustrophobia, slow burn, small town, paranoia, isolation, outsider ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Life for a shy young Indian student slowly falls to pieces during a family road trip.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
character study, machismo, coming of age, isolation, family problems, grownups, life is a bitch, social problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, social misfits, teenager ...
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A topical yet timeless story about the parallel impacts of both bullying and friendship, Turner Risk focuses on a troubled young man who sets out to effectively reboot his world by clearing out all the negative forces in it.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
bullying, friendship, revenge, character study, confrontation, loyalty, social commentary, mental breakdown, isolation, loss, moral ambiguity, male camaraderie ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A successful black businessman, haunted by his crumbling marriage and identity crisis, is drawn into a psychological game of cat and mouse with a mysterious white woman he encounters on a New York subway.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, intense, tragic ending ...
Plot:
race, identity, manipulation, subway, identity crisis, sexual tension, racial tension, cat and mouse, confrontation, sexual content, mystery woman, urban ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Kevin is obsessed with finding a girl who can help him forget his unpleasant past. However, all his encounters with the opposite sex inevitably go afoul. As the rejections mount, Kevin's futile search for happiness and love becomes ...
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
relationships, lonely, photographer, memory, trauma, obsession, male female relationship, dealing with the past, troubled past, life is a bitch, confronting the past, isolation ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the Cold War.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, bleak, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paranoia, betrayal, isolation, conspiracy, obsession, character study, espionage, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, ethical dilemma ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A harrowing, modern day morality tale about kids who have had too much, too soon.
Style:
dark drama, realistic, tense, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
loss of innocence, cautionary tale, coming of age, social commentary, mature, teen angst, moral ambiguity, realism, peer pressure, character study, youth culture, drug use ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, intense, dark ...
Plot:
kidnapping, coming of age, abduction, escape, danger, family secret, identity, memory, pursuit, betrayal, childhood trauma, false identity ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Henry Long desperately seeks a cure for the condition that leaves him unable to feel physical pain.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cure, patient, doctors and patients, pain, illness, disease, character study, male protagonist, hospital, ethical dilemma, scientific research, disability ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Described as an 'epic environmental horror' film. Plot TBA.
Style:
dark comedy, psychological horror, atmospheric, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
mental illness, postpartum depression, sexless marriage, car accident, emotional breakdown, hallucination, psychosis, isolation, desolation, character study, slow burn, claustrophobia ...
Place:
montana
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
To salve his guilty conscience an elder brother removes his disturbed younger sibling from a mental institution after a suicide attempt and tries to bring him back to mental competency through one on one contact. Free of the institution he continues ...
Style:
psychological horror, intense, psychological thriller, art house, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mental illness, obsession, twins, brotherhood, guilt, madness, identity crisis, mental institution, isolation, claustrophobia, evil twin, schizophrenia ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, bullying, hate crime, teenage life, psychological trauma, teenager, criminal, terrorism, changing lives, terrorist attack, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When hard partying and volatile neighbours move in next door, a quiet woman's life begins to spiral, pushing her to the edge and triggering a slow, unnerving descent into obsession and revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, intense, psychological horror
Plot:
obsession, slow burn, revenge, paranoia, privacy invasion, retribution, mental breakdown, escalation, domestic drama, confrontation, isolation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
46%
567
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, paranoia, jealous husband, mental illness, female protagonist, obsession, claustrophobia, identity, investigation, isolation, slow burn, small town ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, France, Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
Style:
tragic ending, period piece, atmospheric, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
boy, character study, neglect, tragedy, psychosis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, childhood trauma, brotherhood, haunting, coming of age, mother son conflict ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make ...
Style:
dramatic, period piece, realistic, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, secret, high school, moral dilemma, loss of innocence, innocence lost, election, friendship, rite of passage, countryside, peer pressure, youth ...
Time:
60s
Place:
texas
Similarity:
42%
882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, family secret, trauma, murder mystery, character study, nightmare, domestic drama, violent outburst, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
reality vs fantasy, folk horror, murder mystery, psychotherapy, psychological manipulation, mind game, double murder, paranoia, suspicion, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalking, murder mystery, art, female protagonist, paranoia, obsession, photography, voyeurism, privacy invasion, female artist, fantasy becomes reality, secretly observing ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When Sophia gets into an exclusive cheer camp with her best friend Charlotte, she's ecstatic to show off her skills. Camp queen bee Victoria and her overbearing mother Beth do not take kindly to a newcomer taking her spotlight, so they launch a ...
Style:
captivating, slasher, tense, suspense, psychological thriller
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleading, cheerleader, rivalry, mean girl, contests and competitions, rivals, social relations, social problems, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, relationship problems, friends, plan ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hearing-impaired teenager Chang Cheng transfers to a school for children with special needs. However, the world of the hearing-impaired doesn’t seem quiet at all. When Chang witnesses the game taking place in the last row on the school bus, his ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay asian, deaf, school, bullying, abuse, gay, teenager, game, mute or deaf, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, changing lives, gossip ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Lina, a pre-med student, is sent home to Beirut, Lebanon, after severe nightmares ruin her life. Xapa, also known as "Joy," is prescribed to help her recover. However, as Lina’s terrifying nightmares worsen and a link between them and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
nightmare, female protagonist, family secret, mother daughter relationship, memory, revelation, identity, mental illness, intrigue, domestic drama, paranoia, investigation ...
Place:
lebanon
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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