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Lazareth (2024)
1K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Lee is an aunt whose life mission is to protect her orphaned nieces, Imogen and Maeve, from a self-destructing world, raising them in isolation until an outsider threatens their peaceful existence.
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, independent film
Plot:
isolation, family drama, secrets, loneliness, coming of age, suspicion, moral ambiguity, trauma, slow burn, survival, home invasion, small town, peace, psychological drama
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Most similar movies to Lazareth
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, psychological thriller and dark films with plots about isolation, slow burn, small town, moral ambiguity, investigation, trauma and family drama mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Lazareth: Emma (2016), Beach House (2018), Trust (2025), Sharon's Secret (1995), Hunther (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
173
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Emma Morris at her young age faces a traumatic accident where her best friend Lily dies. She is in a shock, doctors have faith in her recovery, but it doesn't seem that she is getting better. Her family and friends are helping her throughout ...
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
small town, friendship, mentally unstable, family problems, family in crisis, grief, mourning, trauma, family drama, death of friend, youth, psychology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emma's quiet beach retreat takes an unsettling turn with the arrival of an enigmatic artist out of her mother's past. He challenges, enthralls, and frightens her, as she comes to suspect him of a terrible crime.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, creepy, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
beach house, slow burn, obsession, suspicion, manipulation, female protagonist, family secret, mature, intimate, coming of age, isolation, sexual attraction ...
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76%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Hollywood starlet seeks refuge in a secluded Airbnb following a high-profile scandal, only to find herself at the mercy of hardened criminals on the hunt for a score.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, crime thriller
Plot:
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68%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A 16 year old girl is accused of killing her parents.
Style:
suspense
Plot:
family tragedy, parent child relationship, investigation, family secret, suspicion, teen angst, ethical dilemma, grief, legal battle, courtroom drama, small town, isolation ...
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402
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
After learning that her new husband touches her daughter inappropriately, Morgan's plans to leave him unwittingly turn into the fight of her life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
child abuse, protective mother, family drama, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, family problems, violence, domestic violence, relationship problems, trauma, confrontation ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman who excels at reading body language realizes that something is deeply wrong during a quiet night at home, turning a peaceful night into a terrifying fight for her own survival.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller
Plot:
home invasion, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, paranoia, survival, mind game, isolation, claustrophobia, struggle for survival, home alone, character study, single ...
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512
Genre: Thriller
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A father and his two daughters are sailing in a lake when they encounter a pair of shipwrecked men. They say to be looking for someone they lost and ask for help to find him. This begins a tense search in which the father suspects he is held hostage.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, boat, rescue from drowning, sea disaster, catastrophe, family relations, problem, suspicion, family drama, isolation, danger, moral ambiguity ...
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46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his five-year-old daughter is murdered, a loving family man becomes convinced that the oddball down the street is guilty.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
bereavement, revenge, grief, lynching, price of justice, vengeance, murderer, neighbor, child murder, murder mystery, loss of child, loss of daughter ...
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43%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A family lives in a cabin in the middle of a submerged forest in the mist and shrouded in perpetual twilight after an undefined global catastrophe. The father keeps his children locked in the basement into believing that a wild beast roams outside.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological horror, sinister, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
coming of age, isolation, claustrophobia, slow burn, post apocalyptic, fog, symbolism, family drama, paranoia, imprisonment, basement, father son relationship ...
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43%
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:
42%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Movie MARTIN is a Suspense Thriller which is new experiment in the Konkani film industry. "It's a story about a person who comes to Goa after 8 years, and how his life turns upside down is the crux of the movie.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tension, experimental, tense ...
Plot:
secrets, revenge, homecoming, conflict, slow burn, mature, identity, mistrust, betrayal, small town, moral ambiguity, loss ...
Similarity:
41%
86
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two years ago, a chest appeared in the woods. It could not be moved. It could not be opened. Its contents were unknown. The dead began to appear within the week. Today, a police trainee is tasked with guarding the chest. And for the first time since ...
Style:
tense, suspense, sinister, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
religious cult, supernatural, trap, forest, threat, trapped, isolation, paranoia, paranormal, survival, imprisonment, superstition ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Riley wants to rebuild her relationship with her mother and little sister, who are shut-ins due to her sister's illness. When Riley realizes her sister may not be sick, her mother will stop at nothing to keep her daughters with her forever.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
child murderess, mother daughter relationship, murder, psychopath, female antagonist, violence, emotional manipulation, psychological abuse, control, family drama, motherhood, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Thirteen years after disappearing and presumed drowned, Matt returns home to his mother Sarah. Suspicions grow when her older son Ian is injured in a car accident similar to the one that recently killed his father.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
car accident, family problems, family drama, missing person, secret past, suspicion, family secret, deception, family relations, getting home, accident, mysterious disappearance ...
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40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
southern gothic, bleak, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revenge, american south, dark past, secrets, escapades, brutality, fear, paranoia, life is a bitch, family in danger, family problems, danger ...
Place:
appalachia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young botanist relocates to a small desert town to study an invasive plant species. While out on research, she comes to the aid of a downed plane only to find herself taken captive by an inexperienced drug mule who forces her to lead a trek across ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, tension ...
Plot:
desert, survival, hostage, drug dealer, female protagonist, drug, kidnapping, problem, drug traffic, drug dealing, bandit, drug smuggling ...
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39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. ...
Style:
tension, tense, suspense, suspenseful, period piece
Plot:
rabies, father son relationship, family drama, wilderness, survival, sacrifice, man versus nature, isolation, disaster, moral dilemma, small town, coming of age ...
Time:
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39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In early 1970s Florida, an ominous white van stalks young women. A teenage girl is the latest victim, but this one won't stay a victim.
Style:
independent film, tension, creepy, psychological thriller, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
stalking, halloween, trauma, survival, female protagonist, small town, suburbs, obsession, cat and mouse, isolation, family drama, slow burn ...
Time:
70s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rishi and his girlfriend Adithi are on their way to visit Rishi's father and their car breaks down. A stranger offers them a stay at his house. What is Rishi's connection with the stranger, and how does they come out of the weird situation
Style:
twisted, suspense, twist ending, tense, creepy ...
Plot:
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38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 18 min.
Story:
When an ancient being infiltrates an imaginative young man's family ranch, he must take it upon himself to discover who can be trusted and who is turning them against each other.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, mistrust, paranoia, haunting, isolation, small town, secrets, family secret, psychological manipulation, betrayal, family drama, investigation ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When aspiring photography vlogger Tara gets dumped by her long term boyfriend, her best friend Amy takes her on a weekend getaway to her family's vacation lake house where a mysterious and effortlessly attractive man crosses their path. They ...
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mysterious stranger, female friendship, ambiguity, secrets, love triangle, sexual tension, jealousy, manipulation, isolation, weekend getaway, character study, slow burn ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man with supernatural gifts meets his match in this suspenseful independent drama. Clay Doyle is a drifter with an unusual psychic talent -- as he puts it, "Places talk to me," and when Dale visits someplace he's never been before, ...
Style:
independent film, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
psychic, paranormal, supernatural, a vision, secrets, small town, investigation, murder mystery, haunting, macabre, ghost, isolation ...
Place:
florida, southern usa, valencia spain
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a haunting when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse.
Style:
melancholic, psychological thriller, psychological horror, gothic, supernatural thriller ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, grief, family drama, haunting, trauma, secrets, supernatural, confronting the past, slow burn, isolation, obsession, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
35%
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87
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Thriller - A detective searching for more than his suspect. A locksmith with a disturbing obsession. - Ben Clayton, Stephen Jackon, Amy Chomsky
Style:
suspense, detective, psychological thriller, crime thriller, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, a vision, investigation, obsession, locksmith, cat and mouse, paranoia, moral ambiguity, haunting, stalker, suspect, trauma ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Amy, a young woman with amnesia, pieces together her past with deadly consequences.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, twisted, dark ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, secrets, identity, identity crisis, danger, female protagonist, investigation, psychological manipulation, trauma, paranoia, past life ...
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34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, independent film, intense, dark ...
Plot:
coming of age, family drama, mother and daughter, revenge, trauma, guilt, grief, moral ambiguity, teenage protagonist, ethical dilemma, loss, loss of innocence ...
Similarity:
33%
178
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, everything seems fine with his new extended family, until the two set off on a hunting trip, where Jack starts showing a rather violent streak to his ...
Style:
dark, tense, suspense, psychological horror
Plot:
hunting, father son relationship, family drama, family conflict, fatherhood, violence, betrayal, character study, escalation, forest, moral ambiguity, lawyer ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young boy takes a stand when his mother's grief threatens to destroy both of their lives.
Style:
captivating, suspense, bleak, heartbreaking, realistic ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, grief, coming of age, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, family relations, relationship problems, life is a bitch, kids and family, parents and children, family problems, family tragedy ...
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32%
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:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fleeing her abusive ex, Jess hires a fishing boat captain to take her across Lake Superior to a new life in Canada. When an accident leaves her washed up on shore, she’s taken in by a reclusive lighthouse keeper. As Jess is nursed back to health, ...
Style:
suspense, tense, atmospheric, dark, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lighthouse, unsettling, trauma, isolation, domestic abuse, escape, survival, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, escape attempt ...
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