Movies like Vacancy 2022
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Vacancy (2022)
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Original name: Vacances
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Her distant husband refusing to join, a mother spends the holidays alone with her children for the first time. Lost in her life, she opens up to a seducing and strange and young man, who slowly draws her into his dark trap.
Style:
tense, bleak, melancholic, psychological thriller, art house, tragic
Plot:
motherhood, female protagonist, family drama, toxic relationship, beach, seduction, single mother, isolation, parenting, manipulation, emotional abuse, gender roles, domestic abuse, midlife crisis, claustrophobia, summer vacation, infidelity, patriarchy, alienation, realism, anxiety, sexual tension, moral ambiguity, social criticism, holiday ...
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological thriller, suspense and dark films with plots about isolation, moral ambiguity, slow burn, female protagonist, psychological drama, revenge and claustrophobia mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Vacancy: Islands (2025), Two Small Bodies (1993), Lioness (2024), Sunk into the Womb (2014), Close To Me (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, crime drama, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, investigation, loneliness, missing person, suspect, moral ambiguity, character study, tennis, male protagonist, alcoholism, regret, isolation ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eileen Maloney, a hostess at a strip joint, has woken up to find her two children are missing. Lieutenant Bramm suspects that she killed them herself. He questions her for days about her lifestyle, her children, her ex-husband, men and women, and ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
transgression, obsession, interrogation, missing child, female protagonist, guilt, trauma, moral ambiguity, manipulation, character study, interrogation room, suspicion ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
55%
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:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A life of a mother and her two children breaking down quietly without showing any events happening out of their house. The film is about a child neglect and a corruption of the belief, motherhood exists in all female, based on a true incident ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, bleak, slow cinema ...
Plot:
parents and children, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, family problems, child neglect, realism, domestic drama, family relations, mother child relationship, social problems, single parent, mother issues ...
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Serbia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Luca is a forty-year-old teacher experiencing a relationship crisis with his wife, Sara, who is much wealthier than him. During the lockdown, Luca finds himself a bystander in the life of his new neighbor, Amanda, and decides to bridge the distance ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, suspense
Plot:
quarantine, loneliness, character study, isolation, existential crisis, midlife crisis, guilt, claustrophobia, introspection, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, obsession ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
50%
594
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a woman who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead he finds himself locked in a cage in the cellar.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
revenge, mind game, power struggle, captivity, ex husband, manipulation, confined, control, claustrophobia, psychological torture, cat and mouse, basement ...
Similarity:
50%
3K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man’s ward – the toughest and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, intense, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
revenge, prison guard, moral dilemma, secrets, conflict of interest, female protagonist, claustrophobia, betrayal, manipulation, trauma, violence, justice ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Alexandre finds out his wife Juliette is cheating on him. They quarrel with each over, Juliette runs away during the night, and has a fatal fall. The next day, torrential rain have taken her body away. The police force is investigating and Patrick, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, crime drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
infidelity, guilt, domestic drama, father daughter relationship, accidental death, family secret, moral ambiguity, tragedy, cover up, family drama, moral dilemma, investigation ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A thriller about a man haunted by a past trauma...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot:
trauma, identity crisis, secrets, memory loss, post traumatic stress, flashback, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia, character study, amnesia, isolation ...
Place:
germany, morocco
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, intense, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
woman in danger, abusive relationship, psychological manipulation, stalking, psychological torment, courtroom drama, attempted murder, sadism, female protagonist, fear, manipulation, trial ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Irene is a young housewife and mother who tries to raise her young family, love her husband and keep her home all the while studying her masters' degree. Mario, her husband, is a good man, but he's tied by convention. When she has a ...
Style:
psychological, intense, art house, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
repression, marriage, female protagonist, motherhood, gender roles, family drama, housewife, violence, conformity, intimate, identity, guilt ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The truth carries a heavy burden, whether it is said that it sets off a storm, or it remains in the heart that disturbs man. Between telling the truth and revealing a secret or being silent and expedient, one is preferable to the other.
Style:
emotional, tense, suspenseful, tragic
Plot:
moral dilemma, secrets, moral ambiguity, tradition, reputation, honor, village life, social conflict, character study, family drama, small community, family honor ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Rosa is a young rebel girl who lives with her grandmother and her uncle in a remote part of Calabria, in Southernmost Italy. Her mother's untimely death when Rosa was a child casts a gloomy shadow on her present life.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family secret, secret, life is a bitch, undercover, coming of age, silence, grownups, rebellion, family drama, secrets ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Samantha Anthony is a teenage girl who has been forced to deal with situations, which have made her wise far beyond her years. She's had to watch her mother spiral out-of-control while addicted to the drug meth. Lost a baby brother to CPS as a ...
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:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Coyote Lake is a reservoir on the Rio Grande along a dangerous drug smuggling route that has become synonymous with cartel violence and mysterious disappearances. It is there, on the lake, that Teresa and her seventeen-year-old daughter, Ester, run ...
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
lake, female assassin, mother and daughter, secrets, mother daughter relationship, brutality, serial killer, murder mystery, moral dilemma, macabre, family secret, nothing goes right ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
39%
450
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After thirty years, Nina decides to return to the seaside town where she grew up to confront the man who changed her life and to whom the town now pays homage. The reunion with her origins, with her memories and with Blas, a childhood friend, will ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, art house
Plot:
revenge, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, memory, homecoming, confrontation, getting home, betrayal, guilt, seaside, introspection, seaside town ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the suburb of Lille, Stéphane holds a tobacco shop with his father, Maurice, a retired military officer. Although feeling trapped in his marriage, Stéphane doesn't want to leave his wife, Elise, a lawyer, and is currently having an affair ...
Style:
bleak, intense, tense, psychological
Plot:
family drama, guilt, infidelity, ethical dilemma, family secret, adultery, moral ambiguity, betrayal, suburbs, social realism, midlife crisis, grief ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
38%
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:
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Valérie, a youthful 40, is an active, exemplary woman. A psychiatrist by trade, she is also a perfect mother, wife, and parishioner. And yet, Valérie is also a murderer.
Style:
psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling, psychological, psychological horror ...
Plot:
murder, female protagonist, domestic violence, revenge, violence against women, female serial killer, double life, murderer, killing, troubled past, tragic past, violence ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Just as a high-profile editor learns that her husband is cheating, her hot new assistant shows an interest in her. But his carefully planned seduction turns her world into a nightmare.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, magazine editor, stalker, obsession, life is a bitch, employer employee relationship, workplace, assistant, co worker co worker relationship, secret, secret identity, problem ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the tenth year of marriage, Babak and Manizheh face the biggest challenge of their life. Financial problems and difficult social situation cause Babak to work very hard and this leads to a deep gap between him and his wife, in a way that Manizheh ...
Style:
tension, dark, grim, tragic
Plot:
addiction, marriage, family drama, marital crisis, betrayal, infidelity, financial problem, regret, desperation, isolation, guilt, social commentary ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
iran
Similarity:
36%
284
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple have a peaceful existence in a small provincial town. He is a teacher and she runs an opticians practical. Their life is turned upside when Belle, a friend’s daughter who is lodging with them, is found dead in her room. The husband ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, moody
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, wrongful accusation, suspicion, small town, moral ambiguity, secrets, domestic drama, intimate, alibi, realism, provincial, trust ...
Similarity:
36%
157
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Gabon
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess ...
Style:
crime drama, dark, melancholic, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
murder, female nudity, hotel owner, manipulation, frustration, seduction, moral ambiguity, colonialism, obsession, fatalism, adaptation, sexual tension ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
africa
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison buddy, goes to take revenge on drug deal gone sour. A minimalist drama of dire simplicity, using ...
Style:
art house, bleak, grim, contemplative, slow cinema ...
Plot:
ex convict, character study, moral ambiguity, minimalism, alienation, revenge, isolation, downbeat ending, violence, drug deal, criminal underworld, gun
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
During their vacation in the French countryside, a wealthy German family becomes entangled with a young hotel worker harboring sinister intentions.
Style:
psychological thriller, sinister, tense, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, wealthy family, secrets, manipulation, moral ambiguity, domestic drama, family conflict, isolation, haunting, betrayal, cat and mouse, intimate ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
europe, marseille
Similarity:
34%
1K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sarah, a former professional kickboxer from Vienna, accepts an offer to work as a personal trainer for a rich family in the Middle East. She finds herself in a foreign world, in a palace behind walls and cut off from the internet, where the sisters ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, art house
Plot:
female protagonist, isolation, martial arts, surveillance, kickboxing, control, alienation, oppression, wealthy family, palace, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
middle east, jordan
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A philanderer falls victim to an extortion scheme when four masked strangers demand restitution for his sins.
Style:
sexy, intense, tense, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
extortion, kidnapping, revenge, abduction, infidelity, moral dilemma, claustrophobia, vigilante justice, manipulation, interrogation, punishment, deception ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas assists Leyla, an attractive blonde, when she drops her things at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he picks up the courage to ask her out for a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees, but arrives late, just as ...
Style:
suspense, tense, art house, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Plot:
obsession, minimalism, psychological manipulation, manipulation, moral ambiguity, deception, missing person, cat and mouse, loneliness, betrayal, isolation, identity ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Georgia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
37-year-old Irina, a doctor who returns home after serving a long sentence in prison. In order to start a new life and return to the society, Irina has to earn the trust of the people close to her. But does she need a place in such a society?
Style:
dark, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, doctor, character study, wrongful accusation, branding iron, prejudice, social injustice, alienation, haunting, family problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film follows a famous scientist (Bruno Cremer) who rules over his errant disabled daughter (Emmanuelle Debever) with an iron fist. He's meticulous and tyrannical, while she is impetuous but equally cruel in her own immature way.
Style:
art house, grim, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
female nudity, abusive father, family drama, psychological trauma, dysfunctional family, family secret, family tragedy, repression, emotional manipulation, claustrophobia, character study, social commentary ...
Similarity:
32%
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