Movies like 20 Minutes
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20 Minutes (2023)
714
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An incoming ballistic missile to Hawaii changes twelve people's lives when they discover they have 20 minutes to live.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspense, apocalyptic
Plot:
missile, countdown, rocket, nuclear missile, nuclear threat, threat, race against time, death threat, rocket launching, island, panic, anxiety, survival, existential crisis, desperation, family drama, loss of control, regret, morality, evacuation, fatalism, mourning, heroism, flashback, hopes ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
hawaii
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Most similar movies to 20 Minutes
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about survival, threat, isolation, cat and mouse, problem, female protagonist and family drama mostly in Thriller genres. Some movies like 20 Minutes: The Surprise Visit (2022), 12 Desperate Hours (2023), Safe Room (2022), Stalker (2022), Targeted (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a young couple makes a surprise visit to Mom, they get an even bigger surprise themselves from an old family friend who plans to steal Mom’s valuable jewelry while she is out of town. But when the “easy peasy” robbery goes wrong, ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
heist, junkie, problem, robbery, murder, burglar, heist gone wrong, desperation, cover-up, regret, tragedy, panic ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
It centers on Val who finds herself and her young children held hostage by Denny when he forces his way into her house after committing murder that day.
Style:
suspense, captivating, thrilling, psychological, intense
Plot:
hostage, home invasion, protective parent, fear, problem, life is a bitch, hostage situation, invasion, threat, confrontation, survival, panic ...
Similarity:
75%
399
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After her son accidentally witnesses a break-in in the house across the street and records the horrific murder of the homeowner, Lila becomes embroiled in a deadly struggle to protect him.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
home invasion, house, problem, autist, criminal, mother and son, invasion, death threat, witnessing a crime, threat, murder witness, witness ...
Similarity:
71%
133
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A well-known Hollywood actress is suddenly tormented by a stalker. Her sister and high school boyfriend try to figure out who is tormenting her.
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Style:
psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalker, actress, life is a bitch, problem, celebrity, female protagonist, obsession, danger, psychological manipulation, investigation, cat and mouse, anxiety ...
Similarity:
61%
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408
Genre: Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Axel is an employee of a call center who is used to complaints from his clients and an unbearable boss. Axel has a natural talent for dealing with people and their problems. But one day everything changes, when he receives a call from Figueroa Mont, ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
call center, threat, male protagonist, fear, telephone call, threatening telephone call, race against time, workplace situations, threat to kill, problem, anonymous telephone call, escalation ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Olivia and her friends go on a vacation. After Olivia nearly drowns with a slit wrist in her bathtub after her fiancé's funeral, her friends suspect that she tried to kill herself, but she believes someone attacked her.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suicide attempt, female protagonist, trauma, grief, mental health, bereavement, secret, suicide, problem, mourning, post traumatic stress, isolation ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The president of the United States declares a state of emergency after a deadly virus developed as a bio-weapon is accidentally released across the globe.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
quarantine, bio weapon, pandemic, virus, terrorism, epidemic, virus outbreak, terrorist attack, disease, terrorist, deadly virus, terrorizing ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Having an alter ego becomes a deadly game when a single mother who works at a hotel during the day and as a high-end escort at night discovers her daughter is missing. Unsure who from her various lives would take her child, she takes matters into ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
double life, single mother, secret identity, missing child, female protagonist, relationship problems, sister sister relationship, dual role, mother and daughter, family problems, life is a bitch, family drama ...
Place:
hawaii
Similarity:
54%
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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 ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Argentina, Costa Rica
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A gritty, international tale of four separate stories woven together by a common theme: the Rapture.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
religion, christian, danger, chases and races, rescue, race against time, religions or cults, worldwide chaos, chaos and mayhem, dating, apocalypse, christian propaganda ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, tokyo, rio de janeiro, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
54%
423
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Bride-to-be Carina (Durance) decides to take four friends to an exotic Caribbean island for a hen party to remember. After arriving at the luxurious resort the women take a boat ride to an isolated island where they can bask in the sun and sand - ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
survival, remote island, bridesmaid, desert island, bachelorette party, stranded, girlfriend, female protagonist, fiancee, mysterious disappearance, problem, women ...
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a tragedy reunites Nicole with her childhood friends, they each find themselves in danger, targets of a deranged stalker. Nicole knows this can't be a coincidence. The secrets of their past are coming back to haunt them.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
stalker, friends, haunted by the past, confronting the past, black, threat, mysterious past, old friend, group of friends, hunted, danger, secrets ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Carter will again stop at nothing to find her perfect family.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
psycho, life is a bitch, confronting the past, terror, dark past, threat, troubled past, female protagonist, psycho terror, tragic past, female antagonist, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of “freedom” in the isolated desert campus called The Aviary, Jillian and Blair join forces to escape in hopes of ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
escape, cult leader, desert, survival, hallucination, manhunt, female protagonist, therapy, religious sect, runaway, women, paranoid ...
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
44%
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:
44%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
While investigating the disappearance of several high school girls, an undercover cop posing as a student finds herself fighting for her life.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot:
pretense, mysterious disappearance, sleuth, investigation, crime investigation, police investigation, survival, student, violence, crime solving, female student, undercover police officer ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Set in 1995. A helicopter, operated remotely, is hovering in the sky over a nuclear power plant. The power company, prefectural government and media all receive a fax. The fax contains a threat that if the nuclear power plant is not taken offline ...
Style:
tension, suspense, intense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
terrorism, helicopter, hostage, rescue, nuclear power, threat, race against time, terror, terrorist, terrorist attack, risk, saving a life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, china
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When his estranged daughter Miranda tragically dies, a retired musician sets out to complete the last song she wrote.
Style:
emotional, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
musician's life, daughter, tragedy, musician, father, ghost, loss, grief, bereavement, life is a bitch, problem, loss of daughter ...
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A publicity seeking radio DJ is driven to the edge of insanity when he attempts to break the 11 day world record for staying awake-under the threat of a deranged caller who will kill him if he falls asleep.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
insomnia, threat, radio dj, sleep disorder, sleep deprivation, paranoia, mental breakdown, psycho terror, terrorizing, problem, life is a bitch, terrorism ...
Similarity:
39%
138
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Collin escaped the hood and found his wife and fortune. His brother Trey is paroled from a murder charge and comes to stay with him. After a disastrous accident, Trey holds Collin and friends hostage vowing he is never going back to prison
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
hostage, family problems, hostage situation, threat, problem, brother vs brother, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, criminal, family relations, danger, prison ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
David and Suju are a newlywed couple,soon expecting a baby. David is knee-deep in debt, gets embroiled in an unforeseen financial dilemma during the lockdown, attempts handling it in his own maniacal ways
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
debt, suicide attempt, financial crisis, businessman, destiny, lifestyle, crisis, desperation, survival, loss of control, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Years after the tragic death of his sister, Zach returns to his childhood home. There he finds an old toy phone he used to "talk" to his dead sister, setting off a series of terrifying events, making him question what, and who, is real.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, mystical ...
Plot:
supernatural, trauma, loss, grief, reality versus fantasy, loss of sister, mysticism, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, paranormal, getting home, loss of family member ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, sex trafficking, serial killer, paranoia, trauma, human trafficking, kidnapping, female protagonist, struggle for survival, trap, trapped, murderer ...
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marisa and Frank honeymoon in South Africa. A particularly favourable offer lures them to a lonely and run-down hotel. There, they are attacked by men. Frank is beaten and kidnapped, while Marisa barely escapes. She receives help from the young ...
Style:
suspense, tension, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
black market, escape, organ trafficking, conspiracy, hospital, ambulance, organ theft, kidnapping, abduction, threat, death threat, runaway ...
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a mother takes her teenage daughter on a cruise for some much needed bonding, the two unexpectedly find themselves falling for a couple of very handsome passengers. However, when they leave the ship for a port excursion, they quickly realize ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
mother and daughter, deception, fugitive, con artists, family relations, problem, male female relationship, relationships, relationship problems, mother daughter relationship, secret, vacation gone wrong ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
36%
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:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Five years have passed and Luther still blames Detective John Smith for destroying his life, as John had helped convict Luther on a murder charge. After being denied parole, Luther, along with two goons, escapes from prison. John, now married, is a ...
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
faith, home invasion, hostage, threat, wrestling, revenge, redemption, family in danger, religious faith, female hostage, belief in god, hostage situation ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman moves to a new town and opens her own gourmet restaurant after escaping from an abusive relationship. However, she soon finds herself in a deadly game of cat and mouse when she becomes the target of constant harassment from a jealous man.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
stalker, female protagonist, chef, female chef, restaurant, problem, relationships, male female relationship, life is a bitch, jealousy, jealous man, threat ...
Similarity:
34%
302
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Donnie Mann, his father and uncle embark on a weekend hunting trip in West Texas, where they find a mysterious man shot in the stomach and clutching a backpack full of money.
Style:
suspenseful, gothic, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
hunting, uncle nephew relationship, father son relationship, who done it, money falling through the air, family relations, money problems, murder, dysfunctional family, isolation, moral ambiguity, desperation ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a deadly home invasion, Emma (Mo'Nique Hicks) copes by writing a book, but when a young psychic and her team perform a reading in her home, a new terror is unleashed.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, tense
Plot:
home invasion, female protagonist, terror, psycho terror, threat, black woman, interracial relations, interracial marriage, death of son, death of husband, producer, mariticide ...
Similarity:
33%
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