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Kraken (2026)
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marine biologist Johanne is doing research on a fish farm in Vangsnes, a rural community located by the fjord, when she encounters several strange occurrences. Along with the brutal deaths of two local teenagers, all signs point to the deep fjord; can there be more to the depths than the eye can see? At the bottom of the deepest fjord rests a mythical monster as large as a mountain, with a myriad of arms ready to crush and devour anything they can grab.
Style:
suspenseful, creepy
Plot:
sea monster, creature feature, small town, survival horror, isolation, folklore, nordic, claustrophobia, supernatural horror, gore
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Most similar movies to Kraken
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and dark films with plots about isolation, survival, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, survival horror, small town and violent mostly in Action, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Kraken: Crazy Lizard (2024), Crypto Legacy (2020), Shark Huntress (2021), The Tunnel (2019), Death Hunt (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young man climbs into the mountains to pick up a meteorite that has fallen there and is killed by something. The "thing" descends to the village and begins to eat the inhabitants one by one, terrorizing the entire island.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, tension, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
isolation, creature feature, meteorite, island, survival, paranoia, desperation, remote village, mountain, cosmic horror, claustrophobia, body horror ...
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95%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Troy Morgan doesn't like his family's farm. The place creeps him out. After spotting some strange lights one evening, Troy and his little sister Carrie go to investigate the creepy barn.
Style:
suspenseful, spooky, intense, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot:
paranormal investigation, danger, monster, ghost, ritual, supernatural power, hunter, cryptid, supernatural, paranormal activity, hunting, fear ...
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81%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Shelia, an environmentalist venturing into the deep sea to capitalize on the billion-dollar plastic industry encounters deadly enhanced sharks. She wants revenge… it wants blood.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shark attack, shark, animal attack, sharksploitation, creature feature, sea monster, giant monster, sea, human versus monster, monster, monster attack, environmentalism ...
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74%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a truck crashes inside a tunnel, people on their way home for Christmas are brutally trapped in a deadly fire. With a blizzard raging outside, and the first responders struggling to get to the accident, it's every man for himself.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, tunnel, danger, disaster, rescue, life & death, catastrophe, hopes, car accident, confined, youth, christmas ...
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in the late 1990s, once a year a group of men choose to hunt human targets on a remote island. A developer and his mistress retreat to a getaway cottage where they are taken hostage, brought to the island, and hunted for sport.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, brutal, sadistic, psychological
Plot:
island, struggle for survival, survival, manhunt, chase, violent, survival horror, isolation, hostage, cat and mouse, escape, bloodbath ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A car mechanic's life takes an unexpected turn when his reckless brother makes a bad decision gaining the unwanted attention of a notorious crime boss.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, neo noir
Plot:
organized crime, brotherhood, betrayal, mob boss, moral ambiguity, redemption, mature, revenge, survival, violent, machismo, corruption ...
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65%
2K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Set in 1970s Abhinaya Vasudev, an orphaned and happy-go-lucky postman, treats the Krishnagiri village populace as his extended family. When several women missing and Vasudev’s loved one is nearly abducted, he is determined to find answers.
Style:
suspense, dark, atmospheric, tense, creepy ...
Plot:
abduction, village, fear, small town, haunting, investigation, folk horror, slow burn, isolation, supernatural, postman, community ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
58%
12K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a dangerous new troll unleashes devastation across their homeland, Nora, Andreas and Major Kris embark on their most perilous mission yet.
Style:
horror comedy, dark fantasy, tense, action thriller, satirical
Plot:
troll, monster, mythical creature, creature feature, final showdown, forest, helicopter, tomb, kaiju, small town, teamwork, survival ...
Time:
90s, 2020s
Similarity:
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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:
suspense thriller, tense, intense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
killer whale, isolation, man versus nature, animal attack, survival, claustrophobia, escape, female friendship, cat and mouse, panic, visceral, minimalism ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Robert Saunters, a mechanic is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked up inside the restaurant's freezer. Knowing nothing of why he's there, he realizes he has been mistaken as someone else.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
freezer, kidnapping, danger, confined, hostage, twists and turns, struggle for survival, claustrophobia, prisoner, gang, isolation, cold ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Kosovo
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
North Washington county sheriff Tabby finds herself alone in the sheriff’s office one night while her colleagues are out on patrol, but she soon finds out they’ve been set up by a murderous drug cartel while she herself comes under siege at the ...
Style:
suspense, action thriller, intense, crime drama, high tension
Plot:
trapped, female protagonist, siege, survival, protective parent, law enforcement, drug cartel, mother son relationship, isolation, small town, violent, claustrophobia ...
Place:
washington state
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Two couples plan to spend a week in an empty farmhouse located in Germany's Black Forest.
Style:
creepy, tension, suspenseful, splatter, independent film ...
Plot:
ghost, farmhouse, woods, isolation, macabre, darkness, fear, european, paranoia, couples, claustrophobia, serial killer ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Karan and Vrushali go to Rajasthan for their pre-wedding shoot where an anonymous person haunts and traps them. Why did he trap them? What will he do to them?
Style:
suspense, intense, thrilling, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
abduction, desert, psychological torture, fear, cat and mouse, survival, stalker, most dangerous game, dark secret, isolation, obsession, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: South Africa, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of teenagers suffer a terrible accident during a joy ride and get trapped at the bottom of a ravine.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, intense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
survival, confined, teenage life, psychopath, youth, wrong place wrong time, danger, teenager, trapped, desperation, fear of death, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A film crew led by stuntman Donnie come to witness a Gangland hit, and have to fight for their lives to survive the night.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, indie film, noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
martial arts, survival, filmmaking, cat and mouse, hunted, violent, claustrophobia, siege, behind the scenes, criminal gang, survival horror, home invasion ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Follows a group of male hunters who regularly lure women to their island with the chance to win 100K in a hunt, only to discover that they are the hunted, but this time they mess with the wrong girls and must deal with the consequences.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
hunting, survival game, survival, survival horror, gory, women, group, manhunt, bloody violence, carnage, struggle for survival, hunter ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Málaga, southern Spain. Seven men, divided into four cars, set off with a large drug shipment towards Creil, a city near Paris; a routine mission that will be complicated by a fatal sequence of events.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, fast paced, noir
Plot:
convoy, road trip, drug traffic, kidnapping, cannabis, smuggling, criminal underworld, gang, shootout, car chase, violence, realism ...
Place:
spain, france
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, cliffhanger
Plot:
disaster, flood, escaped prisoner, trapped, survival, confined space, claustrophobia, danger, desperation, isolation, panic, suspicion ...
Similarity:
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682
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jade presents the story of a woman who comes between a powerful businessman and a gang leader in their search for a hard drive that could damage the operations of Interpol. Despite grieving for the brother she accidentally killed, the woman is ...
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, action packed ...
Plot:
corruption, female protagonist, organized crime, guilt, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, grief, conspiracy, cat and mouse, gang leader, betrayal, violent ...
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
What was once a place of joy and happiness is now a place of ruin and despair; haunted by a horrifying past, and the animatronic entertainers. Mike Schimdt, is tricked and now forced to work the night shift at the children's pizzeria ...
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, gloomy, creepy ...
Plot:
nightshift, survival, survival horror, night watchman, haunted, pizzeria, human versus robot, evil robot, struggle for survival, night, threat, mysterious past ...
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44%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Story:
A federal agent, Kate Parker arrives in a small rural town to extradite Claire Scott, a young woman suspected of murdering a government scientist. Kate is prevented from delivering her prisoner as the mysterious John Lawson, a rouge agent, now ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, exciting, stylized ...
Plot:
law enforcement, danger, injustice, chases and races, isolation, female criminal, cat and mouse, government conspiracy, bio weapon, assassin, female protagonist, fugitive ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A food delivery driver gets caught in a deadly chase in the icy Minnesota wilderness, pursued by a crazed snowplow driver for unknown reasons, facing life-threatening situations and forced to outsmart his relentless pursuer alone.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, dark, road movie
Plot:
winter, survival, chase, isolation, cat and mouse, desperation, man versus nature, cold, stalker, violent, improv, underdog ...
Place:
minnesota, north america
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A vanished submarine prompts a rescue operation that leads to the Loch Ness monster. Having escaped the Loch, the creature unleashes decades of pent-up aggression on those it encounters.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, gloomy, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loch ness monster, sea monster, monster, water monster, group, creature feature, giant monster, ship, castaway, submarine, cryptid, fear ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A burned-out professional sniper finds himself trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a lethal competitor and must find a way to survive and escape with little to no cover between him and the killer.
Style:
tense, suspense, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
sniper, survival, hitman, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, threat to kill, threat, deathtrap, murderer, death threat, struggle for survival, trap ...
Similarity:
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325
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the beautiful underwater reefs off the coast of Florida's pastoral Pajaro Island, a fissure rips open in the ocean floor. When graduate student Greg Chambers encounters the seismic readings, he rushes to tell his professor, Anthony ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, harsh, captivating, dramatic ...
Plot:
disaster, survival, earthquake, resort, graduate student, small town, catastrophe, burned alive, ocean, professor, city, coastal town ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, fast paced, realistic
Plot:
survival, panic, limousine, isolation, kidnapping, danger, water, escape, hostage, struggle for survival, young adult, friends ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nothing bad could ever happen on quiet, tree lined Wormwood Drive. At least that's what Bob and Wendi Petersen thought, before they met their new neighbor...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, psychological horror ...
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, small town, family in danger, mind game, gory, dark secret, neighbor, paranoia, home invasion, poisoning, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Harvesters is an action-packed thriller about a small-time gang of misfits led by lesbian Gulf War veteran Frankie Falzone. After she thrashes a redneck at a strip club, she and her gang move on to a small town where they rob a liquor store and kill ...
Style:
tense, thrilling, grim, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
violence, murder, survival, home invasion, law enforcement, isolation, backwoods, small town, outlaw gang, chase, manhunt, survival horror ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Cash is trying to live a quiet, honest life in a small Appalachian town. When a vicious crime boss forces him back into her services, he soon learns he's capable of anything -- even killing -- to protect his family and his home.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
town, family relations, revenge, small town, farmer, gang, farm, farmhouse, fight, bandit, criminal gang, family farm ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Trapped inside an old mining complex, somewhere in the ruins of Chernobyl, a group of international mercenaries must band together to fight an army of mad men. 8 against 800, they just couldn't lose.
Style:
thrilling, tense, suspenseful, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
virus, threat, problem, ruins, post apocalyptic, siege, survival, underground, isolation, horde, violent, claustrophobia ...
Place:
chernobyl
Similarity:
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