Movies like Island 2025
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Island (2025)
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Original name: Isola
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The story follows Joanna, a striking forty-year-old woman trapped in a stifling marriage to a wealthy and controlling man. When she meets Ada, an enigmatic and free-spirited young woman, Joanna is drawn into a journey of self-discovery and rebellion. As their bond deepens, Joanna begins to break free from the life that has imprisoned her but liberation comes at a price she never anticipated.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, gothic
Plot:
island, isolation, power struggle, claustrophobia, manipulation, confined, domestic drama, seduction, midlife crisis, sexual awakening, moral ambiguity, female empowerment, betrayal, cheating wife, lesbian love, older man younger woman marriage, older woman younger woman relationship, sexless marriage, mystery
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Most similar movies to Island
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about moral ambiguity, isolation, claustrophobia, manipulation, betrayal, slow burn and obsession mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Island: Rare Blood (2020), Death in the Cul-De-Sac (2024), Restless (2024), The Hole (1997), Swarm (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A gripping psychological thriller where a paranoid husband, Panos and his cunning sister plot against his unsuspecting wife. A dream of a life in the country turns into a dystopian nightmare.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
isolation, survival, dysfunctional family, paranoia, family relations, family conflict, conspiracy, farm, female protagonist, psychological abuse, manipulation, farmhouse ...
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Anita Jackson is thrilled when she and husband Jack move to an exclusive neighborhood with their adopted daughter Jilly. When she is invited to join the development's "Wives Club", her calendar is suddenly filled with parties, play ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, moody
Plot:
suspicion, paranoia, manipulation, murder mystery, claustrophobia, betrayal, investigation, female rivalry, macabre, social satire, child in peril, isolation ...
Similarity:
76%
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:
68%
182
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Newlywed, Su-jin, believes that nothing will interfere with her happiness or come between herself and her husband, Dong-woo. That is, until she meets her mother-in-law. Dong-woo is devoted to his mother and now that they are all living together, it ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, intense, grim
Plot:
murder, obsessive love, power struggle, revenge, female protagonist, betrayal, obsession, claustrophobia, manipulation, paranoid, stalker, household ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
67%
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69
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A secluded island somewhere on a seas of the Northern Europe. A family of four has lived here for over ten years, perfecting the art of survival. They had moved onto an island to escape a falling civilization, to live in freedom, close to nature. ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
island, isolation, family relations, life, family drama, male female relationship, problem, relationships, social isolation, social problems, marital problem, social issues ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A woman tries to move on past her divorce, she goes to a singles retreat, but begins to see that things aren't what they seem.
Style:
suspense, tense, dark, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
retreat, secrets, manipulation, danger, deception, domestic drama, single woman, obsession, betrayal, paranoia, isolation, relationships ...
Similarity:
61%
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:
59%
167
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. He'll soon meet someone that knows what he's doing.
Style:
homoerotic, dark, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
sexual tension, gay, murder, secrets, lgbt, ethical dilemma, euthanasia, manipulation, moral ambiguity, nurse, nightshift, character study ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, breaking point, problem, family problems, murderer, domestic drama, moral dilemma, character study, family conflict, female protagonist, intimate, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A busy working mother hires a nurse to care for her wealthy father who has early onset dementia. Soon a bizarre deception creeps into play when the seductive nurse makes a play for the family fortune.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, dark
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, nurse, manipulation, greed, inheritance, betrayal, suspicion, seduction, house, dementia, female villain, family drama ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An enterprising Sugar Baby is offered $30,000 to move in with her Sugar Daddy for the week, but soon discovers the sinister secrets trapped within his home.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, noir
Plot:
female protagonist, manipulation, psychological abuse, seduction, betrayal, isolation, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, slow burn, surveillance, urban ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A rising tennis star becomes entangled in a savage charade with a grieving couple while staying in their picturesque home.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, grim, twist ending ...
Plot:
betrayal, domestic drama, grief, moral ambiguity, deception, revenge, psychological manipulation, manipulation, obsession, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, intimate ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman tries to prove her husband is having an affair so she can initiate a divorce. She soon finds herself romantically involved with the other woman's husband, unaware that her own husband and his mistress are plotting to kill them.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, noir
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, domestic drama, assassination plot, jealousy, female protagonist, divorce, secrets, investigation, power struggle, betrayal, deception ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After Jack and Lucy rescue a woman from freezing cold in the middle of Scottish mountains, they come to realize that the woman is not who she says she is.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, ambiguous ending, gothic
Plot:
deception, isolation, paranoia, cold, psychological manipulation, christmas, femme fatale, cat and mouse, intruder, winter, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia ...
Place:
scottish highlands
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jeremy Northam portrays a real estate tycoon, while Fionnula Flanagan plays the matriarch of the Lazarov family, in this psychological thriller.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, manipulation, revenge, family drama, unsettling, obsession, betrayal, moral ambiguity, slow burn, power struggle, matriarchy, mistrust ...
Similarity:
47%
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:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Plot:
island, mistrust, suspicion, unsettling, slow burn, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, irrational behavior, character study, paranoia, isolation, secrets ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
After Nuru's disappearance Rokeya becomes nervous and vulnerable. Taking advantage of the situation, Rafsan is trying his best to get rid of Rokeya. A new character named Niloy is introduces as Rafsan's fan boy. Things get more complicated ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, twisted, crime drama ...
Plot:
manipulation, dark secret, domestic drama, psychological abuse, emotional manipulation, betrayal, female protagonist, claustrophobia, obsession, vengeance, revenge, power struggle ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, isolation, locked in, elevator, trap, mind game, captivity, danger, social problems, trapped, psychopath, social relations ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A womanizing executive picks up a divoree and embarks in an affair, only to have his life destroyed by her jealous husband.
Style:
suspense, noir, independent film
Plot:
adultery, revenge, love triangle, affair, infidelity, seduction, betrayal, obsession, jealous husband, domestic drama, deception, manipulation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
41%
182
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside, Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker, and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi explains that he is looking for work in the area, and so she points him in the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, intense, erotic drama ...
Plot:
blindness, love triangle, forbidden love, jealousy, infidelity, adultery, sexual tension, isolation, betrayal, obsession, secrets, slow burn ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Thomas and Marie are getting divorced and must meet one last weekend to empty and sell their summer house. Neither one of them knows the other's real intentions. A young woman suddenly appears, with a jealousy-driven agenda all of her own. What ...
Style:
psychological thriller, emotional, tension, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
divorce, jealousy, marriage, domestic drama, marital problem, love story, love triangle, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, love affair, problem ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drifter comes between an aging Southern beauty and her teenaged daughter.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, southern gothic, sinister ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, murder, love triangle, family secret, trauma, betrayal, domestic drama, stalker, manipulation, hotel, revenge, guilt ...
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
40%
Movie in collections
365
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A criminal gradually integrates himself into a broken household by methodically asserting control over a teenage girl and her lonely mother.
Style:
realistic, suspense, serious, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teen angst, criminal heroes, youth, parents and children, teenage life, uninvited guest, mother daughter relationship, manipulation, domestic drama, psychological abuse, control, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Pretty and popular, seventeen-year-old Brooke Emerson is the envy of her classmates--and even some of her closest friends. But while she seems to have it all, Brooke has never felt so lost. Ever since she sustained a head injury during a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Plot:
manipulation, psychological manipulation, deception, murder mystery, toxic relationship, hidden truth, secret, crime and punishment, murder, runaway, teenage girl, youth ...
Similarity:
37%
854
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The trip aboard a luxury yacht of three couples that will turn from an exciting experience to a terrible nightmare.
Style:
suspense, tense, thrilling, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
boat, yacht, isolation, sea, claustrophobia, survival, paranoia, suspicion, slow burn, betrayal, power struggle, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A mother and her three daughters — romantic Bee, sensible Evie, and child of nature Daisy — occupy the titular glass building, which has been completely sealed off to protect its occupants from a dementia-inducing toxin called the Shred that’s ...
Style:
tension, psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
memory loss, seduction, distopia, family secret, isolation, confined, claustrophobia, relationships, male female relationship, seductive, memory lapse, memory ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
35%
352
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
John Whitmore wakes to find his wife, Anne, has disappeared from their bed overnight and a recorded ransom message now remains in her place.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, dark, tense, intense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing person, abduction, paranoia, claustrophobia, desperation, isolation, road trip, manipulation, hostage situation, betrayal, character study ...
Similarity:
35%
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:
35%
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:
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