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Vaka (2026)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An insomnia epidemic plunges Stockholm into chaos. A prime minister manages the crisis while protecting his son, a nurse fights to save her infected partner, and a teenager protects her neighbor amid the spreading disease.
Style:
tense, suspense, political drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
pandemic, insomnia, fear, anxiety, survival, quarantine, family relations, isolation, political intrigue, chaos, desperation, urban, nurse patient relationship, night, moral ambiguity
Place:
stockholm sweden
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, suspenseful and psychological thriller films and TV series with plots about isolation, survival, moral ambiguity, urban, cat and mouse, claustrophobia and fear mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Vaka: Riddles of Dzoom (2020), The Reckoning (2011), Contagion of Fear (2023), Raktabeej 2 (2025), Goodbye Honey (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
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Story:
During lockdown 6 girls receive an email inviting them to an online reunion of their high school group. The meeting quickly turns nightmare when they're presented with a game and a riddle.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
survival, quarantine, game playing, survival game, survival horror, game of death, group, most dangerous game, girl band, game, group of friends, struggle for survival ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, crime thriller ...
Plot:
murder, moral dilemma, inheritance, twists and turns, couples, family relations, couple relations, human nature, moral ambiguity, single mother, family drama, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A catastrophic train derailment sends the city spiraling into chaos. But the derailment is just the beginning. A biological gas attack sees crash survivors collapsing and dying within minutes. And the sickness is rapidly spreading.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
train wreck, biohazard, pandemic, infection, problem, survival, catastrophe, freight train, struggle for survival, chaos, apocalypse, train ...
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Months after the failed assassination attempt on President Animesh Chatterjee, investigator Pankaj Sinha and SP Sanjukta Mitra uncover a deadly plot, Mission M2, led by Munir Alam.
Style:
tense, political thriller, suspense, twisted, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
conspiracy, investigation, assassination, political intrigue, police procedural, terrorism, national security, betrayal, corruption, mistrust, cat and mouse, urban ...
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After escaping abduction, a frantic woman must coerce an exhausted truck driver to hide in the back of her truck for the night. The two women take refuge, not knowing what the rest of the night has in store.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, disturbing ...
Plot:
night, female protagonist, problem, escape attempt, struggle for survival, fugitives, woman in danger, woman, threat, teamwork, runaway, fear ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After fleeing her abusive boyfriend, Ava, a pregnant woman, is rescued from a car accident by a friendly married couple. While recovering at their home, she begins to fear the couple may have a sinister plan for her and her unborn baby
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, bleak, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, pregnancy, married couple, car, fear, woman, accident, woman in danger, pregnant woman, couples, survival, manipulation ...
Similarity:
67%
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:
66%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Separated across continents, petro-chemist Andy Yeats and his family must survive the deadly effects of a sudden global oil crisis and find the mastermind behind it all.
Style:
tense, dramatic, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, distopia, society, family drama, family relations, son, wife, daughter, rescue, teenage daughter, desperation, family bonds ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
60%
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644
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a catastrophic event, eight girls find themselves stranded in a house without electricity. As they run out of food and water, their sanity begins to crumble, and soon they regress to their baser instincts.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
survival, party, isolation, claustrophobia, struggle for survival, trap, teenage girl, teenager, trapped, fear, mentally unstable, mentally unstable woman ...
Similarity:
59%
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:
59%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On their way home from Brooklyn psychiatrist Vic, daughter Julie and sister Stacey run short of gas. They leave they highway to search a petrol station - but end up erring around in South Bronx. A youth gang under the sadistic Ice stops their car ...
Style:
tense, suspense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After a revenge obsessed society incorrectly selects its next target, a young man must survive the night as the online witch-hunt arrives at his front door.
Style:
suspense, tense, dark, satirical
Plot:
home invasion, witch hunt, media frenzy, survival, vigilante justice, social commentary, accusation, internet culture, isolation, paranoia, fear, suspicion ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Three years after author Kate Sanders penned a best selling novel about a serial killer, she has become the victim of a twisted tale of art imitating life -- left crippled after fleeing a deadly and psychotic reader, she lives in isolation, ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, dark, tense, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
woman with a gun, serial killer, disability, murder, paraplegic, fear, obsession, stalker, revenge, trauma, paranoia, cat and mouse ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bonding family weekend turns sinister in a storm.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, forces of nature, stalker, confined, escapades, danger, hostage, stalking, fear, night, storm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the pandemic lock-down, A motivational speaker named Kalidas moves into the thirteenth floor of an apartment in Kochi. Soon Kalidas begins to observe supernatural elements around him and he decides to investigate.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
quarantine, isolation, problem, social problems, loneliness, supernatural, supernatural horror, macabre, unsettling, claustrophobia, haunting, single ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, intense, grim ...
Plot:
pandemic, survival, moral dilemma, psychological manipulation, social commentary, isolation, survival game, intimate, claustrophobia, character study, single, minimalism ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
56%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, creepy, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
After an embarrassing incident at work, a man finds himself investigating a far-reaching conspiracy.
Style:
suspense, tense, twisted, noir, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The announcement of a nation-wide lock-down due to the spread of COVID-19 pandemic disrupts the peace of a family. What follows is a series of bizarre events as one of them tries to invite the spirit of a family member.
Style:
creepy, psychological thriller, tense, mysterious, psychological horror ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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697
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Every moment is filled with danger for a man cutting timber in the Pacific Northwest, but Jack becomes the target of a brutal assault from more than the elements in this action-packed thriller. As Jack ventures deeper into the woods, he crosses ...
Style:
brutal, tense, suspenseful, intense, bleak
Plot:
survival, forest, wilderness, chase, isolation, hunting, escape, fear, violent, ambush, desperation, vengeance ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Krishna is a notorious Jewel Heist. In an unimaginable circumstances a Lady Enters into his life and thereby his total life style takes a change. But unknowingly he was trapped into a Cobweb and he has to use all his cleverness and potency to get ...
Style:
suspense, twisted, tense, crime drama, fast paced
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
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109
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 63 min.
TV show
Story:
Summer is almost over and Germán invites his friends for a few days of fun, sun and sex on his luxurious yacht. The dream vacation quickly turns into a night when the group of friends go for a swim and forget to attach the ladder to the side of ...
Style:
tense, suspense, tension, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, sea, yacht, isolation, struggle for survival, lost at sea, friends, sea adventure, sea disaster, sea voyage, problem, sailing ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
51%
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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:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A literature teacher suspects that a well-respected surgeon has drugged her and begins a legal case against him.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, private investigation, teacher, suspicion, deception, surgeon, drug, problem, court, female teacher, crime solving ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story:
A single mother tries to dodge her troubled past by relocating to another city with her defiant teenager, only to discover there are forces that cannot be outrun.
Style:
suspense, dramatic, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
small town, black american, teenager, african american, fear, single mother, mother son relationship, escape, mature, troubled past, family relations, fight ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
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Story:
Three prisoners on run try to rob three banks. They are well-prepared and know how to run away with the booty. Is someone handling them from behind the screens?
Style:
crime thriller, tense, captivating, thrilling, crime drama ...
Plot:
team, bandit, robbery, runaway, fugitives, criminal, burglar, organized crime, intrigue, bank robber, escaped prisoner, heist gone wrong ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
November 2019. A semi-submersible loaded with three tons of cocaine is seized off the Galician coast after having crossed the Atlantic. The captain, Nando, a promising young amateur boxer, travels accompanied by a Brazilian mechanic and a Colombian ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, intense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
smuggling, drug, gang, drug dealing, cocaine, drug traffic, criminal gang, bandit, criminal, drug smuggler, drug dealer, claustrophobia ...
Place:
spain, galicia, latin america, portugal, brazil
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
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Story:
Excited to make a fresh start away from London, Martyn and Rebecca move into a beautiful house in Glasgow with their two young children. At first, the new home seems idyllic, but when their neighbour Jan makes unnerving comments to Rebecca it turns ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dread, suspense, atmospheric
Plot:
unsettling, paranoia, psychological manipulation, isolation, claustrophobia, slow burn, family drama, relocation, gaslight
Similarity:
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483
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Barbara is a criminal psychologist who becomes the victim of an express kidnapping. After her abduction, she works as a negotiator in cases like hers to find the people who almost took her life.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, crime thriller, thrilling ...
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