Movies like Amber Alert 2012

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Amber Alert (2012)
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Amber Alert (2012)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When a group of friends decides to follow a car they've seen posted on an Amber Alert, things start to go very wrong.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, mockumentary, disturbing, independent film, tension, suspense, interesting ...
Plot: highway, found footage, mysterious man, missing child, friendship, danger, confined, psychopath, violence, group of friends, murder, rescue, car, kidnapping, child, friends, pedophilia, redneck, travel, women, youth, pedophile, risk, kidnapped girl, child kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and realistic films with plots about danger, murder, violence, deadly, serial killer, death and found footage mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Amber Alert: Phoenix Forgotten (2017), Leaving D.C. (2012), Megan Is Missing (2011), Evil Things (2009), The Call (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Phoenix Forgotten (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.
Style: disturbing, suspense, dark, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, ufo, alien abduction, fear, friendship, desperation, alien, secret, investigation, dark secret, memories, missing person ...
Time: 90s, year 2017, year 1997
Place: arizona, phoenix arizona
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Leaving D.C. (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: After 20 years of living in Washington, D.C., Mark Klein seeks much-needed solace by moving to the remote wilds of West Virginia. To ease his loneliness, he sends regular video updates to members of his OCD-support group back in the city. But Mark ...
Style: mockumentary, disturbing, dark
Plot: found footage, woods, paranormal, mysterious event, telephone call, photograph, house, computer, witch, travel, obsessive compulsive disorder, support group ...
Place: west virginia
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100%
Megan Is Missing (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator.
Style: mockumentary, disturbing, suspenseful, twisted, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, rape, teenage girl, psychopath, teenage life, danger, missing person, best friend, murder, deathtrap, rape of a girl ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Evil Things (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It's Miriam's 21st Birthday. As a birthday gift, Miriam's aunt Gail has decided to lend Miriam her beautiful country house for an entire weekend. Aunt Gail's country house is amazing. It's a four bedroom house surrounded by ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, stalking, danger, woods, missing person, murder, violence, group of friends, survival, trap, fear, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.7
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The Call (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, danger, woman in danger, 911, psycho, murder, youth, chase, child abduction, panic ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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100%
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Crowsnest (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In late summer of 2011, five young friends on a road trip went missing after being attacked by nomadic cannibals in a huge RV. Video was recorded by the victims & recovered by police as evidence in their still-unsolved murders.
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, scary ...
Plot: found footage, on the road, murder, survival, isolation, buddies, confined, danger, friendship, wilderness, cannibalism, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old ...
Style: scary, mockumentary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, danger, police investigation, wilderness, supernatural, survival, death, violence, travel, witch, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.0
 15K
The Den (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, murder, danger, panic, cyberspace, brutality, police, violence, fear, hacking, laptop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Poughkeepsie Tapes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style: disturbing, sadistic, slasher, rough, scary ...
Plot: found footage, serial killer, psychopath, macabre, investigation, torture, murder, psycho killer, maniac, sadism, suffering, violence ...
Time: year 2001
Place: usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
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41%
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Alien Valley (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The story of a reality T.V. crew of paranormal researchers who journey to Colorado's San Luis Valley in order to investigate the unexplained phenomena of cattle mutilations. Over the course of their three day investigation they find much more ...
Style: psychotronic, dark, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: found footage, alien, survival horror, fear, danger, friend, death, violence, murder, group of friends, investigation, obscurity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.3
 8K
Evidence (2013)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Detectives use clues from various recording devices to piece together events surrounding a massacre involving bus passengers at an abandoned gas station.
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: police investigation, serial killer, riddles and clues, found footage, investigation, survival, danger, fire, masked killer, mind game, murder, police detective ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, los angeles
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40%
 5.0
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Bereavement (2010)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable ...
Style: slasher, scary, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot: kidnapping, evil man, child, psychopath, missing child, serial killer, confined, danger, child in peril, hostage, killer child, isolation ...
Time: 80s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1989
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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38%
 2.7
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Dead Voices (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two sisters film a documentary about spiritual mediums. After their first failed attempt with a faux medium, they come across Mike, a seemingly legitimate communicator with the dead. Mike reveals a disturbing mystery, Sara's fiancée, Lucas, ...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: clairvoyant, found footage, supernatural power, supernatural, characters in danger, fear, monster, chase, exorcism, creature, werewolf, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Cries in the Dark (2006)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Detective Carrie Macklin and her little sister Elle had always been the closest of friends. But when Elle goes missing after a run-in with a relocated sex offender, it is up to Carrie to find her little sister...who is nine months pregnant. Carrie ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, detective
Plot: murder, law enforcement, police investigation, missing person, police detective, vengeance, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, missing child, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, found footage, demon, investigation, mental illness, insanity, kidnapping, serial killer, surveillance, possession, snake, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
100 Ghost Street: The Return of Richard Speck (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A group of paranormal investigators sojourned to the Chicago walk-up where deranged drifter Richard Speck systematically slew eight student nurses back in ’66, looking for restless spirits. Their unfortunate success gets shockingly documented in ...
Style: mockumentary, dark, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, murder, investigation, violence, haunted house, darkness, blood, fear, death, research, corpse ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.6
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Knock Knock 2 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On the night before Halloween, four friends decided to go on a self made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses. The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever since.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, survival, danger, hollywood, isolation, confined, halloween, missing person, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.4
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The Mooring (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Every 40 seconds a person goes missing. In northern Idaho, a group of teenage girls attended a summer camp to help them connect with nature without technology. They were told it would be a summer of change. As the girls' houseboat is suddenly ...
Style: scary, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, river, psychopath, serial killer, chase, woods, survival, missing person, woman in danger, isolation, on the run, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Slaughter of the Innocents (1993)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A seasoned FBI Agent's child-genius son assists him on catching a child-killer, a schizophrenic mohab nut who believes he's been chosen by god to be a new Noah.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, fbi, parents and children, investigation, law enforcement, who done it, hotshot hero, psychopath, child murder investigation, father son relationship, woman with a gun ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, utah
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37%
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Init!ation (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, fraternity, serial killer, psychopath, athlete, danger, killing spree, university, violence, chase, social media, blood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Rogue River (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When a young woman takes a trip down Rogue River, her car mysteriously disappears. Lost without transport or communication, she accepts the hospitality of a stranger who offers her shelter for the night at his cabin. With no other options available, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapped woman, survival, confined, danger, strong violent content, police officer killed, brother sister incest, extreme violence, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
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37%
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman, a survivor of a failed murder attempt by a person dubbed "The Half-Moon Killer" by the police, and her husband must find the connecting thread between herself, six other women, and the killer before the killer strikes at her again.
Style: slasher, suspense, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dead prostitute, murder of a prostitute, police, psychopath, prostitute, woman in danger, police investigation, amateur detective, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Head Cases: Serial Killers in the Delaware Valley (2013)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A documentary of serial killer Wayne Montgomery and his followers.
Style: scary, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: found footage, masked killer, serial killer, murderer, killing spree, serial murder, obsession, revenge, death, psychopath, brutality, maniac ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Treatment (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, biting, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot: police, pedophile, kidnapping, child killer, child abuse, life is a bitch, missing child, police investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, serial killer, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Breakdown (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, road movie, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, highway, chase, road trip, murder, conspiracy, desert, car breakdown, danger, couples, ransom, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, arizona, massachusetts, usa
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Malevolence (2003)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a ...
Style: suspense, slasher, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, hostage, psychopath, woman in danger, gory, on the run, criminal heroes, violence spree, confined, kidnapping, backwoods, old dark house ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, 90s, year 1999, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Glass House: The Good Mother (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: One year after losing their son David, Eve Goode and her husband Raymond Goode adopt the orphan Ethan Snow (and his teenager sister Abby Snow and bring them to their mansion nearby a lake. Abby faces difficulties of adaptation in her new home, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, mysterious ...
Plot: adoption, child in peril, orphan, psychopath, mentally unstable, danger, abusive mother, family relations, youth, siblings relations, isolation, cruelty ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.5
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Layover (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the heiress of a luxury hotel chain is kidnapped at her dingy motel outside Detroit by a band of ruthless sex traffickers, her downtrodden assistant must figure out a way to rescue her.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: russian mafia, abduction, heiress, rescue, danger, white slavery, murder, deception, kidnapping, dog, chases and races, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, michigan, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.2
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Deer Crossing (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The film centers around retired police detective Derrick Stanswood (Mann), who is called by a successful doctor about an unsolved case involving his wife Maggy (Cottrel) and their son, Cole (newcomer Kevin Fennell). Chasing after loose ends in a ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: investigation, captivity, danger, private detective, kidnapping, small town, farm, confined, abduction, violence, redneck, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
8213: Gacy House (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to ...
Style: mockumentary, serious, rough, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, serial killer, ghost, supernatural, danger, investigation, haunted house, frame up, murder, paranormal activity, killer clown, spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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