Movies like The Hitcher
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The Hitcher (1986)
52K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style:
road movie, slasher, psychological, scary, neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bad ending, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, hitchhiker, psychopath, desert, on the road, insanity, stalker, stalking, car chase, sociopath, road trip, motel, survival, violence, murder, frame up, kidnapping, on the run, highway, car accident, mysterious villain, macabre, manhunt, chase ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, california
Keyword:
oldies, western u.s., challenge
Most similar movies to The Hitcher
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, serious and realistic films with plots about danger, murder, psychopath, deadly, violence, fear and serial killer mostly in Thriller, Action and Horror genres. Some movies like The Hitcher: Joy Ride (2001), Duel (1971), When a Stranger Calls (1979), Death Proof (2007), Unhinged (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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75K
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, prank, truck driver, road trip, psychopath, truck, paranoia, twists and turns, brother brother relationship, revenge, murder, on the road ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, salt lake city utah, wyoming, san diego california, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
78K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Style:
road movie, atmospheric, suspense, exciting, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, car chase, truck, chase, on the road, road rage, psychopath, truck driver, driving, car, stalking, mysterious villain ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
california, persia, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, road movie, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, road trip, hitchhiker, murder, gory, desert, survival, on the run, sociopath, car crash, torture ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s
Place:
new mexico, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style:
scary, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, psychopath, obsession, stalking, stalker, home invasion, serial killer, babysitter, private detective, murder, threatening telephone call, police investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
312K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Austin's hottest DJ, Jungle Julia, sets out into the night to unwind with her two friends Shanna and Arlene. Covertly tracking their moves is Stuntman Mike, a scarred rebel leering from behind the wheel of his muscle car, revving just feet away.
Style:
road movie, sexy, grindhouse, suspense, absurd ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, violence, exploitation, dark humor, revenge, car chase, vengeance, killer, stalking, stuntman, violent ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tennessee, texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Prisoners
76K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A case of road rage turns into full-blown terror when an unstable driver follows a woman and her son.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, road movie ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
psychopath, road rage, pursuit, driving, mentally unstable, maniac, survival, stalking, highway, woman in danger, stalker, brutality ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, hitchhiker, mind game, on the road, woman in danger, survival, law enforcement, danger, vengeance, police investigation, murder ...
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The lone inhabitants of an abandoned police station are under attack by the overwhelming numbers of a seemingly unstoppable street gang.
Style:
suspense, grindhouse, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, survival, police station, siege, claustrophobia, ambush, street gang, prison, gang, convict, revenge, gangster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A house wife just left her cop husband, when she picks up Justin McKay she'll wish she never did as she's plunged into a nightmare and the grip of a psychotic killer.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, slasher, fast, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, cannon, killer, truck, terror, trucker, automobile, immigrant, psychopath, hostage, murder, stalking ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
107K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, hotel, murder, hostage, survival horror, macabre, danger, estranged couple, masked killer, kidnapped, motel ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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I Saw the Devil similar movies
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins to mirror ...
Style:
atmospheric, southern gothic, psychological, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, backwoods, swamp, violence, murder, manhunt, poacher, on the run, dog attack, ambush, vietnam war ...
Time:
year 1981, year 1973, 70s
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
27K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, dark ...
Plot:
kidnapping, trapped, chase, psychopath, road rage, struggle for survival, kidnapped woman, maniac, lost in the woods, highway, escape, river ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Style:
slasher, road movie, suspense, psychotronic, perverse ...
Plot:
serial killer, truck, on the road, murder, truck driver, highway, strangulation, hitchhiking, van, mysterious villain, hitchhiker, kidnapping ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
James Cray watched as his wife was killed by Fargo, a hit-and-run serial murderer. After severely injuring Fargo and going to prison for several years, James is now determined to avenge his wife's death. He drives across the country looking for ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, road movie, exciting ...
Plot:
serial killer, car chase, revenge, obsession, murder, hit and run, death of wife, psychopath, homicidal maniac, car accident, danger, paraplegic ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, vengeance, psychopath, torture, violence, serial killer, rape and revenge, kidnapping, woman in danger, violence against women, murder, sadism ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Jack Reacher similar movies
61K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After 30 years of searching, Harry (Edwards) has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unfortunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news: WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, suspense, surreal, futuristic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
end of the world, nuclear war, night, apocalypse, survival, nuclear holocaust, race against time, coffee shop, post apocalyptic, panic, danger, love affair ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
12K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff (John Marley), it ...
Style:
suspense, tense, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
killer car, desert, car, carsploitation, police, violence spree, vengeance, supernatural, danger, on the run, chase, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, twists and turns, missing person, obsession, road trip, macabre, murder, insanity, police investigation, mind game, secrets ...
Time:
20th century, year 1988, near future, 80s
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Strangers similar movies
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A housewife is stalked by a psycho after she sees him a murder a highway patrol officer.
Style:
road movie, spooky, crime thriller, slasher, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stalker, stalking, murder, on the road, automobile, witness, explosions, obsession, terror, psychopath, housewife, car chase ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, colorado, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A disgruntled man creates a hit list with a stranger during a drunken night out and must then race to try to save those he marked for extermination as the bodies begin to pile up and all fingers point to him.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
unfaithful, murder, terminator, police investigation, life turned upside down, fish out of water, family in danger, psychopath, hitman, danger, on the run, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, cuba, seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight (Jacobs) has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain -- a group that includes the cop ...
Style:
scary, slasher, splatter, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, maniac, hotel, gory, monster, danger, blood, murder, sadistic horror, violence, torture ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
7K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young couple on a motorway journey are drawn into a game of cat and mouse with a truck driver when they see something disturbing in the back of his vehicle.
Style:
suspense, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, slasher ...
Plot:
missing person, truck, witnessing a crime, psychopath, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, kidnapping, serial killer, murder, on the run, rescue, on the road, physical abuse ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
cannibalism, desert, gory, blood, cannibal, rape, serial killer, dog, murder, violence, disturbed individual, rape and revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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234K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
insanity, obsession, psychopath, hostage, stephen king, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, isolation, torture, writers, obsessed fan ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
Style:
scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, desert, burned alive, murder, supernatural, good versus evil, danger, survival, ghost, supernatural ability, fugitives ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A police task force traps an online predator, only to discover that the depth of his crimes goes far beyond anything they had anticipated.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
vigilante, serial killer, psychopath, investigation, profiler, tragic past, kidnapping, father daughter relationship, baby, justice, vigilantism, criminal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, vengeance, murder, murder mystery, police investigation, investigation, twists and turns, missing person, beautiful scenery, loss of son, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl is in love with a gas station attendant and sees him against her father's wishes. The father is the sheriff and shortly after a confrontation with the boy friend, he is killed by escaped convicts and the daughter is kidnapped. Everyone, ...
Style:
perverse, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, gas station, car, false accusation, desert, murder, kidnapping, rescue, race against time, chase, danger, bare chested male ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new mexico, oklahoma, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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