Movies like Penance 2009
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Penance (2009)
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin
Style:
scary, sexy, serious, suspenseful, slasher, realistic, disturbing, sexual
Plot:
kidnapping, found footage, psychopath, captivity, mental institution, mother daughter relationship, religious fanatic, confined, woman in danger, female nudity, stripper, mind game, dancer's life, violence, single mother, survival, serial killer, suspense, murder, suicide, violence against women, voyeur, vigilante, woman in a bikini, misogyny ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, slasher and scary films with plots about danger, deadly, psychopath, serial killer, murder, gory and suspense mostly in Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Penance: The Hitchhiker (2007), Rogue River (2011), Lake Dead (2007), Timber Falls (2007), The Cellar Door (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
psychopath, on the road, mind game, confined, desert, isolation, woman in danger, murder, survival, hitchhiker, serial killer, hotel ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
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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, ...
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suspenseful, realistic, scary, rough, serious ...
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teens
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kidnapping, strong violent content, psychopath, woman in danger, survival, confined, police officer killed, brother sister incest, perversion, extreme violence, sexual content, captivity ...
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three sisters and a group of their friends take a trip to the home of the recently deceased grandfather -- who died a particularly grisly death -- to learn more about the promise of an inheritance, only to encounter a family of psychos who have ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A weekend of camping in the mountains becomes an excursion into hell for a young couple, who become pawns in a grotesque plot hatched by deranged locals.
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scary, bleak, slasher, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, rescue, survival, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, suspense, fanatic, confined, religions or cults, camp, mountain ...
Place:
west virginia, usa
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25%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
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serial killer, suspense, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, mind game, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, rivalry, master criminal ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, vengeance, obsession, ghost, youth, female nudity, serial killer, nightmare, nude, desire, suspense, nude girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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24%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard ...
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disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, rough, sexy ...
Plot:
serial killer, sexual abuse, torture, sexual predator, rape and revenge, sexual torture, kidnapping, sadism, mind game, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree ...
Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When Diana (Danielle De Luca) takes a job as a stripper in a sleepy New Mexico town, she's unaware that her fellow dancers have been disappearing. The local sheriff (Joe Mantegna) is stumped, but Diana learns the truth when she becomes the next ...
Style:
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Plot:
serial killer, manhunt, psychopath, woman in danger, violence against women, violence, prostitute, misogynist, missing person, chase, wilderness, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Emily and her friend Angelica go to a rave in the woods, and when they arrive, they meet a stranger called Swan that promises some Exstasy for the girls. They follow him to a cabin into the forest where they meet the sadistic gang leaded by the ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, rough, slasher, realistic ...
Plot:
rape, violence, sexual sadism, psychopath, sexual abuse, rape and revenge, exploitation, forest, sadism, rapist, torture, murder ...
Place:
california
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22%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As Ann Hedgerow - an indirect descendant of Edgar Allen Poe - begins to explore her family's past, she meets novelist Ethan Poe. Ethan, also a distant descendant of Poe, is tormented by visions of his famous ancestor. When Ann and Ethan begin a ...
Style:
tense, serious, sexy, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
murder, voyeur, who done it, blonde, stalking, writer's life, small town life, suspense, female nudity, voyeurism, nude, dead prostitute ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A psychological horror/thriller depicting a backwoods family with a dark secret.
Style:
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Plot:
psychopath, captivity, strong violent content, woman in danger, confined, good versus evil, survival, rivalry, small town, suspense, violence, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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22%
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
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slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary
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serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, mind game, survival, murder, mental illness, investigation, law enforcement, mentally unstable, master criminal, doctors and patients ...
Place:
usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
One year after running away from home, Nicole and Jesse are still missing. When Jesse's brother, Tom, returns home from active duty, he sets out with his friends Marilyn and Jared to locate the lost couple. Their search leads them to the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, survival, gas station, kidnapping, psychopath, strong violent content, escapades, on the road, religious fanatic, terror, suspense, paranormal ...
Place:
usa, california
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of young women teamed together in their youth to run a babysitting business, when one of their friends died suddenly the group fell apart. Now years later they are all going their separate ways as college approaches, but on Halloween night ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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 ...
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Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Once upon a time, death preyed upon a New England college campus. Rumors swirl that "if you see a flash of red, you're dead!" Local golden boy, Peter Bloom (David Morwick) investigates the grisly killings until the stakes grow higher ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, fairy tale ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, college, mind game, amateur detective, investigation, psychopath, survival, stalking, youth, rivalry, journalism ...
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts
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20%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
psychopath, mentally unstable, murder, crazy, survival, manhunt, isolation, suspense, violence, found footage, prank, gas mask ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A pierced and tattooed sadist, Captain Howdy, trolls the Internet for naive teens, luring them to his home to torture and defile them. When Howdy kidnaps and tortures the daughter of police Detective Mike Gage, he is caught. Deemed insane, he is ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
serial killer, goth, torture, kidnapping, vengeance, psychopath, bondage, police detective, mental institution, maniac, computers and web, woman in danger ...
Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
psychopath, murder, torture, survival, mind game, confined, friendship, trapped, rivalry, murderer, suspense, group of friends ...
Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Director Michael Winnick's chilling tale stars James Marsters as Jack, one of eight captives who awaken in an abandoned asylum not knowing who they are or why they are together. They discover that they've been used in an experiment to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
This new Train tells the tale of an American wrestling team who board a train that just so happens to be used as a supermarket for organ harvesters.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, scary, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
One year ago, Nina survived the attacks of a serial killer. She wants to flee from these memories but one call at night recalls all memories and she is again in the middle of a murder mystery.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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serial killer, survival, amateur detective, escapades, woman in danger, psychopath, riddles and clues, puzzle, murder, winter, isolation, mountain ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man who runs an apartment house for women is the demented son of a Nazi surgeon who has the house equipped with secret passageways, hidden rooms and torture and murder devices.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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