Movies like The Hunted 1998
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The Hunted (1998)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Insurance investigator Samantha Clark goes deep into a Pacific Northwest forest to retrieve $12 million from a crashed airplane. While there she meets a mysterious mountain man who claims he can help her hunt down the money but instead he ends up hunting her. Written by mts77
Style:
tense, suspenseful, dark, psychological, crime thriller, psychological thriller
Plot:
forest, hunted, mountain man, female protagonist, insurance investigator, survival, wilderness, stalking, chase, fear, isolation, manhunt, cat and mouse, mysterious stranger, pursuit, suspicion, man versus nature, mistrust, violent, female empowerment, psychopath, hunter, crazy, survivalist, heroine ...
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Most similar movies to The Hunted
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about survival, isolation, revenge, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, danger and fear mostly in Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Hunted: Love, Cheat & Steal (1993), A Kiss Goodnight (1994), Blood Mountain (2017), Clear Cut (2024), Wayward (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The beautiful Lauren gets married with an older man. She is unexpectedly confronted with her ex, an escaped criminal.
Style:
sexy, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, femme fatale, betrayal, dishonesty, jail, power relations, frame up, female nudity, bank robber, watching sex, striptease, attempted rape ...
Time:
90s
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Advertising exec Natalie engages in a passionate, but brief, love affair with a stranger named Kurt. When Natalie returns to her boyfriend, she finds that Kurt isn't so easily dismissed.
Plot:
stalker, woman with a gun, infidelity, woman in jeopardy, harassment, murder of friend, murder, female protagonist, revenge, extramarital affair, secretary, lawyer ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three mountain bikers have a deadly encounter with some hunters on Blood Mountain.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
mountain biking, hunting, found footage, mountain, problem, manhunt, threat, hunter, hunted, conflict, forest, danger ...
Similarity:
36%
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:
32%
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294
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After a meet-cute in a bar, Dawn and Micah's road trip to Portland turns into a nightmare when they're hunted by an infamous serial killer known as the Mechanic Maniac.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
road trip, stranger, meet cute, serial killer, mysterious stranger, terror, hunted, runaway, travel, black people, escape attempt, psycho terror ...
Place:
portland oregon, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
'Evolution of Evil' is the story of Lori and Christopher, a Pacific Northwest couple wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city into the wilderness. The couple makes their way past the usual campsites, and backpack into the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tension, sinister, psychological horror ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, isolation, forest, danger, backpacking, man versus nature, couples, paranoia, camping, threat, fear ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An experienced Black Ops sniper attempts a nightmarish escape after a failed mission, tracked by enemy soldiers hellbent on revenge, and also hunted by something sinister and monstrous, hungry and determined.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, intense, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
sniper, hunted, pursuit, revenge, wilderness, survival, black ops, soldier, dangerous mission, mission, vengeance, predator ...
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two contentious buddies head into the forest for a work retreat, stumble upon an isolated meth lab, and find themselves fighting for their lives.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, independent film, dark ...
Plot:
forest, meth lab, struggle for survival, reunited friends, hiking, threat, laboratory, shooting, conflict, survival, woods, danger ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Five friends must fight for survival, salvation and sanity when a local hunter mistakenly kills one of them in barren Canadian wilderness.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, intense, dark ...
Plot:
wilderness, forest, survival, isolation, hunting, man versus nature, moral ambiguity, suspicion, violence, panic, guilt, camping ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young woman finds her life in danger when an emotionally disturbed police officer she bullied in high school targets her in a twisted plan of revenge.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, bullying, woman in danger, life is a bitch, vengeance, peril, mockery, police inspector, police officer, social problems, relationship problems, fear ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After witnessing the murder of a little girl's parents, a young woman becomes the child's protector and is forced to flee from the killers while trying to discover their motive.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
murder, fear, danger, witnessing a crime, manhunt, witness, murder witness, killing, saving a life, runaway, struggle for survival, on the run ...
Similarity:
27%
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:
26%
489
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marathon runners are taken captive in desert by right-wing militia.
Style:
suspense, independent film, tense, period drama
Plot:
desert, survival, pursuit, militia, marathon, chase, hostage, manhunt, violence, escape, isolation, danger ...
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a new boy is employed to work in a coffee shop, he turns out to be a schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication, and makes the life of the popular young waitress who works there a misery.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
obsession, stalking, hunted, danger, woman in danger, psychopath, life turned upside down, stalker, threat, possessed human, mentally unstable, possessed ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and takes matters into her own ...
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
female protagonist, party, fighting crime, heist, strong female character, woman in danger, affair, fight, peril, robbery, theft, abduction ...
Similarity:
25%
110
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film follows Michael Todd, a lonely college student, with no direction in his life; he is assigned a research paper about a local New Orleans legend, the tale of Erica Fisc, a girl who disappeared some twenty years prior. As he looks into the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, danger, uncover truth, on the run, urban legend, fear, obsession, chase, suspicion, survival, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
To escape a serial killer, a single mom and her daughter enter witness protection, only to find their lives in greater danger than ever.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, serial killer, witness protection, single mother, runaway, murderer, on the run, murder, hunted, serial murder, relationship problems, family problems ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Micheal Smith is released from prison after serving four long years for a crime that he claims he did not commit. Within a few hours of his release, a man offers Michael a ride in his truck. From that moment on, the madness begins and the past slaps ...
Style:
tension, tense, suspense, dark, noir ...
Plot:
prison, chase, pursuit, wrongful conviction, danger, survival, escape, death, murder, psychopath, cat and mouse, stalker ...
Similarity:
23%
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160
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A serial killer disguises himself as a drug dealer in order to "deliver" young people their worshiped drugs. The serial killer is simultaneously tracked by a determined detective in the city.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, obsession, city, investigation, mind game, cat and mouse, killing spree, suspicion, paranoia, moral ambiguity, undercover ...
Similarity:
23%
302
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Donnie Mann, his father and uncle embark on a weekend hunting trip in West Texas, where they find a mysterious man shot in the stomach and clutching a backpack full of money.
Style:
suspenseful, gothic, tense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
hunting, uncle nephew relationship, father son relationship, who done it, money falling through the air, family relations, money problems, murder, dysfunctional family, isolation, moral ambiguity, desperation ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A single mother restores a Victorian home and opens a bed-and-breakfast, but the arrival of a guest with a hidden agenda shatters the peace.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, single mother, intruder, home invasion, problem, life is a bitch, secret, single parent, house, undercover, secrets, deception ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Traveling to Havana, Cuba, to investigate the origins of a mysterious manuscript supposedly written by acclaimed American novelist, Ernest Hemingway, three friends are thrust into a terrifying game of cat and mouse when they find themselves trapped ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, bleak, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
trapped, manhunt, trap, undercover, buddies, abandoned house, maniac, corpse, backwoods, psychopath, found footage, survival ...
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Still riding high from her #1 Best-selling Book Tour, Laurie Curtis finishes what she thinks is just another Talk Show appearance. As the sun goes down and the shadows deepen, she heads home to enjoy what was supposed to be a quiet, relaxing evening ...
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, slasher, psychological ...
Plot:
fear, macabre, masked killer, masked villain, cat and mouse, camping trip, thrill ride, isolation, small town, female protagonist, heroism, faith based ...
Similarity:
22%
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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:
22%
248
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Paul and Kathy Plunk buy a small motel in a lonesome mountain region in Oregon. Their newfound tranquility is broken by a pair of guests who turn out to be wanted criminals on run from the police. They need money, so they assault the Plunks, force ...
Style:
tense, suspense thriller, intense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
home invasion, hostage, kidnapping, motel, fear, psychopath, threat, desperation, escape, survival, violent, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Framed for murder by her cheating husband, a newlywed must find a way to absolve herself of a crime she didn't commit while exposing her spouse before it's too late.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
deception, manipulation, betrayal, infidelity, wrongful accusation, domestic drama, psychological manipulation, male female relationship, falsely accused, problem, false accusation of murder, framed for a crime ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Story:
A thriller film directed by Sunil Kumar Desai, starring Sai Dhanshika, Tanya Hope and Thakur Anoop Singh in the lead roles.
Style:
suspense, intense, tense, crime thriller, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, danger, moral ambiguity, revenge, violence, cat and mouse, motive, female empowerment, urban, chase, conspiracy ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Carter will again stop at nothing to find her perfect family.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
psycho, life is a bitch, confronting the past, terror, dark past, threat, troubled past, female protagonist, psycho terror, tragic past, female antagonist, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
McKenzie is a few months away from getting married when her three best friends from college surprise her with a bachelorette party.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, rape, survival, violence, bachelorette party, trauma, woman in danger, tragic past, haunted by the past, struggle for survival, women ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
forest, nature, struggle for survival, teenager fighting adult, recluse, violence, life risking, child fighting adult, child in peril, survival, backwoods, danger ...
Similarity:
21%
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