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Identity (2003)
290K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological thriller, mind bending, slasher, creepy, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness, murderer, american horror, hotel, stranded, psychiatrist, characters killed one by one, isolation, rainstorm, psycho, psychopath, terror, death, multiple personality disorder ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, florida, nevada, united states, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Identity
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspense, suspenseful and bad ending films with plots about twists and turns, storytelling, death, police investigation, mentor, blood and murder mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Identity: Shutter Island (2010), Mindhunters (2004), The Game (1997), The Machinist (2004), Split (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Finland, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, scary, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, mind game, island, trap, violence, investigation, killing spree, profiler, psycho killer, fbi, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
82%
466K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, puzzle, uncover truth, existentialism, surveillance, life & death, game, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
Similarity:
82%
439K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, depressing, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insomnia, insanity, uncover truth, obsession, mysterious character, paranoia, losing-it hero, twists and turns, schizophrenia, life is a bitch, secrets, alienation ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, persia, los angeles
Similarity:
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Movie in collections
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, kidnapping, dissociative identity disorder, murder, split personality, psycho, insanity, serial killer, paranoia, captive, schizophrenia, psychopath ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Similarity:
79%
2.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir, detective, bad ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, psychology, mind game, police investigation, police, police detective, sin, maniac, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
los angeles, usa, persia, iran, america ...
Similarity:
71%
147K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story revolves around the passengers of a yachting trip in the Atlantic Ocean who, when struck by mysterious weather conditions, jump to another ship only to experience greater havoc on the open seas.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
time loop, twists and turns, ship, time travel, supernatural, ghost ship, isolation, ocean, insanity, paradox, gory, shipwreck ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place:
oceania, miami, florida, caribbean
Similarity:
73%
Movie in collections
220K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
Similarity:
67%
134K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, psychological thriller, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mind game, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, puzzle, survival, surveillance, manipulation, confinement indoors, group of strangers, psychologist, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2009, future
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
For their honeymoon, newlyweds Cliff and Cydney head to the tropical islands of Hawaii. While journeying through the paradisaical countryside the couple encounters Kale and Cleo, two disgruntled hitchhikers and Nick and Gina, two wild but ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murderous pair, wilderness, honeymoon, psychopath, danger, escapades, vacation gone wrong, murder, island, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
hawaii, usa, oceania
Similarity:
79%
221K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, insanity, plot twist, losing-it hero, escape from reality, a vision, murder, riddles and clues, uncover truth, investigation, paranoia ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, virginia
Similarity:
70%
53K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
date night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
84K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, detective, psychological thriller, sexy, surprise ending ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
san francisco, persia, usa, california, boston
Similarity:
83%
312K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, isolation, fear, hotel, stephen king, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, confined ...
Time:
year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
39K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, psychiatrist, twists and turns, doctors and patients, split personality, voodoo, child in peril, witch doctor, demon, female psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
80%
92K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, mind twisting, confusing ...
Plot:
suicide, obsession, twists and turns, death, surrealism, guilt, unfulfillment, suicide attempt, mental illness, depression, parallel universe, psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
78%
165K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of people trapped in a elevator realizes that the devil is among them.
Style:
scary, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, satanic ...
Plot:
devil, group of strangers, elevator, confined, supernatural, supernatural horror, police investigation, trap, mysterious character, trapped in an elevator, danger, stranded ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
71%
Movie in collections
424K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
Similarity:
75%
505K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
65%
101K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, neo noir, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, good versus evil, supernatural, twists and turns, devil, police detective, possession, curse, violence, psychic, demonic possession ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, philadelphia
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, twists and turns, supernatural, plot twist, memory loss, nervous breakdown, murder, mental patient, danger, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, insanity ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
75%
1.6M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, secret, magic, magician, rivalry, illusionist, stage magic, uninhibited rivalry, deception, secrets ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, edwardian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
london, peru, colorado, los angeles, britain ...
Similarity:
73%
Movie in collections
163K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, split personality, police investigation, imaginary friend, macabre, murder mystery, psycho killer, maniac, schizophrenia, twists and turns, secret ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, palo alto california, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
101K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is ...
Style:
psychological thriller, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, psychopath, murder investigation, murder mystery, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, tough girl, female agent, strong female character, police investigation, strong female lead ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada, montreal, pennsylvania
Similarity:
75%
276K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, serial killer, evil child, female psychopath, fear, mysterious character, creepy child, children, parents and children, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Computer scientist Hannon Fuller has discovered something extremely important. He's about to tell the discovery to his colleague, Douglas Hall, but knowing someone is after him, the old man leaves a letter in his computer generated parallel ...
Style:
mind bending, intellectual, twist ending, philosophical, neo noir ...
Plot:
virtual reality, alternate reality, cyberpunk, cyberspace, twists and turns, time travel, computer system, artificial intelligence, consciousness, parallel world, simulated reality, imaginary ...
Time:
future, 1930s, 90s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, pasadena california
Similarity:
75%
108K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, doll, ventriloquist, macabre, small town, clown, investigation, supernatural horror, puppet, supernatural, plot twist, danger ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Vietnam, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, serial murder, fbi, murder, killer, psychopath, obsession, chase, mind game, race against time, police investigation, terror ...
Time:
y2k, year 2000, 90s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Crime, 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, mockumentary, sadistic, slasher, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, serial killer, murder, psychopath, torture, macabre, violence, psycho killer, maniac, psycho, sadism, captive ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
usa, new york state, pennsylvania, new york
Similarity:
80%
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