Movies like May
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May (2002)
38K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style:
gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, bloody, dark, sexy, slasher ...
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, imaginary friend, psychopath, obsession, murder, insanity, female psychopath, cannibalism, goth, suspense, lesbian, dangerous attraction, destructive relationship, dark humor, violence, depression, brutality, blind character, revenge, psychology, childhood trauma, loneliness, freak, teenage life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, psychological, weird and scary films with plots about murder, suspense, blood, violence, macabre, gory and mental illness mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like May: Ginger Snaps (2000), Excision (2012), The Voices (2014), Raw (2016), American Mary (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds ...
Style:
gothic, scary, dark, slasher, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, werewolf, halloween, obsession, goth, teenager, high school, transformation, puberty, goth girl, monster, sisters ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
canada
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100%
23K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
social outcast, body horror, dysfunctional family, high school, sister sister relationship, surgical operation, surgeon, mentally unstable, teacher, erotic dream, mentally unstable protagonist, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
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89%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Style:
disturbing, surreal, psychological, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, psychiatrist, psychopath, hearing voices, suspense, small town, murder, paranoia, psychology, twists and turns, factory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
81K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, brutal, scary, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, cannibalism, cannibal, meat, vegetarian, school, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, sisters, twists and turns, peer pressure, sex scene ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
Style:
scary, disturbing, rough, dark, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, amputation, stripper, rape and revenge, surgery, rape, plastic surgery, violence, organized crime, revenge, brutality, student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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American Psycho similar movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, voyeurism, mental illness, psychopath, hidden room, death of mother, voyeur, mysterious character, social misfits, teenage life, parents and children, teenager ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
12K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic ...
Style:
surreal, scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, serial killer, violence, murder, cult, suspense, curse, hidden identity, shyness, teenage life, golden years ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child abuse, serial killer, kidnapping, cannibalism, secret passageway, home invasion, disturbed individual, murder, cannibal, child in peril, rottweiler, haunted house ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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42K
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style:
disturbing, scary, brutal, slasher, bloody ...
Plot:
suspense, pregnancy, evil wins, survival, serial killer, torture, home invasion, woman in danger, insanity, female killer, mental illness, kidnapping ...
Place:
france
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100%
84K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
scary, disturbing, tense, bloody, surreal ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, macabre, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, sadism, revenge, suspense, serial killer, obsession, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Films like The Hills Have Eyes
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Slightly disturbed and painfully shy Angela Baker is sent away to summer camp with her cousin. Not long after Angela's arrival, things start to go horribly wrong for anyone with sinister or less than honorable intentions.
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, surprise ending, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, summer camp, youth, murder, twists and turns, rivalry, teenage life, mental illness, violence, brutality, bullying ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
21K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison ...
Style:
suspenseful, sexy, psychological, erotic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, stalker, stalking, obsessive love, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, teenager, betrayal, female psychopath, suspense, swimming, sexual obsession ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Nobody Loves Alice is about Alice, a sad and lonely woman who always dreamed of finding the right person to be with...
Style:
slasher, serious, rough, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
rivalry, vengeance, couples, infidelity, obsession, violence, woman kills a man, murder, female psychopath, loneliness, female killer, dismemberment ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, exciting, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
revenge, baby, murder, female chauvinist, pregnant woman, serial killer, psychopath, hospital, childbirth, seeing dead people, women, killer ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho), a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life as a vampire. Now, ...
Style:
scary, dark, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, deadly virus, priest, death, experiment gone awry, macabre, doctor, murder, infidelity, infection, transformation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, psychological, scary, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, psychopath, sadism, torture, torment, bad guy wins, kidnapping, home invasion, evil wins, family in danger, egg ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
austria, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
25K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Hunter, a newly pregnant housewife, finds herself increasingly compelled to consume dangerous objects. As her husband and his family tighten their control over her life, she must confront the dark secret behind her new obsession.
Style:
psychological, art house, dark, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
obsession, control, mental disorder, husband wife relationship, child born of rape, bored housewife, pregnancy, self harm, safari, party, biological father, pregnant woman ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
pittsburgh, new york state, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
193K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, tense, intense, scary ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, vengeance, social misfits, cruelty, prom, telekinesis, revenge, abusive mother, prank, female protagonist, public humiliation, high school life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1979, future, near future
Place:
maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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98K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, scary, twist ending, brutal, splatter ...
Plot:
torture, cult, kidnapping, violence, child abuse, brutality, revenge, death, afterlife, torment, vengeance, torture chamber ...
Time:
year 1971
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
19K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, violent, torture, murder, exploitation, violence, macabre, extreme violence, disturbed individual, weirdo, maniac, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Films like Misery
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour.
Style:
slasher, surprise ending, scary, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
serial killer, mother daughter relationship, farm, psychiatrist, insanity, decapitation, mental breakdown, mental illness, murder, hagsploitation, suspense, adulterous husband ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
36K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
paranoia, insanity, conspiracy theory, mental illness, psychology, psychosis, obsession, macabre, addiction, suspense, couples, losing-it hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, obsession, identical twins, twins, drug addiction, mental illness, love triangle, addiction, mistaken identity, drugs, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1988, 80s, 50s ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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286K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, suspense, small town, psychiatrist, violence, violent, high school, evil ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 80s, year 1963, 20th century ...
Place:
california, illinois, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, female psychopath, mentally unstable, obsessive love, college, suspense, murder, teenager, stalker, bad girl, lesbian, love interest ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Films like Hush
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style:
gothic, psychological, scary, surprise ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, aging, dysfunctional family, filmmaking, actress, violence, suspense ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1910s, year 1935, year 1917 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
25K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
torture, revenge, husband wife relationship, sadism, sexual abuse, incestuous relationship, captivity, suffering, twists and turns, sexual assault, cannibal, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, suspense, psychopath, investigation, mind game, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, macabre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
39K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, sadistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, obsession, mental illness, murder, extreme violence, sadism, loneliness, torture, violence spree, brutality, psychopath ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this reimagining of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name, director Jim Mickle paints a gruesome portrait of an introverted family struggling to keep their macabre traditions alive, giving us something we can really sink our teeth into.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
cannibalism, macabre, cannibal, rain, death, suspense, small town, religion, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, missing person ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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