Movies like Misery

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Misery (1990)
 7.8
 234K
Misery (1990)
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 mercy.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric, tension, slasher, intense ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: insanity, obsession, psychopath, hostage, stephen king, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, isolation, torture, writers, obsessed fan, violence, female psychopath, manic, escape attempt, captivity, psycho, mentally unstable, trapped, psychology, rage, female villain, survival, sociopath ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s, 1990s
Place: colorado, persia, usa
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Most similar movies to Misery

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, suspenseful and psychological thriller films with plots about psychopath, murder, violence, blood, serial killer, death and psycho mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Misery: Swimfan (2002), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992), The Shining (1980), Fear (1996), Single White Female (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.1
 21K
Swimfan (2002)
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: suspense, suspenseful, sexy, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: obsession, stalking, stalker, obsessive love, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, female psychopath, teenager, swimming, sexual obsession, unrequited love, hospital ...
Place: new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A suburban family chooses seemingly sweet Peyton Flanders as their newborn's nanny. Only much later does the infant's mother, Claire Bartel, realize Peyton's true intentions -- to destroy Claire and replace her in the family. The ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, nanny, vengeance, sexual abuse, psychopath, malice, suicide, female psychopath, breast feeding, rivalry, haunted by the past, femme fatale ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington state, persia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
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, psychological thriller, psychological horror, scary ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, filmmaking, aging, dysfunctional family, actress, violence, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1935, year 1917, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place: los angeles, america, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 8.4
 1.1M
The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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3262
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6331
 6.2
 53K
Fear (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
Style: sexual, psychological, sexy, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: obsession, psychopath, dangerous attraction, teenager, fatal attraction, obsessive love, stalker, danger, father daughter relationship, rape, teenage girl, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Single White Female (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, erotic, sexy, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, stalker, mental illness, femme fatale, sexual harassment, psychopath, jealousy, stalking, female rapist, manipulation, borderline personality disorder, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.9
 36K
P2 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Style: psychological, slasher, scary, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: obsession, survival, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, escape attempt, maniac, danger, stalker, hostage, stalking, torment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Lady in a Cage (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot: elevator, home invasion, isolation, hagsploitation, woman in jeopardy, violence, serial killer, kidnapping, murder, woman in danger, sociopath, brutality ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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3115
torture movies
4461
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5824
 6.7
 129K
The Call (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, danger, woman in danger, 911, psycho, murder, youth, chase, child abduction, panic ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 77K
The Dead Zone (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, dark hero, serial killer, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, destiny, macabre, investigation, premonition, murder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 215K
Cape Fear (1991)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, neo noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot: rape, fear, lawyer, family in danger, psychology, violence, serial killer, dangerous attraction, revenge, prison, rapist, psychopath ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: north carolina, georgia, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, domestic violence, stalking, violent husband, woman in danger, starting over, psychopath, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, revenge, abusive relationship, obsessive love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: africa, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.5
 12K
The Collector (1965)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country ...
Style: tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, dark ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, dangerous attraction, collector, confined, loneliness, woman in danger, danger, missing person, mentally unstable, serial killer ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.2
 27K
Alone (2020)
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 ⇓
75%
 6.0
 38K
Greta (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: kidnapping, trapped, stalker, stalking, female villain, obsessive love, murder, obsession, psychopath, held captive, roommate, older woman younger woman relationship ...
Place: new york, usa, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot: child abuse, investigation, stephen king, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, maid, abusive husband, sexual abuse, small town, women, strong female lead, abusive father ...
Time: 90s
Place: maine, persia, nova scotia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.5
 103K
Funny Games (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style: psychological, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.4
 46K
The Good Son (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: children, manipulation, evil child, killer child, psychopath, problem child, brutality, disbelieving adult, creepy child, murder, death, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: maine, japan, usa, asia, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 6.6
 65K
Copycat (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Style: suspense, detective, psychological thriller, psychological, surprise ending ...
Plot: serial killer, psychology, psychopath, agoraphobia, police investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, maniac, violence, paranoia, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: san francisco, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 131K
One Hour Photo (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their ...
Style: psychological, tense, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, photography, loner, voyeurism, mental illness, insanity, loneliness, psychopath as protagonist, adultery, photograph, serial killer, paranoid ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: america, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 8.6
 1.8M
Se7en (1995)
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: detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.8
 247K
Disturbia (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, neighbor, murder, voyeurism, house arrest, paranoia, homicidal maniac, investigation, psychopath, death, arrest, teenager ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 126K
Gerald's Game (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
Style: psychological, suspense, psychological horror, disturbing, scary ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: stephen king, survival, childhood trauma, hallucination, mind game, perseverance, sex game, split personality, childhood memory, symbolism, child abuse, eclipse ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: america, alabama, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A rich man's daughter is held captive in an abandoned apartment by two former convicts who abducted her and hold her ransom in exchange for her father's money.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, sexy, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, twists and turns, abduction, bondage, female nudity, woman in danger, sex, confined, violence, woman in jeopardy, love triangle ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 153K
Hush (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, trapped, home invasion, survival, deaf, female protagonist, deafness, violence, masked killer, brutality, murder, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
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, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.5
 55K
Titane (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Following a series of unexplained crimes, a former firefighter is reunited with his son who has been missing for 10 years.
Style: disturbing, tense, surreal, cerebral, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: body horror, serial killer, female serial killer, machismo, psycho killer, car accident, killing spree, pretending to be someone else, party, violence, fireman, cutting one's own hair ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 81K
Kiss the Girls (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style: detective, twist ending, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, twists and turns, woman in danger, police investigation, forensics, violence against women, investigation, killer, murder, profiler ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, north carolina, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 5K
Homecoming (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A jealous woman (Mischa Barton) plots revenge after her former beau (Matt Long) returns to their hometown with a pretty new girlfriend (Jessica Stroup).
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, obsessive love, female psychopath, college, jealousy, dangerous attraction, cheerleader, girlfriend, american football, desire, suspicion, torture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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