Movies like The New Kids
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The New Kids (1985)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A brother and sister arrive in a small town to help their relatives run an amusement park, and they find the town is terrorized by a local street gang.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, tense, rough, captivating, perverse, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, bully, kidnapping, amusement park, violence, teenager, bullying, school bully, orphan, small town, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, family problems, siblings relations, violence spree, gay, redneck, decapitation, exploitation, bad kids, chase, revenge, sexual harassment, killing an animal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, usa
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Most similar movies to The New Kids
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about murder, violence, teenager, revenge, blood, death and fight mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The New Kids: Massacre at Central High (1976), The Substitute (1996), The Killing Kind (1973), Class of 1984 (1982), Fear (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Maimed by bullies at a California high school, a new student (Derrel Maury) engineers acts of revenge.
Style:
slasher, perverse, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, threesome, male star appears nude, rape, revenge, bullying, murder, school bully, exploitation, teenager, macabre, survival ...
Time:
70s
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After he did some jobs for CIA, ex-marine John Shale is visiting his high school love Jane. She's now a teacher in Columbus High School in Miami. Soon after his arriving Jane has her knee cap broken while jogging. After that, John decides to go ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, intense, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
high school, teachers and students, teacher, hidden identity, gang, gangsters, undercover, teenager, vigilante, bullying, substitute teacher, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
miami, usa, florida, cuba
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, exploitation, mental disorder, oedipus complex, psychopath, sexual abuse, mentally unstable, nude, swimming, strangulation, female nudity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Andy is a new teacher at a inner city high school that is like nothing he has ever seen before. There is metal detectors at the front door and everything is basically run by a tough kid named Peter Stegman. Soon, Andy and Stegman become enemies and ...
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, harsh, intense, satirical ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
high school, punk, teacher, gang, revenge, violence, juvenile delinquency, school, teenager, bullying, rape, sexual cruelty ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century
Place:
usa, plymouth
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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50K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
suspenseful, sexual, sexy, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, teenager, stalker, dangerous attraction, obsessive love, fatal attraction, suspense, virginity, borderline personality disorder, rivalry, rapist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seattle, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder of a prostitute, jack the ripper, prostitute, whodunit, evil twin, erotica, teenager, hypnosis, psychopath, police investigation, woman in danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
High school student Paula Carson's affections are being sought after by two of her classmates: Dwight, the "bad boy", and Brian, a disturbed young man who has just been released from a mental hospital where he was committed following ...
Style:
slasher, funny, bloody, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
male objectification, high school, serial killer, cheerleader, cheerleading, murder, psychopath, teenager, survival, killer, cult, dead teenager ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of high school students, led by a rich boy Derek, is sick of school violence and decides to become underground vigilantes named "Brotherhood of Justice". It starts with the idea "watching people", but things quickly get ...
Style:
realistic, serious, retro
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, gang, revenge, vigilante, school, vigilantism, teenage life, youth, drug dealing, vengeance, rivalry, love triangle ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A wrong turn on a jazz singer's road trip results in her car breaking down near an isolated lodge run by a faded starlet and a young, homicidal Elvis impersonator.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
redneck, backwoods, rape, exploitation, racism, sexual abuse, serial killer, injustice, psychopath, woman in danger, rivalry, wedding ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
93K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, non-linear ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school shooting, violence, mass murder, teacher, teenager, school, murder, high school, bullying, youth, serial killer, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Movies like House of Wax
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style:
slasher, campy, suspenseful, sexy, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
murder, serial killer, male nudity, revenge, vigilantism, vigilante, sex maniac, red light district, teenager, criminal, psychopath, murderer ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
Style:
gothic, serious, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
heavy metal culture, gang, occult, devil worship, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, leadership, social decay, society, violence spree, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
16K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, disturbing, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
prison, suspense, gang, teenager, juvenile delinquency, youth, prison escape, violence, gangsters, rivalry, confined, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, california, chicago illinois, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
128K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, gothic, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, suspense, torture, small town, group of friends, violence, murder, masked killer, psycho killer, ghost town, survival ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 70s, year 1974, 80s ...
Place:
usa, florida, paris france, louisiana, new york
⇓ 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 Don't Breathe
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
Style:
slasher, erotic, disturbing, neo noir
Plot:
suspense, violence, sex scene, female psychopath, woman with a gun, making love, exploitation, evil girl, sexual abuse, psychopath, stepmother, incest overtones ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, satanic, splatter ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, high school, bully, suspense, monster, tunnel, bad kids, bus, demon, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying series of ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, gothic, tense, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
murder, violence, supernatural, teenage girl, goth girl, mirror, curses spells and rituals, suspense, death, nightmare, demonic possession, demon ...
Time:
80s, year 1939, 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
manipulative person, teachers and students, perfectionist, revenge, serial killer, mental illness, crime and punishment, suspense, boy, kidnapped boy, sociopathy, teenage murderer ...
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18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce (Ryan Phillippe) is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds ...
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
kidnapping, actor, twitter, attempted rape, fight, rescue, jealousy, survival, confined, isolation, rivalry, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Movies like Fear
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 ⇓
18%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The high school students didn't mean to kill Mr. Griffin. They wanted to make him suffer. But when their mean English teacher turns up dead, they have to find out who killed them before the police arrests them all.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, high school, kidnapping, emotional abuse, teenage life, teachers and students, high school life, murder, vengeance, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, youth ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.
Style:
slasher, lgbt cinema, psychotronic, offbeat, british horror ...
Plot:
twins, gay, blackmail, female psychopath, lgbt, evil twin, sexual jealousy, hustler, exploitation, immature, nude, brother sister kiss ...
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style:
psychotronic, controversial, mind bending, slasher, psychological ...
Plot:
brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, cult, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, perversion, mental disorder ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, scary, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, serial killer, rape and revenge, youth, revenge, psychopath, life is a bitch, violent, vengeance, kidnapping, murder, police investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, forest, psychopath, murder, friendship, vengeance, youth, teenage life, rivalry, suburbs, teenager, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenage vigilante seeks revenge on a group of violent thugs who raped her handicapped sister and murdered her best friend.
Style:
sexy, slasher, psychotronic, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape, revenge, violence against women, violence, gang, murder, cheerleader, juvenile delinquent, female vigilante, vigilantism, exploitation ...
Time:
80s, 50s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A thieve makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are not longer how he expected.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, home invasion, suspense, investigation, violence, sadist, captive, sadism, obsession, psycho killer, murder ...
Place:
portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage Valerie just can't believe he really did it, ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, cheerleader, murder, forbidden love, high school, erotic dream, masochist, graphic violence, teenage life, false accusation, parents and children, young heroes ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
Style:
disturbing, brutal, stylized, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence, chase, murder, vengeance, gang, gunfight, death, suspense, brutality, revenge, visceral, police investigation ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new york, vietnam, new jersey, asia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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