Movies like Psycho
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Psycho (1998)
53K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts inquiries from her sister and a private investigator. They both soon discover the morbid bond linking Norman to his mysterious "mother" at the Bates Motel.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, slasher, psychological, bleak, cult classic, psychological thriller, atmospheric, mystical, brutal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
motel, psychopath, split personality, murder, hotel, psycho, murder of a nude woman, parents and children, isolation, eccentric family, serial killer, mental disorder, secret, transvestism, fear, murderer, masturbation, blood, old dark house, voyeur, swamp, stupidity, psychotic, christmas, maniac ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
usa, arizona
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Most similar movies to Psycho
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and slasher films with plots about serial killer, murder, deadly, danger, psychopath, killer and blood mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Psycho: Bates Motel (2013), I Know Who Killed Me (2007), Identity (2003), Orphan (2009), Vacancy (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, cult horror, suspense ...
Plot:
voyeur, split personality, childhood trauma, psycho killer, psychopath, double murder, poisoning, incestuous desire, schizophrenia, matricide, child abuse, oedipus complex ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 80s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
125K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, motel, mental disorder, obsession, hotel, insanity, murder, family problems, half brother, dysfunctional family, small town, incestuous desire ...
Time:
2010s, 20th century
Place:
oregon, usa, hawaii
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An idyllic small town is rocked when Aubrey Fleming (Lindsay Lohan), a bright and promising young woman, is abducted and tortured by a sadistic serial killer. When she manages to escape, the traumatized girl who regains consciousness in the hospital ...
Style:
scary, erotic, rough, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
stripper, serial killer, profanity, psychopath, twins, sadism, kidnapping, mistaken identity, amputation, supernatural, small town, twists and turns ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
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 ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, nevada
Similarity:
100%
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35K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, psychopath, psychiatrist, murder, psycho killer, psycho, revenge, homicidal maniac, male victim, swamp, waitress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
67%
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:
100%
113K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, murder, hotel, survival horror, hostage, danger, voyeurism, kidnapped, estranged couple, motel, macabre ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, horrifying, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, hotel, neighbor, violence, old dark house, danger, gory, hollywood, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
usa, los angeles, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, suspense, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, voyeur, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, haunted house, old dark house, insanity, motel, nun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Style:
christmas horror, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, haunted by the past, who done it, holiday, murder, mental institution, gory, xmas, danger, rivalry, supernatural, ghost ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, year 1970, 1950s, year 1950
Place:
new england, usa, massachusetts
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, suspenseful, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psycho killer, gory, maniac, friday the 13th, masked man, serial murder, stalking, blood, murder of a nude woman ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
156K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, masked killer, murder, hostage, brutality, blood, masked man, violence, masked villain, killer ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry ...
Style:
slasher, scary, intense, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
miner, serial killer, mine, valentine's day, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unknown killer, mining town, strong violent content, killer, mysterious villain, psycho killer ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Style:
slasher, independent film, bloody, psychotronic, slasher horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, prank, female nudity, sorority, attic, murder, killer clown, voyeur, accidental death, dead woman, old woman, hallucination ...
Time:
year 2016, 20th century, 80s, 1950s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
psychopath, gory, masked killer, death, group of friends, brutality, massacre, danger, revenge, maniac, camp, videotaped sex ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 2000s
Place:
texas, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.
Style:
slasher, slasher horror, grindhouse, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot:
masked killer, masked man, homicidal maniac, serial killer, held captive, maniac, exploitation, murder, gory, killer, murderer, fashion model ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, year 1967
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, murder, psychopath, danger, violence spree, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, haunted by the past, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
killer, masked killer, gory, friday the 13th, masked man, serial teen killer, murder, serial killer, male victim, outdoor sex, murder of a nude woman, summer camp ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, america
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after ...
Style:
slasher, creepy, scary, saga, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, masked man, murder, masked killer, violent, supernatural, gory, torture, blood, hospital, violence ...
Time:
90s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1995, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Unfinished business with coed Julie James brings the murderer to the Bahamas to terrorize her and her friends, Karla, Tyrell and Will, during a vacation. Can Ray Bronson who survived a bloody attack alongside Julie two summers ago, get to the island ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, teen horror, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, killer, murder, escape, revenge, voodoo, masked killer, haunted by the past, hotel, female protagonist, resort, island ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, year 1988, 80s
Place:
bahamas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.
Style:
mind bending, slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
time loop, losing-it hero, cabin in the woods, group of friends, curse, mine, time travel, changing the past or future, mystery killer, murder, danger, destiny ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, danger, obsession, murder, nudity, investigation, sex scene, female nudity, adaptation, police, psycho killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Five friends are stalked and murdered by a masked assailant while preparing for Valentine's Day.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, revenge, murder, woman in danger, mystery killer, gory, masked killer, violence against women, danger, death of friend, school ...
Time:
year 2001, 80s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
336K
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, slasher horror, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, holiday horror, babysitter, death, masked killer, killer, small town, psychiatrist, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1963, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america, midwest, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.
Style:
scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, horrifying ...
Plot:
phobia, isolation, danger, on the road, kidnapping, family relations, psychopath, doctors and patients, trapped, survival, redneck, hitchhiker ...
Similarity:
100%
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