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Roadgames (1981)
11K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer who uses a young female hitchhiker as bait to lure victims on a desolate Australian highway.
Style:
slasher, road movie, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, surprise ending, offbeat, neo noir, cult classic, perverse ...
Plot:
serial killer, truck, on the road, murder, highway, hitchhiking, strangulation, mysterious villain, truck driver, van, paranoia, australian outback, female victim, killer car, dog, kidnapping, villain, dismemberment, american abroad, framed for murder, suspicion, male victim, hitchhiker, carsploitation, trucker ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand, american
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Most similar movies to Roadgames
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, suspenseful, scary and serious films with plots about serial killer, psychopath, murderer, murder, psycho killer, death and killer mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Roadgames: Wolf Creek (2005), The Hitcher (1986), Long Weekend (1978), Halloween (1978), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, maniac, torture, sadistic horror, psycho killer, macabre, killer, outback, massacre, gory, sadistic killer ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, oceania, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style:
road movie, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
psycho killer, hitchhiker, serial killer, psychopath, desert, stalker, violence, sociopath, stalking, kidnapping, highway, motel ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A sadistic serial killer terrorizes a couple driving on a rural highway in Texas while killing numerous people and framing them for his killings.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, woman in danger, heroine, manipulation, revenge, fear, showdown, death of boyfriend, framed for murder, violence, arrest ...
Place:
texas, usa
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a suburban couple go camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.
Style:
slasher, scary, natural horror, atmospheric, romantic drama ...
Plot:
camping, topless woman, animal attack, killing an animal, tasmanian devil, wilderness, bird attack, holiday horror, australian outback, expedition, losing-it hero, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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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: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Texas Ranger hunts for a hooded serial killer terrorizing the residents of a small town, set in 1946 Arkansas. Loosely based on a true story.
Style:
slasher, creepy, scary, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, killer, masked killer, stalking, mystery killer, unknown killer, psychopath, maniac, murder, masked man, voice over narration, butcher ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1976, year 1946
Place:
texas, arkansas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style:
surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, memory loss, sadistic psychopath, art, murder, killer, psycho killer, surrealism, obsession, vengeance, rape, violent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, florence
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, twists and turns, missing person, gas station, obsession, road trip, disappearance, murder, literary, police investigation, character study ...
Time:
20th century, near future, 80s, year 1988
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands, california
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina, and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, terrifying, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, sadistic horror, killing spree, torture, tourist, gory, escape attempt, violence, chase, decapitation, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young opperata is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Style:
slasher, creepy, suspense, visually stunning, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, nude girl, female nudity, torture, voyeur, obsession, nudity, bare breasts, nude, evil man, masked villain ...
Time:
80s, year 1986
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
36%
374
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman searches for many years to exact revenge on a kidnapper. A psychological thriller that examines how far a person would go if pushed to the extreme.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
vengeance, rivalry, danger, hostage, husband wife relationship, murder, fight, secret, abduction, kidnapping, murderer, serial murder ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A madman haunted by the ghost of his ex-wife carves a corpse-laden trail.
Style:
slasher, surreal, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, serial murder, murder, psychopath, wedding, homicidal maniac, serial killer as protagonist, woman in danger, gory, whodunit, fashion, family life ...
Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
europe, paris france, france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A psychopath escapes from a mental institution and starts a murder spree, which ends in the pursuing of a young handicapped girl, who once got a blood transfusion from him.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, bloody, slasher horror, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, murderer, exploitation, mental institution, murder, paranormal, escaped mental patient, stalker, insane, criminally insane, supernatural power ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Nicola confronts his beautiful wife about the affair she's been having. But someone brutally murders her in the shower, right after he leaves the house. Naturally Nicola is made prime suspect. But his colleague, Anna, sees signs that the murder ...
Style:
slasher, detective, psychotronic, disturbing, splatter ...
Plot:
serial killer, uxoricide, jealous husband, wife, disturbed person, killing, slaughter, bloodbath, mystery killer, slaughterhouse, crazy, insane ...
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
35%
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:
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Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
35%
11K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.
Style:
slasher, realistic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, stranger, serial killer, brutality, paranoia, maniac, survival, forest, scarecrow, stalking, danger, wilderness ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, england, somalia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A tongue-in-cheek psycho movie in "Duo-vision." The entire feature employs the split-screen technique used in parts of Brian De Palma's "Sisters" that same year. As a handyman at a seacoast hotel, Randolph Roberts wears a ...
Style:
slasher, horror comedy, slasher horror, psychological thriller, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, hotel, murder, underground, sex crime, exploitation, plan, murderer, sadism, sadistic killer, flashback, blood ...
Time:
70s, year 1973
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reporter and a blind retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
Style:
slasher, suspense, perverse, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
serial killer, blind man, murder, voyeurism, woman strangled to death, investigation, stalking, twists and turns, chase, gory, amateur detective, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, turin italy
Similarity:
50%
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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:
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, UK, Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A scientist is experimenting with teenagers and turning them into murderers.
Style:
slasher, suspense, retro, bloody, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mad scientist, serial killer, experiment, supernatural, murder, homicidal maniac, costume party, macabre, killer, evil child, cybernetics, bad kids ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
new zealand, oceania
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Siblings, Eric & his surreal artist sister Kay, her doctor husband David, her sister-in-law Brooke along with pilot Marsh become stranded on a rugged isle face off against a supernatural beast drawn to Kay who dreams of its killings.
Style:
slasher, bloody, grindhouse, mind bending, terrifying ...
Plot:
island, serial killer, nightmare, unknown killer, monster, fear, murder, beach, gory, exploitation, american horror, creature ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, slasher, psychotronic, sexual ...
Plot:
female nudity, tarantula, serial killer, lesbianism, dysfunctional marriage, woman in jeopardy, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, whodunit, psychopath, obsession, maniac ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a small college in North Carolina, only a select few students are left to take mid terms. But, when a killer strikes, it could be everyone's final exam.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, psychological thriller, bloody, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, psychopath, serial killer, campus, prank, high school life, youth, bare chested male, male victim, dead teenager, school, murder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The ...
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, college student, murder, danger, serial murder, campus, serial killer, brutality, investigation, female villain, psycho, exploitation ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jason Voorhees, the living, breathing essence of evil, is back for one fierce, final fling! Tracked down and blown to bits by a special FBI task force, everyone now assumes that he's finally dead. But everybody assumes wrong. Jason has been ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, gory, friday the 13th, violent, murder, murder of a nude woman, masked man, masked killer, police officer, male victim, blood, sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2003
Place:
new jersey, ohio
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mystery killer, masked killer, masked man, psychopath, serial killer, scuba diving, psycho killer, psycho terror, homicidal maniac, investigation, mind game, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, holland, netherlands, amsterdam
Similarity:
50%
90K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
Style:
neo noir, creepy, psychological thriller, tense, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, killer, psycho killer, violence, cannibalism, profiler, eye, fbi agent, obsession, mind game, macabre ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
florida, southern california, alabama, maryland, miami ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, surreal, psychotronic, mind twisting ...
Plot:
serial killer, eye, two killers, terror, surrealism, hypnosis, blood, homicidal maniac, evil doctor, mutilation, psycho killer, brutality ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
southern california, california, los angeles, europe, america ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Police investigate apparent suicide of teen girl and uncover details of a teenage prostitution racket. They go on the hunt for a motorcycle riding killer.
Style:
suspense, slasher, poliziottesco, sadistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teenage girl, police, killer, mystery killer, psychopath, female nudity, rape, sex, serial killer, maniac, murder victim, biker ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
34%
86K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Travelling businessman, David Mann, angers the driver of a rusty tanker whilst crossing the Californian desert. A simple trip turns deadly as Mann struggles to stay on the road while the tanker plays cat and mouse with his life.
Style:
road movie, creepy, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, horror for children
Plot:
car chase, desert, chase, truck, road rage, psychopath, driving, truck driver, duel, mysterious villain, on the road, pursuit ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
california, persia, usa, los angeles, canada
Similarity:
34%
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