Movies like Saw

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Saw (2004)
 7.6
 463K
Saw (2004)
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 die trying...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing, bloody, clever, splatter, intense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room, extreme violence, trap, survival, insanity, game of death, deathtrap, characters killed one by one, sadism, captivity, violence, isolation, blood, race against time ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Saw

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspense, suspenseful and twisted films with plots about survival, blood, murder, torture, death, serial killer and kidnapping mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Saw: The Collector (2009), Saw: The Final Chapter (2010), The Collection (2012), Jigsaw (2017), Hostel (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.6
 275K
Saw II (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, gory, trap, sadistic horror, psychopath, serial murder, hostage, mind game, brutality, violent, insanity ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.2
 211K
Saw III (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate ...
Style: scary, bloody, psychological, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, serial killer, game of death, trap, mind game, sadism, psychopath, brutality, gory, mutilation, sadistic horror, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.8
 137K
Saw V (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Detective Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, he must go on the hunt to eliminate all the loose ends.
Style: scary, bloody, suspense, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, torture, game of death, trap, psychopath, mind game, violent, kidnapping, blood, gory, vigilante, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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 6.0
 124K
Saw VI (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally ...
Style: bloody, scary, slasher, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, trap, game of death, characters murdered one by one, vigilante, serial killer, mind game, psychopath, gory, violence, police investigation, twists and turns ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.9
 164K
Saw IV (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through ...
Style: scary, bloody, twist ending, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, game of death, trap, deathtrap, gory, violence, mind game, violent, game, serial killer, plot twist, blood ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Saw: The Final Chapter (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As a deadly battle rages over Jigsaw's brutal legacy, a group of Jigsaw survivors gathers to seek the support of self-help guru and fellow survivor Bobby Dagen, a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new wave of terror.
Style: psychological, scary, bloody, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: torture, gory, game of death, mind game, violence, serial killer, trap, psychopath, survival, kidnapping, blood, vigilante ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.1
 54K
The Collection (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Arkin escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the ...
Style: slasher, bloody, scary, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, trap, kidnapping, torture, masked killer, sadistic horror, massacre, survival, psychopath, escape, crazy ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Movie in collections
 5.7
 91K
Jigsaw (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways. All investigations begin to point the finger at deceased killer John Kramer.
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: game of death, torture, survival horror, gory violence, serial killer, psychopath, revenge, abduction, serial murder, held captive, panic, coma ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 5.9
 190K
Hostel (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, torture, psychopath, survival, danger, sadistic horror, captivity, dismemberment, violence, torment, strong violent content, sadistic psychopath ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.0
 66K
Circle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, execution, morality, life & death, prejudice, game of death, survival horror, stranger, struggle for survival, plot twist, sole survivor, twists and turns ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Hostel: Part II (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Following a geographical tour of Slovakia, three young American women are lured into a hostel by a handsome young man who sells them to the twisted masters, ties them up and brings upon an unthinkable world of pain.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, controversial, brutal ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: torture, gory, psychopath, murder, sadistic horror, travel, kidnapping, castration, violence, tourist, sadism, killed by a dog ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: europe, rome italy, slovakia, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Would You Rather (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: game of death, survival, game, group of strangers, psychopath, danger, torture, deathtrap, mind game, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, choice ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 7.1
 246K
Cube (1997)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style: psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, torture, murder, characters killed one by one, trap, master criminal, police officer, investigation, danger, blood, violence, evil wins ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
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, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.6
 109K
You're Next (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: home invasion, survival, gory, masked killer, murder, massacre, deathtrap, twists and turns, parents and children, trap, blood, plot twist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 14K
Nine Dead (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?
Style: psychological, surprise ending, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, confined, danger, gory, captivity, group of strangers, riddles and clues, game of death, murder, locked in a room, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 125K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.3
 266K
Identity (2003)
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, mental disorder, investigation, psychology, murderer, mental illness, motel, split personality, psychopath, rainstorm ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 5.3
 11K
House of 9 (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: isolation, survival, deathtrap, captivity, mind game, murder, sole survivor, group of strangers, psychological torture, characters killed one by one, hidden camera, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.1
 130K
Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.7
 77K
High Tension (2003)
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style: scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, gory, macabre, home invasion, psycho killer, kidnapping, torture, insanity, survival, killing spree, disturbed individual, murder ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, y2k, 21st century
Place: france, south of france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, Hungary, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive as they discover all the games that they've played before.
Style: suspense, thrilling, scary, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: game of death, trapped, escape room, quest, puzzle, survival, most dangerous game, hostage, survival horror, teamwork, trap, struggle for survival ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 105K
Martyrs (2008)
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, bloody, scary, brutal, splatter ...
Plot: torture, child abuse, violence, gory, kidnapping, brutality, revenge, afterlife, torment, fear, torture chamber, home invasion ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 2000s, year 1971, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.2
 8K
Funhouse (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When 8 celebrities from around the globe are invited to compete in an online reality show, they soon realize that they are playing for their very lives, as those voted off suffer horrific consequences, broadcast live to the entire world.
Style: scary, bad ending, twist ending, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: isolation, game of death, torture, survival, psychopath, video surveillance, game, sadism, trapped, held captive, characters killed one by one, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, cannibalism, psychopath, torture, gory, murder, cruelty, cannibal, violence, sadism, chainsaw, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2006, 60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.3
 7K
Kill Theory (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style: scary, surprise ending, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, murder, mind game, torture, trapped, confined, friendship, trap, rivalry, game of death, murderer, psycho ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 24K
No One Lives (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A gang of ruthless highway killers kidnap a wealthy couple traveling cross country only to shockingly discover that things are not what they seem.
Style: scary, psychological, slasher, splatter, brutal ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, serial killer, serial murder, murder, hunt down, hostage, massacre, danger, strong violent content, woman in danger, trap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 101K
Dead Silence (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: ghost, doll, supernatural, macabre, murder, ventriloquist, small town, clown, investigation, urban legend, danger, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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