Movies like Detour 2013

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Detour (2013)
 5.2
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Detour (2013)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Trapped inside his car by a mudslide, smooth talking Jackson Alder suddenly finds himself in a situation he can't talk his way out of. With no hope of rescue, he must defy the odds; battling Mother Nature for his survival.
Style: suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, minimal cast, independent film, bleak, serious ...
Plot: survival, trapped, isolation, natural disaster, against the odds, wilderness survival, danger, confined, fear, buried alive, tragic event, confusion, mortality, disaster, wilderness, truck, trap, trucker, profanity, chases and races, escapades, sex, time, nature, escape ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, california, usa

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Most similar movies to Detour

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, serious and suspense films with plots about survival, danger, isolation, confined, trapped, trap and deadly mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Detour: Open Water (2003), The Canyon (2009), Buried (2010), Black Rock (2012), Aftermath (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.8
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Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
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100%
 5.8
 5K
The Canyon (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A survival story about a honeymooning couple who get lost in the wide expanse of the Grand Canyon.
Style: suspenseful, scary, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: survival, wilderness, desert, honeymoon, grand canyon, tour guide, dangerous animal, danger, isolation, newlyweds, animal attack, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
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100%
 7.0
 168K
Buried (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, trapped, buried alive, confined, isolation, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, panic, desperation, race against time ...
Time: year 2010, 20th century, 2010s, year 2006, 2000s ...
Place: iraq, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 10K
Black Rock (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, woman in danger, manhunt, self defense, strong violent content, friends, human prey, confined, chase, chases and races, danger, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.8
 2K
Aftermath (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas. The United States has hastily become embroiled in World War 3. A young doctor named ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, radiation, apocalypse, supernatural, isolation, nuclear, chaos, danger, radiation poisoning, confined, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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100%
 6.1
 12K
Brake (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Secret Service Agent is held captive in the trunk of a car and endures high-speed mental and physical torture as terrorists attempt to extract needed information for their sinister plot.
Style: twist ending, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: secret agent, secret place, agent as target, kidnapping, terrorism, isolation, captivity, race against time, danger, twists and turns, survival, spy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Open Water 2: Adrift (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A weekend cruise on a luxurious party yacht goes horribly wrong for a group of old high-school friends. They forget to let the ladder down before they jump into the ocean for a swim. The boat proves impossible to climb. They are stuck in the water ...
Style: scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: survival, human nature, yacht, danger, social relations, uninhibited rivalry, family in danger, drowning, diving, water, shark, isolation ...
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 12K
Curve (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot: trapped, car breakdown, hitchhiker, psychopath, trap, survival, maniac, on the road, fear, serial killer, female protagonist, fire ...
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29%
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 4.5
 12K
Rest Stop (2006)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The film follows Nicole Carrow, a young woman who is threatened by a maniac serial killer, after her boyfriend Jess, is abducted in a rest stop.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: woman in danger, serial killer, survival, gory, danger, kidnapped, redneck, chase, isolation, on the road, hostage, torture ...
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.3
 7K
Elevator (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: trapped, captivity, isolation, trapped in an elevator, confined, danger, survival, terrorism, greed, mind game, escape room, confined space ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Capsized: Blood in the Water (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the harrowing true story of an October 1982 shark encounter. After a yacht bound for Florida capsizes during an unexpected storm, its crew is left to drift for days in the chilling waters of the Atlantic where they become prey to a group of ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, atmospheric, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: shark attack, killer shark, shark, survival, storm at sea, disaster, boat, natural disaster, wilderness survival, wilderness, struggle for survival, danger ...
Time: 20th century, year 1982
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.0
 747
Deadfall Trail (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: John, Julian and Paul enter the Kaibab National Forest for a three-week survival trip and peyote vision quest. The only items they take with them are a knife, a bottle of water and a garbage bag each. A week into their journey a disastrous turn of ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: wilderness, moral dilemma, isolation, friendship, danger, confined, hiking, desert, expedition, redneck, national park, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.8
 483
Frozen Impact (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Rutland, Vermont, Forestry Service supervisor Dan Blanchard and his wife Dr. Christy Blanchard hope life will return to normal now a transplant liver is expected for their brave son Jason (12). Daughter Marie was ordered to bring Jason to perform ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense
Plot: disaster, escapades, child illness, forces of nature, against the odds, daring rescue, one man army, save the day, survival, danger, race against time, heroes ...
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.8
 381
Collapse (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The normal worries of a struggling small town farmer are blown away when the world is suddenly overrun by undead monsters. How can a good man protect and provide for his family in a hostile world without becoming a monster himself?
Style: thought provoking, bleak, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: infected, society, zombie, farmer, survival, danger, insanity, human nature, brutality, isolation, epidemic, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.2
 17K
12 Feet Deep (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing night.
Style: suspense, disturbing, serious, sad, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: trapped, water, confined space, survival, endurance, sibling relationship, family secret, determination, female protagonist, swimming pool, sister, sister sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.6
 601
The Phobos (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Estonia, Russia
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Rainy summer evening... Young people are arriving at the new trendy club named Phobos which is still under construction. Or re-construction - since it's a former bomb shelter which is reconstructed to become a club. At first, the party sees ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, rough
Audience: teens
Plot: bomb shelter, fear, panic, danger, survival, torture, ghost, group of strangers, club, isolation, confined, trapped ...
Time: year 2010
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23%
 4.4
 1K
The Chamber (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The film revolves around a special ops unit who commandeer a commercial research vessel and it’s submersible to locate a mysterious item at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. When an explosion causes the sub to overturn and take on water, the crew ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological, suspense
Plot: survival, trap, isolation, military, murder, survival horror, deathtrap, confinement indoors, characters in danger, confined, swat team, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea
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22%
 4.7
 3K
Stash House (2012)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dave and Emma have found the perfect house, until they discover a stash of heroine and end up imprisoned in it by violent thugs.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: survival, stash, danger, couples, rivalry, trapped, gangster, showdown, smuggling, new house, escapades, drug ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 5.2
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Silent House (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, survival, family in danger, home invasion, uncover truth, haunted by the past, country house, confined, twists and turns, isolation, parents and children ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
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21%
Asylum Blackout (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, survival, isolation, blackout, psychopath, security guard, confinement indoors, danger, escapades, friendship, gory, trapped ...
Time: year 2011, year 1989, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa, washington state
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21%
Locked in a Room (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: "Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, trapped, teenager, room, survival, isolation, murder, violence, teenage life, confined, mysterious character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.3
 2K
Rogue River (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When a young woman takes a trip down Rogue River, her car mysteriously disappears. Lost without transport or communication, she accepts the hospitality of a stranger who offers her shelter for the night at his cabin. With no other options available, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, scary, rough, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapped woman, survival, confined, danger, strong violent content, police officer killed, brother sister incest, extreme violence, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.8
 1K
Coffin (2011)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Awakening from a deep sleep in the pitch black Sean Justice feels around him and realises that he is in a small wooden box and beside him lays his unconscious girlfriend. With only two hours of air time remaining a ransom demand is made of $500,000 ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, detective ...
Plot: survival, confined, twists and turns, danger, save the day, on the run, wrestling, chases and races, buried alive, race against time, mysterious character, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 3.0
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Wolf Town (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Kyle, a shy college student finds himself and three of his friends trapped in an old western ghost town by a pack of ferocious wolves and has to overcome his personal fears to confront the wolves and lead his friends to safety.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary
Audience: teens
Plot: wolf pack, wolf, animal attack, werewolf, killer dog, survival, danger, dangerous animal, isolation, chase, wolf attack, college student ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Resurrection County (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When four campers' weekend trip turns deadly, in the remote town of Enoch, they find the locals are all too happy to serve up their own brand of an eye for an eye justice.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: woods, small town, survival, survival horror, peril, struggle for survival, trap, weekend getaway, woman in danger, body horror, trapped, redneck ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.4
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Below Zero (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Jack (Edward Furlong) is in danger of missing a deadline, his manager orders him to take whatever measures are needed to complete his screenplay. Jack locks himself in a slaughterhouse freezer but discovers that his inner demons are keeping him ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, scary, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, writer's life, losing-it hero, isolation, twists and turns, one last chance, danger, figment, gory, writers, trapped, cold ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.4
 1K
The Mooring (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Every 40 seconds a person goes missing. In northern Idaho, a group of teenage girls attended a summer camp to help them connect with nature without technology. They were told it would be a summer of change. As the girls' houseboat is suddenly ...
Style: scary, tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, river, psychopath, serial killer, chase, woods, survival, missing person, woman in danger, isolation, on the run, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: idaho, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.8
 1K
Event 15 (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Three soldiers get trapped in an elevator when terrorists set off a dirty bomb. But when White escapes, her world turns upside down as she realizes nothing is what it seems.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: isolation, survival, soldier, military, trapped in an elevator, terrorist attack, veteran, elevator, danger, confined, losing-it hero, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
 2.9
 741
Deadly Weekend (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two young couples take one last trip to the country before moving to different cities. Unfortunately, when secrets come out and jealously takes a toll the weekend takes an unexpected and deadly turn for the worst.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, woods, survival, isolation, confined, strong violent content, murder, danger, group of friends, trap, bondage, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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