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While She Was Out (2008)
8K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs.
Style:
christmas horror, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, slasher, bleak, fast
Plot:
woman in danger, abusive husband, vigilante, graphic violence, seduction, gang, female fighter, escapades, on the run, survival, chases and races, danger, violent content, xmas, christmas, christmas eve, shopping mall, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, santa claus, car chase, security guard, female protagonist, accidental death, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to While She Was Out
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and realistic films with plots about murder, danger, deadly, woman in danger, revenge, violence and psychopath mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like While She Was Out: P2 (2007), Rust Creek (2018), Devil's Pond (2003), Hitch Hike (1977), Absolute Killers (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
39K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, slasher, christmas horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
obsession, survival, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, escape attempt, danger, maniac, hostage, violence, stalking, stalker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When an overachieving college senior makes a wrong turn, her road trip becomes a life-changing fight for survival in rural Kentucky.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, philosophical, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
survival, forest, stranded, illegal drugs, small town sheriff, struggle for survival, woods, gang, criminal, murder, alone, fight ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
kentucky
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
What starts out as a romantic honeymoon on a deserted island turns into a horrible nightmare as Julianne discovers that her new husband is psychotic...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, couple relations, isolation, island, danger, newlyweds, love and romance, honeymoon, lake, wilderness ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker whom threatens to kill them unless they take him to a santuary, and in return agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.
Style:
suspense, independent film, tense, suspenseful, road movie ...
Plot:
psychopath, rape, rape and revenge, rape turns to consensual sex, hostage, rapist, exploitation, hitchhiker, female pubic hair, sexualized violence, female orgasm, deeply disturbed person ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
yuma arizona, california, arizona, southern california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
witness protection, gangster, redemption, on the run, chases and races, danger, murder, violence, crime family, organized crime, loyalty, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows disillusioned young family man John as a mysterious stranger, Richie takes him on a murder-fueled ride that transforms the weak-willed John into a desperate hero willing to go to any length to protect his family.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, neo noir, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
family in danger, murder, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, human nature, violence spree, serial killer, gang, psychopath, sociopath, assassin, mysticism ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After 25 years of a good marriage, what will Darcy do once she discovers her husband's sinister secret?
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, cult horror ...
Plot:
stephen king, serial killer, dark secret, danger, couples, marriage, husband wife relationship, murder, family problems, uncover truth, crumbling marriage, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
vengeance, murder, female protagonist, violent content, dishonesty, hidden identity, organized crime, police, witness, conspiracy, loss of daughter, manipulation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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134K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, danger, investigation, woman in danger, 911, youth, psycho, murder, kidnapped, chase, child abduction ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, detective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
rape, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, obsession, vigilantism, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, violent, sexual abuse, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
persia, los angeles, california
Similarity:
21%
22K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
With his gangster boss on trial for murder, a mob thug known as "the Teacher" tells Annie Laird she must talk her fellow jurors into a not-guilty verdict, implying that he'll kill her son Oliver if she fails. She manages to do this, ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, intense, realistic ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, legal, obsession, courtroom, trial, murder mystery, hitman, lawyer, murder of a nude woman, danger, unlikely friendships, single parent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, guatemala
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
While racing to a boxing match, Frank, Mike, John and Rey get more than they bargained for. A wrong turn lands them directly in the path of Fallon, a vicious, wise-cracking drug lord. After accidentally witnessing Fallon murder a disloyal henchman, ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, harsh, intense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, gang, chase, escape, gangster, police investigation, hip hop, on the run, ghetto, friendship, chases and races, crime gone awry ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
chicago, seattle, cuba, san francisco, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
Style:
road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
witnessing a crime, psychopath, gang, woman in danger, serial killer, missing person, rescue, danger, family in danger, hostage, father son relationship, fugitives ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, on the run, pregnancy, haunted by the past, rivalry, drug dealing, vigilantism, revenge, murder, death of father, danger, urban ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
puerto rico, usa, south america, latin america, new york ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A single mother must protect her daughter and herself during a heist gone wrong at a high-tech storage facility.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot:
single mother, mother daughter relationship, murder, criminal, mother, heist, diamond, daughter, gangster, woman in danger, danger, chase ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When an apparently exemplary cop abducts and secretly imprisons a beautiful dancer, a deadly battle of wills between captor and captive ensues.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, woman in danger, psychopath, missing person, deputy sheriff, isolation, law enforcement, stalking, riddles and clues, captivity, who done it, danger ...
Place:
asia, usa
Similarity:
19%
754
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal's revenge, master criminal, heist, danger, race against time, psychopath, car chase, car thief, serial killer, chases and races, woman in danger, chase ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Amiable con man Jack Cooper is on a westbound stagecoach, headed for the next batch of suckers who will mistake him for an easy mark. Fiery Sarah O'Rourke rides the same coach, handcuffed to lawman Bill Speakes and headed for the hangman. In a ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pursuit, manhunt, chase, criminal heroes, old west, on the run, tough heroes, woman in danger, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, father in law daughter in law relationship, shootout ...
Time:
19th century, year 1994
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
scary, slasher, brutal, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, revenge, psychopath, torture, murder, kidnapping, serial killer, violence, vengeance, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
80%
313K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, neo noir, psychological ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
home invasion, trapped, isolation, cat and mouse, hostage, claustrophobia, surveillance, security system, twists and turns, child in peril, locked in a room, confinement indoors ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Laila, a girl on the run from her family is hiding out in West Yorkshire with her drifter boyfriend Aaron. When her brother arrives in town with a gang of thugs in tow, she is forced to flee for her life and faces her darkest night.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
family relations, on the run, bounty hunter, gang, woman in danger, violent content, family problems, death of brother, chase, runaway, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, northern england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In the tradition of Grindhouse, Kill Bill and Sin City, award-winning comic book writer Ed Brubaker (Incognito, The Death of Captain America, Daredevil) teams up with stuntwoman-turned-cult star Zoe Bell (Death Proof, TV's "Lost") to ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Plot:
female assassin, female fighter, hitman, assassin, contract killer, danger, rivalry, heroes, woman in danger, badass female lead, organized crime, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, road movie, teen, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, gory, desert, murder, hitchhiker, road trip, killer, sociopath, brutality, murder of family, rain ...
Time:
year 2007, 70s
Place:
texas, new mexico, usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Criminal psychiatrist, Jake Nyman is taking a much needed vacation from responsibility. An experimental road trip during which ever decision will be made on a flip of a coin. Meanwhile, Sandra Thomas, disenchanted professional, is en route to pick ...
Style:
road movie, neo noir, tense, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychiatrist, psychopath, murder, on the road, desert, woman in danger, cons and scams, siblings relations, obsession, danger, chase ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
18%
27K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When their daughter is kidnapped by experienced nappers (Bacon and Love), the Jennings' (Theron and Townsend) turn the tables on this seemingly foolproof plan.
Style:
suspense, sexy, clever, scary, serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, hostage, ransom, asthma, psycho killer, family bonds, happy ending, profanity, blackmail, captive, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, seattle, san francisco, new orleans
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Style:
suspense, detective, realistic, serious, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vigilante, vengeance, revenge, vigilantism, woman with a gun, female vigilante, corpse, death, self defense, police station, woman kills a man, kick-butt women ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ray, a construction worker trapped in an unhappy marriage, pursues an affair with his neighbor, Carla. Carla's husband, Greg, is a mobster who keeps large sums of drug money in their home. With this in mind, Carla comes up with a plan: She and ...
Style:
neo noir, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, revenge, tragedy, extortion, infidelity, nothing goes right, disorder, dishonesty, crime gone awry, danger, life turned upside down ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
australia, new zealand
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
wannabe, murder, police detective, police investigation, mind game, psychopath, obsession, danger, master criminal, rivalry, woman in danger, gory ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bay area, los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed ...
Style:
psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
home invasion, hostage, family in danger, maniac, blood, serial killer, sociopath, killer, kidnapped, black, kidnapping, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia, atlanta georgia, tennessee
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, erotic, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
policewoman, chase, stalking, murder, police investigation, police, dangerous attraction, psychopath, investigation, life philosophy, runaway, female protagonist ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
18%
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