Movies like Shrew's Nest
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Shrew's Nest (2014)
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Original name: Musarañas
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, sexy, surreal, controversial, tense, realistic, neurotic ...
Plot:
murder, female psychopath, agoraphobia, religion, father daughter relationship, family relations, isolation, sister sister relationship, obsession, mentally unstable, insanity, hidden, secret, hostage, sexual abuse, female villain, broken leg, social isolation, incest, suspense, strong female lead, psycho, religious fanatic, mental disorder, mother ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s, contemporary
Place:
madrid, europe, iberian peninsula, spain
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, slasher, scary and suspenseful films with plots about murder, blood, violence, suspense, telephone call, screaming woman and psychopath mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Shrew's Nest: Sleep Tight (2011), To Let (2006), Misery (1990), Bad Ronald (1974), Macabre (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara ...
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psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
adult
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home invasion, stalking, apartment building, obsession, domestic disturbance, caretaker, woman in danger, sleeping, blackmail, maniac, concierge, cruelty ...
Time:
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Place:
spain, barcelona, iberian peninsula, europe
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 68 min.
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Mario and his pregnant girlfriend Clara are trying to find in a short period a new apartment to live since they have sold their apartment and they need to move in fifteen days. When Mario finds an attractive advertisement in his mailbox, he ...
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apartment building, psychopath, isolation, confined, family relations, female protagonist, pregnancy, trap, escape attempt, dog, suspense, female psychopath ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
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Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
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psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
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insanity, obsession, psychopath, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, hostage, female psychopath, isolation, obsessed fan, torture, rage ...
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Place:
colorado, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
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psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, voyeurism, mental illness, psychopath, hidden room, death of mother, voyeur, mysterious character, social misfits, teenage life, parents and children, teenager ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Macabre, international title for Rumah Dara (Indonesian title), and in Singapore titled Darah) is an Indonesian horror/slasher film in 2010. The movie tells about a group who attempt to escape from a house that owned by mysterious lady named Dara ...
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slasher, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
psychopath, isolation, murder, violence, struggle for survival, deathtrap, rivalry, survival, serial killer, flesh eater, asian prostitute, suspense ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style:
psychotronic, controversial, mind bending, slasher, psychological ...
Plot:
brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, cult, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, perversion, mental disorder ...
Time:
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30%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style:
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chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, aging, dysfunctional family, filmmaking, actress, violence, suspense ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Paul is the son of a gardener who works in a big mansion that has returned home with his parents after failling in his medecin degree. He is emotionally unstable. He collect dolls because he was educated as a girl because his sister died. After his ...
Style:
slasher, surreal, psychotronic, campy
Plot:
split personality, suspense, mansion, nightmare, decapitation, gardener, serial killer, dead sister, necrophilia, drunken woman, castle, mental patient ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In medical school of an elite university, campus starts sown with corpses. The police have no clue who is responsible for the carnage. Nobody suspected Barbara, a beautiful young innocent looking whose only concern seems to be the fashion. However, ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, serious, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two ...
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scary, suspenseful, psychological, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, female psychopath, mentally unstable, obsessive love, college, suspense, murder, teenager, stalker, bad girl, lesbian, love interest ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Germán, an honest family man, sees how his whole world wobbles the night when, driving home, accidentally runs over two teenage girls. From that moment, Germán will have to do everything in his power to prevent his life from being destroyed ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
highway, accident, police investigation, teenager, birthday, birthday party, youth, suspense, society, life is a bitch, disorder, parents and children ...
Place:
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26%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Garrett is a rising YouTube star. Shell is a deeply emotional fan. When they begin a romantic relationship, he's forced to question whether opening your life to strangers online is an invitation to community and rescue... or to stalking, ...
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realistic, mind bending, suspenseful, psychological, cyber ...
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fan, male rape victim, obsession, youtube, love story, teenage boy, suspense, meeting, stalking, stalker, internet, mental disorder ...
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26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour.
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slasher, surprise ending, scary, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
serial killer, mother daughter relationship, farm, psychiatrist, insanity, decapitation, mental breakdown, mental illness, murder, hagsploitation, suspense, adulterous husband ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Misery related movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenage girl whose inaction caused her mother's death arranges a similarly gruesome fate for her stepmother and brother.
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slasher, erotic, disturbing, neo noir
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suspense, violence, sex scene, female psychopath, woman with a gun, making love, exploitation, evil girl, sexual abuse, psychopath, stepmother, incest overtones ...
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25%
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Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian ...
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mental illness, rape, surrealism, insanity, hallucination, murder, schizophrenia, delusion, isolation, repression, female protagonist, nightmare ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, ocean, haunted by the past, dangerous attraction, vengeance, supernatural, serial killer, rape and revenge, dark secret, exploitation, curse ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style:
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Plot:
ghost, suspense, mental illness, twists and turns, sibling relationship, plot twist, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, schizophrenic, split personality, attic ...
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25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this reimagining of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name, director Jim Mickle paints a gruesome portrait of an introverted family struggling to keep their macabre traditions alive, giving us something we can really sink our teeth into.
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scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
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A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying series of ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
Alienated teen Pauline struggles with the pressures of fitting into high school, pleasing her mother and a burning desire to lose her virginity. With a grotesque curiosity for the darker side of life, Pauline is considered a social outcast by ...
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A librarian devotes her life to caring for her wheelchair-bound tyrannical father after being stood up at altar. She fantasizes his death and finds joy only with her pet monkey. When the monkey disappears, a shocking past is revealed.
Style:
scary, mind bending, tense, serious, psychological ...
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Time:
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24%
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Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style:
surprise ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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