Movies like American Mary
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American Mary (2012)
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
Style:
scary, disturbing, rough, sexy, brutal, dark, tense, serious, realistic, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, torture, plastic surgery, amputation, gory, revenge, nightclub, physical appearance, goth, stripper, brutality, serial killer, doctors, student, surgery, gore, twins, sexual perversion, petty criminal, blood, lesbian, money, female nudity, missing person, book ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to American Mary
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and disturbing films with plots about gory, blood, brutality, murder, violence, death and deadly mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like American Mary: Ginger Snaps (2000), Martyrs (2008), Inside (2007), I Saw the Devil (2010), High Tension (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds ...
Style:
gothic, scary, rough, dark humor, macabre ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, coming of age, obsession, high school, goth, cure, transformation, gory, death, blood, teenager, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
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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, rough, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violence, torment, child abuse, torture, torture chamber, cult, kidnapping, suffering, afterlife, gory, brutality, vengeance ...
Time:
contemporary, year 1971
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Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style:
tense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, gore, cat, pregnancy, photographer, female killer, baby, gory, french, holiday, mysterious character, confinement indoors ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
france
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100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, vengeance, psychopath, violence, loss of spouse, revenge, crime and punishment, track down, cat and mouse, mercilessness, extreme violence ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
asia, south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: France, Italy, 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, suspenseful, psychological, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
insanity, home invasion, survival, kidnapping, psychopath, massacre, farmhouse, slasher, serial killer, gory, chase, french ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, tense, rough, twists and turns ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, female werewolf, wilderness, gory, destiny, supernatural, transformation, death in the family, family problems, deadly, beast, siege ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s
Place:
canada
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100%
31K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style:
gothic, psychological, scary, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
obsession, mental illness, loneliness, murder, psychopath, mole, gory, serial killer, cannibalism, deadly, blind character, social misfits ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 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, suspenseful, brutal, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, slasher, sexualized violence, serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, torture, gory, danger, brutality, sadism ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Style:
rough, twists and turns, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
torture, sadism, brutality, suffering, captivity, small town, mysterious character, confined, unlikely criminals, parents and children, crimes, gory ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung ...
Style:
mind bending, rough, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, ghost, murder, transplant, prostitute, amateur detective, criminal heroes, who done it, gory, government agency, deadly, law enforcement ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like The Babadook
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, twists and turns, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
werewolf, hospital, attic, masturbation, siblings relations, female werewolf, gory, murder, drug abuse, transformation, beast, on the run ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
new jersey, canada
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Naturally beautiful, Katie has just settled into New York where she, like many other young women, is trying to make it as a model. But what starts out as an innocent and simple photo shoot soon turns into something disturbingly unthinkable! Raped, ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, rough, brutal, realistic ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, vengeance, rape, rapist, torture, left to die, danger, gory, woman in danger, brutality, model, revenge ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
new york, bulgaria
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100%
48K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced ...
Style:
ambiguous ending, psychological, disturbing, bloody, macabre ...
Plot:
cannibalism, sister sister relationship, vegetarian, meat, gay, university, lgbt, coming of age, school, blood, college student, binge drinking ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, supernatural, sexual abuse, invisibility, single parent, ghost, good versus evil, vengeance, serial killer, danger, woman in danger, family in danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
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34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, macabre, melancholic ...
Plot:
rape, mad scientist, physical appearance, isolation, surgery, sexual perversion, twists & turns, vengeance, gender bending, obsession, disfigurement, plastic surgery ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, year 2012, year 2006
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Movies similar to Saw III
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1979 controversial cult classic, I Spit on Your Grave retells the horrific tale of writer Jennifer Hills who takes a retreat from the city to a charming cabin in the woods to start on her next book. But Jennifer's presence in ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
sexual abuse, vengeance, rape, rape and revenge, murder, violence spree, danger, woman in danger, small town, rapist, in the woods, deadly ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Iceland
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:
suspenseful, rough, serious, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
slasher, psychopath, crimes, surgery, survival, danger, captivity, gory, deadly, torture, friends, torment ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
slovakia, europe, amsterdam, iceland
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29%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
scary, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
perversion, psychopath, femme fatale, murder, mentally unstable, torture, gory, violence, obsession, dancer, ballet, actress ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
See No Evil 2 revives the nightmare of the first film when Jacob Goodnight rises from the dead in the city morgue after his killing spree at the Blackwell hotel. In this ominous, underground locker for the dead, a group of medical students fight to ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic
Plot:
slasher, psychopath, rivalry, crimes, deadly, gory, danger, surprise birthday party, birthday party, flashback, blood, wheelchair ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scientist Shane Brown neglects his new bride, instead spending their honeymoon searching for an old colleague who disappeared after a research paper he had written was discredited by the medical community. It turns out that Dr. Semeneau is living in ...
Style:
psychological, scary, rough, suspense, sexual ...
Plot:
vampire, murder, rape, gory, serial killer, danger, dangerous attraction, eroticism, addiction, violence, honeymoon, laboratory ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, suspense, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prom, supernatural ability, social misfits, teenage life, high school, telekinesis, humiliation, revenge, supernatural, gory, alienation, massacre ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, 2010s
Place:
usa
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28%
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.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
cannibalism, rain, religious, prayer, small town, gory, siblings relations, parents and children, family relations, crimes, danger, missing person ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
delaware, usa
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27%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a cult besieges her convent, a young nun goes with an army of Muslims to destroy the convent and kill who wronged her.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
Plot:
convent, injustice, revenge, rape, torture, muslim, rivalry, rebelliousness, society, feminism, battles, religions or cults ...
Time:
15th century, middle ages, 1400s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Style:
scary, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
hollywood, desperation, gory, filmmaking, woman in danger, religions or cults, actor's life, manipulations, curses spells and rituals, artists and showbiz, initiation, fame ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Miriam and John are an elegant couple with a dark secret: they are vampires. Feeding on human blood, Miriam has lived for over 2000 years. She gave her lover the gift of eternal life and together they hunt. But John begins aging rapidly, he seeks ...
Style:
stylized, atmospheric, sexy, gothic, scary ...
Plot:
vampire, femme fatale, immortality, attic, gory, danger, imaginary, dangerous attraction, couple relations, power relations, couples, research laboratory ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, hospital, murder, slasher, mental institution, psychologist, mind game, mysterious character, investigation, haunted by the past, psychoanalysis, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand
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26%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style:
scary, psychological, tense, bleak, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, supernatural, family in danger, nightmare, dysfunctional family, book, dealing with death, mental illness, nightmare comes true, deadly creature, single mother, parent child relationship ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on true events
Style:
rough, suspenseful, scary, brutal, disturbing ...
Plot:
slasher, brutality, torture, murder, psychopath, stalking, crimes, wilderness, friendship, maniac, sadism, death ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
12K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
model, serial killer, gore, violence, prostitute, psychopath, stalking, park, rage, sadism, mannequin, killer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style:
psychological, rough, scary, brutal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, home invasion, danger, torture, hostages, murder, family, family in danger, mind game, neighbor, savagery ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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