Movies like Shut In 2016
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Shut In (2016)
15K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA, India
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, psychological thriller, clever, twist ending, action thriller, twisted, independent film, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
held captive, single parent, boy, isolation, stepmother, murder, missing child, child in peril, doctor, obsession, little boy, nightmare, delusion, winter, psychologist, family problems, introspection, child psychologist, snow, oedipus complex, stepmother stepson relationship, survival, storm, stalker, killer child ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new england, usa
Most similar movies to Shut In
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and psychological films with plots about murder, ghost, blood, supernatural, psychopath, death and danger mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Shut In: Orphan (2009), White Noise (2005), Brahms: The Boy II (2020), The Resident (2011), The Babadook (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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250K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Style:
twist ending, scary, psychological, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spirit, ghost, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, dealing with death, obsession, loss, contact, supernatural horror, grief, macabre, death of wife ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2005, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Canada, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, evil, doll, death, murder, devil, violence, curses spells and rituals, danger, mansion, puppet, boy ...
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
obsession, woman in danger, psychopath, landlord, stalker, danger, voyeurism, female protagonist, disturbed individual, rape and revenge, hidden camera, revenge ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
245K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
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:
psychological, scary, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, monster, nightmare, ghost, danger, single mother, fear, book, trauma, insanity, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Orphan
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
Style:
psychological, scary, slasher, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
blindness, woman in danger, twin sister, disability, suicide, who done it, murder, mysterious villain, uncover truth, delusion, blind character, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, depression, mental illness, sociopath, teenager, antisocial behavior, childhood, mother son relationship, boy ...
Time:
year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
america, united kingdom, connecticut, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, danger, family problems, country house, unfaithful wife, psychopath, police investigation, nudity, snake, hospital, haunting, home invasion ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tim and Cheryl Broadbent are excited to finally adopt Mona, a beautiful baby girl. But when the baby's biological father starts stalking them, their world turns upside down: through intimidation, manipulation, and violence, he is determined to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
psychopath, stalking, murder, family in danger, family problems, danger, adoption, parents and children, husband wife relationship, child, wrestling, parents ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: 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:
suspense, surprise ending, scary, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
ghost, mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, sibling relationship, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, split personality, schizophrenic, loss of mother, attic ...
Time:
60s, year 2017, year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Films like The Strangers
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
imaginary friend, plot twist, split personality, twists and turns, mental illness, psychologist, haunted by the past, murder, single father, haunted house, serial killer, small town ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, murder, family relations, mental patient, riddles and clues, nervous breakdown, danger ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, isolation, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, parents and children, doctors and patients, schizophrenia, domestic violence, family relations, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, anxiety ...
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
447K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, captive, kidnapped, mother son relationship, escape, rape, room, child born of rape, abduction, survival, imprisonment ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
48K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
claustrophobia, obsession, survival, psychology, school, bunker, underground bunker, twists and turns, danger, youth, trapped, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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209K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, lesbian, amnesia, obsession, hollywood, nightmare, hallucination, doppelganger, alternate reality, filmmaking, dream ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
373K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
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, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, kidnapping, twists and turns, rape, skin, revenge, isolation, insanity, sexual perversion, gender bending, abuse, plastic surgery ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, couple relations, adultery, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, spiritualism ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, persia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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50K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, mental institution, stalking, psychopath, mental illness, maniac, mental patient, murder, stalker, psychiatric ward, sexual assault, fear ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
boston, portugal, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
86K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, confusing, gloomy ...
Plot:
suicide, surrealism, twists and turns, obsession, mental illness, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, death, unfulfillment, parallel universe, mental institution, mentally unstable ...
Time:
year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, atmospheric, exciting ...
Plot:
trapped, psychopath, captive, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped, kidnapping, obsession, attempted escape, missing person, held captive, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, man hits a woman ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
berlin germany, oceania, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
51K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
psychopath, motel, split personality, murder, hotel, psycho, eccentric family, isolation, parents and children, mental illness, serial killer, secret ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
337K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, macabre, nightmare, fear, ghost, afterlife, demon, evil spirit, nightmare comes true, paranormal activity, psychic ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place:
america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Films like Disturbia
142K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, murder, hostage, masked killer, blood, fear, violence, masked villain, brutality, night ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, christmas horror, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
winter, supernatural, survival, ghost, snow, isolation, parents and children, family in danger, forces of nature, woods, xmas, redneck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
family in danger, mentally unstable, nanny, danger, parents and children, family problems, isolation, suburbs, obsession, supernatural ability, pregnancy, curses spells and rituals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
101K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doll, haunted house, supernatural, plot twist, violence, nanny, macabre, murder, mansion, governess, brutality, boy ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
england, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Style:
suspense, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
danger, snow, insanity, winter, isolation, woman in danger, audition, psychopath, missing person, survival, blood, imprisonment ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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