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Axed (2012)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
Style:
slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, scary, realistic
Plot:
family relations, unemployment, psychopath, family in danger, isolation, rivalry, confined, parents and children, countryside, murder, crisis, suspense, serial killer, forest, psycho, graphic violence, life is a bitch, sexual content, incest, killer, vacation, father, suicide, schoolgirl, affair ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and realistic films with plots about deadly, danger, suspense, murder, psychopath, serial killer and confined mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Axed: Baby Blues (2008), Keep Watching (2017), Adopting Terror (2012), Don't Let Him In (2011), Death Do Us Part (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, serious, slasher, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, survival, suspense, mother kills own child, siblings relations, family relations, isolation, babies and infants, survival horror, depression, parents and children, depressed woman ...
Time:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, serial killer, hidden camera, murder, family in danger, confined, isolation, psychopath, mind game, manipulation, family secret, strangulation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, adoption, parents and children, husband wife relationship, babies and infants, child, family relations, privacy invasion ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, survival, isolation, countryside, couples, murder, suspense, violence, fear, travel, violent, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kennedy Jamieson, a wealthy socialite, has waited her whole life to have the perfect wedding. Engaged to the charming Ryan Harris, the young couple is just a week away from the big day but hasn't had a chance to celebrate their respective ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, isolation, murder, friendship, couples, buddies, confined, wedding, psychopath, maniac, suspense, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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Movies similar to You're Next
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, psychopath, strong violent content, serial killer, violence, masked killer, suspense, murder, chase, escaped prisoner, comeback, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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31%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, revenge, kidnapping, high school, deathtrap, confined, social misfits, misfit, society, sadism, murder, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, slasher, realistic
Plot:
psychopath, confined, family in danger, rivalry, split personality, terror, murder, maniac, villain, mental illness, blaxploitation, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Julie McConnell is one of a dozen camp counselors working to re-open a summer camp when a series of murders and disappearances begin commited by a hockey masked killer who may be the urban legend killer Trevor Moorehouse. When Julie looks into the ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, queer horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, teenage life, vengeance, confined, rivalry, mind game, survival, lake, murderer, isolation ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When novelist Paula Martin retreats to the seclusion of her family home Crows Hall she hopes to clear her mind and focus on her new book. The arrival of an assistant, Linda, should take the pressure off... but as the bodies pile up, Paula finds ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
confined, mentally unstable, isolation, murder, paranoia, country house, suspense, bad girl, railway, woman with a gun, mental illness, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Movies similar to The Final
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a young, lonely woman misdials a phone number by one digit, calling into a serial killing in progress, the killer latches onto her and involves her telephonically in a string of murders as he heads closer and closer to her home in Boston.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, profiler, suspense, psychopath, murder, stalking, phone terror, graphic violence, sexual content, deadly, danger, telephone ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
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27%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, escaped prisoner, murder, isolation, confined, buddies, car race, friends, graphic violence, irony, ex soldier, hillbilly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where ...
Style:
slasher, serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, forest, uncover truth, murder, suspense, violence, redneck, pig killer, masked killer, graphic violence, serial murder, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
tenant, psychopath, family in danger, couples, twists and turns, suburbs, parents and children, suspense, kidnapping, writers, family relations, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, vampire, survival, family in danger, manhunt, dysfunctional family, on the run, family life, coming of age, murder, incestuous relationship, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, mojave desert
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Films like Wilderness Survival for Girls
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Having developed an uncontrollable obsession with the beautiful young Rudy (Michelle Tomlinson), crazed serial killer Herman (James DuMont) kidnaps her and locks her in a cage in his basement. The only way for Rudy to survive this nightmare is to ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, psychopath, survival, confined, obsession, mind game, woman in danger, isolation, captivity, rivalry, master criminal ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
psychopath, mentally unstable, murder, crazy, survival, manhunt, isolation, suspense, violence, found footage, prank, gas mask ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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24%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A horror film that combines classic monster movie elements set within the backdrop of unpredictable Kansas weather. Start with a mother and her three daughters forced to take shelter from an advancing tornado in a local storm cellar. What is waiting ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
survival, storm, family in danger, deadly creature, confined, forced into action, family relations, suspense, death, violence, basement, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann (Redd). He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or ...
Style:
scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, confined, captivity, workplace, psychopath, boss and employee, obnoxious boss, workplace situations, graphic violence, held captive, boss, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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23%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Style:
serious, psychological, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, religions or cults, destiny, teenage life, disappearance, brother, ghost, kidnapping, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A group of teens are faced with a life-changing experience when they meet a deranged drifter
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, scary
Plot:
suspense, survival, youth, forest, kids in trouble, psychopath, mind game, teenage life, kidnapping, exploitation, schizophrenic, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A rich heiress and her friends head for a weekend of fun at her isolated ranch house in the middle of no man's land. They soon find that the caretaker's dark past, has taken him down a bloody killing spree.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
buddies, isolation, psychopath, mysterious character, ranch, struggle for survival, suspense, heiress, violence, youth, forest, violence spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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23%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, voyeurism, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, best friends, suspense, serial killer, violence, killer, graphic violence, friends, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, youth, rivalry, mind game, survival, investigation, death, cell phone, confined, university ...
Place:
usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, confined, vengeance, supernatural, ghost, murder, survival, isolation, teenage girl, serial killer, trapped in a building, college ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Films like Keep Watching
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Newlyweds Sarah and Cory Morgan have decided to take a relaxing holiday with Cory’s 7 year old son Liam to try and smooth over some of the teething problems Liam is having with his new Mom. Despite the idyllic location of Cory’s isolated and ...
Style:
scary, slasher, psychological, serious, bloody ...
Plot:
family in danger, torture, graphic violence, isolation, husband wife relationship, psychological torture, isolated house, serial killer, suspense, home invasion, kidnapping, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Smiths -- a family with a secret past -- are visited by a sweet-talking southern gentleman who is looking for small town humanity. But they'll soon find out that kindness towards strangers is not always rewarded, and the secretive ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, psychopath, mysterious character, violent death, family problems, obsession, vengeance, family life, haunted by the past, family secret, serial killer, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
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21%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, couples, psychopath, mind game, uncover truth, stalking, estate, secret past, husband wife relationship, murder, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
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21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A heart-pounding suspense thriller, set on an isolated farm in England's beautiful, rugged Peak District.
Style:
serious, rough, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
farm, murder, haunted by the past, parents and children, psychopath, violence, suspense, life is a bitch, love and romance, psycho, confined, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, rivalry, supernatural, survival, confined, escapades, ancient mystery, woman in danger, destiny, cons and scams, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
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21%
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