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On the Inside (2011)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
mental institution, murder, psychopath, criminal psychologist, crime and punishment, redemption, haunted by the past, woman in danger, mentally unstable, prison, love, prison life, rape, psychology, illness, wrestling, disorder, psychiatric ward, danger, hopes, violent content, female prisoner, mental illness, happiness, bipolar disorder ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to On the Inside
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and tense films with plots about danger, murder, deadly, violent content, graphic violence, woman in danger and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like On the Inside: The Mortician (2011), Perfect Prey (1998), Ghosted (2011), Fatal Secrets (2009), Mummy An' the Armadillo (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
mortician, insomnia, haunted by the past, murder, redemption, emotionless, social decay, danger, corpse, black, urban ghetto, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
england
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, texas ranger, psychologist, serial murder, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, danger, police detective, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, texas
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, survival, haunted by the past, danger, confined, criminal heroes, twists and turns, prison life, prison fight, prison rape, supernatural, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
danger, rivalry, dishonesty, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Secrets, murders and lies... all in the name of family. In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café.The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a strange family led a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and a disturbed family ...
Style:
tense, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mind game, psychopath, family problems, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, family relations, missing person, woman in danger, danger, mysterious character, diner, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
75%
467
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, homecoming, best friend, couples, breakup, missing person, danger, friendship, campus, serial killer, suicide by gun, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, chemistry, kidnapping, on the run, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, drug abuse, violent content, farm, confined, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a 1950s-era Missouri town the life of a couple is thrown into chaos when the husband's sister is released from the local asylum and comes to live with the family.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
family in crisis, couples, family in danger, redemption, estrangement, homecoming, domestic disturbance, family relations, hopes, mentally unstable, family problems, disorder ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1951
Place:
missouri, usa
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, missing person, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, confined, woods, hostage, car accident, corpse, graphic violence, dead body ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston ...
Style:
serious, psychological, scary, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, confined, psychopath, prison life, prison, law enforcement, killer, biopic, killing spree, manipulation, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
71%
460
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lainie Wheeler has two daughters, but her husband leaves them for a Thai monastery. She completely neglects her job in TV production but finds a new vocation in nursing terminal patients, even after the death of her friend in that home. She also ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, woman in danger, family problems, rivalry, hopes, redemption, murder, rehabilitation, violent content, graphic violence, psychopath, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, vengeance, criminal's revenge, violence spree, sexual content, murder, strip club, nightclub, crime boss, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psycho, snow, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, confined, chases and races, rescue, danger, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, captivity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A blind woman finds herself the target of an attacker again after the person originally convicted of her rape is found to be innocent of the crime.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
Plot:
blindness, prison life, prison, life is a bitch, injustice, disability, false accusation, woman in danger, criminal's revenge, love, woman with a gun, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
psychopath, haunted by the past, danger, sniper, childhood trauma, stalking, woods, confined, survival, murder, manhunt, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, campaign, danger, politics, haunted by the past, political corruption, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, state affairs, profanity, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the trail of her missing sister, Charlotte enlists the help of Wayne, an ex-Marine and alcoholic, to infiltrate the Church of One Accord - a community of snake-handlers who risk their lives seeking salvation in the Holy Ghost.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
religions or cults, missing person, rescue, uncover truth, woman in danger, clergy, danger, religion, religious fanaticism, brainwashing, anti christianity, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, nurse, murder, mistaken identity, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company to complain. The driver gets fired. When Walter arrives to ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, obsession, stalking, danger, mind game, dangerous attraction, rivalry, mentally unstable, psychopath, architect, starting over, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
63%
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:
tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, action thriller ...
Plot:
psychopath, terror, family in danger, rivalry, split personality, maniac, murder, villain, black, psycho, mental illness, black girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Sara, a pregnant woman, is the innocent bystander in a robbery, committed by reluctant criminal, Derek. After being accidentally shot in the robbery, Sara loses her child. Returning home, she is shocked to find Derek there with a gun, but things are ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
vengeance, redemption, rivalry, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, hopes, human nature, disorder, femme fatale, power relations, life is a bitch, sadistic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, iran
Similarity:
63%
13K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, philosophical, stylized ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, bipolar disorder, murder, sodomy, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control, violence ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
62%
1K
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, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, best friend, losing-it hero, serial killer, danger, violence, black bra, female nudity, killer, violent content, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Renee's shy teenage daughter Deandra finally makes a friend, Olivia, she is thrilled. After Olivia's initial bossiness turns into emotional abuse, Renee forbids the relationship from continuing, prompting the girls to run away ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, best friend, female antagonist, female protagonist, psychopath, high school, murder, friendship, danger, couples, youth, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
illegal drugs, addiction, murder, danger, drug dealing, dishonesty, mental disorder, mythical creature, psychology, nightshift, pregnancy, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, violent content, nudity, sexual content, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have been imaginary.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, woman in danger, haunted by the past, best friend, mental illness, teenage life, youth, supernatural, mentally unstable, mental institution, doctors and patients, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After losing hope of conceiving a child on their own, Christy and Mitch turn to surrogacy in hopes of creating the perfect family. However, their confidence is quickly shaken when they discover that the young woman might not be as perfect as they ...
Style:
sexy, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, pregnancy, obsession, psychopath, family relations, under the surface, woman in danger, danger, mentally unstable, couples, dishonesty, stalking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Style:
psychological, rough, visually appealing, reflective, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, prison, prison life, confined, gay rape, violence, brutality, experiment gone awry, bullying, prison rape, sadism, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, danger, psychopath, theater, small town, murder, violence, mentally unstable, solitary, woman in danger, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
60%
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