Movies like The Road Builder
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The Road Builder (1971)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there is more to Billy than meets the eye. Based on the novel *Nest in a Fallen Tree* by Joy Cowley.
Style:
gothic horror, psychological, atmospheric, sexy, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, exploitation, psychopath, murder, rape, rapist, church, naked man, mother daughter relationship, garden, blindness, gossip, socially awkward, handyman, adopted daughter, older woman younger man relationship, sexual tension, investigation, graphic violence, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, couples, love affair, aging ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england
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Most similar movies to The Road Builder
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and psychological films with plots about murder, deadly, psychopath, serial killer, danger, female nudity and investigation mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like The Road Builder: Axed (2012), Bundy: An American Icon (2009), House of the Damned (1974), Secret Ceremony (1968), Vampire (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Plot:
family relations, unemployment, psychopath, family in danger, confined, rivalry, isolation, countryside, parents and children, murder, crisis, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
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95%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, necrophilia, psychopath, exploitation, murder, killer, obsession, cult, violent, flesh eater, freak, misfit ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
wisconsin, usa
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69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bundy, starring Corin Nemec in the title role and co-starring Kane Hodder, details the dark psyche and previously unexplored motivations of the man who became known as one of the most notorious serial killers to leave behind a legacy of evil.
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree, killer, villain, human nature, male female relationship, deadly, gory
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Liechtenstein
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young woman just released from a mental institution returns home to her mansion and faces a new set of horrors.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
mute, mental institution, insanity, disability, psychopath, estate, confined, mentally unstable, treasure hunt, misfit, mute or deaf, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, prehistoric times
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A tormented rich girl hires a sex worker to act as her mother.
Style:
slasher, dark, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
prostitute, stepfather, mental illness, daughter, twists and turns, mental disorder, female psychopath, dead daughter, grieving mother, prostitution, couple relations, obsession ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Films like Sister My Sister
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A vampire, who works as a teacher, searches for suicidal female students and seduces them prior to sucking their blood.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
vampire, murder, suicide, murder of a nude woman, human nature, criminal heroes, obsession, dangerous attraction, fall in love, supernatural, rape, supernatural being ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An American writer in England takes his children and a newly hired nanny on a trip to South Africa while his wife, a reporter, is on assignment. He has an affair with the nanny, but when he refuses to leave his wife for her, the nanny gets her ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
woman seduces a man, infidelity, nanny, kidnapping, investigation, psychopath, murder, obsession, sexual content, graphic violence, dangerous attraction, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
William McNamara plays a young man who was given away by his mother at birth, seeking revenge on her for abandoning him.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, dishonesty, parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, betrayal, life is a bitch, obsession, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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4K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Style:
disturbing, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, loneliness, police, isolation, violence, social realism, murderer, killer, brutality, villain ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Radio talk show therapist Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) moves back to her childhood home on seemingly idyllic Rosewood Lane after her alcoholic father dies. But upon arrival in the old neighborhood, Sonny discovers her neighbors are terrified of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
psychopath, woman in danger, missing person, stalking, murderer, suspense, psycho killer, homicidal maniac, suspicion of murder, murder, mysticism, getting home ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Zodiac similar movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.
Style:
sexual, gothic, gothic horror, sexy, serious ...
Plot:
animal cruelty, youth, mansion, orphan, obsession, sex, evil, murder, exploitation, evil child, cult, folklore ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Docu-drama based on the life of Ted Bundy, a serial killer who killed at least 19 young women during the 1970's (though some sources say as many as 30 to 35 were murdered). Set from his college student years, to his first victims, his capture, ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, sexual predator, necrophilia, kidnapping, misogyny, electric chair, masturbation, murder, execution, rapist, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
seattle, usa, colorado, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
Style:
surreal, psychological, erotic, allegory, controversial ...
Plot:
sex, guilt, male nudity, rape, drug abuse, hitman, nude, murder, death, redemption, catastrophe, secrets ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 70s
Place:
canada, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A paper-boy murders an old lady only to lure her family from the city out to the country. As each day passes the paper-boy tries to make friends with the family. Once the family sees what a sicko he is, they banish him from their lifes. Then the ...
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, realistic, slasher ...
Plot:
paperboy, obsession, mentally unstable, psychopath, family relations, homecoming, estate, stalking, small town, murder, killer child, serial killer ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Takes place in 1995, the year of the second referendum on the separation of Quebec. In the dead of winter, a serial killer is on the loose in the small Montreal neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace. The tenants of an old apartment house must figure ...
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police detective, cat, apartment building, rape, investigation, police investigation, who to trust, friendship, male female relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place:
canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
961
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 ⇓
44%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, scary, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, obsession, murder, adaptation, police, investigation, sex scene, female nudity, strangled to death, nude, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
5150 ELM'S WAY is located at the end of a quiet street in a small town. When Yannick fell off his bike, he knocked at the door of the Beaulieu residence so he could clean the blood off his hands. But Jack Beaulieu and his family had other plans ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, chess, obsession, unlikely criminals, mentally unstable, confinement indoors, confined, vigilantism, good versus evil, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After one schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another is murdered in the same woods a few days later, the local police are baffled. With the help of a reporter from one of the local papers, and against the ...
Style:
slasher, noir, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
rape, murder, serial killer, voyeur, psychologist, rapist, murder mystery, police, exploitation, girls' school, forest, rape victim ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Repulsion related movies
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
Style:
psychological, noir, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, children, child abuse, killer, home invasion, coming of age, spy, con artists, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, obsessive quest ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A serial killer whose mother was a prostitute starts killing streetwalkers as a way of paying back his mother for her abuse.
Style:
bleak, serious, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, jack the ripper, murder, maniac, psychopath, who done it, woman in danger, police investigation, mind game, sadism, killer, exploitation ...
Time:
70s, 1880s, 19th century
Place:
england, london, scotland, europe, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Evidence of mutilated housewives points to a sound expert (David Keith) living unhappily with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) in Arizona.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, dangerous attraction, police investigation, police detective, woman in danger, mistaken identity, protagonist as suspect, amateur detective, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s
Place:
arizona, tucson arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jim Van Bebber's "The Manson Family" is an extremely violent and bloody horror film that reconstructs the early activities of the Family and their descent into the Tate-LaBianca killings.Van Bebber mixes this with a contemporary sub ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, bloody, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
serial killer, exploitation, killer, hippie, violent, misfit, freak, erotica, drugs, criminal, true crime, murder ...
Time:
60s, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister occult might be behind ...
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, curse, demon, small town, rape, mysterious character, teenage life, haunted by the past, dangerous attraction, amateur detective, supernatural ability, mind game ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new england, ireland, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Don't Look Now similar movies
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, uncover truth, psychopath, who done it, mysterious character, mind game, police detective, murder, experiment gone awry, haunted by the past, killer ...
Place:
brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An English couple's holiday in Spain is interrupted when they discover a girl imprisoned in a cabin.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, rough, tense ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, manhunt, violence, murder, woman in danger, feral child, life is a bitch, rescue, weekend, suspense, erotica, serial killer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence ...
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
children, revenge, serial killer, psychopath, disability, murder, couples, vengeance, hidden identity, unlikely criminals, family life, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A brother and sister with a past incestuous relationship have a current murderous relationship. He murders the women who reject him and she murders the women who get too close to him.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, wedding, supernatural being, psychopath, obsession, investigation, murder, love affair, dangerous attraction, couples, mentally unstable ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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