Movies like Fear 1983
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Fear (1983)
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Original name: Angst
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, psychological, controversial, slasher, scary, bleak, surreal, art house, psychotronic ...
Plot:
home invasion, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, violence, mental illness, dehumanization, prison, isolation, confined, haunted by the past, violence spree, brutality, necrophilia, psycho killer, criminal heroes, stalker, character study, killer, murderer, taxi, mental disorder, killings, illness, crazy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, disturbing and scary films with plots about psychopath, murder, blood, violence, suspense, serial killer and deadly mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Fear: Scrapbook (2000), Funny Games (1997), Funny Games (2007), The Collector (2009), Visiting Hours (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman named Clara is captured by a serial killer named Leonard who records his “life story” by keeping a scrapbook of his many victims. In addition to adhering Polaroids, scraps of clothing, and other small trophies to the pages, Leonard ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, rough, sexy ...
Plot:
serial killer, sexual abuse, torture, sexual predator, rape and revenge, sexual torture, kidnapping, sadism, mind game, psychopath, woman in danger, violence spree ...
Time:
90s
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, psychological, scary, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, psychopath, sadism, torture, torment, bad guy wins, kidnapping, home invasion, evil wins, family in danger, egg ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
austria, germany, europe
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83%
Genre: Crime, Drama, 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, scary, disturbing, rough, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, torture, home invasion, hostage, murder, bad guy wins, brutality, kidnapping, torment, maniac, evil wins ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A horror film based on a real-life mass murder that took place in 1966. Richard Franklin Speck was a mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
Style:
slasher, tense, disturbing, rough, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, sexual abuse, murder, psychopath, violence spree, confined, hostage, journalism, maniac, misogynist, brutality, psychiatrist ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, texas, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Chrissie and her friends set out on a road trip for a final fling before one is shipped off to Vietnam. Along the way, bikers harass the foursome and cause an accident that throws Chrissie from the vehicle. The lawman who arrives on the scene kills ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, splatter, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, torture, cannibalism, murder, cruelty, violence, sadism, kidnapping, cannibal, massacre, monster ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, massacre, suspense, trap, deathtrap, homicidal maniac, sadistic horror, macabre, maniac ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A slasher finds the hospital where a TV newswoman is recovering from his attack.
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, stalking, psychopath, murder, woman in danger, journalism, investigation, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, violence, cruelty, suspense ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style:
gothic, psychological, scary, surprise ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, aging, dysfunctional family, filmmaking, actress, violence, suspense ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1910s, year 1935, year 1917 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, controversial, queer horror, twisted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, internet, deathtrap, teenage girl, rape, psychopath, teenage life, missing person, murder, psycho, youth, party girl ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, psychopath, convict, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, violence spree, track down, serial killer, murder, night, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and ...
Style:
slasher, surreal, heartbreaking, atmospheric, art house ...
Plot:
serial killer, child murder investigation, pedophile, psychopath, sexual abuse, cannibalism, woman in danger, pedophilia, killer, suspense, murder, dead children ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1984, year 1992
Place:
kiev ukraine, ukraine, russia, ussr, crimea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
Style:
disturbing, scary, controversial, realistic, sadistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, rape, extreme violence, psychology, incest, killing spree, violent, violence, merciless ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, midwest, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Crime, 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:
slasher, disturbing, splatter, scary, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, violent, torture, murder, exploitation, violence, macabre, extreme violence, disturbed individual, weirdo, maniac, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, sadistic, rough ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, obsession, mental illness, murder, extreme violence, sadism, loneliness, torture, violence spree, brutality, psychopath ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style:
rough, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, vengeance, rape and revenge, revenge, brutality, sexual abuse, cruelty, sex, psychopath, sadism, suspense, justice ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, germany, england, europe, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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:
slasher, scary, disturbing, brutal, rough ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, torture, vengeance, rape and revenge, kidnapping, psychopath, violence, serial killer, murder, woman in danger, violence against women, sadism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, cult, psychology, art, magic realism, insanity, macabre, funeral, clown ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico city, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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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 ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, atmospheric, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, guilt, violence, fear, masturbation, death, explicit sex, torture, male nudity, lust ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style:
slasher, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, suspense, macabre, serial killer, psychopath, sadistic horror, psycho killer, massacre, sadistic killer, survival, road trip, outback ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, texas, sydney australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mari and Phyllis go to the "big city" to see their favorite band BloodLust. Along the way they meet up with newly escaped convict Krug and his gang.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, scary, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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20%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
paranoia, insanity, conspiracy theory, mental illness, psychology, psychosis, obsession, macabre, addiction, suspense, couples, losing-it hero ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Style:
psychological, tense, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
elevator, home invasion, isolation, hagsploitation, suspense, woman in danger, violence, serial killer, kidnapping, murder, brutality, claustrophobia ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, los angeles, tokyo
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20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, sadistic, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, serial killer, torture, macabre, murder, psychopath, maniac, investigation, violence, sadism, torment, suffering ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, pennsylvania, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, serious ...
Plot:
home invasion, kidnapping, mentally unstable, psychopath, hostage, siblings relations, sadistic horror, violence spree, manipulation, sadism, domestic disturbance, family problems ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
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19%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian ...
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, disturbing, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, rape, surrealism, insanity, hallucination, murder, schizophrenia, delusion, isolation, repression, female protagonist, nightmare ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
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19%
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, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, suspense, psychopath, investigation, mind game, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, macabre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, oceania
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19%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style:
scary, slasher, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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