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Persons Unknown (2010)
9K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Italy
Duration: 43 min.
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Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the show to 8:00 p.m. on Saturday from its Monday time slot. It completed its run on August 28, 2010. The series was canceled shortly thereafter.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, offbeat, tense, psychological thriller, exciting, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
group of strangers, trapped, mysterious place, confined, captivity, twists and turns, riddles and clues, mind game, experiment, isolation, manipulation, dark past, surveillance camera, abduction, supernatural, trap, danger, dishonesty, survival, hotel, distopia, murder mystery, trapped in a room, escape room, stranger ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
san francisco
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Most similar movies to Persons Unknown
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, tense and mind bending films and TV series with plots about danger, confined, isolation, twists and turns, survival, trapped and mind game mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Persons Unknown: Exam (2009), The Prisoner (2009), Wayward Pines (2015), Under the Dome (2013), The Prisoner (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, surprise ending, mind bending, psychological thriller, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
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mind game, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, puzzle, survival, surveillance, manipulation, confinement indoors, group of strangers, psychologist, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2009, future
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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An update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s about a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as "the Village".
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mind bending, psychological, thought provoking, mindfuck, surreal ...
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espionage, mind control, village, confined, uncover truth, isolation, captivity, memory loss, hidden truth, society, heroes, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
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80%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be ...
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small town, small town life, apocalypse, investigation, danger, society, missing person, cryogenics, post-apocalyptic future, beast, sheriff, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, idaho
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of ...
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exciting, mind bending, surreal, teen, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, stephen king, survival, trapped, isolation, small town, twists and turns, life turned upside down, teenage girl, small town life, human existence, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Style:
surreal, exciting, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
spy, prison, mind control, research, danger, uncover truth, government agency, mysterious character, convict, experiment, anger, government facility ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, britain, europe, big ben london, london
Similarity:
78%
466K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, puzzle, uncover truth, existentialism, surveillance, life & death, game, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
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75%
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
83%
665K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style:
exciting, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, island, stranded, mysterious place, desert island, stranded on an island, lost, human nature, death, plane crash, destiny, air disaster ...
Time:
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Place:
fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
Similarity:
60%
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41K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Alcatraz is an American television series created by Elizabeth Sarnoff, Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, and produced by J. J. Abrams and Bad Robot Productions. The series premiered on Fox on January 16, 2012, as a mid-season replacement. ...
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suspenseful, captivating, cliffhanger, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
prison, twists and turns, investigation, police investigation, murderer, uncover truth, time travel, law enforcement, warden, police detective, partner, secret agenda ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, bay area
Similarity:
50%
61K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style:
captivating, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, disaster, small town, danger, chaos, nuclear holocaust, post nuclear, conspiracy, distopia, leadership ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kansas, usa
Similarity:
75%
11K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death, virus, youth, isolation, chaos, chaos and mayhem, teenage life, plague, escape attempt, rivalry, quarantine, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
67%
15K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, confined, survival, danger, murder, group of strangers, game of death, captivity, gory, riddles and clues, escape room, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans
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33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
mysterious, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
airplane, group of strangers, danger, trapped, confined, twists and turns, post apocalypse, trap, mind game, captive, epidemic, aviation ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must utilize hints and tools from a box marked "pieces" to ...
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, rough, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
isolation, game, clue, murder, trapped, video surveillance, experiment, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, kidnapping, psychopath ...
Time:
year 2008
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, retro ...
Plot:
hospital, isolation, coma, crash, small town, uncover truth, rivalry, purgatory, tragic romance, post apocalypse, danger, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Last Resort is an American military drama television series. When the crew of the U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, the USS Colorado, pick up a U.S. Navy SEAL team off Pakistan's coast, the Colorado receives an order to launch ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
submarine, navy, government conspiracy, nuclear threat, moral dilemma, captain, power relations, on the run, nato, soldier, chases and races, treason ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
67%
977
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot:
mind game, danger, female protagonist, manipulation, haunted by the past, isolation, rivalry, alone, woods, strong female presence, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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Siberia is an American mockumentary series about a reality television show where 16 contestants must survive in the Siberian territory of Tunguska. The show was filmed in Birds Hill Provincial Park just north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, spooky, mockumentary ...
Plot:
group of strangers, isolation, escapades, danger, cursed, found footage, survival, wilderness, curse, supernatural, chase, runaway ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
33%
12K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Rubicon is an American television series that centers on an intelligence analyst at a national think tank in New York City called the American Policy Institute, who discovers that he may be working with members of a secret society that manipulates ...
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atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, serious, political ...
Plot:
uncover truth, espionage, analyst, conspiracy, twists and turns, undercover, surveillance, paranoia, boss, prodigy, government facility, workplace ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
912
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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The year is 2016. TV sucks. Ratings - at least at one major network - are at an all-time low. Desperate to save their jobs, the executives make an unprecedented decision: It's time to pull the plug. On everything. All programming must go. But ...
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suspenseful, futuristic, cliffhanger, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
college, contests and competitions, confined, riddles and clues, twists and turns, media, danger, puzzle, rivalry, university, human experiment, psychology ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
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50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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As the publisher of Modern Skeptic Magazine, Hank Galliston has spent his career following clues, debunking myths and cracking conspiracies. But when his beautiful wife, Laila, is abducted from her antique clock shop, Hank gets pulled into one of ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, mind bending, captivating
Plot:
conspiracy, ancient mystery, danger, relic, artifact, treasure, escapades, journal, map, riddles and clues, legends and myths, good versus evil ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, mind game, survival, deathtrap, murder, group of strangers, captivity, characters killed one by one, trapped, sole survivor, psychological torture, game of death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
16%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young man must escape from a mysterious locked vault before he dies of dehydration.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, captivity, isolation, self discovery, secret place, trapped, supernatural power, losing-it hero, heroes, danger, mind game, surrealism ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
trapped, isolation, captivity, trapped in an elevator, confined, danger, confined space, escape room, survival, terrorism, greed, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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At a boutique health-and-wellness resort that promises healing and transformation, nine stressed city dwellers try to get on a path to a better way of living. Watching over them during this 10-day retreat is the resort's director, Masha, a ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
resort, magic mushroom, secret, drug, uncover truth, manipulation, group of strangers, secrets, social relations, self discovery, psychological manipulation, gay couple ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
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Descend into the world of true-crime podcasts. New evidence compels podcaster Poppy Parnell to reopen the murder case that made her a media sensation.
Style:
exciting, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
investigation, danger, law enforcement, crime scene, twists and turns, death, murder, riddles and clues, murder mystery, legal, friendship, loner ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
30%
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, disturbing, clever, suspense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, confined, kidnapping, memory loss, amnesia, murder, hostage, trapped, loss of friend, puzzle, trap, group of strangers ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study, only to discover that they've unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that was said to have been terminated nearly two decades ago.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, tense, surreal, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
claustrophobia, mind game, race against time, memory loss, death, escape room, trapped, manhunt, missing person, trap, rivalry, undercover ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, texas, antarctica, new jersey
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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As the world's energy supplies dwindle, the Orpheus, a research submarine, delves into the deep of the Arctic Ocean searching for rare micro-organisms, but the crew soon find themselves in peril.
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
survival, uncover truth, danger, scientist, submarine, ocean, confined, isolation, crew, supernatural, voodoo, virtual reality ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
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