Movies and TV shows like Persons Unknown

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Persons Unknown (2010)
 6.9
 9K
Persons Unknown (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: 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: trapped, group of strangers, mysterious place, captivity, abduction, riddles and clues, confined, experiment, isolation, manipulation, twists and turns, mind game, survival, surveillance camera, supernatural, trap, danger, dishonesty, hotel, distopia, murder mystery, trapped in a room, escape room, stranger, debate ...
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, mind game and murder mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Persons Unknown: Exam (2009), The Prisoner (2009), Wayward Pines (2015), The Prisoner (1967), Under the Dome (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.8
 125K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.1
 8K
The Prisoner (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 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".
Style: mind bending, psychological, postmodern, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: espionage, mind control, village, uncover truth, confined, isolation, captivity, memory loss, hidden truth, lifestyle, escapades, mind game ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.3
 60K
Wayward Pines (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, captivating, surprise ending ...
Plot: apocalypse, society, small town, investigation, small town life, beast, danger, missing person, murder, cryogenics, confined, suspended animation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 8.5
 15K
The Prisoner (1967)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 1010 min.
TV show
Story: 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, thought provoking, serious, psychological ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, prison, mind control, gadget, research, danger, uncover truth, government agency, mysterious character, scientist, convict, anger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, britain, europe, london, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 112K
Under the Dome (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: exciting, mind bending, surreal, teen, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, survival, stephen king, trapped, small town, life turned upside down, twists and turns, isolation, teenage girl, small town life, human existence, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.7
 426K
The Game (1997)
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, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 8.3
 591K
Lost (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 5445 min.
TV show
Story: Stripped of everything, the survivors of a horrific plane crash must work together to stay alive. But the island holds many secrets.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, island, stranded, desert island, stranded on an island, human nature, lost, mysterious place, death, air disaster, destiny, plane crash ...
Time: y2k, 70s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: fictional island, hawaii, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.1
 246K
Cube (1997)
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, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, mathematics, maze, escape, group of strangers, survival horror, death, game of death ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
 6.9
 40K
Alcatraz (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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. ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, captivating, stylized, cliffhanger ...
Plot: prison, twists and turns, investigation, time travel, police investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, warden, murderer, existence paradox, police detective, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.9
 11K
Rubicon (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: conspiracy, uncover truth, analyst, prodigy, undercover, surveillance, spy, boss, twists and turns, government facility, workplace, intelligence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 59K
Jericho (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 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, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, chaos, post nuclear, small town, disaster, danger, nuclear holocaust, leadership, distopia, courage ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.9
 10K
Between (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virus, isolation, youth, plague, chaos, chaos and mayhem, teenage life, quarantine, death, danger, trapped, escape attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.3
 5K
Zero Hour (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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: exciting, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: ancient mystery, relic, danger, treasure, riddles and clues, conspiracy, legends and myths, journal, artifact, good versus evil, map, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.1
 2K
Chariot (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Seven strangers find themselves unwitting participants in a U.S. government evacuation program gone horribly wrong.
Style: mysterious, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: airplane, danger, trapped, confined, group of strangers, twists and turns, trap, mind game, post apocalypse, aviation, government, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
 6K
After (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, retro ...
Plot: coma, hospital, crash, uncover truth, small town, isolation, rivalry, purgatory, danger, post apocalypse, ghost, violence against women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 14K
Nine Dead (2009)
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, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, confined, danger, gory, captivity, group of strangers, riddles and clues, game of death, murder, locked in a room, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Breathing Room (2008)
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, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mind game, isolation, murder, game, clue, experiment, rivalry, danger, trapped, dishonesty, kidnapping, video surveillance ...
Time: year 2008
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 22K
Last Resort (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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, captain, moral dilemma, power relations, heroes, nuclear, chases and races, nato, bomb ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 23K
Fermat's Room (2007)
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, scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: mathematics, riddles and clues, locked in a room, mind game, isolation, game of death, science, trapped, puzzle, mathematician, room, survival ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.2
 929
The Watch (2008)
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, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot: mind game, danger, female protagonist, manipulation, isolation, haunted by the past, rivalry, alone, woods, strong female presence, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 4K
Siberia (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: 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, escapades, danger, isolation, found footage, survival, struggle for survival, twists and turns, media, confined, videotaping, mysterious place
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.5
 860
The Vault (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story: 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 ...
Style: game show, suspenseful, futuristic, cliffhanger, tense ...
Plot: college, confined, contests and competitions, riddles and clues, twists and turns, media, danger, puzzle, rivalry, human experiment, psychology, university ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.8
 653
Bright Falls (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: After arriving in the small Pacific Northwestern town of Bright Falls, reporter Jake Fischer is plagued by blackouts and finds disturbing evidence of his activities. Tying this to a mysterious epidemic sweeping the town, he plans an escape. Prequel ...
Style: serious, stylized, rough, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, losing-it hero, riddles and clues, memory loss, danger, murder, plague, owner, social relations, small town, small town life, newspaper ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
15%
Movie in collections
 4.4
 2K
Iron Doors (2010)
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, isolation, captivity, self discovery, secret place, trapped, supernatural power, losing-it hero, heroes, danger, mind game, room ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.1
 17K
Truth Be Told (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: 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, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, murder, twists and turns, danger, death, law enforcement, riddles and clues, legal, private detective, friendship, black cast, girl ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.3
 11K
House of 9 (2005)
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, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: isolation, survival, deathtrap, captivity, mind game, murder, sole survivor, group of strangers, psychological torture, characters killed one by one, hidden camera, trapped ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
14%
 6.8
 7K
Hostages (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Four masked men break into the Anand family home, taking them hostage. Pushed into a do-or-die situation, Dr. Mira Anand has to make a choice. Will she take a life to save lives?
Style: tense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: moral dilemma, doctors and patients, parents and children, family in danger, danger, confined, dishonesty, political conspiracy, abduction, state affairs, treason, hostage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 31K
Unknown (2006)
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, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, twists and turns, kidnapping, confined, murder, hostage, trapped, loss of friend, suicide, survival, puzzle, trap ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.7
 1K
The Deep (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 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, submarine, danger, uncover truth, scientist, ocean, confined, isolation, crew, supernatural, voodoo, water ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.6
 3K
Five Days (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, missing person, police detective, mind game, amateur detective, life is a bitch, law enforcement, missing child, murder mystery, family problems, sergeant, mysterious character ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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