Movies like Dying Room Only
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Dying Room Only (1973)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Style:
thrilling, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
diner, redneck, desert, murder, sheriff, terror, missing husband, missing person, hotel, confined, police, kidnapping, chase, motel, cafe, escaped prisoner, husband wife relationship, arizona desert, deadly, toilet, lame, phone booth, light bulb, station wagon, mystery ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about danger, deadly, murder, suspense, confined, serial killer and supernatural mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Dying Room Only: The Car (1977), Breakdown (1997), Haunts of the Very Rich (1972), Deadly Renovations (2010), The Fields (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film is set in the fictional Utah community of Santa Ynez, which is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town's Sheriff (John Marley), it ...
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killer car, desert, car, suspense, police, violence spree, vengeance, native american, supernatural, psychopath, small town life, chase ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, road movie, tense, scenic ...
Audience:
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kidnapping, suspense, chase, uncover truth, murder, road trip, conspiracy, highway, desert, ransom, car breakdown, car ...
Time:
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Place:
california, arizona, massachusetts, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A group of wealthy but secretly very troubled people travel to an island resort. After experiencing a brush with death, they find themselves wondering about their existences.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
airplane, resort, luxury hotel, pianist, adultery, locked room, priest, thunderstorm, snake, makeover, suicide, lightning ...
Place:
texas
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a small house flipping group discovers that their Hotel project may contain millions of cash hidden somewhere within, the project turns deadly.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, scary, cult film
Plot:
hotel, serial killer, treasure hunt, murder, money, suspense, graphic violence, bank, danger, deadly, drugs/alcohol, development
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic
Plot:
youth, farm, family in danger, murder, small town, family relations, religions or cults, suspense, child in peril, redneck, serial killer, danger ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
pennsylvania
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Breakdown similar movies
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A teenage boy befriends an escapee from a mental institution who sees visions of horrible murders being committed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, psychological
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mental institution, mentally unstable, confined, mental illness, haunted by the past, escaped mental patient, nypd, suspense, social misfits, memory loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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27%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jared, Kate, Rick, and Jessica find themselves stranded in a wreckage yard after their car breaks down during a drag race. Meanwhile, the sheriff's office receives notice that a convict escaped from a local state prison. As the teenagers ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, escaped prisoner, murder, isolation, confined, buddies, car race, friends, graphic violence, irony, ex soldier, hillbilly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After escaping a lethal injection for the murders Mommy (Patty McCormack) had committed, she is given a special implant in her arm that will keep her from having homicidal urges. However, since she still tries to see her daughter and other murders ...
Style:
slasher, serious, realistic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, paranoia, bad mother, investigation, escape, murder, confined, law enforcement, lethal injection, prison, family life, execution ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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11K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Strangers trapped at an eerie travel oasis in the desert must unravel the mystery behind their visions of dying people while they are preyed upon by a decaying creature.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, slasher, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, survival, psychopath, youth, confined, murder, characters killed one by one, monster, dead teenager, puzzle, mysticism ...
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23%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where ...
Style:
slasher, serious, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, forest, uncover truth, murder, suspense, violence, redneck, pig killer, masked killer, graphic violence, serial murder, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Films like Psycho
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, survival, ghost, confined, escapades, curses spells and rituals, media, tv show, terror, nature, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
On the night before Halloween, four friends decided to go on a self made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses. The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever since.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, captivating
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, ghost, haunted house, survival, supernatural, hollywood, isolation, confined, missing person, halloween, legends and myths, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Every town has a local legend. Not all of them are deadly. Headed to Miami to celebrate winter break, a group of four college students from New Jersey take a detour into the bowels of rural West Virginia. There, the unwitting friends uncover a ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, survival, vengeance, psychopath, murder, violence, suspense, diner, small town, farm, rivalry, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller following a successful young married couple on their way to visit family. After a blowout on a desolate stretch of highway in Nevada, they head to the next town only to discover it long abandoned. Here they meet a mysterious ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, survival, mysterious character, couple relations, isolation, confined, chase, suspense, murder, serial killer, trippy, bus ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie ...
Style:
tense, serious, scary, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
woman in danger, child illness, confined, zombie, parents and children, family problems, suspense, murder, violence, bad kids, killer child, virus ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies like Stir of Echoes
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Four young women driving across the desert to Las Vegas have their road trip turned upside-down when they pick up a handsome, seemingly-friendly hitchhiker. When their car breaks down near a roadside motel in the middle of nowhere, they find ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
psychopath, on the road, mind game, confined, desert, isolation, woman in danger, murder, survival, hitchhiker, serial killer, hotel ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, las vegas, nevada
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, massachusetts
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21%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those ...
Style:
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Plot:
kidnapping, confined, isolation, law enforcement, ghost, woman in danger, youth, graphic violence, mountain, supernatural, police investigation, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, murder investigation, stalking, violence, police chase, loner, whodunit ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
49K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
psychopath, split personality, motel, murder, hotel, parents and children, isolation, eccentric family, serial killer, mental illness, secret, psycho ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Films like The Car
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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21%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman gathers her friends together in a cabin to try and protect them from a killer after she dreams each of their deaths. This, however, just puts them all in one spot making for easy pickings for the slasher.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
nightmare, death, forest, confined, stalking, destiny, isolation, strong violent content, murder, psychic, suspense, mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When his girlfriend is kidnapped, a drug-addicted ex-cop must overcome his demons and face the sobering task of tracking her down before it's too late. His story dismissed by the police, he's left with no choice but to rely on his own ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this Thai thriller set in New York City, three rich kids want to throw a New Year’s Eve party in their apartment. They call up a drug dealer, an American guy called Jesus. When Jesus arrives the countdown bash turns into a psychological game ...
Style:
serious, scary, realistic, sadistic, weird
Audience:
teens
Plot:
new year, confined, youth, drug abuse, teenage life, graphic violence, torture, kidnapping, drug dealer, home invasion, high school, marijuana ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, thailand, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
545
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jessica and Dave along with three other young couples are kidnapped in Griffith Park by unseen Abductors and must fight to escape certain death only to discover the world will never be the same.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, captivating ...
Plot:
captivity, confined, kidnapping, abduction, suspense, survival, violence, murder, kidnapped, female nudity, police, forced prostitution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Films like And Soon the Darkness
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A family driving through Nevada decides to take some snapshots at an out-of-the-way ghost town named Weaver, and horrible things start happening.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
ghost town, desert, escapades, ghost, confined, stalking, survival, isolation, supernatural, cemetery, mother daughter relationship, motel ...
Place:
usa, nevada, new mexico
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20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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20%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
Style:
psychological, serious, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, on the run, dishonesty, chase, law enforcement, rivalry, who done it, desert ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, nevada
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20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A sheriff and his son who are tracking down a group of bank robbers on their way to Mexico, only to discover that they are being stalked by a far more deadly enemy — The Reeker.
Style:
scary, rough, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
death, serial killer, psychopath, desert, burned alive, murder, supernatural, ghost, good versus evil, survival, supernatural ability, sheriff ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, psychopath, strong violent content, serial killer, violence, masked killer, suspense, murder, chase, escaped prisoner, comeback, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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