Movies like Sweet 16
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Sweet 16 (1983)
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Original name: Sweet Sixteen
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa turns out to be a suspect when it seems she's the last person who has seen her boyfriends alive.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, rough, realistic, bloody, sad, splatter, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, serial killer, investigation, teenage life, teenage girl, female serial killer, survival, murder mystery, high school, suburban life, exploitation, dead teenager, small town, maniac, native american, truck, female nudity, murder investigation, sheriff, skinny dipping, birthday party, mental breakdown, youth, parents and children, teenager ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
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Most similar movies to Sweet 16
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and slasher films with plots about serial killer, murder, deadly, gory, psychopath, youth and danger mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sweet 16: The Prowler (1981), Lovers Lane (1999), New Year's Evil (1980), Trauma (1993), Beneath the Darkness (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, college, obsession, soldier, small town, vengeance, youth, homecoming, masked villain, love affair, masked killer ...
Time:
1940s, year 1980, year 1944, year 1945, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man who killed 13 years before goes out on the loose to kill his victims' children.
Style:
slasher, dark, serious, realistic, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, valentine's day, psychopath, whodunit, woman with a gun, small town, murder, dead teenager, killer, graphic violence, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
During a New Year's Eve celebration, a punk-rock singer gets a phone call saying that when New Year's strikes in each time zone, someone will be murdered--and she will be the last one.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
new year's eve, serial killer, psychopath, murder, nightlife, investigation, mentally unstable, showbiz, stalking, christmas, holiday horror, nightclub ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when ...
Style:
psychological, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, kidnapping, journalism, amateur detective, woman in danger, teenage life, haunted by the past, murder witness, rain, suspense ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.
Style:
serious, scary, bleak, psychotronic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, mortician, amateur detective, young heroes, investigation, confined, youth, murder, cheerleader, social relations, small town, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, serial killer, track and field, murder, female nudity, masked killer, teenager, runner, dead teenager, night, camp, fear ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sorority, serial killer, ritual, murder, nightmare, college, psychopath, female protagonist, prank, supernatural, haunted by the past, female nudity ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Style:
slasher, brutal, suspenseful, splatter, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, masked killer, suspense, small town, police investigation, brutality, dead teenager, small town life, haunted by the past, teenage life, social relations ...
Time:
year 1976, year 1946, year 2013
Place:
texas, arkansas, usa
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25%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A sociology instructor finds her new teaching duties at a private college interrupted by the presence of a killer.
Style:
slasher, scary, enigmatic, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, college, university, murder, teacher, youth, friendship, violence, mental patient, mental institution, school, tragic event ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In 2009, the small town of Cohasset, Massachusetts was rocked with tragedy. A 17-year-old high school senior named Collin Mason murdered three classmates. All the murders were videotaped and uploaded to the Internet via bit torrent sites and for ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, rough, tense, controversial ...
Plot:
serial killer, high school, found footage, murder, small town, small town life, computers and web, investigation, violence, teenager, society, high school student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
School's out, exams are over, and it's time for real life to begin. But before 12 friends from the International High School in Prague disappear to the four corners of the earth, they intend to throw the best party of their lives. The idea ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, rough, scary, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, high school, youth, swimming, murder, student life, mysterious character, nightlife, stalking, survival, party ...
Place:
europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A babysitter begins receiving threatening phone calls from a man who has just killed an entire family.
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, nanny, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, urban legend, home invasion, terrorism, youth, teenage life, prank, legends and myths, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Scotty moves into Mrs. Engels' seaside mansion where three other college students are boarding. Mrs. Engels prefers to stay in her room in the attic, but her son Mason helps the students get settled. Soon one of the students is killed. The ...
Style:
slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college student, murder, haunted house, serial murder, brutality, serial killer, investigation, female villain, exploitation, college, suspense, ghost ...
Time:
70s, year 1979
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As another semester draws to a close at the University of Dreyskill, a simple game dreamt to help students avoid studying becomes a bloody battle for survival in this stalk-and-slash frightener from filmmaking duo Brian Hooks and Deon Taylor.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, youth, rivalry, mind game, survival, investigation, death, cell phone, confined, university ...
Place:
usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A small independent news crew investigates a series of unexplained disappearances in a small Midwestern county. They find themselves interviewing a man who possesses an all too intimate knowledge of the details of "The County Line ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, rough, slasher ...
Plot:
tv reporter, serial killer, murder, investigation, psychopath, journalism, small town, cannibalism, reporter, found footage, killer, cannibal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past ...
Style:
slasher, tense, suspenseful, scary, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, high school, female protagonist, murder, suspense, girl, small town, killing spree, psychopath, maniac, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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22%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, surprise ending, bloody, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, violence, insanity, supermarket, murder, stalking, law enforcement, rivalry, woman in danger, who done it, exploitation ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the small town of Coopers Bay, there are two Hi-schools situated right next to each other. There’s Winchester, an all boys comprehensive and St Elizabeth’s, a girl’s only Catholic faculty. They are separated by woodland where pupils from ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, sexy, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher student sex, serial killer, exploitation, dead teenager, student, cult, murder, psychopath, power relations, wiretap, rivalry, investigation ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, high school, teenage life, youth, psychopath, suspense, mystery killer, friends, murder, female nudity, teenager, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, high school, murder, revenge, father daughter relationship, secret, teenager, small town, virgin, psychopath, sheriff, gang rape ...
Time:
90s
Place:
west virginia, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, police detective, obsession, killing spree, mind game, family conflict, law enforcement, journalism, true crime ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The teenager Christina, her younger brother Bobby, and their father James Tarling moves to a rented house in a small town in Washington to be close to Christina's mother Joanne, who is interned in an asylum. The house is being repaired by Howie ...
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slasher, psychological, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot:
murder, supernatural, amateur detective, psychopath, teenage life, love triangle, stalking, mental illness, teenager, house, youth, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
90s
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20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, it seems Jason Voorhees and his demented mother are in the past. Paul opens up a new camp close to the infamous site, ignoring warnings to stay away, and a sexually-charged group of ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, suspense, masked killer, lake, serial murder, teenager, camp, crazy, macabre, demon ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Trevor Moorhouse returns! Coming to Placid Pines is difficult for Tracy, who's brother, Jason, was one of Trevor's victims near the end of the original. When Tracy's nightmares begin to come true as one by one the counselors are ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, who done it, woman in danger, summer camp, siblings relations, haunted by the past, teenage life, youth, rivalry ...
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20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, camp, suspense, maniac, summer, murder, revenge, monster, disturbed individual, forest, brutality, fear ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 70s, 20th century, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A serial killer returns to his hometown to stalk seven children who share the same birthday as the date he was allegedly put to rest.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, usa
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20%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Joan Burrows returns to her hometown for her niece's graduation, only to be confronted by the serial killer she thought she offed years ago -- after he kidnapped and tormented her and her best friend.
Style:
slasher, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, small town, violence spree, homecoming, haunted by the past, woman in danger, who done it, murder, aunt niece relationship, serial murder, redneck ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, colorado
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20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Five college friends choose to spend their vacation debauching at the riverside. They find the perfect place to camp out, but end up crossing paths with twin brothers, Simon and Stanley. The twins then begins to knock off the campers in some ...
Style:
slasher, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, murder, woman in danger, teenage life, youth, college, survival, suspense, twins, brother brother relationship, rape ...
Time:
21st century
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20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a night out on the town turns into a nightmare, six young college students must fight for their lives as a killer hunts them down.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
florida
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20%
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