Movies like Sweet 16

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Sweet 16 (1983)
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Sweet 16 (1983)
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, creepy, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, serial killer, investigation, teenage life, gory, teenage girl, suburban life, female serial killer, survival, murder mystery, high school, exploitation, dead teenager, american horror, small town, maniac, truck, female nudity, murder investigation, sheriff, skinny dipping, birthday party, mental breakdown, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
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, slasher, suspenseful and serious films with plots about serial killer, murder, deadly, psychopath, gory, killer and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sweet 16: Cherry Falls (1999), The Prowler (1981), Beneath the Darkness (2011), Lovers Lane (2000), New Year's Evil (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cherry Falls (1999)
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, teenager, murder, virgin, revenge, father daughter relationship, secret, gang rape, small town, psychopath, sheriff ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: usa, virginia, west virginia
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The Prowler (1981)
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, suspenseful, rough, scary, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, college, obsession, masked killer, soldier, sadism, small town, vengeance, youth, homecoming, masked villain ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, year 1945, year 1944, year 1980 ...
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beneath the Darkness (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, 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, suspense, bleak, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, mortician, profanity, investigation, amateur detective, young heroes, danger, confined, youth, murder, cheerleader, social relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
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Lovers Lane (2000)
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, teen, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, valentine's day, holiday horror, psychopath, holiday, whodunit, woman with a gun, murder, small town, masked killer, unfaithful wife, dead teenager ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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New Year's Evil (1980)
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, christmas horror, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: new year's eve, holiday horror, serial killer, psychopath, murder, nightlife, mentally unstable, danger, investigation, showbiz, stalking, christmas ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Trauma (1993)
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, rain, kidnapping, journalism, gory, female serial killer, amateur detective, danger, teenage life, woman in danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Orphan: First Kill (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip, she is put against a mother who will protect her family from ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, slasher, bloody ...
Plot: killer child, psycho killer, female protagonist, brutality, stolen identity, personality change, pretending to be someone else, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, family problems, dysfunctional family, new identity ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, year 2007
Place: estonia, moscow russia, russia
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100%
Graduation Day (1981)
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, grindhouse, slasher horror, retro, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, serial killer, track and field, murder, female nudity, holiday horror, masked killer, teenager, fear, camp, dead teenager, pandemic ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Initiation (1984)
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: serial killer, ritual, murder, sorority, nightmare, college, psychopath, female protagonist, prank, supernatural, danger, campus ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
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, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, small town, police investigation, brutality, dead teenager, small town life, haunted by the past, danger, teenage life, social relations ...
Time: year 1946, year 1976, year 2013
Place: texas, arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Silent Scream (1979)
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, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college student, murder, danger, haunted house, serial murder, serial killer, brutality, investigation, female villain, exploitation, college, campus ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Bloody Murder 2: Closing Camp (2003)
Genre: 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, serious, suspenseful, slasher, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, violence spree, danger, woman in danger, who done it, summer camp, youth, rivalry, haunted by the past, siblings relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Cohasset Snuff Film (2012)
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, mockumentary, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, high school, murder, found footage, small town, high school student, small town life, computers and web, investigation, violence, teenager, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Splatter University (1984)
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, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, college, murder, university, teacher, youth, friendship, killer, violence, mental patient, school, tragic event ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
When a Killer Calls (2006)
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, mockbuster ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, urban legend, gory, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, home invasion, danger, terrorism, youth, teenage life, prank, legends and myths ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Pool (2001)
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, swimming pool, high school, youth, swimming, murder, mysterious character, student life, danger, gory, stalking ...
Time: year 2001
Place: czech republic, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
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, suspense, spooky, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, female protagonist, murder, twists and turns, blood, girl, home invasion, small town, killing spree, psychopath, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Intruder (1989)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
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, bloody, retro, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, gory, violence, insanity, supermarket, murder, law enforcement, rivalry, stalking, danger, who done it ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)
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, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, masked killer, gory, crazy, psycho killer, lake, maniac, serial murder, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1980, year 1984
Place: new jersey
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20%
Christina's House (2000)
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 ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, supernatural, psychopath, amateur detective, danger, love triangle, teenage life, mental illness, stalking, teenager, new house, house ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Scar (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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, serial murder, violence spree, haunted by the past, homecoming, gory, who done it, woman in danger, murder, aunt niece relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Virginia is proud that she belongs to a clique. The best students at a private school. But before her 18th birthday, a grueling set of murders take place and her friends are the ones who are falling prey. Could it be her? She suffers from blackouts ...
Style: slasher, twist ending, splatter, suspense, bloody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, gory, revenge, blood, holiday horror, camp, plot twist, holiday, teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Dead Tone (2007)
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, serious, suspenseful, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, gory, psychopath, murder, youth, rivalry, mind game, survival, investigation, death, gay friend, confined ...
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Cyrus (2010)
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: psychological, serious, rough, bleak, psychological horror ...
Plot: tv reporter, serial killer, murder, investigation, psychopath, journalism, danger, gory, small town, cannibalism, killer, psycho killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
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Friday the 13th (1980)
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, suspense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, camp, maniac, gory, murder, revenge, disturbed individual, summer, summer camp, psychopath, blood, friday the 13th ...
Time: 80s, 1950s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
My Soul to Take (2010)
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: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: urban legend, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, murder, psychopath, haunted by the past, serial killer, danger, small town, gory, nightmare comes true, youth ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.6
 618
Bloodmoon (1990)
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, independent film, scary, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, teacher student sex, exploitation, student, dead teenager, murder, clergy, youth, investigation, rivalry, betrayal, power relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.6
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Psycho II (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, splatter ...
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, psychiatrist, psycho, mental illness, employer employee relationship, female nudity, police station ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Madison County (2011)
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, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, woods, uncover truth, danger, redneck, masked killer, murder, violence, animal mask, pig killer, lost, lost in the woods ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
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: suspense, bloody, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, high school, mystery killer, psychopath, teenage life, youth, friends, murder, teenage sexuality, blood, teenager, brutality ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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