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Strait-Jacket (1964)
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Strait-Jacket (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, surreal, disturbing, grindhouse, cult classic, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot: serial killer, farm, psychiatrist, insanity, decapitation, doctor, mental breakdown, murder, mental illness, hagsploitation, mother daughter relationship, adulterous husband, female protagonist, mother daughter estrangement, crazy, great ending, mother daughter reunion, psychotic woman, mentally unstable, revenge, dark humor, camp, mother, women, mental disorder ...
Time: 60s
Keyword: visit, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and psychological films with plots about psychopath, murder, danger, serial killer, deadly, blood and mental illness mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Strait-Jacket: Bad Ronald (1974), I Saw What You Did (1965), Asylum (1972), Madhouse (2004), May (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style: gothic, psychological, psychological thriller, psychological horror, scary ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, jealousy, sibling rivalry, child star, filmmaking, aging, dysfunctional family, actress, violence, fame ...
Time: 20th century, year 1935, year 1917, 1930s, 1910s ...
Place: los angeles, america, california, usa
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100%
 6.6
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Bad Ronald (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: murder, voyeurism, mental illness, psychopath, hidden room, death of mother, voyeur, mysterious character, social misfits, teenage life, parents and children, secret ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Saw What You Did (1965)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When two teenagers make prank phone calls to strangers, they become the target for terror when they whisper "I Saw What You Did, And I Know Who You Are!" to psychopath Steve Marek who has just murdered his wife. But somebody else knows of ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, hagsploitation, serial killer, psychopath, neighbor, prank telephone call, trap, lonely, virus, trapped, fugitive, evil child ...
Time: 60s
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.5
 8K
Asylum (1972)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Style: psychological, anthology, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, occult, mad scientist, serial killer, supernatural, murder, objects come to life, mental illness, investigation, mind game ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Madhouse (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Style: scary, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, ghost, intern, murder, investigation, supernatural, ghost child, danger, doctors and patients, psychopath, who done it ...
Time: year 2004
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21%
 6.6
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May (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mental illness, serial killer, imaginary friend, obsession, psychopath, murder, doll, insanity, female psychopath, dangerous attraction, dark humor, cannibalism ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Ugly (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, psychopath, mind game, investigation, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, killer, surrealism ...
Time: 90s
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, investigation, master criminal, gory ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.6
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Repulsion (1965)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, black and white, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, rape, schizophrenia, surrealism, insanity, murder, hallucination, delusion, isolation, claustrophobia, repression, female protagonist ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place: england, london, europe, britain, eastern europe ...
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20%
The Cabinet of Caligari (1962)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A delirious young woman (Glynis Johns) feels trapped in a remote mansion at the mercy of a madman (Dan O'Herlihy).
Style: psychotronic, suspense, noir, mind bending, scary ...
Plot: maze, mad doctor, serial killer, old dark house, physician, nightmare, nurse, voyeurism, seduction, mental institution, estate, supernatural ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Alone in the Dark (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: maniac, home invasion, murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, blackout, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.6
 109K
You're Next (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: home invasion, survival, gory, masked killer, murder, massacre, deathtrap, twists and turns, parents and children, trap, blood, plot twist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.7
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Dementia 13 (1963)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, heart attack, family problems, danger, parents and children, macabre, haunted by the past, supernatural, wedding, death, guilt ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 4K
The Baby (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, supernatural, killer, mother ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, necrophilia, psychopath, exploitation, true crime, murder, redneck, killer, gory, obsession, freak, violent ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: wisconsin, usa
⇓ 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 ⇓
18%
 7.0
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Pearl (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations and repressions ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, female protagonist, farm, murder, mental illness, world war one, domineering mother, female serial killer, rural setting, murder confession, farmhouse, female nudity ...
Time: 1910s, 2020s, year 1918, 20th century
Place: texas, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
A Horrible Way to Die (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, kidnapping, woman in danger, revenge, violence spree, small town, haunted by the past, remorse, fanatic, female psychopath ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Nightwatch (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, police detective, danger, riddles and clues, dead prostitute, slow burn, student, scared, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Dead of Winter (1987)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Style: suspense, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: danger, snow, insanity, winter, isolation, woman in danger, audition, psychopath, missing person, survival, blood, imprisonment ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Lady in a Cage (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot: elevator, home invasion, isolation, hagsploitation, woman in jeopardy, violence, serial killer, kidnapping, murder, woman in danger, sociopath, brutality ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Unsane (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mental institution, stalking, psychopath, mental illness, maniac, mental patient, murder, stalker, psychiatric ward, sexual assault, fear ...
Time: 2010s
Place: boston, portugal, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Roommate (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two ...
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, intense, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: obsession, female psychopath, college, stalker, mind game, fraternity, mentally unstable, obsessive love, bad girl, murder, lesbian, female stalker ...
Time: year 2000, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, obsession, danger, ocean, haunted by the past, witch, dangerous attraction, supernatural, vengeance, serial killer, rape and revenge, dark secret ...
Time: 70s
Place: malibu california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.7
 8K
Shrew's Nest (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: agoraphobia, murder, female psychopath, religion, father daughter relationship, isolation, sister sister relationship, incest, mentally unstable, obsession, danger, hidden ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place: madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Night Walker (1964)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman is haunted by recurring nightmares, which seem to be instigated by her late husband who supposedly was killed in a fire.
Style: surreal, slasher, psychedelic, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot: nightmare, dream, murder, disfigurement, laboratory, wedding ceremony, inheritance, recurring nightmare, blindness, betrayal, lawyer, mansion ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.1
 17K
Raising Cain (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, detective, suspense, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, adultery, twins, psychologist, insanity, kidnapping, multiple personality disorder, split personality, evil twin, hospital, obsession, mental illness ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.5
 7K
The Hand (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, vengeance, comic book, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, cartoonist, christmas ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
Style: satanic, psychotronic, slasher, psychological, grim ...
Plot: boy, voodoo, male nudity, supernatural, occult, possession, psychopath, exorcist, religion, hippie, class differences, spiritualism ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, tangier morocco, usa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Don't Look in the Basement (1973)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young psychiatric nurse goes to work at a lonesome asylum following a murder. There, she experiences varying degrees of torment from the patients.
Style: scary, slasher, psychological, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, mental illness, hospital, mental institution, patient, danger, isolation, doctors and patients, obsession, mind game, losing-it hero, mad scientist ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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