Movies like Lisa
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Lisa (1990)
3K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Because her overprotective mother (Cheryl Ladd) won't allow her to date, 14-year-old Lisa (Staci Keanan) creates a rich fantasy life. She calls random men and seduces them anonymously. But now she may have picked the wrong man. Richard (D.W. Moffett) is Lisa's most charming target yet, but he's also the Candlelight Killer, who murders beautiful young women. Jeffrey Tambor co-stars in this seductive thriller.
Style:
erotic, neo noir, slasher, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, sexy
Plot:
serial killer, murder, stalker, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, telephone call, teen angst, woman in jeopardy, prank, single mother, infatuation, teenager, psychopath, stalking, obsession, phone terror, sexual awakening, sex, age difference, girl, male female relationship, cell phone, young love, fatal attraction, terror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
venice beach california
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Most similar movies to Lisa
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and slasher films with plots about murder, deadly, psychopath, serial killer, danger, obsession and stalking mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Lisa: Are You in the House Alone? (1978), Fear (1996), They Shoot Divas, Don't They? (2002), The Fan (1981), Hotline (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Teenage girl is plagued by harassing phone calls. Her fear mounts when she's babysitting at a neighbor's home one evening and the caller rings her at that number.
Style:
slasher, creepy, bloody, scary, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
threatening telephone call, psychopath, mental disorder, cell phone, 666, ghost, occult, stalking, high school, rock, slow burn, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
61K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, sexy, sexual, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, teenager, obsessive love, stalker, rape, danger, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, violence against women ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seattle, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sloan McBride is an 1980s music star who is trying to hold on to her career. She hires Jenny as her assistant and Jenny seems to be the perfect employee. However, Jenny is actually planning her revenge because she blames Sloan for ruining her ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, vengeance, musician's life, rise and fall, rivalry, ambition, showbiz, love and romance, mentally unstable, artists and showbiz, obsession ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A record store clerk is an obsessed fan of an actress of stage and screen (Lauren Bacall). However when his letters are rejected, the fan strikes out at the actresses friends, then at her.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, stalking, obsessed fan, stalker, actress, psychopath, murder, price of fame, maniac, woman in danger, ex husband ex wife relationship, secretary ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
new york
Similarity:
54%
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457
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A crisis helpline assistant attracts the attention of a serial killer who delights in feeding her cryptic, nursery-rhyme style riddles when planning his next murder!
Style:
slasher, scary, crime thriller
Plot:
serial killer, threatening telephone call, lesbian, cell phone, murderer, puzzle, mysterious telephone call, woman in jeopardy, sexual harassment, stalker, maniac, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, lesbian, older man younger woman relationship, obsession, dangerous attraction, nymphet, teenage girl, adultery, teenage life, seduction, fatal attraction, high school ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, maniac, high school, stalking, killer, babysitter, husband wife relationship, babysitting, murder, high school student, nightmare ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, colorado
Similarity:
51%
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, suspenseful, serious, teen horror, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, rivalry, mind game, youth, survival, gay friend, death, investigation, whodunit ...
Place:
usa, colorado
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A journalist receives an obscene phonecall that she mistakes for her boyfriend. She then agrees to meet with the caller at a bar, but instead of meeting the boyfriend, she witnesses a murder.
Style:
neo noir, sexual, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
female masturbation, transvestite, murder, erotica, anonymous telephone call, phone sex, masturbation, corrupt cop, telephone call, pretty girl, phone terror, reporter ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a teenage girl is miraculously saved by a heart surgeon, the doctor begins to flirt with her. Her father doesn’t believe her and unbeknownst to all, the doctor is obsessed with the girl.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
obsession, hospital, stalker, teenager, internet dating, forbidden love, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, doctors and patients, nursing, relationship problems, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style:
creepy, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, private detective, obsession, stalker, stalking, threatening telephone call, home invasion, psychopath, babysitter, serial killer, telephone call, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Laura Black has got it. She has got her master in computer science and she has got that great job in Silicon Valley. Time to say 'bye bye' to mom and dad and to leave Virginia. Everything seems to be fine with one exception. That guy ...
Style:
slasher, sad, creepy, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsession, harassment, psychopath, serial killer, hostage, fatal attraction, killing spree, wandering, rivalry, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, stalking ...
Time:
80s
Place:
virginia, california, usa
Similarity:
48%
37K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Style:
erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, voyeurism, murder, hidden camera, video surveillance, surveillance, sex, dangerous attraction, sex scene, apartment building, secret ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, 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:
home invasion, maniac, murder, family in danger, psychopath, insanity, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, serial killer, eccentricity, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 2016
Similarity:
48%
1K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
isolation, murder, factory, psychopath, dangerous attraction, serial killer, destructive relationship, obsession, investigation, danger, mentally unstable, fall in love ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
48%
4K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman is stalked by a maniac out to avenge a childhood Valentine's Day humiliation.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious, rough ...
Plot:
hospital, serial killer, murder, psychopath, valentine's day, child murders a child, physical exam, stalking, female nudity, decapitation, masked killer, blood ...
Time:
80s, 60s, year 1980, year 1961, 20th century
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wendy Alden, a young secretary in Portland lacking in self- confidence becomes victim of a savage killer who has claimed the lives of a number of other women. Somehow Wendy finds the resources of courage to fight back and escape.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, danger, obsession, murder, nudity, investigation, sex scene, female nudity, adaptation, police, psycho killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
47%
427
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A band playing their final gig in a former meat packing factory find themselves being stalked by a psychopath
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rock, survival, teenage life, gory, rave, danger, stalking, murder, rock and roll, serial killer, hard rock, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The mother of the family for which Michelle baby-sits dies unexpectedly. Michelle is asked to take over looking after the children and is gradually "seduced" by the father.
Style:
erotic, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teenage girl, babysitter, woman in jeopardy, murder, sex with a minor, dangerous attraction, seduction, danger, love affair, couples, dishonesty, high school ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
47%
30K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Eight unsuspecting high school seniors at a posh boarding school, who delight themselves on playing games of lies, come face-to-face with terror and learn that nobody believes a liar - even when they're telling the truth.
Style:
slasher, scary, teen horror, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, masked killer, murder, death, prank, killer, halloween, murder mystery, school, youth, plot twist ...
Time:
year 2005, 80s
Place:
virginia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After her prostitute mother and her john are beaten to death while they are asleep in bed, teen-aged Ellie Masters is sent to an isolated orphanage...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, orphanage, prostitute, investigation, murder, orphan, danger, youth, isolation, teenage life, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, serious, realistic, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
asthma, halloween, masked man, home alone, home invasion, blindness, masked killer, blind woman, intruder, female protagonist, terror, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a typical American suburb filled with middle class morals, a lonely 59-year-old, Stan, contributes to society by offering cremation services from his basement. In fact, Stan murders neighbors he perceives to be social bullies. Jarod, a fatherless ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
cremation, estrangement, obsession, serial killer, vigilantism, mentally unstable, hidden truth, murder, teenage life, missing person, weakness, unlikely partners ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, texas ranger, psychologist, serial murder, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, danger, police detective, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A troubled teen is torn between a girl who loves him and a mysterious stranger who pushes him to kill.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
murder, stalking, death, serial killer, matricide, teenager, psychopath, young woman, masked killer, violence, youth, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Young and good looking Katya, a window dresser for a big department store in Pittsburgh, begins a love story with a journalist, Mac Odell. She is however stalked by Jack, a married man who has a fixation with her. Jack makes Katya's life ...
Style:
sexy, neo noir, erotic, sexual, independent film ...
Plot:
obsession, making love, stalking, erotica, sex scene, voyeur, relationships, cell phone, terror, sexual content, killer, threatening telephone call ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Horror anthology about a college professor (Zada) teaching a course called "The Psychology of Fear". He brings his students (including psychic McWhirter) to his home, one dark and stormy night to tell scary stories. The first involves a ...
Style:
anthology, slasher, psychological, dark fairy tale, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
campus, dog, decapitation, macabre, school, celebration, professor, teenage girl, urban, vengeance, urban legend, psychopath ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a California teen with an interest in the occult moves to a New England town, she finds that the town teens believe she is a witch sent to seek revenge on the descendants of the people who originally killed another witch a hundred years ...
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, teen horror, surprise ending
Audience:
teens
Plot:
curse, fortune teller, phone terror, serial killer, revenge, teen angst, whodunit, murder, psychopath, teenage life, gory, student life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new england, california
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Following the murders at the Rollerdome, Skye Rotter leaves town in search of a normal life. Reunited with the mother who abandoned her as a child, Skye's dream of a happier life starts to take shape - until her serial killer father returns.
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, parents and children, teenage life, starting over, youth, small town, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, stalker, therapist ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Sylvain, a film-obsessed 31-year-old, lives in the basement of a small art-house theater where he works as a programmer, projectionist and cashier. Each night, after the last showing, he goes out for a murderous ritual.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, danger, psychopath, theater, small town, murder, violence, mentally unstable, solitary, woman in danger, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
46%
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