Movies like Sugar Mountain

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Sugar Mountain (2016)
 5.5
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Sugar Mountain (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: survival, winter, brother brother relationship, prison, incest, brothers, mishap, desert, deception, brother, plan, snow, mountain, love affair, woman with a gun, hot and sexy, cheating girlfriend, sex scene, insurance fraud, wilderness, search party, extortion, police investigation, couple relations, intimidation ...
Time: future, contemporary
Place: alaska

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Most similar movies to Sugar Mountain

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, disturbing and tense films with plots about survival, danger, murder, husband wife relationship, trapped, struggle for survival and snow mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Sugar Mountain: Edge of Winter (2016), Blood and Money (2020), The Blackout (2014), The Surface (2014), The Mountain Between Us (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Edge of Winter (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When two brothers are stranded by a brutal winter storm with an unpredictable father they barely know, the boys begin to suspect their supposed protector may be their biggest threat.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: winter, wilderness, cold weather, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, mentally unstable, divorced parents, child in peril, snow, survival, parent child relationship, snowstorm ...
Place: ontario canada, canada
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95%
Blood and Money (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A retired veteran hunting in the Allagash backcountry of Maine discovers a dead woman with a duffle bag full of money. He soon finds himself in a web of deceit and murder.
Style: serious, ambiguous ending, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: hunting, winter, wilderness, hunted, manhunt, bandit, danger, chase, burglar, stolen money, twists and turns, gang ...
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.2
 820
The Blackout (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: post apocalypse, blackout, solar eclipse, struggle for survival, student, fight, survival, apocalypse, white trash, eclipse, pandemic, distopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 4.8
 1K
The Surface (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two strangers, both at the end of their rope, suddenly meet in the middle of the unpredictable waters of Lake Michigan.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: boat, survival, accident, stranger, shipwreck, struggle for survival, sea disaster, trapped, sea voyage, unlikely friendships, air disaster, die hard ...
Place: michigan, milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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The Mountain Between Us (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.
Style: scenic, suspenseful, romantic, visually stunning, tense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: survival, wilderness, snow, mountain, interracial romance, black man white woman relationship, love, rescue, plane crash, stranger, peril, animal attack ...
Time: year 2017, future, 2010s
Place: london, new york, utah, idaho, manhattan new york city
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93%
 3.7
 1K
The Binding (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young woman's faith is put to the ultimate test when she is forced to uncover the truth behind her husband's horrific visions.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, disturbing, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: priest, obsession, self sacrifice, belief in god, family in crisis, family drama, a vision, danger, husband wife relationship, death threat, faith
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Heart of the Storm (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On the eve of a hurricane threatening New Orleans a dangerous convict escapes from prison with two accomplices. When the high winds and flooding disrupt their escape plan they're forced to take shelter in the remote bayou home of Cassie and her ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: tornado, escaped prisoner, storm, hostage, hurricane, survival, trapped, trap, mother daughter relationship, struggle for survival, family relations, kidnapping
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
The Girl on the Mountain (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: protector, forest, adult child friendship, life risking, nature, teenager fighting adult, struggle for survival, violence, child fighting adult, recluse, evil, girl
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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 5.1
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Stalker's Prey (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Laura's life is turned upside down when she is attacked by a shark while celebrating her 18th birthday. She's rescued by Bruce, a handsome young man just returned home from college. As she recovers, he becomes a local hero for his bravery. ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: shark, unrequited love, obsession, rescue, danger, relationship problems, violence, romantic obsession, family problems, brutality, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dishonesty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Deadly Exchange (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Samantha and daughter Blake invite Chloe, a foreign exchange student from Britain, into their California home. The two girls become close friends but Samantha's uneasiness begins with the suspicious death of Blake's boyfriend. Samantha ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: girl, life is a bitch, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, ruse, female protagonist, relationship problems, plan, girlfriend, problem, stalker, deadly
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89%
 5.2
 166
Veiled Truth (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A woman's past comes back to haunt her when the pimp she helped put behind bars is released and after revenge.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: blackmail, criminal, woman in danger, revenge, prostitution, female protagonist, pimp, vengeance, dark past, confronting the past, forced prostitution, woman with a gun ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 5.4
 356
Samuel Bleak (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
Style: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental institution, small town life, isolation, family problems, small town, mute, suspect, society, danger, mental illness, autism, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 4.2
 338
Kept (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense ...
Plot: erotica, serial killer, sex scene, murder suspect, lust, voyeur, investigation, murder, corpse, police, architect, sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.4
 1K
Corporate (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Ressources, working for a huge French agro-food company. Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless methods of management into practice to meet the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, psychological trauma, corporation, manager, guilt, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, business, rivalry, danger, adaptation, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 3.8
 1K
Zyzzyx Road (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: desert, love interest, mysterious girl, love triangle, runaway, tragic love, cheating wife, love affair, presumed dead, murder, attempted murder, infidelity ...
Time: 2000s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Psycho Brother-In-Law (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: With her husband working all the time, Kate is thankful when her brother-in-law David reappears to help out. But she soon realizes that he wants to be the new head of the family, and will do anything to make that happen.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, unusual plot structure
Plot: psychopath, brother in law, hostage, murder, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, brothers, family relations, psycho, vengeance, violence, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Psycho Storm Chaser (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a massive hurricane threatens the Brody Peninsula, Abby Fields, a full-time nurse to a housebound coma patient, is forced to stay behind to care for her. This puts her directly in the hurricane's path, but even worse - it puts her directly ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: hurricane, storm, serial killer, death threat, tsunami, criminal, murderer, catastrophe, hidden truth, serial murder, caregiver, trap ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Forsaken (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a rural town where football is war and the quarterback is king, comes a tense re-imagining of MACBETH with a bloody twist to prove that Lady and King Macbeth didn't kill for power - They killed for love.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: male female relationship, small town, criminal, romancing a criminal, love and romance, tragic love, ambition, partners in crime, small town life, city life, couple relations, passion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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The Show (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An unsettling look at reality television, where a disturbing game show has its contestants ending their lives for the public's enjoyment.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: tv host, suicide, game of death, life risking, television, most dangerous game, brother sister relationship, risk, death, mind game, murder, hacking ...
Time: year 2017
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87%
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On Fire (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Inspired by true and harrowing events, an ordinary man finds his world suddenly torn apart as devastating wildfires rip through the surrounding countryside. With precious moments ticking by, he must flee with his son and pregnant wife if they have ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, captivating, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: fire, survival, wildfire, struggle for survival, forest fire, family drama, trailer home, forest, family relations, survival horror, pregnant woman, father son relationship ...
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87%
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Survive (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When their plane crashes on a remote snow-covered mountain, Jane and Paul have to fight for their lives as the only remaining survivors. Together they embark on a harrowing journey out of the wilderness.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: survival, mountain, plane crash, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, struggle for survival, problem, relationships, frozen, suicide attempt, avalanche, winter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
A Bit of Bad Luck (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brooks Caldwell, (Cary Elwes) an erudite and handsome lawyer, seems to have it all: wealth, social status and a red hot career. His success is, in reality, a product of his marriage to his beautiful, socialite wife, Amanda, (Terri Polo) a wealthy ...
Style: disturbing, satirical, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: unhappy marriage, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, family problems, infidelity, rich man, plan, family relations, marital problem, adultery, rich woman, adulterer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Centigrade (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young American couple travel to the arctic mountains of Norway. After pulling over during a snowstorm, they wake up trapped in their SUV, buried underneath layers of snow and ice.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot: stranded, trapped, backwoods, blizzard, snowstorm, couples, argument, birth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fear, pregnant woman, winter ...
Time: year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Survive! (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sixteen plane crash survivors stranded in the Andes turn to cannibalism to stay alive. Based on a true story.
Style: disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, realistic, serious ...
Plot: survival, disaster, airplane crash, air disaster, biopic, death, mountain, football team, cannibal, wilderness, gory, danger ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: andes mountains
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Approaching the Unknown (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Captain William Stanaforth is on a one-way solo mission to take the first steps in colonising Mars. Like all pioneers throughout history, Stanaforth will face insurmountable odds and life and death decisions as he rockets bravely through space.
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot: trapped in space, mars, astronaut, space, survival, space travel, hopes, distant planet, isolation, nasa, trapped, escapades ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Blind Obsession (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Police officer Jack Fletcher is injured in a gun battle resulting in the loss of his sight.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: blindness, murder, sister sister relationship, trapped, psycho killer, police officer, female psychopath, trap, possessed woman, mentally unstable, wife, blind character ...
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87%
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Wrong Swipe (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Anna has a difficult time getting close to people, her sister creates a dating profile for her online. Anna starts to message a handsome man until she starts getting disturbing messages that a match is close by.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Plot: online dating, sister sister relationship, problem, threat, social network, internet dating, sister, sisters, relationship problems, mysterious stranger, threatening telephone call, sick mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.7
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438 Days (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 124 min.
Story: On the eve of June 28th, 2011 Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson put everything at stake by illegally crossing the border from Somalia into Ethiopia. After months of research, planning and failed attempts, they were finally on ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: partner, politics, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, political unrest, wartime, escapades, dictatorship, political intrigue, news report, partners against crime, investigation ...
Place: ethiopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.1
 314
Off the Rails (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A married woman loses her memory after a train accident. As her memory starts to return, she thinks she might have had an affair with a missing man.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: memory loss, missing person, memory lapse, uncover truth, male female relationship, family problems, hidden identity, secret identity, relationship problems, repressed memory, affair, married woman ...
Place: manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.0
 199
Monochrome (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A disillusioned young woman becomes a serial killer who targets wealthy land-owners, and a brilliant detective must use his unusual neurological condition to track her down.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: serial killer, revenge, hitman, female assassin, criminal's revenge, vengeance, criminal, murderer, fight, police investigation, killings, forensics ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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