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Room (2015)
477K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional, sad, thought provoking, clever, cerebral, depressing, tense, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, kidnapped, captive, room, mother son relationship, child born of rape, female protagonist, child protagonist, rape, boy, childhood, escape, captivity, rescue, abduction, kidnapped woman, locked in a room, survival, imprisonment, birthday, father daughter relationship, pickup truck, locked in, child ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia, canada
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Most similar movies to Room
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, serious, suspense and realistic films with plots about kidnapping, storytelling, dialogue, violence, death, mentor and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Room: The Lovely Bones (2009), Kept Woman (2015), Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015), The Machinist (2004), The Experiment (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style:
dark, emotional, psychological, suspense, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, serial killer, pedophile, murder mystery, rape, loss of daughter, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, family drama, loss of family member, murderer ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, delaware
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jessica and her fiancé Evan just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating
Plot:
held captive, disappearance, locked in a room, kidnapping, imprisonment, prison, deception, female protagonist, robbery, professor, stalker, stockholm syndrome ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, homecoming, parents and children, family problems, redemption, hopes, child abuse, fish out of water, isolation, teenage girl, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
80%
439K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, depressing, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insomnia, insanity, uncover truth, obsession, mysterious character, paranoia, losing-it hero, twists and turns, schizophrenia, life is a bitch, secrets, alienation ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, persia, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Das Experiment is a shocking psycho thriller about the potential for brutality that humans hide. Even more shocking is the fact that it’s based on an actual occurrence—a 1971 psychological experiment at Stanford University that was aborted ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, thought provoking, rough, tense ...
Plot:
prison, experiment, torture, abuse, social experiment, aggression, prison escape, disorder, degradation, warden, psychology, violence ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
germany, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, suspenseful, serious, transgressive ...
Plot:
pedophile, pedophilia, child abuse, isolation, boy, child molestation, little boy, life is a bitch, kidnapped child, child rape, emotional abuse, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe, austria, central europe
Similarity:
67%
325K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, philosophical, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
redemption, depression, life philosophy, self sacrifice, life changing experience, motivation, true love, sacrifice, existentialism, life & death, melancholy, love ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Dolores has everthing she wants for her birthday: a party, 18 glowing candles, and Stephen, the handsome stranger who's more than a guest. He's a prisoner. COLD COMFORT bristles with the suspense, passion and danger of three people caught ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
incest overtones, blizzard, birthday, nudity, hostage, chess, prisoner, profanity, confined, split personality, fugitives, isolation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style:
compassionate, sad, sweet, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, social worker, depression, troubled teen, teenager, foster child, adolescence, suicide attempt, coming of age, mental illness, problem child, self harm ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
60%
263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
Similarity:
40%
134K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, danger, investigation, woman in danger, 911, youth, psycho, murder, kidnapped, chase, child abduction ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, harsh ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
incest, children, confined, siblings relations, survival, old mansion, estate, family life, child abuse, danger, dysfunctional family, family in danger ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
920K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, revenge, serial killer, torture, twists and turns, vigilantism, police investigation, plot twist, brutality, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, captivity, rape, teenage life, pimp, slavery, smuggling, prostitute, sex slave ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, nevada, las vegas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line ...
Style:
psychological, crying, gothic, serious, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
mental illness, suicide, coming of age, psychiatric ward, suicide attempt, mental institution, teenage girl, psychiatrist, borderline personality disorder, insanity, female protagonist, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While exploring the neighboring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker—a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into the bunker, ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, boy, teenager, child protagonist, kidnapping, bondage, family problems, confined, grownups, enslavement, adolescence vs adulthood, slavery ...
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lewis is an outwardly ordinary guy, but in reality he is hiding an obsession - revenge - against Cathy. Lewis kidnaps Cathy in broad daylight and takes her to his home, where he locks her in a soundproof cell and attempt to extract a dark secret ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
kidnapping, held captive, abduction, captive, revenge, locked in a room, kidnapped woman, captivity, missing child, vengeance, danger, murder ...
Place:
britain, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, collector, loneliness, confined, woman in danger, danger, mentally unstable, dangerous attraction, stockholm syndrome, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sad, entertaining, tear jerker ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens
Plot:
boy genius, genius, boy, single mother, brother brother relationship, fear, friendship, child prodigy, violence, sick child, child abuse, small town ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
human trafficking, slavery, sex slavery, forced labor, captivity, abduction, woman in danger, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, female friendship, sex trafficking, rape ...
Place:
northern california, new delhi, nigeria, houston texas
Similarity:
100%
174K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, independent film, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, torture, manipulation, pedophile, vigilantism, age difference, female vigilante, pedophilia, justice, sexual abuse, home invasion ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, y2k, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
28%
575
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter stationed in the Middle East who is taken captive after her convoy is ambushed. She is confronted by the trauma of her past and must find a way to bring down the militants who incarcerated her.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, held captive, captive, journalist, survival, hostage, investigative reporter, female journalist, abduction, trapped, investigative journalism, journalism ...
Place:
middle east, iraq
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
children, psychopath, death, evil child, manipulation, murder, problem child, killer child, deception, disbelieving adult, parents and children, brutality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, asia, japan, new england ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, suspense, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, writers, husband wife relationship, abortion, murder, divorce, rape, loss of family, infidelity, flashback, rape and murder, art ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Style:
psychological, rough, visually appealing, reflective, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, prison, prison life, confined, gay rape, violence, brutality, experiment gone awry, bullying, prison rape, sadism, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style:
touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, childhood, single parent, life philosophy, death, boy, good deed, disfigurement, addiction, abusive husband, childhood trauma, teacher student relationship ...
Time:
year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place:
tibet, usa, nevada, las vegas
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, murder investigation, mind game, fbi, cannibal ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, persia, usa, memphis ...
Similarity:
27%
380K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Style:
philosophical, melancholic, cerebral, touching, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, teenager, high school, adolescence, domestic abuse, family drama, youth, divorced parents, stepsister stepsister relationship, relationships, marriage ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 2000s, 90s, near future ...
Place:
texas, ethiopia, houston texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
27%
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