Movies like Cruel Summer 2016

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Cruel Summer (2016)
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Cruel Summer (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Young Autism sufferer Danny enjoys the serenity and solitude of camping. That's all about to change when enraged teens Nicholas, Calvin and Julia find him, each with their own agenda for wanting to see Danny suffer.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, realistic, psychological horror, independent film
Plot: bullying, brutality, violence, teenage boy, cruelty, forest, danger, teenager, travel, bad kids, male nudity, autism, fight, escape, fishing, murder, summer, bully, cemetery, teenage girl, lie, video arcade, coercion, blood, father son relationship ...
Place: england
Keyword: british horror

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Most similar movies to Cruel Summer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary and serious films with plots about murder, danger, violence, blood, deadly, psychopath and death mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Cruel Summer: Eden Lake (2008), U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013), Exhibit A (2007), Alena (2015), Summer Scars (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
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U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cyber ...
Plot: cyberspace, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, cheating girlfriend, youth, murder, social relations, mistaken identity, loner, lie, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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100%
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Exhibit A (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Exhibit A tells the timely story of a normal family disintegrating under financial pressure, eventually driven to the unimaginable. All is not as it seems as the King family go about their day-to-day lives oblivious of the horror to come. Dad Andy ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, money problems, murder, stalking, family relations, danger, downfall, dark secret, tragic event, voyeurism, uncover truth, photograph ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Alena (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Alena’s life is far from simple. When she arrives at her new elite boarding school, Filippa and the other girls start to harass her. But Alena’s best friend Josefin won’t let her take anymore beating. If she won’t strike back, Josefin will ...
Style: suspense, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, scary, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bully, lesbian, lesbianism, school, bullying, female friendship, group of friends, teenage girl, teenager, plot twist, party, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Summer Scars (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A group of teens are faced with a life-changing experience when they meet a deranged drifter
Style: suspense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: survival, youth, woods, kids in trouble, psychopath, kidnapping, teenage life, mind game, danger, exploitation, schizophrenic, gay ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Don't Let Him In (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two couples spend a weekend in the country, only to cross paths with a brutal serial killer. As the body count rises, suspicion spirals into paranoia, climaxing in a terrifying battle for survival.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, survival, danger, isolation, countryside, couples, murder, fear, violence, travel, violent, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Nobody Gets Out Alive (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A group of college students escape their troubled lives but only to find themselves fighting for their lives from a revenge seeking mad man.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, youth, danger, woods, survival, strong violent content, rivalry, vengeance, friendship, mind game, teenager, camp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Braxton Butcher (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Every town has a devil. For the small community of Braxton, that devil is Tommy Miller. A bullied and tormented teen who finally snapped, killing his friends and family at the annual Braxton town hall party, Miller escaped into the woods, never to ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, massacre, torment, murder, psychopath, violence, brutality, danger, forest, homicidal maniac, disguise, high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Locked in a Room (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: "Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, trapped, teenager, room, survival, isolation, murder, violence, teenage life, confined, mysterious character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Vampire Virus (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young woman contracts a deadly virus after an unusual sexual encounter, and soon develops a taste for human blood.
Style: gothic, stylized, serious, psychotronic, intense ...
Plot: violent, cannibalism, demon, virus, sex scene, brutality, strong violent content, gory, torment, violence, murder, blood ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Bad Seed Returns (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage life, teenager, murder, school, graphic violence, fear, teenage girl, youth, psychopath, brutality
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Axed (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
Style: slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, psychopath, family in danger, rivalry, confined, isolation, parents and children, countryside, profanity, murder, crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Coldwater (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, re-education, survival, prison life, escape attempt, humiliation, youth, danger, confined, prison, juvenile delinquent, power relations ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Thompsons (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, suspense ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, survival, family in danger, manhunt, dysfunctional family, on the run, family life, coming of age, incest, murder, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, mojave desert
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34%
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Basement (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Six friends are lured to an underground basement for a sinister experiment, will they escape, but most importantly will they live or die?
Style: rough, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: woods, group of friends, dungeon, survival, experiment, danger, murder, anti war, betrayal, anti war protest, interracial couple, interracial friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Relative Fear (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Plot: murder, killer child, suspicion, psychopath, therapist, boy, mischievous children, social misfits, danger, family life, investigation, serial killer ...
Time: 90s
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Strangers Within (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sam and her friends are terrorised during a party by a group of young men on a desperate hunt for something in her house.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, scary
Plot: home invasion, mysterious stranger, deception, stranger, trapped, psycho killer, maniac, estate, teenager, trust, party, heist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, los angeles
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Come Morning (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Set in rural Arkansas in 1973, Come Morning is the tragic story of Frank and his 10-year-old grandson and the hunting accident that forever changes their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: woods, coming of age, countryside, father son relationship, hunting, corpse, death, manslaughter, danger, youth, country, dead body ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Men (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering ...
Style: suspense, surreal, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: folk horror, body horror, countryside, intruder, loss of husband, domestic violence, pregnancy, rural setting, symbolism, forest, supernatural, pub ...
Time: 2020s
Place: london
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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
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33%
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Clownface (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A deranged serial killer known as "Clownface" terrorises the residents of a small town.
Style: slasher, tense, psychotronic, suspense, scary ...
Plot: killer clown, maniac, serial killer, survival, masked killer, small town, brutality, psychopath, serial murder, killing, clown, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Seasoning House (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, bleak, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, revenge, strong violent content, rapist, confinement indoors, sexual abuse, rape and revenge, male nudity, dehumanization, danger, vengeance, escape attempt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2010s
Place: balkan, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Disappeared (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: missing person, haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, religions or cults, teenage life, destiny, disappearance, brother, ghost, kidnapping, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Escapee (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, violence spree, serial killer, murder, night, escape, danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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33%
Capture Kill Release (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A couple plots to murder a random stranger just for the thrill of it, but things turn ugly when one of them decides not to go through with it.
Style: suspense, tense, rough, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, murder, stranger, couples, couple relations, serial killer, danger, plan gone wrong, gory, food, witch, dismemberment ...
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Ritual (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A father on vacation wakes up separated from his family and races through the woods to find them.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: woods, danger, memory loss, murder, chase, violence, forceful separation, serial killer, hidden truth, violent content, uncover truth, rescue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
House at the End of the Street (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, slasher, twist ending, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female protagonist, teenage life, youth, haunted by the past, twists and turns, murder, divorce, bullying, ghost, danger, home invasion, family relations ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
We Are Monsters (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Emma is kidnapped and imprisoned by a trio of psychopaths.
Style: psychotronic, psychological, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: rape, torture, abduction, revenge, murder, serial killer, vengeance, rape and revenge, survival, brutality, confined, woman in danger ...
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Resurrection (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A down to earth school psychologist tries to help a mentally ill student who actually believes his brother is coming back from the grave for revenge on the students who killed him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, danger, supernatural, social relations, ghost, teenage boy, death of brother, fear, psychiatrist, investigation, cemetery, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.4
 2K
Camp Hell (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: At the end of every summer, the children of a Christian community from a suburb of New Jersey attend Camp Hope. They travel deep into the woods far from any distractions the world provides. Here, the children are taught the ways of the Lord, the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: summer camp, woods, isolation, curses spells and rituals, confined, danger, youth, clergy, supernatural ability, supernatural, resort, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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