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Under the Sky (2016)
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Original name: Enkaz
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Nisa opens her eyes under the wreckage right after an earthquake. While she is struggling to survive and find a solution from under the narrow space where she is stuck, she glimpses the sky from a tiny hole above her, which helps her stay alive. In the meantime, Baris is trying to adapt to the endless nature in a parallel storyline under the same sky, and exposes the puzzle of Nisa's story through his video diary.
Style:
tension, existential
Audience:
adult
Plot:
earthquake, claustrophobia, survival, trapped, isolation, female protagonist, perseverance, resilience, hopes, rescue, desperation, realism, single, minimalism, silence, intimate, psychological drama, pressure, internal monologue, rubble
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, realistic, intense and tense films with plots about isolation, survival, claustrophobia, desperation, slow burn, hopes and minimalism mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Under the Sky: Breath (2022), Somewhere in the Darkness (1999), Couple in a Hole (2015), The Particle (2012), Vritta (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lara Winslet is an expert geologist in volcanology. She is together with her team of work on a volcano to conduct surveys. One day Lara decides to stay a little longer to finish an exam and she remains alone. Returning, she has an accident, falling ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, existential, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
volcano, trapped, accident, isolation, loneliness, reflection, female protagonist, survival, geologist, claustrophobia, character study, desperation ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In this Australian drama, a department store collapses, trapping an old man (Barry Jenkins) and a young boy (Rowan Whitt) underneath. In hopes of keeping the child calm, the man tells him a series of folk tales which teach a moral lesson while they ...
Style:
emotional, tension, suspense, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
department store, storytelling, trapped, old man, morality, young boy, claustrophobia, imagination, survival, life & death, intimate, urban ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives.
Style:
depressing, suspense, captivating, rough, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, desperation, savage, couples, forest, isolation, grief, trauma, bereavement, depression, depressed woman, post traumatic stress ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, bleak, contemplative, melancholic, existential ...
Plot:
social realism, economic inequality, city life, working class, unemployment, poverty, slice of life, working woman, job seeking, single mother, female protagonist, motherhood ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Journey filled with problems and his fight for survival.
Style:
realistic, tense, road movie, existential
Plot:
survival, struggle, struggle for survival, journey, man versus nature, perseverance, peril, human spirit, resilience, determination, isolation, self discovery ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.
Style:
tension, suspense, tense, intense, period piece ...
Plot:
disaster, subway, earthquake, trapped, escape, survival, fear, danger, claustrophobia, underground, urban, darkness ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After Jack and Lucy rescue a woman from freezing cold in the middle of Scottish mountains, they come to realize that the woman is not who she says she is.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, ambiguous ending, gothic
Plot:
deception, isolation, paranoia, cold, psychological manipulation, christmas, femme fatale, cat and mouse, intruder, winter, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia ...
Place:
scottish highlands
Similarity:
40%
4K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An ordinary suburban girl faces the biggest battle of her life when her sudden disappearance for a brief period leads to a desperate search by her loved ones.
Style:
suspense, sexy, suspenseful, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
survival, alone, search and rescue, missing person, family relations, love of one's life, tragedy, family tragedy, investigation, love, mysterious disappearance, family drama ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A young orphan boy working as a tank cleaner is trapped in a water tank by someone. He struggles for his life for four days in this tank full of water.
Style:
suspense, tense, emotional, psychological, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
survival, entrapment, claustrophobia, isolation, desperation, perseverance, resilience, orphan, single, hopes, poverty, realism ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
28-year-old medicine student Malina wakes up disoriented in a locked trunk and realizes, to her horror, that she is missing more than just her memory of what happened. With her phone as the only link to the outside world, the intelligent young woman ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, survival, female protagonist, memory loss, claustrophobia, car trunk, medical student, confined space, race against time, threat, abduction, amnesia ...
Similarity:
39%
6K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a failed musician, sunny takes a dramatic turn as he smuggles himself back from Dubai to Kerala in midst of a global pandemic and shuts himself from the society.
Style:
emotional, intense, melancholic, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
pandemic, desperation, character study, survival, regret, redemption, isolation, homecoming, secrets, getting home, resilience, hopes ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india, dubai
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Hannah, a Djiboutian girl visits Kerala. She becomes friends with Loui and Aby who are living in Idukki district of Kerala. She arranges job for her friends in Djibouti, an African country. The problems faced by them there and how they plan to ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, tense, suspense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
immigration, social realism, survival, friendship, exploitation, female protagonist, escape, hopes, escape plan, young adult, small town life, desperation ...
Place:
india, africa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Salim, a homicide detective, is a 30-year-old man in the world of his own. Salim, divorced and with a 3-year-old daughter, finds out that his ongoing eye treatment is not successful, and he will eventually become completely blind.
Style:
detective, emotional, realistic, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
blindness, homicide, loss, investigation, disability, empathy, character study, police procedural, grief, isolation, determination, medical ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
32%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A psychopath gunman breaks in and plants bombs in bigbrother house to change the rules of the game.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychopath, fear, home invasion, bombing, threat, terror, bomb threat, problem, desperation, paranoia, violence, panic ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Father and son try to rebuild their relationship after they have a paragliding accident and end up being stuck in an opening.
Style:
tension, tense, emotional, suspense, psychological
Plot:
survival, father son relationship, accident, bonding, family drama, trapped, reconciliation, paragliding, man versus nature, struggle, confined space, claustrophobia ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A poor single mother, who is trying to turn her life around, is thrust into a fight for survival when her ex-husband relapses and spirals out of control.
Style:
tense, suspense
Plot:
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32%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, tension, suspense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, love story, relationships, trust, empowerment, courage, perseverance, resilience, hopes, empathy, workplace, social issues ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
figure skating, female protagonist, skating, athlete's life, ice skater, determination, resilience, woman, problem, life is a bitch, troubled past, social problems ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
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Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While working the night shift alone, Laurie Saltair discovers a comatose man, Clayton, in Unit 234 of her family’s storage facility. What transpires is a thrill ride of a cat-and-mouse game for Laurie and Clayton to survive the night.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, intense, psychological thriller, crime thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, cat and mouse, nightshift, claustrophobia, desperation, criminal gang, single, isolation, suspicion, panic, showdown, hostage ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A secluded fast food joint next to an empty parking lot, where it's good to go because nobody recognizes you there. On a rainy autumnal day, people show up one after the other – all of them on the verge of a breakdown – or perhaps a ...
Style:
melancholic, independent film, contemplative, existential, art house ...
Plot:
loneliness, empathy, breakdown, character study, rain, trauma, single, transformation, isolation, slow burn, intimate, minimalism ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Saudi Arabia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Trapped in an underground pit during a storm, three students from an all-girls school must confront their personal conflicts as they fight to survive.
Style:
intense, suspense, emotional, realistic, inspirational
Plot:
trapped, girls' school, survival, disaster, underground, desperation, female friendship, fear, claustrophobia, resilience, high school, isolation ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A desperate woman kidnaps and enforces rehab on her violent brother in a last-ditch effort to save their lives.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
addiction, kidnapping, family conflict, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, social problems, problem, family problems, life is a bitch, abuse, hostage situation, desperation ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
Style:
suspenseful, tension, realistic, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
rescue mission, ocean, sea adventure, rescue, survival, claustrophobia, man versus nature, teamwork, heroism, isolation, boat, male protagonist ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive.
Style:
tension, suspense, intense, realistic
Plot:
boat, man versus nature, survival, stranded, isolation, sea, dehydration, danger, endurance, fear, friendship, desperation ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An entirely ordinary day on the beds ward of a surgical department. The nursing team is understaffed due to a shortage of personnel. Despite the hectic environment, Floria cares for her patients with expertise and full dedication. Although she gives ...
Style:
tension, intense, crying, medical drama
Plot:
hospital, nursing, medical, stress, dedication, crisis, emergency, burnout, compassion, humanity, realism, teamwork ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary, India
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Like the twining vines of the honeysuckle, each of the three stories in this film follow a character whose growth is impeded by the clouds of society hanging over their heads. From a Hungarian taxi driver torn between the preservation of his family ...
Style:
anthology, melancholic, existential, multicultural
Plot:
coming of age, moral ambiguity, realism, ethical dilemma, oppression, loneliness, family conflict, loss of innocence, working class, humanism, intimate, identity crisis ...
Place:
hungary, india, budapest
Similarity:
29%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, breaking point, problem, family problems, murderer, domestic drama, moral dilemma, character study, family conflict, female protagonist, intimate, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
28%
133
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four people, isolated in their different ways are trapped in the desert and changed forever. Against impossible odds, can they find meaning - life, laughter and love before it is too late?
Style:
psychological, existential, emotional, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
isolation, desert, thirst, survival, loneliness, transformation, australian outback, character study, heat wave, friendship, introspection, intimate ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
australia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He's got a family, a baby, a home... Takis is being cheated. He loves her and he suffers... Takis can't take it at work. He's besieged by savages. But his boss tops them ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, dark, psychological, tragic
Plot:
working class, desperation, family crisis, betrayal, male protagonist, anger, oppression, isolation, alienation, revenge, realism, slow burn ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece
Similarity:
28%
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