Movies like Five 2016
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Five (2016)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Five military men from from different branches of the armed forces find themselves mysteriously locked in a room with four bullets and one gun and no clues.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, intense, dark, grim, political, noir, surreal, mystical
Plot:
military, moral dilemma, locked room, survival, hostage, claustrophobia, mature, isolation, trust, ethics, paranoia, single, duty, confined space, death, betrayal, weapons, mind game, violence, power, minimalism, interrogation, post traumatic stress, friendship, countdown ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, intense, dark and tense films with plots about isolation, survival, claustrophobia, betrayal, violence, moral ambiguity and paranoia mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Five: Sympathy for the Devil (2023), The Runner (1992), Hunting Grounds (2025), Freezer (2014), The Boat (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it becomes clear that not everything is as it seems.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, tense, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
hostage, driver, road trip, car theft, taken hostage, cat versus mouse, cat and mouse, problem, threat to kill, hostage situation, secret, mysterious character ...
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95%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A group of journalists used to covering international war zones travel to a remote island on a no holds barred survival training course which swiftly gets out of hand under the tuition of two unhinged ex-military types. Running in the background, we ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, independent film
Plot:
island, violence, survival, isolation, struggle for survival, fear, paranoia, stranded, psychological manipulation, power struggle, remote island, ex military ...
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92%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns out that Jake is the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tension, intense, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
mafia, manipulation, paranoia, escape, deception, organized crime, single mother, fugitive, betrayal, domestic drama, revenge, woods ...
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89%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Robert Saunters, a mechanic is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked up inside the restaurant's freezer. Knowing nothing of why he's there, he realizes he has been mistaken as someone else.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
freezer, kidnapping, danger, confined, hostage, twists and turns, struggle for survival, claustrophobia, prisoner, gang, isolation, cold ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
83%
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854
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The trip aboard a luxury yacht of three couples that will turn from an exciting experience to a terrible nightmare.
Style:
suspense, tense, thrilling, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
boat, yacht, isolation, sea, claustrophobia, survival, paranoia, suspicion, slow burn, betrayal, power struggle, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A limo ride turns hellish as several kidnappers set their sights on the young people inside.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, fast paced, realistic
Plot:
survival, panic, limousine, isolation, kidnapping, danger, water, escape, hostage, struggle for survival, young adult, friends ...
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73%
2K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of friends go to the desert for a gun instruction course and accidentally unleash a power so great it overwhelms them where they must choose between family and friends versus the fate of the world.
Style:
tension, intense, suspense, grim, psychological ...
Plot:
desert, moral dilemma, survival, loyalty, friends, escalation, isolation, betrayal, conspiracy, supernatural, accident
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68%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A dangerous criminal, named Falken, robs a bank together with a redneck small-criminal. They have to take a hostage and escape in a racing boat. When the hostage jumps overboard they have to stay at a lighthouse to wait for a boat. Here the ...
Style:
tense, tension, suspense, dark, noir
Plot:
bank robbery, hostage, lighthouse, kidnapping, escape, isolation, violence, survival, betrayal, power struggle, cat and mouse, showdown ...
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323
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jason tragically lost his young son when their SUV exploded. Now fighting as a soldier in Iraq, the suicide bombings that occur around him on a daily basis constantly remind him of losing his son. An army scientist approaches Jason about an ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, suspenseful, intense, psychological horror
Plot:
loss of child, hallucination, paranoia, grief, post traumatic stress, conspiracy, mistrust, iraq war, suspicion, desperation, mind control, terrorism ...
Place:
iraq
Similarity:
65%
341
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sully is a psychotic criminal who has just been released from prison. Now he has only one goal: revenge against police detective Elaine Reynolds, who he blames for the death of his wife's unborn child.
Style:
psychological thriller, tension, intense, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot:
revenge, obsession, vengeance, police detective, trauma, cat and mouse, fear, paranoia, law enforcement, stalking, isolation, violence ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A burned-out professional sniper finds himself trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a lethal competitor and must find a way to survive and escape with little to no cover between him and the killer.
Style:
tense, suspense, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
sniper, survival, hitman, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, threat to kill, threat, deathtrap, murderer, death threat, struggle for survival, trap ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true events of a couple vacationing on a remote island in the Bahamas who are hunted by a group of modern-day pirates, after their identities and their lives.
Style:
suspense, tension, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
pirate, couples, married couple, remote island, survival, danger, isolation, killing, changing lives, life is a bitch, murderer, death threat ...
Place:
bahamas
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Malta, USA, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
While working a case as an interpreter, a hearing-impaired police detective must confront a group of criminals trying to eliminate a deaf murder witness in her apartment building.
Style:
intense, tense, suspense, detective, non-verbal ...
Plot:
sign language, deaf, murder, siege, isolation, cat and mouse, investigation, survival, apartment building, claustrophobia, trust, night ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pregnant woman receives ultimatums from a supernatural entity to commit murders or face the death of her unborn child.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, dark, noir ...
Plot:
fear, moral ambiguity, coercion, pregnancy, psychological manipulation, murder, moral dilemma, motherhood, paranoia, blackmail, guilt, existential crisis ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Vina wakes up with her body tied to a bed in the basement. He was repeatedly beaten and harassed by a masked psychopath. Together with Mila, they try to fight and free themselves from the psychopath's hold.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, intense, dark, dread ...
Plot:
captivity, survival, hostage, basement, kidnapping, escape, claustrophobia, resilience, torture, abuse, violence, psychopath ...
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55%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, twist ending, dark ...
Plot:
paranoia, heist, paranoid, betrayal, criminal psychology, suspicion, isolation, moral ambiguity, mind game, slow burn, claustrophobia, violence ...
Similarity:
55%
152
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Missing and death cases take place in succession along the Korean Demilitarized Zone. South Korea forms a unit led by Captain Jo Jin-Ho and First Lieutenant Shin Yoo-Hwa as assistant leader. They are given only 24 hours to find out the truth behind ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tension, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
military, investigation, korean army, organized crime, political unrest, warrior, military life, wartime life, mysterious disappearance, soldier, political conspiracy, conspiracy ...
Place:
korea
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Muthanna and his family, who live in abject poverty, receive a prediction that says their fortune will change overnight. The same day, a mysterious man arrives and requests them to let him stay back.
Style:
tension, suspense, intense, tense, dark ...
Plot:
village life, human nature, family drama, moral dilemma, secrets, poverty, moral ambiguity, fate, claustrophobia, slow burn, survival, fortune teller ...
Place:
kannada
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A hijacked 767 will crash in just 97 minutes when its fuel runs out. Against the strong will of NSA Deputy Toyin, NSA Director Hawkins prepares to have the plane shot down before it does any catastrophic damage on the ground, leaving the fate of the ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
undercover agent, remote control, cia, nuclear bomb, doctor, interpol, morse code, terrorist attack, hijacking, hostage, terrorism, deception ...
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When Police kicks open the doors of the elite underground fight club Knuckledust, they find seven levels of hell, filled with the dead bodies of countless fighters, assassins and goons. Only one man, beaten up to a pulp, is still breathing: Hard ...
Style:
tense, crime thriller, dark, harsh, suspenseful ...
Plot:
fight club, criminal, fighter, interrogation, violent, combat, blood, police officer, investigation, underground, police procedural, corruption ...
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50%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An architect regains consciousness in a locked portaloo – known in German vernacular by the ‘Dixi’ brand name – on a building site where a detonation is being prepared. As he desperately tries to find ways of escaping this ‘prison’ ...
Style:
dark comedy, suspense, intense, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
locked in, confined space, claustrophobia, trapped, survival, battles, problem, threat, satire, escape attempt, secret, fight ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After being implicated in a terrorist attack, Santi, a taxi driver, is taken hostage by one of the perpetrators.
Style:
intense, tense, psychological, realistic, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorist, terrorism, hostage, taxi driver, jeopardy, terrorist attack, bomb, bomb threat, threat, danger, characters in danger, death threat ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Following the attack on the black site in Poland, Navy SEAL Jake Harris is ordered to escort terrorist suspect Amin Mansur to Washington D.C. for interrogation. Before the prisoner transfer process is complete, though, the airport is attacked by a ...
Style:
intense, thrilling, captivating, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist attack, war on terror, special agent, agent, mission, military, gunfight, navy seal, hostage, combat, special ops ...
Place:
washington d.c., poland
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Story:
A man takes three co-workers hostage while working overtime on Thanksgiving weekend. He has no demands.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
thanksgiving, hostage, fear, office, showdown, kidnapping, confined space, character study, panic, single, threat, claustrophobia ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Things get messy when Ranadheer, a professional driver gets hired by a group of doctors to transport a patient from Vizag to Hyderabad by road.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, fast paced, atmospheric ...
Plot:
road trip, doctor, danger, escape, trust, survival, conflict, moral dilemma, chase, betrayal, loyalty, corruption ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.
Style:
tense, suspense, grim, cliffhanger
Plot:
disaster, flood, escaped prisoner, trapped, survival, confined space, claustrophobia, danger, desperation, isolation, panic, suspicion ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the midst of a global pandemic, an actor who enters an audition must pass a series of tests in order to keep those around him alive.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, intense, grim ...
Plot:
pandemic, survival, moral dilemma, psychological manipulation, social commentary, isolation, survival game, intimate, claustrophobia, character study, single, minimalism ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A film director, his assistants and the cook go for a story discussion in a palatial bungalow. There, they discover footage of a family trapped by an unidentified "maskman."
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, intense ...
Plot:
paranoia, found footage, claustrophobia, isolation, slow burn, investigation, mysterious past
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A group of thieves are stranded in a semi-trailer after the only member capable of driving the getaway truck dies during the heist.
Style:
tension, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
heist, trapped, truck, thief, locked in, burglar, criminal gang, heist gone wrong, gang, organized crime, problem, bandit ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an ex-CIA agent discovers his family have been kidnapped he sets out to rescue them, only to discover they are being held hostage and won't be released unless he carries out a mission to assassinate the President. He must use his advanced ...
Style:
suspense, tense, action thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
assassination of president, conspiracy, spy, espionage, family in danger, hostage, kidnapping, assassination, frame up, special agent, scapegoat, assassination plot ...
Similarity:
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