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Berlin Syndrome (2017)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Style:
suspense, sexy, erotic, exciting, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, dark, slasher, realistic ...
Plot:
obsession, trapped, captive, psychopath, stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, kidnapped, missing person, held captive, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, attempted escape, man hits a woman, one night stand, teacher, sex scene, desperation, christmas, sex, pain, tourist, stalker, strong female lead, fall in love, woman in danger, exodus ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017
Place:
oceania, berlin germany, germany, europe
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Most similar movies to Berlin Syndrome
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about psychopath, murder, blood, violence, serial killer, kidnapping and danger mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like Berlin Syndrome: The Resident (2011), The Vanishing (1993), P2 (2007), Before I Go to Sleep (2014), Alone (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Juliet, a beautiful doctor, has found the perfect New York apartment to start a new life after separating from her husband. It's got spacious rooms, a spectacular view, and a handy, handsome landlord. But there are secrets behind every wall and ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
obsession, woman in danger, landlord, stalker, danger, stalking, psychopath, husband murders wife, single woman, female protagonist, voyeurism, rape and revenge ...
Time:
year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, obsession, kidnapping, kidnapped, psychopath, buried alive, spider, killer, slow burn, serial killer, hostage, missing girl ...
Time:
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Place:
seattle, washington state
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Angela, a corporate climber, gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, slasher, christmas horror ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
obsession, survival, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, escape attempt, danger, maniac, hostage, violence, stalking, stalker ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychology, investigation, power relations, uncover truth, domestic violence, memory, psychiatrist, life turned upside down, amnesiac ...
Time:
90s, year 2014, year 2007, year 2000, 2010s ...
Place:
london, england
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, trapped, chase, road rage, maniac, survival, kidnapped woman, highway, lost in the woods, cruelty, stalker ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split up and one of them goes missing, the other must find her before her worst fears are realized.
Style:
scary, disturbing, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, missing friend, friendship, woman in danger, expedition, bicycle, murder, torture, kidnapped, survival horror, rescue, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, somalia
Similarity:
100%
42K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, Hong Kong, South Korea, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, perverse, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, trapped, stalker, trap, female villain, stalking, nightmare, obsessive love, obsession, held captive, roommate, female stalker ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, france
Similarity:
67%
615K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, kidnapping, dissociative identity disorder, murder, split personality, psycho, insanity, serial killer, paranoia, captive, schizophrenia, psychopath ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
Similarity:
67%
Movie in collections
50K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, dark, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
claustrophobia, obsession, psychology, twists and turns, school, youth, underground bunker, male nudity, danger, bunker, survival, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wales, england
Similarity:
100%
20K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man imprisons the woman he's still obsessed with after years apart, then finds the tables turned on him.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, basement, captivity, kidnapping, psychopath, fear, locked in a cage, captive, stalking, female psychopath, sadist, animal shelter ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two fugitives land in hot water when they take a hostage who poses a threat to their well-being.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, erotic, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
held captive, perversion, hostage, agoraphobia, chase, psychopath, abuse, on the run, home invasion, murder, survival, lie ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
17K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
internet, murder, found footage, panic, violence, danger, abduction, cyberspace, laptop, hacker, sex, hacking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
156K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, masked killer, murder, hostage, brutality, blood, masked man, violence, masked villain, killer ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, twists and turns, missing person, gas station, obsession, road trip, disappearance, murder, literary, police investigation, character study ...
Time:
20th century, near future, 80s, year 1988
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style:
suspense, detective, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, twists and turns, kidnapping, woman in danger, police investigation, violence against women, forensics, murder mystery, plot twist, investigation, profiler ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, washington d.c., north carolina, california
Similarity:
50%
53K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, medical horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, stalking, mental institution, maniac, psychiatric ward, mental patient, sexual assault, psychopath, stalker, murder, mental illness, mental disorder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
portugal, pennsylvania, boston
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
Style:
creepy, psychological thriller, homoerotic, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
psychopath, vacation gone wrong, vacation, evil wins, bullying, mute child, countryside, male nudity, sex scene, kidnapping, kidnapped girl, trap ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
denmark, netherlands, italy, europe
Similarity:
50%
176K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Paul is a U.S. truck driver working in Iraq. After an attack by a group of Iraqis he wakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, bad ending, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, trapped, buried alive, isolation, confined, claustrophobia, terrorist, captivity, twists and turns, threat, panic, desperation ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 2000s, year 2006 ...
Place:
iraq, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, twist ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, mind game, survival, deathtrap, murder, group of strangers, captivity, characters killed one by one, trapped, sole survivor, psychological torture, game of death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
64K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stepmother, suicide, cult leader, winter, mass suicide, religion, destiny, violence, murder, suicide of mother, snow, loss of mother ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
24K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The sought-after images of top model, Jennifer, adorn magazine covers and billboards worldwide. When alone at a charity event, she is abducted and incarcerated in a cell with another prisoner. When their captor subjects the two to torture, and ...
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
kidnapping, torture, stalking, violence, serial killer, psychopath, brutality, hostage, captivity, voyeur, stereotypes, isolation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
33K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Edna, the elderly and widowed matriarch of the family, goes missing, her daughter Kay and granddaughter Sam travel to their remote family home to find her. Soon after her return, they start to discover a sinister presence haunting the house and ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, demonic, dark ...
Plot:
haunted house, dementia, mother daughter relationship, missing person, grandmother, supernatural, women, female warrior, mental disorder, cursed, mother, family relations ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
oceania, melbourne
Similarity:
100%
27K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a late night visit to an ATM, three co-workers end up in a desperate fight for their lives when they become trapped by an unknown man.
Style:
slasher, christmas horror, scary, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
trapped, evil wins, stalking, escape attempt, psychopath, trap, masked killer, confinement indoors, unknown killer, captivity, death, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an ...
Style:
sexy, tense, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
sex scene, held captive, insanity, obsession, therapy, recovery, mental disorder, murder, caretaker, danger, violence, lesbian interest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
27K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Style:
disturbing, horrifying, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, torture, captivity, husband wife relationship, sadism, sexual assault, sexual sadism, sexploitation, rape and revenge, incestuous relationship, eating human flesh, suffering ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
118K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
home invasion, survival, gory, masked killer, murder, massacre, twists and turns, strong female lead, deathtrap, masked man, parents and children, blood ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
missouri, usa
Similarity:
100%
960
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot, making the women look like they have large tattoos. As Kinsky grows more obsessed with Maddy, he ...
Style:
tense, psychological, slasher, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot:
obsession, kidnapping, tattoo, mentally unstable, danger, bondage, masturbation, dating, nude women, fashion model, prison, nudity ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
Style:
disturbing, black and white, scary, mysterious, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
dead body, death of father, serial killer, sisters, violence, dark past, unsettling, curiosity, anatomy, friends, father, friendship ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Similarity:
100%
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