Movies like 12 Feet Deep

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12 Feet Deep (2017)
 5.2
 17K
12 Feet Deep (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing night.
Style: suspense, disturbing, serious, sad, psychological thriller, psychological, creepy, suspenseful
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: trapped, water, confined space, survival, endurance, family secret, determination, sibling relationship, female protagonist, swimming pool, sister, sister sister relationship, sisters, struggle for survival, relationship problems, deathtrap, swimming, underwater, trap, isolation, confined, supernatural horror, strong female lead, forgiveness, female empowerment ...
Time: contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, psychological and disturbing films with plots about survival, trapped, trap, isolation, danger, survival horror and confined mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like 12 Feet Deep: 247°F (2011), Till Death (2021), Elevator (2012), Hush (2016), The Chamber (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 4.8
 7K
247°F (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Georgia, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four friends travel to a lakeside cabin for a carefree weekend, the fun turns into a nightmare when 3 of them end up locked in a hot sauna. Every minute counts and every degree matters as they fight for their lives in the heat up to 247°F.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, teen horror, splatter, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: isolation, survival, danger, friends, sauna, trapped, trap, friendship, woods, mind game, escape room, confined space ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 26K
Till Death (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a romantic evening at their secluded lake house, a woman wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband. Trapped and isolated in the dead of winter, she must fight off hired killers to escape her late spouse's twisted plan.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: trapped, snow, infidelity, hired killer, dead husband, lawyer, hitman, revenge plot, revenge, survival horror, trap, dead body ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 7K
Elevator (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Nine people are stuck in an elevator. One of them has a ticking bomb that can't be defused. The other eight will do anything to survive. There is no escape and no promise of rescue. As the tension in the elevator mounts the unthinkable soon ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: trapped, captivity, isolation, trapped in an elevator, confined, danger, survival, terrorism, greed, mind game, escape room, confined space ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 153K
Hush (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, trapped, home invasion, survival, deaf, female protagonist, deafness, violence, masked killer, brutality, murder, murderer ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, y2k, 21st century
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
 1K
The Chamber (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The film revolves around a special ops unit who commandeer a commercial research vessel and it’s submersible to locate a mysterious item at the bottom of the Yellow Sea. When an explosion causes the sub to overturn and take on water, the crew ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological, suspense
Plot: survival, trap, isolation, military, murder, survival horror, deathtrap, confinement indoors, characters in danger, confined, swat team, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 12K
Curve (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman becomes trapped in her car after a hitchhiker causes her to have an automobile accident.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot: trapped, car breakdown, hitchhiker, psychopath, trap, survival, maniac, on the road, fear, serial killer, female protagonist, fire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.2
 14K
Escape Room (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Six friends test their intelligence in a game that takes a dark turn.
Style: scary, suspense, brutal, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: trapped, quest, game of death, most dangerous game, danger, puzzle, room, violence, escape, survival, friends, characters killed one by one ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Escape the Field (2022)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Six strangers suddenly awaken in a remote, endless cornfield. Stripped of their possessions, they are left with only six items: a gun with a single bullet, matches, a lantern, a knife, a compass, and a flask of water. As mysterious sirens blare in ...
Style: captivating, tense, supernatural thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: group of strangers, trapped, trap, struggle for survival, survival, stranger, cornfield, hunting, game of death, deathtrap, survival horror, compass
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.1
 93K
Crawl (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: While struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators.
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, psychotronic, natural horror ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: animal attack, survival, trapped, disaster, flood, alligator, natural disaster, creature feature, hurricane, survival horror, killer animal, predator ...
Time: 2010s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.8
 56K
Open Water (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Two divers are left out at sea without a boat. There’s nothing but water for miles, unless they look at what’s underneath them...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Plot: survival, shark, isolation, stranded, shark attack, diving, ocean, panic, lost at sea, shipwreck, animal attack, water ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Breaking Surface (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway, Belgium
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
Plot: survival, underwater, ocean, trap, diving, isolation, winter, sister sister relationship, scuba diving, rescue from drowning, danger, rescue ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 61K
47 Meters Down (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two sisters on Mexican vacation are trapped in a shark observation cage at the bottom of the ocean, with oxygen running low and great whites circling nearby, they have less than an hour of air left to figure out how to get to the surface.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, natural horror, exciting ...
Plot: shark, shark attack, survival, ocean, creature feature, animal attack, killer animal, great white shark, underwater, diver, rescue, killer shark ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: mexico, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 143K
The Shallows (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An injured surfer stranded on a buoy needs to get back to shore, but the great white shark stalking her might have other ideas.
Style: scary, minimal cast, exciting, suspense, tense ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: shark, survival, surfing, animal attack, creature feature, trapped, killer shark, shark attack, ocean, beach, sea, stranded ...
Time: year 2016, future, 2010s
Place: mexico, texas, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.6
 356
Red Room (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Held hostage in an isolated house, three kidnapped women attempt to escape from their sadistic captors.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: survival horror, fleeing, locked in, kidnapping, escape attempt, locked in a room, women, survival, struggle for survival, sadistic violence, sadist, hostage ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Resurrection County (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When four campers' weekend trip turns deadly, in the remote town of Enoch, they find the locals are all too happy to serve up their own brand of an eye for an eye justice.
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: woods, small town, survival, survival horror, peril, struggle for survival, trap, weekend getaway, woman in danger, body horror, trapped, redneck ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.4
 1K
The Employer (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: trap, kidnapping, twists and turns, danger, rivalry, contests and competitions, mind game, struggle for survival, trapped, new job, rivals, secret identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.5
 865
Serpent (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A romantic escape into nature turns into the ultimate moment of reckoning when a husband and wife are trapped in a tent with a deadly snake. Unable to escape and with certain death looming, the tent becomes a heated confessional to a cataclysmic ...
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: snake, survival, killer animal, dangerous animal, death threat, husband wife relationship, near death experience, family relations, struggle for survival, couples, couple relations, hiking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.3
 7K
Kill Theory (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style: scary, surprise ending, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, murder, mind game, torture, trapped, confined, friendship, trap, rivalry, game of death, murderer, psycho ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Shadow Puppets (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Director Michael Winnick's chilling tale stars James Marsters as Jack, one of eight captives who awaken in an abandoned asylum not knowing who they are or why they are together. They discover that they've been used in an experiment to ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, serious, slasher ...
Plot: isolation, voyeurism, voyeur, curses spells and rituals, memory loss, captivity, supernatural ability, supernatural, danger, nude girl, deadly creature, trapped ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.2
 996
Detour (2013)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Trapped inside his car by a mudslide, smooth talking Jackson Alder suddenly finds himself in a situation he can't talk his way out of. With no hope of rescue, he must defy the odds; battling Mother Nature for his survival.
Style: suspense, realistic, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, trapped, isolation, natural disaster, against the odds, wilderness survival, confined, danger, fear, mortality, confusion, buried alive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.2
 24K
Silent House (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Sarah returns with her father and uncle to fix up the family's longtime summerhouse after it was violated by squatters in the off-season. As they work in the dark, Sarah begins to hear sounds from within the walls of the boarded-up building. ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, survival, family in danger, home invasion, uncover truth, haunted by the past, country house, confined, twists and turns, isolation, parents and children ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.1
 868
The Dark Below (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: The Dark Below is an experimental thriller set on Michigan's Great Lakes.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: serial killer, underwater, frostbite, hypothermia, struggle for survival, danger, pursuit, isolation, woman, water, ice, scuba diving ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.1
 479
Twinsanity (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Following the death of their mother, an identical twin pulls away to establish her own independence, while the other unravels and plots to end her sister’s new beginning. Inspired by true events.
Style: enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: yoga, murder, twin sister, twins, body horror, sister sister relationship, family problems, conspiracy, sisters, family relations, evil twin, family secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 4.8
 5K
Captors (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapped, survival, threat, kidnapped woman, deathtrap, murderer, trapped, trap, kidnapping, struggle for survival, paranoid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.2
 107K
Vacancy (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, trapped, hotel, murder, hostage, survival horror, macabre, danger, estranged couple, masked killer, kidnapped, motel ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.2
 6K
Hunger (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Five strangers face the unthinkable when they wake up and find themselves trapped. With no idea how they got there they frantically try to figure out how to escape. The disoriented group quickly realise the truth about their situation when they ...
Style: scary, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: starvation, captive, isolation, survival, eating human flesh, captivity, hunger, confined, gory, claustrophobia, cannibalism, flesh eating ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.0
 747
Deadfall Trail (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: John, Julian and Paul enter the Kaibab National Forest for a three-week survival trip and peyote vision quest. The only items they take with them are a knife, a bottle of water and a garbage bag each. A week into their journey a disastrous turn of ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: wilderness, moral dilemma, isolation, friendship, danger, confined, hiking, desert, expedition, redneck, national park, travel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.8
 10K
Black Rock (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three childhood friends set aside their personal issues and reunite for a girls’ weekend on a remote island off the coast of Maine. One wrong move turns their weekend getaway into a deadly fight for survival.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, woman in danger, manhunt, self defense, strong violent content, friends, human prey, confined, chase, chases and races, danger, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 3.6
 685
Besetment (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: After struggling to find employment, Amanda takes a hotel position in a small town where she ends up fighting for her life.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival horror, female protagonist, female villain, torture, kidnapping, youth, violent, psychopath, survival, trapped, vigilante, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Blackout Experiment (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Six strangers wake up in a room full of weapons. If they do not kill each other, someone they care about will die.
Style: bleak, psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: survival, survival horror, female scientist, kidnapping, isolation, violence, brutality, doctor, cruelty, panic, videotaping, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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