Movies like Refuge

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Refuge (2013)
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Refuge (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A post-apocalyptic thriller set in the ruins of a collapsed America, Refuge follows a family’s struggle to survive and rebuild a life in the absence of civilization. In the wake of a catastrophic plague, the family lives a lonely existence, struggling to maintain a sense of normalcy amidst a lawless world of roaming gangs and dwindling resources.
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, apocalyptic, independent film, disaster movie
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, end of the world, epidemic, murder, gang, husband wife relationship, medication, child in peril, family home, zombie, distopia, post-apocalyptic future, motorcycle, plague, house, on the road, family relations, abandoned house, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, drawing, little girl, siege, garden ...
Keyword: oldies

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Most similar movies to Refuge

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, captivating and suspenseful films with plots about murder, family relations, survival, husband wife relationship, post apocalypse, danger and mother daughter relationship mostly in Thriller, Drama and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Refuge: The Last Survivors (2014), Hidden (2015), Every Time I Die (2019), Light of My Life (2019), Murder In-Law (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Refuge (2016)
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Refuge is a suspense-thriller about a family struggling to survive in the wake of a great catastrophic event. As food and supplies dwindle and the threat of marauders becomes more apparent, the family must ultimately face the decision to either stay ...
Style: captivating, feel good, suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: family relations, child in peril, survival, husband wife relationship, little girl, family in danger, mother daughter relationship, end of the world, father daughter relationship, death of brother, distopia, countryside ...
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100%
The Last Survivors (2014)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.
Style: apocalyptic, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: post apocalypse, revenge, drought, survival, murder, desert, thirst, female warrior, water shortage, strong female character, teenage girl, dystopia ...
Time: near future
Place: oregon
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100%
 6.4
 25K
Hidden (2015)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style: suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: virus, post apocalypse, epidemic, survival, father daughter relationship, murder, quarantine, underground, twists and turns, infected, bomb shelter, mother daughter relationship ...
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100%
Every Time I Die (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When Sam is murdered in a remote lake, his consciousness begins to travel through the bodies of his friends in an effort to protect them from his killer. This dark passage leads him on a greater journey - discovering his own true identity.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: murder, change of heart, saving a life, murder mystery, self discovery, spirit, out of body experience, introspection, mysticism, twin sister, accident, lake ...
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21%
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Light of My Life (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's population. As a father struggles to protect his child, their bond—and the character of humanity—is tested.
Style: apocalyptic, ambiguous ending, bleak, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot: post apocalypse, epidemic, father daughter relationship, virus, distopia, deadly virus, post apocalyptic, child in peril, forest, girl, immunity, parents and children ...
Time: year 2019
Place: persia
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21%
 5.7
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Murder In-Law (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Claire has always loved her son Jim and her granddaughter Sydney, but struggles to connect with her daughter-in-law, Allison. When Allison announces a big job promotion that will relocate them far away, Claire's motherly instincts are pushed to ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot: mother in law daughter in law relationship, overprotective mother, dysfunctional family, overprotective parent, family problems, life is a bitch, murderer, mother son relationship, murder, husband wife relationship, family relations, relationship problems ...
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20%
What We Become (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.
Style: suspense, rough, intense, tense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie, epidemic, virus, zombie survival, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, infected, family in danger, conspiracy, undead, husband wife relationship, death, teenage boy ...
Place: denmark
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20%
The Wrong House (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Rebecca Lassiter and her husband Brian leave New York City to move to Los Angeles and find the perfect suburban house for them and their young daughter. Shortly after moving in, Rebecca and Brian notice strange things start to happen--food ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: husband wife relationship, defamation, problem, secret past, obsession, house, married couple, male female relationship, life is a bitch, family relations, dark past, young daughter ...
Place: los angeles, new york
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19%
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What Still Remains (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After the loss of her family, a young woman struggles to survive in a world long-since destroyed by disease; but when a lonely traveler offers her a place in his community, she must decide if the promise of a better life is worth the risk of ...
Style: apocalyptic, captivating, suspenseful, tense, intense
Plot: post apocalypse, community, secrets, survival, distopia, plague, female protagonist, religious, epidemic, dystopia, apocalypse, disaster ...
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19%
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The Road (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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19%
 5.2
 820
The Blackout (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: post apocalypse, blackout, solar eclipse, struggle for survival, student, fight, survival, apocalypse, white trash, eclipse, pandemic, distopia ...
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18%
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Green Rush (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A cannabis farmer and his pregnant lover fight for their lives when ruthless criminals invade their property.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: marijuana, cannabis, fight, home invasion, gang, survival, struggle for survival, bandit, criminal, drug, pregnant wife
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18%
The Strangler's Wife (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Mae thought she had the perfect husband. Until she found out about his other women. But now she suspects an even more horrible truth. He isn't cheating with these other women... he's killing them.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: strangulation, serial killer, strangler, husband wife relationship, murder, murder of a nude woman, killings, murderer, serial murder, family relations, homicidal maniac, secret ...
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18%
In Bed with a Killer (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lena and her daughter move to a new town where she meets Michael, the man of her dreams. Little does she know he's hiding some very dark secrets. And after her new friends disappear one by one, Lena must unravel the mystery of her missing ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, surprise ending
Plot: mother daughter relationship, small town, single mother, killer, murder, teenage daughter, family problems, relationship problems, secret identity, secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family secret ...
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18%
Deadly Excursion (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter charter a sail boat while on spring break only to discover the captain has plans to make sure they never return home.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: struggle for survival, kidnapping, mother daughter relationship, family relations, abduction, sea voyage, kidnapped, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, sea adventure, family problems, island ...
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18%
Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, family problems, family secret, male female relationship, parents and children, biological father, female protagonist, family in danger, secret, birth mother ...
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18%
Falling for a Killer (2023)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Assistant DA Darcy Young, is invited to her estranged parents’ country home to meet her sister’s new fiance, Thomas Schure, she’s already dubious at the speed of the whirlwind romance, but as Thomas’s suspicious behavior begins to ...
Style: captivating, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: double life, murder, assistant district attorney, blood, peril, danger, sister, family in danger, sisters, two sisters, house, characters in danger
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House of Good and Evil (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After a family tragedy in the chaotic city, Chris and Maggie Conley, in a last-ditch effort to save their dying marriage, purchase an isolated home in the deepest woods, to which they quickly discover evil has a key.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, family in danger, family tragedy, family problems, crumbling marriage, isolation, unhappy marriage, family relations, marriage crisis, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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18%
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No Escape (2015)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In their new overseas home, an American family soon finds themselves caught in the middle of a coup, and they frantically look for a safe escape in an environment where foreigners are being immediately executed.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot: survival, family in danger, coup d'etat, execution, riot, rebellion, violence, race against time, american abroad, revolution, danger, wrong place wrong time ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, southeast asia, thailand, vietnam
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18%
 2.7
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Venom (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, desert, survival, chase, danger, dangerous animal, on the run, crash, pursuit, creature feature, killer animal, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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17%
The Desperate Hour (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A woman desperately races to save her child after police place her hometown on lockdown due to an active shooter incident.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: school shooting, race against time, saving a life, child in peril, rescue, kids in trouble, threat, parents and children, child killer, save the day, problem, threat to kill ...
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17%
 5.4
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True Nature (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Part drama and part supernatural thriller, TRUE NATURE tells the story of a family reunited when their college-age daughter is found after a year-long disappearance. With no memory of what happened to her, she soon discovers that her very presence ...
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: memory loss, murder, doctor, hallucination, husband wife relationship, weight loss, uncover truth, missing person, family relations, comeback, society, danger ...
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17%
The Captive Nanny (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Chloe (Karynn Moore) is a nanny who desperately wants to adopt but needs to get her life together first. She finds the perfect live-in nanny position with the Brown family - Emily (Austin Highsmith), Michael (Michael Aaron Milligan) and their son - ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: wanting a baby, hostage, family problems, husband wife relationship, nanny, locked in, marital problem, relationship problems, female protagonist, life is a bitch, social problems, male female relationship ...
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17%
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InstaPsycho (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: An unhinged social media super fan frames her best friend for murder.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: social media, betrayal by friend, murderer, traitor, frame up, deception, murder, betrayal, social problems, life is a bitch, friend
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17%
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4Closed (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a young family moves into a foreclosed house, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidation and terror. The deranged man will stop at nothing to get his home back.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: family in danger, psychopath, family problems, danger, stalking, family in crisis, deaf, murder, deception, stalker, basement, lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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17%
 5.2
 13K
The Day (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Open war against humanity rages. For five survivors – lost and on the run – the pursuit is relentless, the bullets are dwindling and the battle is everywhere. This is a 24-hour look into their lives.
Style: apocalyptic, serious, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, survival horror, trap, dystopia, trapped, countryside, dystopian future, danger, post apocalyptic, life is a bitch ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
The Trigger Effect (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: How tenuous is man's hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is "by nature" a predatory creature. ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, bleak, cult classic ...
Plot: survival, apocalypse, nudity, bare breasts, female nudity, suburbs, disaster, dystopian future, neighbor, paranoia, chase, betrayal ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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17%
The Humanity Bureau (2017)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 2030 the world is in a permanent state of economic recession and facing serious environmental problems as a result of global warming.
Style: apocalyptic, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: distopia, dystopia, government agent, hidden truth, deception, dystopian future, pursuit, runaway, life is a bitch, life risking, conspiracy, fleeing ...
Time: 2030s
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17%
We Still Say Grace (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: suicide, religions or cults, religious fanaticism, problem, faith, father daughter relationship, mass suicide, religious cult, family relations, religious fanatic, religion, stranger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.4
 132K
Greenland (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A detached married couple must get their son and themselves to safety after being randomly selected to enter an underground bunker, as a massive object from space threatens to destroy the world in less than 48 hours.
Style: suspense, exciting, scenic, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: natural disaster, apocalypse, end of the world, disaster, catastrophe, humanity in peril, husband wife relationship, kidnapping, diabetic, comet, panic, mass destruction ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: greenland, canada, kentucky, atlanta georgia, beirut lebanon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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