Movies like Nutcracker: An American Nightmare

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Nutcracker: An American Nightmare (2001)
 4.6
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Nutcracker: An American Nightmare (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: suspense, christmas horror, psychological, rough, suspenseful
Plot: christmas, psychopath, doctor, insanity, nightmare, religion, mental institution, xmas, therapy, haunted, sex, witch, hell, nutcracker, psychotherapist, spirit, swamp, blood, collector, gift, fan, patricide, therapist, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum ...
Place: california
Keyword: american

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Most similar movies to Nutcracker: An American Nightmare

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and psychological films with plots about christmas, murder, xmas, psychopath, blood, haunted and danger mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Nutcracker: An American Nightmare: Persecution (1974), The Advent Calendar (2021), Home for the Holidays (1972), Blind Turn (2012), Incident in a Ghostland (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' ...
Style: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense ...
Plot: christmas, axe murderer, small town, holiday horror, psychopath, xmas, maniac, serial murder, homicidal maniac, serial killer, killing spree, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.5
 363
Persecution (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
Style: christmas horror, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: christmas, xmas, cat, white cat, son, woman, domineering mother, music box, newlywed, doctor, hallucination, flashback ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Advent Calendar (2021)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Eva, an ex-dancer, is now living in a wheelchair, unable to walk. When her friend Sophie gives her an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas, she realizes each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of ...
Style: suspense, christmas horror, suspenseful, psychological, mystical ...
Plot: supernatural, car accident, disability, christmas, wheelchair bound, moral dilemma, death, wish fulfillment, holiday horror, blood, snow, haunted ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Home for the Holidays (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Style: slasher, christmas horror, bloody, spooky, crime thriller ...
Plot: christmas, murder, xmas, holiday horror, snow, darkness, woods, hagsploitation, new year's eve, christmas spirit, old dark house, haunted ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Movie in collections
 5.2
 142
Blind Turn (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, ambiguous ending, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, life is a bitch, danger, confined, family tragedy, car accident, woman in danger, psychological trauma, plot twist, violence ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things ...
Style: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: nightmare, home invasion, serial killer, ghost, sister sister relationship, insanity, sisters, female protagonist, doll, danger, paranoid schizophrenia, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 4.3
 621
XII (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A man found guilty of a crime against a minor is released from prison and returns to get revenge on the jury who sent him there.
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, psychopath, strong violent content, serial killer, murder, danger, masked killer, violence, xmas, escaped prisoner, pursuit, comeback ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A man inherits a mansion, which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
Style: christmas horror, psychological, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, holiday, murder, psychopath, mental institution, holiday horror, gory, family in danger, haunted by the past, xmas, danger, supernatural ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 4.2
 33K
Boogeyman (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, childhood, boogeyman, haunted by the past, death, thanksgiving, nightmare, hallucination, hometown, gory, danger, ghost ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.4
 63K
Session 9 (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, bleak, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, supernatural, psychology, mental illness, twists and turns, lobotomy, macabre, ghost, insanity, transformation, hospital, obsession ...
Time: year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.6
 5K
Eloise (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories.
Style: psychological, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, haunted, time travel, mad doctor, missing person, brutality, trapped, torture, little girl, supernatural, survival ...
Time: year 2017, year 1982
Place: michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Fall Down Dead (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie ...
Style: suspenseful, christmas horror, bleak, tense, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, danger, psychopath, stalking, suburbs, christmas, murder witness, xmas, isolation, murder, trapped, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Dead of Winter (1987)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Style: suspense, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: danger, snow, insanity, winter, isolation, woman in danger, audition, psychopath, missing person, survival, blood, imprisonment ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.4
 26K
Jessabelle (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, voodoo, danger, curses spells and rituals, macabre, psychology, spirit, nightmare, disability, insanity ...
Time: year 2014, year 2000, 2010s, year 1988, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.1
 14K
The Ordeal (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn...
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: rape, psychopath, surrealism, gory, village, extreme, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, backwoods, redneck, christmas ...
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Man in the Trunk (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with ...
Style: suspense, christmas horror, psychological thriller, art house, dark
Plot: holiday, chase, friendship, fear, best friend, murder, love, blood, christmas, xmas, woods, hunting ...
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.4
 50K
Unsane (2018)
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, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mental institution, stalking, psychopath, mental illness, maniac, mental patient, murder, stalker, psychiatric ward, sexual assault, fear ...
Time: 2010s
Place: boston, portugal, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman whose family was brutally murdered when she was little is instructed by her family's ghosts to bring the killers to them so their souls can rest in peace.
Style: suspense, bloody, christmas horror, rough, scary ...
Plot: nightmare, murder, haunted house, violent death, violence, sole survivor, psychopath, hallucination, memory loss, xmas, supernatural horror, haunted ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Movie in collections
 5.3
 7K
The Zodiac (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style: rough, psychological, bleak, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, psychopath, murder, police detective, obsession, killing spree, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 2005
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
To All a Goodnight (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples ...
Style: slasher, christmas horror, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, holiday horror, killer santa claus, teenager, revenge, murder, santa claus, school, maniac, xmas, police detective, murder mystery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.0
 1K
Secret Santa (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: “The holidays are a time for backstabbing and silent, annihilating judgment, but for the Pope family, the time-honored tradition of passive aggressive snark is always masked with a smile. But not this year. April Pope, the family’s golden child, ...
Style: christmas horror, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, suspense ...
Plot: christmas, murder, wealthy family, family dinner, christmas party, family reunited, dysfunctional family, psychopath, revenge, xmas, new year's eve, cabin in the woods ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.5
 7K
The Hand (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, vengeance, comic book, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, cartoonist, christmas ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.8
 56
Perversion (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ryan McNamara has been beaten, abused, witnessed slaughter, and been subjected to sexual torture. But that's nothing compared to what Ryan is about to do.
Style: psycho sexual, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: agoraphobia, psychological manipulation, fear, teenager, dark secret, psychological trauma, nightmare, childhood trauma, mentally unstable, rape, revenge, gang ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Midnight Swim (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of ...
Style: mumblecore, psychological, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: found footage, lake, sister sister relationship, sisters, women, family problems, diving, female protagonist, puzzle, mother daughter relationship, underwater, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style: twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, insanity, mental patient, psychiatrist, plot twist, madhouse, doctor, doctors and patients, macabre, conspiracy ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1900
Place: england, britain, usa, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.9
 209
Knifepoint (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On Christmas Eve, two sisters sharing a Venice apartment discover their home is the final target of a brutal gang of criminals led by Jess and his sadistic sister Lorraine.
Style: christmas horror, rough, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: christmas, home invasion, violence, sister sister relationship, brutality, survival, stranded, disability, sadist, woman with a gun, xmas, female nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.3
 7K
Sublime (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not ...
Style: suspense, rough, psychological, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: hospital, racism, doctors and patients, danger, psychology, destiny, fear, death, nurse, xmas, darkness, medical ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
I Trapped the Devil (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.
Style: scary, christmas horror, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot: devil, blood, supernatural, deal with the devil, basement, holiday horror, fear, suspicion, isolation, family in danger, evil, family bonds ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.7
 2K
Island Zero (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.
Style: gothic, suspense, exciting, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: island, ferry, xmas, nightmare, secret, death, brutality, violence, isolation, unconsciousness, mysticism, human nature ...
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.5
 5K
Home Movie (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot: killer child, husband wife relationship, twins, evil child, psychopath, family problems, found footage, danger, family life, siblings relations, thanksgiving, halloween ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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