Movies like The Unraveling

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The Unraveling (2015)
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The Unraveling (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Michael is a basically decent guy with a pregnant girlfriend, great friends - and one massive drug problem. Because he missed his own Las Vegas bachelor party being too stoned, his four besties decide to kidnap him for a weekend of roughing it in the California wilderness. Caught off guard by this surprise camping trip and his nose candy supply dwindling, Michael is shocked when his buddies start being ritually murdered one by one. Suspecting it’s the vicious drug dealer he cheated getting bloody revenge, Michael’s life swirls out of all control as the real truth is revealed.
Style: scary, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing, psychological horror, spooky
Plot: heroin addiction, heroin, drug addiction, heroin addict, drug addict, friends, drug dealer, bachelor party, bachelor, drug abuse, junkie, drug, kidnapping, addiction, twists and turns, forest, woods, drugs

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, disturbing and psychological films with plots about drug, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug addict, junkie, drug use and addiction mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like The Unraveling: Amityville in the Hood (2021), 6 Balloons (2018), The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Body Brokers (2021), Cookers (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Amityville in the Hood (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: An Eastside gang uses the Amityville property to grow marijuana when they are attacked by a rival gang and their drugs stolen. Soon, it's unleashed on the Westside streets of Compton, where anyone who smokes it suffers one KILLER buzz.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, bleak, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: drug, gang, drug dealer, marijuana, drug dealing, drug addiction, drug addict, addiction, self destructing, demon, junkie, chaos ...
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95%
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6 Balloons (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two year old daughter in tow.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, captivating, rough, sentimental
Plot: drug addiction, heroin, drug abuse, addiction, surprise party, problem, recovery, illness, woman, family problems, mission, mental illness ...
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95%
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug use, drug addict, heroin, drug, heroin addict, life philosophy, death of pet, redemption, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, usa
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92%
 6.2
 4K
Body Brokers (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body broker Wood, and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to treatment center mogul Vin. ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: drug, destructive relationship, degradation, brutality, addiction, friendship, life philosophy, violence, chase, drug traffic, junkie, downfall ...
Place: usa, los angeles, columbus ohio
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92%
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Cookers (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: hallucination, old dark house, addiction, drug abuse, supernatural, ghost, couples, life is a bitch, drug dealing, woods, experiment, evil ...
Time: 21st century
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91%
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 2K
Quarries (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: To escape her abusive boyfriend, Kat joins a wilderness expedition with a group of women, all of whom are struggling with the uncertainty of life. What was supposed to be an opportunity for personal discovery quickly becomes a fight for survival, ...
Style: suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: chase, wilderness, murder, abusive boyfriend, hiking, woman in danger, survival, women, drug addict, violence, serial killer, feminist ...
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90%
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Wasted (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot: drug addict, high school, friendship, heroin, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, kids in trouble, hopes, rehabilitation, lifestyle, going straight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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86%
 3.9
 193
Blue Call (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Haylee, a local EMT suffering from PTSD, spends her days making split second decisions with lives that hang in the balance. One night on a routine call, she is faced with a moral decision, taking matters into her own hands and mercy kills a young ...
Style: suspense, bleak, scary, psychotronic, slasher ...
Plot: woman in danger, serial killer, murder, fear, maniac, psycho terror, serial murder, homicidal maniac, brutality, killing spree, young woman, drug use ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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86%
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Resolution (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what ...
Style: scary, surreal, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore ...
Plot: friendship, drug addict, supernatural, cosmic horror, buddies, danger, wilderness, isolation, woods, time, addiction, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
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85%
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Pop Skull (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This ...
Style: suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, addiction, ghost, drug abuse, supernatural, crumbling marriage, danger, couples, teenage life, breakup, gory, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
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83%
 4.4
 257
Lost Solace (2016)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After taking a new form of ecstasy, a psychopath goes through a mind bending trip causing him to feel and question his morality for the first time.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Plot: drug trip, self discovery, drug use, drug, psychopath, self awareness, drug abuse, junkie, mentally unstable, love
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82%
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We Go On (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that ...
Style: mumblecore, suspenseful, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, pursuit, occult, parallel universe, twists and turns, spirituality, haunting, overdose, airport ...
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82%
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style: psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, emotional ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, mental illness, junkie, drug, depression, dream, loneliness, drug addict ...
Time: year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: new york, america, britain, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
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82%
Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style: realistic, tense, talky, controversial, suspense ...
Plot: drug, addiction, drug addiction, adolescence, murder, junkie, heist, drug addict, violence, heroin, death, brutality ...
Time: year 1998, 70s, 20th century
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82%
The Best of All Worlds (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on true events, seven year old Adrian is growing up in the underground drug scene of Salzburg, usually famous for culture and classical music. His mother Helga is torn between her drug addiction and her love for her son. Despite of this Adrian ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot: drug addiction, heroin addict, drug, drug addict, family relations, social problems, social issues, life is a bitch, drug abuse, junkie, drug use, mother son relationship ...
Place: germany
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82%
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Craving (2023)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After a drug deal goes south, four heroin addicts barricade themselves in a country bar as the cops close in. Withdrawal sets in, further complicating their hostage situation, while a secret one of them is hiding could destroy them all.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: drug addict, heroin addict, deathtrap, drug deal, trap, problem, threat, drug addiction, drug, drug dealer, monster, creature feature ...
Time: 90s
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82%
Psycho Brother-In-Law (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: With her husband working all the time, Kate is thankful when her brother-in-law David reappears to help out. But she soon realizes that he wants to be the new head of the family, and will do anything to make that happen.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, unusual plot structure
Plot: psychopath, brother in law, hostage, murder, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, brothers, family relations, psycho, vengeance, violence, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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81%
 3.7
 936
Excess Flesh (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with her sexy roommate, Jill violently imprisons Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: captivity, survival horror, locked in a room, violence, violent, characters in danger, escapades, confinement indoors, woman in danger, escape attempt, sadist, sadism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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81%
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Ratter (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Emma is a young and beautiful graduate student just starting a new life in New York City. Like most people her age, she is always connected - her phone and laptop are constant companions, documenting her most intimate moments. What she doesn't ...
Style: cyber, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot: stalker, found footage, social media, sex maniac, stalking, maniac, hacker, hunted, laptop, life, realism, psychopath ...
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80%
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Iskariot (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A doctor is pulled into Stockholm's underbelly after his brother gets caught up in a botched drug deal.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: haunted by the past, danger, dishonesty, race against time, doctor, brother brother relationship, drug dealer, hospital, drug addiction, drug dealing, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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80%
Girl in Room 13 (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A teenage girl is imprisoned by her former boyfriend in a motel room and forced to consume drugs and alcohol so she can be sold into human trafficking. Her only hope is her mother, who is determined to rescue her.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, dramatic, serious
Plot: human trafficking, mother and daughter, abusive boyfriend, drug addiction, abduction, sex trafficking, girl in peril, motel, addiction, drug addict
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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80%
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Contracted (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young girl contracts what she thinks is a sexually-transmitted disease - but is actually something much worse.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: virus, zombie, infection, rape, body horror, violence, brutality, vengeance, supernatural, disease, death, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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80%
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Strangers Within (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sam and her friends are terrorised during a party by a group of young men on a desperate hunt for something in her house.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, scary
Plot: home invasion, mysterious stranger, deception, stranger, trapped, psycho killer, maniac, estate, teenager, trust, party, heist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, los angeles
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80%
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 510
Close Calls (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Morgan, a troubled, drug-addled teen, must deal with her crazy grandma and a psycho caller when her father leaves her home alone. As the calls keep coming in, a paranoid Morgan is forced to face some of her worst fears and inner demons when she ...
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot: drug use, violence, brutality, murder, teenage life, homicidal maniac, woman in danger, drug, death, killing spree, drug addiction, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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80%
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 138
Entity (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Eugene, a man dealing with the tragedy of his family's death by living at the vacation cabin that they last stayed, discovers he's completely snowbound. During Eugene's desperate attempts to dig himself out, he discovers he's not ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twisted ...
Plot: supernatural, danger, woods, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, catholic priest, fear
Time: 21st century
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80%
Heaven Knows What (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: heroin addict, addiction, love story, drug addict, drug addiction, drug, love, mental disorder, cocaine, suicide, life is a bitch, male female relationship ...
Time: year 2014
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80%
The Devil's Candy (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
Style: satanic, scary, disturbing, creepy, rough ...
Plot: painting, father daughter relationship, serial killer, kidnapping, heavy metal, buying a house, possessed, art gallery, haunted house, devil, murder, psychotic ...
Place: austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 3.8
 104
Hollow (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In the outskirts of the city, where crime is a way of life, the paths of four desperate people collide. Jordan Coleman, a local drug dealer, finds himself at a crossroads when his friend and mentor gets in too deep with a ruthless gangster and club ...
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: drug addiction, criminal, murder, gangster, drug, police officer, robbery, policewoman, drug dealer, junkie, diner, female police officer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 3.4
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The UnMiracle (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A suburban town is torn apart in the aftermath of an accidental teen drug overdose in this ensemble film exploring the mysteries of modern faith.
Style: psychological, thought provoking, suspense, contemplative, disturbing ...
Plot: christian, faith, teenage girl, drug dealer, high school, heroin, father daughter reunion, underage drinking, drug use, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, overdose ...
Time: 21st century
Place: xian
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80%
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