Movies like The Birthday Party

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The Birthday Party (1968)
 6.4
 1K
The Birthday Party (1968)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party." Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
Style: offbeat, action thriller, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: social realism, violence, house, mother love, insanity, psychological abuse, loser, boarding house, newspaper, mind game, birthday present, birthday party, psychological torture, landlady tenant relationship, ambiguity, old couple, cigarette smoking, elderly couple
Keyword: jewish

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Most similar movies to The Birthday Party

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, psychological and realistic films with plots about murder, deadly, mind game, insanity, violence, dishonesty and death mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Birthday Party: See No Evil (1971), Betrayal (1983), The Plains of Heaven (1982), Incident at Raven's Gate (1988), In the House (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.6
 4K
See No Evil (1971)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton (Mia Farrow), recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, disability, investigation, insanity, trapped, trap, ghost, conflict, disabled, home invasion, killings ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.9
 2K
Betrayal (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, talky, tense, captivating ...
Plot: unfulfillment, love triangle, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, infidelity, autobiography, rivalry, friends, british pub, writers, affair ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Plains of Heaven (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two scientists at a remote satellite station begin to have hallucinations because of the facility's isolation. Or are they hallucinations... ?
Style: experimental, independent film
Plot: solitude, mental breakdown, wilderness, silence, insanity, mountain, existentialism, loneliness, surrealism, violence, destruction of property, nurse
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Incident at Raven's Gate (1988)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother's isolated farm. It's not long before bizarre things start happening--dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking their owners, strange apparitions beginning to ...
Style: independent film, bleak, suspenseful, offbeat, serious ...
Plot: surrealism, distopia, fashion, post apocalypse, murder, farm, violent content, cons and scams, supernatural ability, chases and races, danger, mentally unstable ...
Place: australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 7.3
 34K
In the House (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his ...
Style: suspense, enigmatic, psychological, witty, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: writers, teacher, high school, obsession, student, literature, art, school, privacy invasion, teen angst, mind game, voyeurism ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Gangster Kittens (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Story: An uncompromising portrait of the struggles of a resplendent teenager with an anarchic spirit, fighting to maintain her existence in the bleak urban landscape of London. Angel is a cool but troubled nymphet, disillusioned by the tedium and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot: social injustice, redemption, corruption, violence, controversy, nudity, orgy, brothel, sex scandal, bondage, teenage sexuality, parliament ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.8
 41K
Spider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, paranoia, misfit, insanity, psychopath, mental patient, murder, twists and turns, surrealism ...
Time: 2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.2
 2K
Jigsaw (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman is found murdered in a house along the coast from Brighton. Local detectives Fellows and Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield.
Style: detective, offbeat, noir, independent film, british noir
Plot: serial killer, police, murder, railway, mysticism, car, corpse, small town, seaside, police investigation, ladies man, traveling salesman ...
Place: brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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 6.4
 33K
Sleuth (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
Style: psychological, intellectual, talky, witty, minimal cast ...
Plot: manipulation, riddles and clues, age difference, divorce, brutality, greed, verbal byplay, twists and turns, infidelity, dishonesty, mistaken identity, game playing ...
Place: united kingdom, britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 6.0
 683
Kakegurui (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Hyakkaou Private Academy. An institution for the privileged with a very peculiar curriculum. You see, when you're the sons and daughters of the wealthiest of the wealthy, it's not athletic prowess or book smarts that keep you ahead. ...
Style: anime, atmospheric, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: bullying, gambling, contests and competitions, rich and poor, social decay, class differences, society, intrigue, fame, mind game, betrayal, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.2
 3K
Rampage (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he ...
Style: christmas horror, cult classic, action thriller, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, courtroom, killer, true crime, lawyer, courtroom drama, death sentence, hunting, murderer, art, criminal mind, crime investigation ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Alexandra's Project (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, murder, female masturbation, unhappy wife, mental illness, family relations, birthday, family problems, family in crisis, dishonesty, male nudity, nudity ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 4.5
 575
Bloody Weekend (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: New Zealand, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of young friends convene in the countryside to shoot a horror movie. But an experiment with LSD sees normal boundaries between them collapsing, and tragedy subsequently striking.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: filmmaking, drug abuse, tragedy, countryside, violent content, woods, friendship, couples, friends, introspection, self discovery, human nature ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.6
 65K
Copycat (1995)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
Style: suspense, detective, psychological thriller, psychological, surprise ending ...
Plot: serial killer, psychology, psychopath, agoraphobia, police investigation, murder mystery, twists and turns, maniac, violence, paranoia, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: san francisco, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.7
 11K
Faults (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, surreal, cerebral ...
Plot: kidnapping, mind control, brainwashing, redemption, religions or cults, cult leader, manipulation, life is a bitch, parents and children, sexual innuendo, death, depression ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.6
 24K
The Trial (1962)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Style: surreal, black and white, psychological, disturbing, visually appealing ...
Plot: dystopia, surrealism, courtroom, courtroom drama, distopia, paranoia, insanity, legal, existentialism, law, trial, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place: america, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.9
 20K
The Vanishing (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep.
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, crime thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lighthouse, remote island, lighthouse keeper, treasure chest, disappearance, danger, disorder, investigation, loneliness, lost soul, heist, mental health ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century, year 1900
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Good Neighbours (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Takes place in 1995, the year of the second referendum on the separation of Quebec. In the dead of winter, a serial killer is on the loose in the small Montreal neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace. The tenants of an old apartment house must figure ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, cat, rape, apartment building, investigation, police investigation, who to trust, friendship, snow, male female relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Brimstone & Treacle (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
Style: surreal, psychological, offbeat, realistic, serious ...
Plot: devil, rape, male nudity, guilt, sex, rock, couples, cons and scams, mental illness, family life, dangerous attraction, mysterious character ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: canada, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 2K
Absolution (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: At a Catholic public school, Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher's pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard. In confession, Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend ...
Style: surprise ending, slasher, controversial, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: boarding school, practical joke, catholic priest, murder, confession booth, catholic school, coming of age, evil child, religious, unhappy ending, plot twist, twists and turns ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.2
 273
The Unseen (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Gemma and Will are shattered when their son dies in an accident. Gemma blames herself and starts to have panic attacks that affect her eyesight - and the audience's point of view. Will, tormented, believes he is hearing his son's voice ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, rough, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, secret, husband wife relationship, missing person, friend, deception, tragedy, isolation, suspicion, mind game, disappearance, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Apartment Zero (1988)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: homosexual subtext, neighbor, dark humor, serial killer, homoerotic friendship, loneliness, mental illness, murder, twists and turns, gay, lgbt, gender ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place: buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.9
 41K
After.Life (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
Style: psychological, bleak, mind bending, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, life & death, mysterious character, psychology, able to see the dead, supernatural, twists and turns, dealing with death, danger, nudity, mentor, betrayal ...
Time: future, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 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 ⇓
45%
Devils in Disguise (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two roommates, Leila & Sandy, team up to kill Leila's sadistic boyfriend.
Style: sexy, dark
Plot: teenage girl, bare breasts, nudity, madness, death, girl, suicide, beach, blood, rain, murder, love triangle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.9
 973
Seven Devils (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A series of vignettes that explore the seven deadly sins.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural power, supernatural, catholicism, priest, undercover cop, mysticism, chase, murder, revenge, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A new school teacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his pupils, and he fears the same will happen to him
Style: offbeat, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, teacher, threat, boarding school, evil child, disciple, exploitation, sexual dysfunction, race against time, hardcase students, teachers and students, bullying ...
Time: year 1971, 60s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.2
 317K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, murder, investigator, investigation, character study, police, police corruption, insomnia, guilt, psychopath, snow ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.3
 543
Inside Out (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Families in an idyllic suburban neighborhood are taunted by a mysterious doctor who moves in to town and spins a web of psychological chaos that changes their lives forever.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot: new neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, doctor, mysterious character, obsession, family relations, dishonesty, mind game, voyeurism, suburbs, suburban life, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Harold Pelham, a partner in a large electronics firm, finds himself in bewildering circumstances after recovering from a near-fatal car accident. What causes him to renounce his high business principles? Why do friends and colleagues repeatedly ...
Style: surreal, psychotronic, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: twins, doppelganger, nightmare, mental disorder, 007, mental breakdown, mysterious character, mind game, rivalry, supernatural ability, ghost, chases and races ...
Time: 60s
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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