Movies like Ben

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Ben (1972)
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Ben (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, natural horror, psychotronic, controversial, grindhouse, classic horror, independent film ...
Plot: rat, death, exploitation, boy, animal attack, survival horror, friendship, dangerous animal, danger, violence, terror, loneliness, invasion, eaten alive, killer animal, creature feature, monster, virus, revenge, supernatural, youth, insect, rodent, sewer, gory ...
Time: 70s, year 1972
Keyword: attack, matriarch

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Most similar movies to Ben

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about danger, deadly, death, blood, murder, monster and killer animal mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Ben: Willard (1971), Willard (2003), Orca (1977), Cujo (1983), The Blob (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Willard (1971)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A social misfit, Willard is made fun of by his co-workers, and squeezed out of the company started by his deceased father by his boss. His only friends are a couple of rats he raised at home, Ben and Socrates. (And their increasing number of ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, natural horror, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, danger, exploitation, eaten alive, rat, psychopath, murder, dangerous animal, animal attack, misfit, investigation, obsession ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
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100%
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Willard (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Desperate for companionship, the repressed Willard befriends a group of rats that inhabit his late father's deteriorating mansion. In these furry creatures, Willard finds temporary refuge from daily abuse at the hands of his bedridden mother ...
Style: atmospheric, scary, suspense, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Plot: rat, dangerous animal, vengeance, workplace, loner, psychopath, misfit, greed, brutality, obsession, loneliness, boss and employee ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
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Orca (1977)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Italy, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, scary ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: killer whale, whale, ocean, survival, killer animal, dangerous animal, ship, revenge, sea, fish, animal attack, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: newfoundland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 51K
Cujo (1983)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Style: tense, suspense, scary, natural horror, serious ...
Plot: dog, rabies, dangerous animal, macabre, boy, monster, stephen king, blood, creature feature, brutality, killer dog, survival ...
Time: 80s
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.6
 43K
The Blob (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature ...
Time: 80s
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100%
 5.8
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Jaws 2 (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Style: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, shark attack, survival, monster, creature feature, underwater, creature, boat, panic, fish, animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, usa, new england, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 6K
Grizzly (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A fifteen-foot grizzly bear figures out that humans make for a tasty treat. As a park ranger tries rallying his men to bring about the bear's capture or destruction, his efforts are thwarted by the introduction of dozens of drunken hunters into ...
Style: scary, natural horror, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: grizzly bear, national park, camping, park ranger, hunter, creature feature, bear, wilderness, helicopter pilot, bear attack, animal attack, survival ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
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Ants (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A lakeside resort comes under attack by a seemingly infinite hoard of flesh-eating ants.
Style: psychotronic, natural horror, suspense, slasher, serious ...
Plot: ant, disaster, insect, killer animal, creature feature, investigation, hotel, animal attack, villain, tiny, 666, occult ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.5
 9K
The Swarm (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Scientist Dr. Bradford Crane and army general Thalius Slater join forces to fight an almost invisible enemy threatening America; killer bees that have deadly venom and attack without reason. Disaster movie-master Irwin Allen's film contains ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, natural horror ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, race against time, panic, small town, military, bee, survival, antidote, plague, danger, rescue ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: texas, houston texas, austin texas, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pet Sematary II (1992)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The "sematary" is up to its old zombie-raising tricks again. This time, the protagonists are Jeff Matthews, whose mother died in a Hollywood stage accident, and Drew Gilbert, a boy coping with an abusive stepfather.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: zombie, halloween, stephen king, supernatural, death in the family, burial, bully, small town, chase, gory, cemetery, back from the dead ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: maine, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 130K
Wrong Turn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gory, cannibalism, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, chase, disfigurement, cannibal, survival horror ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
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 4.9
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The Rats (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, natural horror ...
Plot: dangerous animal, experiment gone awry, rat, subway, gory, deadly creature, danger, escapades, hospital, isolation, killer animal, urban ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Burning Bright (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After her lousy stepfather steals her savings to buy a vicious tiger, Kelly loses all hope of going to college. But Kelly's situation worsens when a hurricane leaves her and her autistic brother boarded up in their house with the man-eating ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Plot: animal attack, autism, wild animal, trapped, dangerous animal, tiger, killer animal, home invasion, creature feature, danger, woman in danger, hurricane ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.1
 4K
The Baby (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A social worker who recently lost her husband investigates the strange Wadsworth family. The Wadsworths might not seem too unusual to hear about them at first - consisting of the mother, two grown daughters and the diaper-clad, bottle-sucking baby. ...
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: brother sister sex, social worker, psychopath, dysfunctional family, birthday party, mental retardation, abusive mother, exploitation, female psychopath, supernatural, killer, mother ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Bad Ronald (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: murder, voyeurism, mental illness, psychopath, hidden room, death of mother, voyeur, mysterious character, social misfits, teenage life, parents and children, secret ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.5
 133K
House of Wax (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, torture, group of friends, murder, violence, psycho killer, masked killer, survival, small town, homicidal maniac, gory ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 50s, 20th century, year 1974 ...
Place: usa, florida, louisiana, new york
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21%
 6.2
 33K
Rogue (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: From the director of Wolf Creek comes this terrifying look at nature's perfect killing machine. When a group of tourists stumble into the remote Australian river territory of an enormous crocodile, the deadly creature traps them on a tiny mud ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, scenic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: crocodile, monster, animal attack, gory, dangerous animal, survival horror, killer animal, creature, beast, isolation, survival, creature feature ...
Time: jurassic, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
Style: satanic, psychotronic, slasher, psychological, grim ...
Plot: boy, voodoo, male nudity, supernatural, occult, possession, psychopath, exorcist, religion, hippie, class differences, spiritualism ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, tangier morocco, usa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, satanic, serious ...
Plot: stephen king, ghost, supernatural, high school, monster, murder, haunted by the past, family in danger, childhood, investigation, stalking, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Killing Kind (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Terry Lambert returns home from serving a prison term for a gang-rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him. But his real problem is his overbearing mother, whose boarding house he resides ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, cult classic, classic horror ...
Plot: serial killer, gang rape, murder, exploitation, oedipus complex, mental disorder, sexual abuse, psychopath, mentally unstable, nudity, female nudity, strangulation ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Hearse (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
Style: cult classic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, killer car, supernatural, haunted house, woman in danger, small town, car, cemetery, living dead, exploitation, machine, macabre ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Canada, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, evil, doll, death, murder, devil, violence, curses spells and rituals, danger, mansion, puppet, boy ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Locusts: The 8th Plague (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of scientists try to stop a swarm of flesh-eating locusts that escape from a top secret government lab in the USA Midwest.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: locust, insect, experiment gone awry, dangerous animal, save the day, danger, race against time, killer animal, entomologist, creature feature, monster, oedipus complex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Flu Bird Horror (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Romania
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A group of teenagers go on a excursion to the mountains. There, they are attacked by birds infected with a lethal virus. When the teens reach a nearby village, the haunting birds start passing their virus on to all the dwellers.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, natural horror, exciting ...
Plot: virus, mutant, youth, chaos, deadly creature, survival, danger, teenage life, escapades, on the run, supernatural, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
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Macabre (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Macabre, international title for Rumah Dara (Indonesian title), and in Singapore titled Darah) is an Indonesian horror/slasher film in 2010. The movie tells about a group who attempt to escape from a house that owned by mysterious lady named Dara ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: cannibal, psychopath, danger, isolation, cannibalism, murder, violence, struggle for survival, deathtrap, rivalry, serial killer, survival ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A dog that is a minion of Satan terrorizes a suburban family.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychotronic ...
Plot: dog, killer animal, devil, creature feature, demon, family relations, reincarnation, supernatural, occult, danger, dangerous animal, hell ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 2.2
 203
Bats (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Following a nuclear power plant meltdown, a nearby village known as Nosferatu Village, became radiated, and subsequently abandoned for more than a decade. The year is 1984, and the public are now permitted to return, and a small group come back to ...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: survival horror, violence, virus, survival, death, moral dilemma, graphic violence, society, murder, bat, human nature, chaos ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Resurrection (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A down to earth school psychologist tries to help a mentally ill student who actually believes his brother is coming back from the grave for revenge on the students who killed him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, danger, supernatural, social relations, ghost, teenage boy, death of brother, fear, psychiatrist, investigation, cemetery, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Mimic: Sentinel (2003)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man enclosed in a plastic bubble, his sister, and their best friend must defend an apartment complex from the mutant Judas Breed insects.
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, apocalypse, creature, police, creature feature, psychopath, danger, mind game, serial killer, plague, race against time, investigation ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.5
 9K
Eaten Alive (1976)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A psychotic redneck who owns a dilapidated hotel in the backwater swamps of Louisiana kills various people who upset him or his business, and he feeds their bodies to a large crocodile that he keeps as a pet in the swamp beside his hotel.
Style: slasher, scary, semi serious, humorous, surreal ...
Plot: swamp, serial killer, crocodile, redneck, gory, prostitute, psychotic, killer animal, murder, woman in danger, supernatural, animal attack ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, year 1975
Place: louisiana, usa, austin texas, texas, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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