Movies like A Cry in the Wilderness

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A Cry in the Wilderness (1974)
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A Cry in the Wilderness (1974)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: The father of a wilderness family gets bitten by a skunk, and fearing rabies, chains himself to a barn to protect his family should he go mad. He orders his son not to come near him no matter how persuasive or rational his appearance or argument. However, the creek dries up, indicating an upstream blockage and an imminent flood. Several trips upstream by the son have failed to locate the blockage and now Dad wants to be released...
Plot: rabies, disaster, flood, race against time, boy, skunk, mountain, truck, water, infection, father, farm, hallucination, father son relationship, farmhouse, bare chested male, catastrophe, bathtub, axe, chain, delirium, barn, bare chested boy, cabin, animal bite ...

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Most similar movies to A Cry in the Wilderness

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, rough and realistic films with plots about danger, disaster, race against time, chases and races, escapades, apocalypse and save the day mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like A Cry in the Wilderness: Carriers (1998), The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978), Fire from Below (2009), Trapped: Buried Alive (2002), From Beneath (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Carriers (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A female Army doctor and a journalist team up to track a killer virus.
Plot: epidemic, pandemic, disaster, writers, quarantine, virus, infection, monkey, traffic accident, dead boy, informant, biological warfare ...
Place: delaware, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Beasts Are on the Streets (1978)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Panic grips a small community after a tanker truck crashes through a fence at a wild animal park, freeing dozens of dangerous beasts.
Style: natural horror
Plot: disaster, animal attack, car crash, creature feature, rage, small community, road accident, ostrich, lion, poacher, pickup truck, park ranger ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Fire from Below (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Digging at a nearby cave, a careless industrialist unearths a vein of pure base Lithium and inadvertently brings it to the surface, where the Lithium combusts when coming into contact with water and begins to wreak havoc on the country side.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, chaos, danger, race against time, save the day, forces of nature, escapades, heroes, heroic mission, chaos and mayhem, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, burned alive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Trapped: Buried Alive (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The management of a ski resort blatantly ignores a local expert's warning that a mass of snow has build up which is just waiting to come down the ski slopes in a terrible avalanche. Instead of clearing the endangered area, skiers are allowed to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, resort, save the day, rescue, forces of nature, isolation, family in crisis, family life, danger, escapades, confined, heroic mission ...
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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1857
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 2.8
 959
From Beneath (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Jason, is bit by a strange organism while on vacation with his girlfriend, Sam, at her sister's secluded farmhouse. The bite begins a transformation in Jason, and now the couple must race against time to figure out what happened to Sam's ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, scary, suspense, offbeat ...
Plot: parasite, farm, danger, race against time, supernatural, hallucination, giant monster, vacation, transformation, husband wife relationship, redneck, creature feature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Contagious (1997)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When some shrimp from Mexico, tainted with Cholera, is served to some people on a plane bound for LA. An outbreak ensues. And a doctor sets out to find the source and contain it before it turns into a epidemic. And if things weren't bad enough, ...
Plot: epidemic, pandemic, virus, quarantine, disaster, infection, apocalypse, hospital, doctor, cholera, deadly virus, camping ...
Place: colombia, taipei, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 1K
Avenger (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After his own daughter was killed in Panama in 1994, former CIA agent Calvin Dexter became a private 'specialist' in cases which wouldn't reach justice trough the regular legal channels. Two years later he accepts to find Richard ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, political thriller ...
Plot: manhunt, vigilante, undercover, justice, working undercover, race against time, rivalry, government agency, save the day, state affairs, dishonesty, spy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., latin america, africa, south africa, bosnia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 4.4
 1K
Dig (2022)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
Plot: father daughter relationship, hostage, father, problem, father and daughter, single parent, threat, widower, hostage situation, single father, bare chested male, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 556
Tornado Valley (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Liz McAdams is haunted by the memories of a tornado that destroyed her home 25 years ago. Now a professional storm tracker, she and her family are in danger once again as another devastating twister rapidly gains momentum. Caught in the path of ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: disaster, tornado, natural disaster, danger, race against time, forces of nature, storm, salvation, apocalypse, cataclysm, widower, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Danger Beneath the Sea (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: submarine, terrorism, rebelliousness, military life, rivalry, danger, military, race against time, undercover, nuclear holocaust, hijacking, boat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north korea, korea, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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 836
Storm (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A top secret government study involving the manipulation of the weather goes awry, leaving L.A. in the path of a destructive hurricane. A meteorologist sets out to save the city.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, futuristic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: catastrophe, disaster, manipulation, danger, heroes, technology gone awry, escapades, save the day, undercover, chaos, government agency, forces of nature ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Killer Flood: The Day the Dam Broke (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When the dam in the town of Rutland starts to show signs of wear. David Powell, the architect who originally worked on the dam but was removed and who left town after he was black balled by Walker, the man who only cares about making a profit; ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dam, disaster, danger, save the day, race against time, rescue, survival, daring rescue, escapades, forces of nature, mentally unstable, natural disaster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Tomorrow at Ten (1963)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A British policeman (John Gregson) tries to find a rich man's (Alec Clunes) son before a kidnapper's (Robert Shaw) time bomb blows.
Style: noir, independent film, vintage, british noir
Plot: race against time, doll, bomb, coincidence, brothel, child abduction, lie, police, boy, rescue, driver, hidden ...
Time: year 1963
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Landslide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, save the day, escapades, race against time, danger, pregnancy, chases and races, natural disaster, rescue, father son relationship, apocalypse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 3.9
 123
Stepsisters (1974)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A man and his sister-in-law plot to kill his wife, but things don't turn out quite the way they planned.
Style: surreal, independent film
Plot: murder, pilot, rural area, dysfunctional marriage, half sister, double barreled shotgun, husband wife relationship, drinking, small town, life insurance, incest, double murder ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Nowhere to Land (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pilot must safely land a 747 on which deadly nerve gas has been planted.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, save the day, special agent, danger, chases and races, law enforcement, heroes, aviation, race against time, disaster, ex husband ex wife relationship, die hard ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, 2000s
Place: usa, australia, california, oceania, new south wales ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 875
The Maddening (1995)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this psycho-thriller, a little girl and her mother find themselves the focus of a crazed couple's delusions. The horror begins after Cassie has a fight with her husband David and takes off in the car with their young daughter Samantha. ...
Style: independent film, scary, mind bending, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: lesbian sex, kidnapping, psychopath, gays and lesbians, obsession, extreme violence, serial killer, torture, hostage, on the road, rape, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 12K
Airport 1975 (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: "Something hit us...the crew is dead...help us, please, please help us!" With these terrifying words, 22 of Hollywood's greatest stars find themselves aboard a pilotless jumbo jet headed on a collision course with destruction in the ...
Style: suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, psychological, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: airplane, disaster, airport, survival, aviation, catastrophe, natural disaster, flying, stewardess, airplane accident, death, police officer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: los angeles, salt lake city utah, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 5.1
 1K
Sleepwalker (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young woman seeks help from a sleep clinic for her insomnia, but soon deals with her entire life being turned upside down.
Style: suspenseful, tense, scary, rough, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: sex scene, sleep disorder, nightmare, sleepwalking, hallucination, doctor, nightmare comes true, disorder, youth, danger, female nudity, redheaded woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Revenge on the Highway (1992)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: At his wedding Claude Sams has an argument with his son about his life-style; in anger Paul leaves. Together with a friend he sets out for Vegas to search a job. While changing a tire on the highway, he's killed by a passing truck. The police ...
Plot: serial killer, trucker, truck, murder, police, female killer, revenge, truck driver, wedding, argument, death of son, highway ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Deadlines (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Travis Levon (Rickey Bird) is forced to finish a novel from famous author, Simon Woodburn (Robin Steffen) after he suddenly dies, in order to meet a deadline. Gavin Stone (James MacPherson), his callous boss, reminds Travis of the importance of this ...
Plot: escape, chainsaw, house, trapped, possession, novel, cabin
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Terror in the Mall (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of people are trapped in a deserted mall during a flood along with an escaped prisoner.
Style: cliffhanger
Plot: disaster, dam, apocalypse, natural disaster, flood, rain, fugitive, escaped prisoner
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Skinheads (1989)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of students traveling to California are menaced by a vicious group of skin-heads in the Colorado mountains. A WW2 vet living in the mountains comes to their rescue.
Style: independent film
Plot: skinhead, gang, punk, nazi, group, murderer, vacation gone wrong, nudity, murder, blood, strangulation, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Home Sweet Home (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: After going broke, Gwen Stevens is forced to return to her abandoned childhood home hoping to pick up the pieces of her life. Among the relics and memories of her past, she discovers someone is living in the house and they don't want to leave. ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, isolation, confined, domestic disturbance, chase, murder, violence, intruder, struggle for survival, gory, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.9
 18K
Earthquake (1974)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Earthquake is a 1974 American disaster film that achieved huge box-office success, continuing the disaster film genre of the 1970s where recognizable all-star casts attempt to survive life or death situations. The plot concerns the struggle for ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, exciting, rough, bad ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, earthquake, survival, catastrophe, danger, national guard, end of the world, love triangle, forces of nature, infidelity, love affair ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.6
 196
Mortal Fear (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Based on the provocative best-selling novel, a brilliant scientist finds the hidden link that can save countless lives, but when a crazed killer uses the same information to play God, millions are at risk. Dr. Jennifer Kessler is the one person who ...
Plot: medicine, doctor, car crash, dead body, scientist, morgue, caucasian, eyeglasses, bathtub, surgical mask, dental mask, medical mask ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
666: Devilish Charm (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: When a cursed devil's charm' bracelet shows up at a sorority house on Valentine's Day, each girl tries to make a series of wishes, and each finds that unintended consequences are the primary purpose of Satan's sinister strategy.
Style: retro, independent film
Plot: sorority, bare chested male, satan, murder, college student, house, dean, bikini girl
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Final: The Rapture (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Argentina, Costa Rica
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gritty, international tale of four separate stories woven together by a common theme: the Rapture.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot: end of the world, religion, christian, danger, chases and races, race against time, rescue, worldwide chaos, religions or cults, chaos and mayhem, apocalypse, christian propaganda ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tokyo, los angeles, rio de janeiro, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.2
 842
Unknown Caller (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A psychopath uses a family's high tech security system with a ticking time bomb to terrorize them for 90 minutes demanding an answer to his question; 'WHO AM I?'
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: psycho killer, phone terror, bomb, security system, terrorizing, terrorist, threatening telephone call, race against time, terrorist attack, terrorism, psychopath, who done it ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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