Movies like The Condemned 2012

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The Condemned (2012)
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The Condemned (2012)
Original name: Los condenados
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Determined to restore her dying father's reputation, Ana travels to the remote town of Rosales. Decades ago, he settled there and opened his first free clinic for cancer research. He launched an illustrious medical career - and fell in love. Ana plans to celebrate her father's scientific and humanitarian achievements by transforming the old family mansion into a world-class museum. She will preserve his legacy, and also breathe new life into the forgotten Rosales. But the townspeople-now destitute and helpless-do not greet her warmly. Neither does the house.
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful
Plot: haunted house, small town, isolation, social relations, twists and turns, estate, doctor, medical experiment, museum, death of father, island, small town life, ghost, country estate, mystery
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: puerto rico, latin america

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, tense and realistic films with plots about small town, social relations, small town life, murder, deadly, danger and uncover truth mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Condemned: Saint Martyrs of the Damned (2005), The Other Side of Sleep (2011), Awakened (2013), Hukkle (2002), Living in Fear (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Saint Martyrs of the Damned (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A reporter goes to a mysterious village to investigate mysterious disappearances until one night, his friend gets abducted and every citizen wants him dead.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: missing person, small town, bankruptcy, ghost, media, journalism, mystery woman, investigation, ufo, hotel, small town life, village life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Other Side of Sleep (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
Style: surreal, tense, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, investigation, amateur detective, who done it, small town, insomnia, paranoia, corpse, funeral, sleepwalking, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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Awakened (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.0
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Hukkle (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, investigation, social relations, small town, serial killer, female assassin, underground, human relationship, cat, criminal, small town life, rural setting ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Living in Fear (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: woman in danger, who done it, homecoming, murder, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, twists and turns, small town, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Ghost and the Whale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: mental illness, false accusation, uncover truth, vengeance, life is a bitch, missing person, social relations, mental health, psychology, bipolar disorder, small town life, small town
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Sisterhood of Night (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, investigation, witch, social relations, twists and turns, life is a bitch, sexual harassment, danger, society, sexual relations, mysticism, social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Fatal Trust (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious
Plot: family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, love, serial killer, death, murder of father, doctor, murder of husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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UV (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During the absence of Philipp, in his house appears the stranger, who calls himself Boris. He says that he was the school comrade of Philipp and it arrived to visit old friend. Boris charms all households and remains to await Philipp. Only one ...
Style: atmospheric, tense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: murder, family relations, hidden identity, danger, dishonesty, estate, stranger, paranoia, mysterious past, disorder, cons and scams, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, saint tropez, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Out of the Black (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers struggle to uncover the truth behind the mining accident that killed their father and bankrupted the town.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, siblings relations, social relations, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, countryside, down on your luck, small town, small town life ...
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 3K
Moss (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Hae Gook (Park Hae Il) travels to a reclusive village to attend his father's funeral. He wants to find out the reason behind his father's strange death, but the villagers, in particular village chief Cheon (Jung Jae Young), seem to be ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, mind twisting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: village, uncover truth, under the surface, twists and turns, social relations, rivalry, riddles and clues, dishonesty, danger, superhero, death of father, comic book ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, erotic ...
Plot: rebelliousness, power relations, boarding school, teaching the ways of the world, isolation, love affair, orphan, youth, teachers and students, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian sex ...
Time: 20th century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Town of Headcounts (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Pursued by loan sharks, Aoyama is rescued by a mysterious man in orange overalls, and spirited away to “The Town,” where other dropouts hide out from debtors, abusive partners or the police. It’s a perpetual holiday resort where every need is ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, dramatic, captivating
Plot: conspiracy, dystopian society, society, pursuit, social relations, relationships, distopia, hunted, loan shark, evil plot, city, dystopia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Turn of the Screw (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, gothic ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, children, mentally unstable, estate, repression, sibling relationship, youth, female nudity, haunting, possession, power relations ...
Time: victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.3
 2K
Neverlake (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, father daughter relationship, hidden truth, lake, obsession, danger, death, family problems, life is a bitch, uncover truth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.8
 3K
Main Street (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: From the once thriving tobacco warehouses, to the current run-down and closed shops of Five Points, a diverse group of residents and their respective life changes when outsider Gus Leroy brings something new and potentially dangerous into their ...
Style: psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric, anamorphic ...
Plot: introspection, estrangement, small town life, social relations, small town, dishonesty, hopes, slice of life, voice over narration, business, high school sweetheart, loss of job ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.7
 536
Restless Souls (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young couple and their daughter move into a rambling old house. Soon, an increasingly alarming string of events and supernatural disturbances connects the house, and them, with a series of unsolved murders committed three years earlier. They are ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, family relations, parent child relationship, research, supernatural power, couples, child murder, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.0
 274
Interstate 84 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, touching ...
Plot: police investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, introspection, murder, law enforcement, misfit, small town life, redemption, mysterious character, small town, addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Sorum (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, domestic disturbance, murder, family problems, danger, estrangement, asian, extreme, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Wind of Fear (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Claudia is a troubled teen confined in a very particular support center ruled with roughness by renowned psychiatrist Bernarda Alquicira. Coexisting with girls who have experienced similar trances, Claudia confronts horrible visions of Andrea, a ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, mentally unstable, isolation, confined, mental institution, supernatural, vengeance, uncover truth, danger, murder, death, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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47%
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Vigil (1984)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with ...
Style: art house, retro, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: sheep, coming of age, hunter, exodus, badass female lead, death of father, mirror, horse, funeral, loss of father, hawk, mysterious man ...
Time: 80s
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Northern Lights (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hoping to leave behind troubled days in the Baltimore city police department, Nate Burns (Eddie Cibrian) journeys to Alaska, where he takes up a quiet life as a small-town sheriff and begins a romance with spirited bush pilot Meg Galligan (LeAnn ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, mind bending, tense, realistic ...
Plot: small town, law enforcement, danger, curses spells and rituals, small town life, love affair, winter, snow, brother brother relationship, beautiful scenery, love and romance, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alaska, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 681
Pluto (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: is a story about elite high school seniors, the top 1%, who are prepared to go to extremes to get into prestigious universities. A student who has ranked number one at an esteemed school dies in a remote mountain. Finding out why and the ultimate ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, twisted ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage life, social relations, youth, destructive relationship, rivalry, social differences, emotionless, murder, rivals, humiliation, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Runaway (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, interracial relations, murder, social relations, dishonesty, law enforcement, lifestyle, society, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.7
 776
The Town (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: Following a family tragedy, 30-year-old Mark Nicholas returns to the town where he grew up. After ten years away, coming home is harder than Mark could ever have imagined.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot: homecoming, life turned upside down, hometown, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, family life, orphan, small town, lesbian, life is a bitch, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.0
 69K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, murder, family relations, mental patient, riddles and clues, nervous breakdown, danger ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.8
 454
Deadline (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, murder, interracial relations, idealism, dishonesty, parents and children, society, redemption, life is a bitch, family relations, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.8
 730
Forgotten (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, tense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, ghost, friendship, supernatural, uncover truth, little girl, island, promise, danger, life is a bitch, friends, impostor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Mysteries (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Style: serious, suspense, surprise ending, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: social relations, obsession, rich man, intrigue, drifter, suicide, nudity, dark humor, contests and competitions, village, small town life, village life ...
Time: 70s
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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First Winter (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious, mumblecore ...
Plot: survival, isolation, social relations, confined, wilderness, snow, party, nude women, innocence lost, heroin, female nudity, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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