Movies like Ordeal 1973
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Ordeal (1973)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Left to die in the desert by his wife and her lover, a businessman fights to survive and get his revenge.
Style:
tension, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
desert, stranded in the desert, survival, adultery, revenge, betrayal, isolation, struggle for survival, man versus nature, broken leg, love triangle, desperation, abandonment, moral ambiguity, husband wife conflict, claustrophobia, character study, anti hero, murder, wilderness, stranded, left to die
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, bleak and suspenseful films with plots about survival, isolation, moral ambiguity, betrayal, character study, revenge and desperation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Ordeal: The Donner Party (2009), First Winter (2012), A Captive in the Land (1990), Red the Half Breed (1970), The Last Survivors (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on the real events of The Donner Party tragedy. The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the western expansion of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada during the winter of 1846-1847, a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
wilderness survival, wilderness, hunger, human nature, cannibalism, moral dilemma, danger, isolation, hopes, snow, mountain, winter ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, serious, realistic, mumblecore ...
Plot:
female nudity, survival, isolation, social relations, confined, wilderness, snow, party, lesbian sex, male nudity, yoga, female pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An American meteorologist attempts to rescue an injured Soviet airman. A killer storm soon maroons them both and the unlikely duo must learn to overcome their differences in order to survive the real life terrors of the Arctic.
Style:
intercultural, suspense, tense, grim, psychological ...
Plot:
cold, arctic, survival, stranded, snow, man versus nature, ice, isolation, friendship, plane crash, character study, storm ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A half-cast used cars salesman wants anything from the white society and is ready to do anything to get it. But when he is accused of murdering his half-sister who was killed with his rifle, he flees to an indian village. He doesn't feel any ...
Style:
tension, bleak, grim, suspense, existential ...
Plot:
revenge, anti hero, outsider, guilt, loneliness, desperation, isolation, survival, betrayal, manhunt, car salesman, half sister ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a passenger ship sinks, a ship's officer must decide which passengers in an overcrowded lifeboat must be sacrificed so the rest can survive an approaching typhoon.
Style:
tense, intense, bleak, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
shipwreck, survival, lifeboat, boat, disaster, sea, storm, moral dilemma, sacrifice, desperation, human nature, character study ...
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
It's 1987, in the small sleepy town of Pine Ridge. When a husband and wife living off the beaten path encounter a mysterious stranger on Christmas Eve, dark secrets quickly emerge. On the same night, law enforcement are investigating a local ...
Style:
suspense, intense, tense, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
christmas eve, isolation, small town, deception, husband wife conflict, suspicion, dark past, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, home invasion, holiday, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, crime drama, suspenseful, period piece ...
Plot:
world war two, post war, world war, war veteran, smuggling, desert, moral ambiguity, black market, air force, betrayal, corruption, desperation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1946
Place:
north africa, africa, algeria
Similarity:
28%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
Style:
black and white, crime drama, bleak, neo noir, noir ...
Plot:
boxing, suburbs, survival, desperation, urban decay, poverty, corruption, violence, heist, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, working class ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
27%
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104
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A plane crash in the Mexican desert leaves a small group of survivors who are desperate for food and water. Fearing that they may never be found where they are, they head for where it is hoped there will be civilization and rescue. When their hopes ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, independent film
Plot:
dehydration, survival, desert, plane crash, stranded, hunger, desperation, moral dilemma, isolation, thirst, human nature, endurance ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
27%
14
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Forced to navigate dangerous environments to keep her mother alive, Glo gets entangled with a mob boss and finds her life spiraling out of control.
Style:
crime thriller, crime drama, suspense, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
desperation, survival, mother daughter relationship, mob boss, female protagonist, organized crime, violence, urban, underworld, corruption, crime family, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, art house
Plot:
pregnancy, isolation, loneliness, claustrophobia, character study, abandonment, survival, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, existentialism, minimalism, symbolism ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A little blonde girl who is abandoned by her parents in the Florida swamps is rescued and raised by a black man she calls her "Pa".
Style:
southern gothic, tension, dark, suspense, crime thriller ...
Plot:
swamp, exploitation, alligator, hicksploitation, female protagonist, survival, isolation, teen superhero, coming of age, hostage situation, abandonment, backwoods ...
Place:
florida
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mimicry artist's perfect life shatters upon discovering his wife's secret affair and murderous intentions. His desperate plea for police protection leads to unexpected events.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, intense, dark ...
Plot:
betrayal, murder, infidelity, domestic drama, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, paranoia, claustrophobia, household, revenge, survival, isolation ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Takis is trapped. Takis tries to escape. Takis wants money. He's got a family, a baby, a home... Takis is being cheated. He loves her and he suffers... Takis can't take it at work. He's besieged by savages. But his boss tops them ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, dark, psychological, tragic
Plot:
working class, desperation, family crisis, betrayal, male protagonist, anger, oppression, isolation, alienation, revenge, realism, slow burn ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
athens greece
Similarity:
23%
118
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After the South African Defense Force wrongfully declares young Recce Henk Viljoen dead behind enemy lines, it’s up to him alone to use every skill and tool in his arsenal to make it back to his grieving wife.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
survival, resilience, reconnaissance, sole survivor, soldier, man versus nature, abandonment, guerilla warfare, isolation, pursuit, endurance, ruse ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south africa, angola, cape town south africa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A daring dream to scale the world's most challenging trio of mountains soon turns into a terrifying nightmare for a group of friends when a deadly storm traps the climbers near the summit and cuts off all hope of rescue. With the odds stacked ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
mountain climbing, storm, mountaineer, mountain, man versus nature, extreme weather, rock climbing, struggle for survival, alpinism, survival, ambition, problem ...
Place:
alps
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21%
185
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, crime drama, grim, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, drug dealer, self destructing, tragic hero, moral ambiguity, anti hero, character study, violent death, tragedy, downbeat ending, addiction, regret ...
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
With the odds already not in her favor, Araya tells her side of the story while being interrogated for possibly killing the man who was responsible for her father's death.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, psychological, dramatic ...
Plot:
interrogation, investigation, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, suspect, character study, murder, revenge, accusation, claustrophobia, guilt, police procedural ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, tense, crime drama, bleak ...
Plot:
human trafficking, secrets, moral ambiguity, exploitation, desperation, smuggling, poverty, betrayal, social realism, survival, isolation, character study ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, black sea
Similarity:
21%
95
Genre: Drama
Country: Bahamas
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Bahamian Fisherman with a gambling addiction in Nassau takes a job smuggling Haitians to Florida in a desperate ploy to support his family.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, crime drama, tension ...
Plot:
smuggling, social problems, smuggler, life is a bitch, gambler, family problems, money problems, human trafficking, desperation, illegal immigration, gambling addiction, social commentary ...
Place:
bahamas, caribbean, florida
Similarity:
21%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, breaking point, problem, family problems, murderer, domestic drama, moral dilemma, character study, family conflict, female protagonist, intimate, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
138
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
The story revolves around a "surprise" kidnapping case. Liu Xiaojun (Dapeng), the owner of the car dealership, was involved in a kidnapping case for the accident of reselling a black car. He was surrounded by the kidnapped little girl Kiki ...
Style:
psychological, tense, crime drama, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
kidnapping, car, money, abduction, desperation, stealing a car, problem, gambler, gambling debt, escapades, money problems, theft ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A tale of urban angst trapping two individuals during the pandemic lockdown that eventually leads to murder.
Style:
tense, intense, crime drama, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
pandemic, isolation, quarantine, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, character study, claustrophobia, guilt, suspicion, morality, investigation, cat and mouse ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Upon returning home as a hero from the Iraq War, Special Forces Agent Matt Taylor (Joelson) is thrown right into another battle. This time it is in his once quiet hometown where, as in Iraq, you don't know who are friends and who are enemies. ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
homecoming, anti war, military life, starting over, battles, military, survival, soldier, unemployment, haunted by the past, small town, ptsd ...
Place:
middle east, iraq
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Put-upon lawman John Dorsey is on the verge of losing his wife and his job as sheriff, so he posses up with bullish U.S. Marshall Butch Hayden to hold outlaw Emily Rusk hostage. A battle of wills ensues as Emily turns the posse on themselves, but as ...
Style:
intense, suspenseful, tense, neo western
Plot:
sheriff, outlaw, showdown, lawman, vigilantism, hostage, squad, gunfight, u.s. marshal, betrayal, anti hero, revenge ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Drama - Richard Clayton is a maintenance man at the local police station of the small town of Montauk, Arizona. He spends his days keeping the offices clean and the equipment running. He spends his nights drinking and killing the occasional ...
Style:
crime drama, bleak, noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, loneliness, small town, isolation, character study, violence, alcoholism, moral ambiguity, serial killer, male protagonist, desperation, criminal psychology ...
Similarity:
21%
201
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An act of kindness leads to the destruction of two lives in just thirty miles, when a hitchiker and his ride let down their guards and reveal intimate, dark secrets about their pasts
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
interracial relations, desert, racism, mind game, on the road, murder, racial relations, secrets, character study, moral ambiguity, chance meeting, deception ...
Place:
nevada, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
21%
124
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
A young woman returns home one year after losing her hands in a savage attack. She cannot remember who her assailant was, but a trip to the local post office leads her towards the truth.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
post office, trauma, female protagonist, physical disability, memory loss, survival, revenge, investigation, secret past, identity, amnesia, confrontation ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A couple enters a city ruled by cruel thugs but an unsettling affair reopens unexpected twists and creates new tensions for them. Will they stick together through it all?
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
gang, unsettling, corruption, moral ambiguity, fear, betrayal, power struggle, urban, survival, adultery, revenge, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four strangers on a drunken wedding dash from LA to Vegas hit a mysterious woman in the desert and must overcome injuries, the elements, and ultimately each other to survive.
Style:
psychological, detective, disturbing, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
desert, road accident, road trip, woman, group of strangers, stranded in the desert, traffic accident, automobile, on the road, machine, stranger, car ...
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20%
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