Movies like The Purge 2013

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The Purge (2013)
 5.7
 239K
The Purge (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, psychological, brutal, suspenseful, futuristic, twist ending, bloody, slasher ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, self defense, violence spree, danger, survival horror, family in danger, society, social decay, security system, dystopia, killing spree, dystopian future, distopia, psychopath, life is a bitch, chaos, violence, isolation, murder, class differences, strong violent content, betrayal, brutality, escapades ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, scary and slasher films with plots about survival, murder, danger, blood, psychopath, violence and gore mostly in Thriller, Horror and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Purge: The Purge: Anarchy (2014), The Purge: Election Year (2016), The Strangers (2008), You're Next (2011), When a Stranger Calls (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Three groups of people are trying to survive Purge Night, when their stories intertwine and are left stranded in The Purge trying to survive the chaos and violence that occurs.
Style: tense, suspense, breathtaking, grindhouse, action thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: distopia, survival horror, home invasion, masked man, dystopian future, group of strangers, survival, rage, anti hero, vigilante, violent content, graphic violence ...
Time: year 2014, year 2000, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The First Purge (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of ...
Style: psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, suspense, hood ...
Audience: adult
Plot: abuse of power, social injustice, survival horror, distopia, survival, resistance movement, conspiracy, atrocity, murder, political oppression, fighting the system, mass death ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2017
Place: new york, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Forever Purge (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.
Style: suspense, scary, tense, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot: survival horror, killing spree, mayhem, immigrant, murder, vigilante, desert, racism, survival, distopia, violence, police officer killed ...
Time: 2020s, near future, 2040s, 21st century
Place: el paso texas, mexico, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Purge: Election Year (2016)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On ...
Style: suspense, brutal, intense, psychological, bloody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, distopia, election, politics, survival, vigilante, revenge, social decay, class differences, fighting the system, gunfight, death ...
Time: near future, year 2016, 2010s
Place: washington d.c., florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Movie in collections
 6.1
 142K
The Strangers (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, serial killer, murder, hostage, masked killer, blood, fear, violence, masked villain, brutality, night ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 6.6
 19K
The Purge (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a dystopian America ruled by a totalitarian political party, the series follows several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city. Tying them all together is a mysterious savior who’s impeccably equipped for everything the night ...
Style: brutal, tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: distopia, survival horror, masked killer, serial killer, brutality, mass murder, psychopath, massacre, psycho killer, gunfight, murder, social injustice ...
Time: near future, 2040s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 109K
You're Next (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: home invasion, survival, gory, masked killer, murder, massacre, deathtrap, twists and turns, parents and children, trap, blood, plot twist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, babysitter, psychopath, stalking, murder, babysitting, husband wife relationship, maniac, danger, survival, high school student ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.1
 298K
Don't Breathe (2016)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, brutal, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, kidnapping, trapped, blind man, murder, psychopath, thief, twists and turns, breaking and entering, survival, trap, violence ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: michigan, california, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.2
 107K
Vacancy (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, trapped, hotel, murder, hostage, survival horror, macabre, danger, estranged couple, masked killer, kidnapped, motel ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 4.8
 56K
Texas Chainsaw (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young woman learns that she has inherited a Texas estate from her deceased grandmother. After embarking on a road trip with friends to uncover her roots, she finds she is the sole owner of a lavish, isolated Victorian mansion. But her newfound ...
Style: scary, slasher, intense, suspense, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, psychopath, murder, chainsaw, halloween, gory, survival, blood, cannibalism, torture, texas chainsaw massacre ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 70s, 90s, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In Their Skin (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A couple and their young son retreat to their woodland vacation home, only to face sinister neighbors who intend to kill them and steal their identities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, slasher ...
Plot: home invasion, survival, family in danger, family relations, psychopath, violence, family problems, husband wife relationship, little boy, coming of age, dishonesty, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 94K
Eden Lake (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. ...
Style: suspense, brutal, slasher, scary, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: survival, torture, camping, forest, fear, youth, gory, chase, murder, strong violent content, sadistic horror, danger ...
Time: year 2008, year 2000, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 6.5
 103K
Funny Games (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style: psychological, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 163
2084 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Not much left since the world died. That's what they called it the day the virus took over and people went inside, never to leave their homes again. Soon after that, the last of the food was gone, the last drop of gas was used up, the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, tense, psychological ...
Plot: isolation, survival, mosquito, chaos, danger, plague, confined, apocalypse, post apocalypse, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 463K
Saw (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: torture, gory, macabre, serial killer, mind game, plot twist, survival horror, violent, psychopath, fear, trapped, locked in a room ...
Time: year 2004, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 338K
Us (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Style: surprise ending, scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, doppelganger, murder, amusement park, panic, african american, evil twin, childhood memory, husband wife relationship, traumatic childhood, black family, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: year 1986, 2010s, year 2019, 80s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.8
 2K
Aftermath (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Searching for a happy ending to a tale of unimaginable disaster and horror, nine strangers find themselves holed up together in a farmhouse cellar in rural Texas. The United States has hastily become embroiled in World War 3. A young doctor named ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: post apocalypse, survival, radiation, apocalypse, supernatural, isolation, nuclear, chaos, danger, radiation poisoning, confined, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 3.8
 1K
The Lodge (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young couple's weekend getaway at a secluded mountain ranch becomes an unfathomable nightmare when they discover the truth about the caretaker.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: supernatural, survival, family in danger, isolation, captivity, farm, wilderness, gory, vacation, cabin in the woods, porn, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 66K
Circle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: survival, execution, morality, life & death, prejudice, game of death, survival horror, stranger, struggle for survival, plot twist, sole survivor, twists and turns ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.0
 268K
The Platform (2019)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. A platform with food for all of them. Are you one of those who think too much when they are up? Or of those who have no guts when they are down? If you discover it too late, you will not live out of ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller, futuristic ...
Plot: struggle for survival, survival, confined, food shortage, prison, cannibalism, social injustice, social differences, rivalry, social relations, danger, fear ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: iberian peninsula
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
He's Out There (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: home invasion, psychopath, mother daughter relationship, murder, family in danger, woods, daughter, mother, survival, woman in danger, brutality, forest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 5.7
 11K
The Domestics (2018)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
Style: suspense, apocalyptic, futuristic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival horror, post apocalypse, cannibalism, dystopian future, supermarket, survival, cannibal, post apocalyptic, chaos and mayhem, social decay, violence, danger ...
Time: future
Place: milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Last House on the Left (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, vengeance, psychopath, torture, violence, serial killer, rape and revenge, kidnapping, woman in danger, violence against women, murder, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.0
 250K
Orphan (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 22K
No Good Deed (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed ...
Style: psychological thriller, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: home invasion, hostage, serial killer, sociopath, family in danger, maniac, black, kidnapping, danger, stalker, kidnapped, murderer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, atlanta georgia, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 293K
Dredd (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the future, America is a dystopian wasteland. The latest scourge is Ma-Ma, a prostitute-turned-drug pusher with a dangerous new drug and aims to take over the city. The only possibility of stopping her is an elite group of urban police called ...
Style: futuristic, intense, neo noir, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience: manly, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: cyberpunk, post apocalypse, one man army, dystopia, distopia, brutality, organized crime, dystopian future, violent, judge, lone hero, police ...
Time: future, year 2012, 2010s, near future, distant future
Place: usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 47K
The Colony (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Forced underground by the next ice age, a struggling outpost of survivors must fight to preserve humanity against a threat even more savage than nature.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, dark, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: apocalypse, survival, post apocalypse, epidemic, starvation, ice age, distopia, dehumanization, danger, dystopia, cannibalism, survival horror ...
Time: future, near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On the way to California, a family has the misfortune to have their car break down in an area closed to the public, and inhabited by violent savages ready to attack.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot: cannibalism, desert, gory, blood, cannibal, rape, serial killer, dog, murder, violence, disturbed individual, rape and revenge ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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