Movies like Jackals
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Jackals (2017)
5K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Style:
suspense, slasher, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, scary, horrifying, psychological thriller, independent film
Plot:
isolated house, brother brother relationship, terror, family in danger, baby, kidnapping, father son relationship, night, family home, home invasion, siege, murder, family relations, dysfunctional family, fight to the death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, running for your life, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, intervention, intruder, human flesh, taunting, unpunished antagonist, murder of family, baby girl ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
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Most similar movies to Jackals
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, supernatural, danger, terror, fear, blood and husband wife relationship mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Jackals: He's Out There (2018), Smile (2022), Within (2016), The Strangers (2008), You're Next (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, forest, mother daughter relationship, family in danger, psychopath, murder, brutality, survival, woods, daughter, mother, woman in danger ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past ...
Style:
psychological, psychological horror, suspense, scary, mysterious ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
curse, supernatural power, fear, evil smile, going insane, psychiatric ward, demon, mental illness, paranoia, suicide, female protagonist, mental health ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A thriller centered around a widower who moves into a seemingly perfect new home with his daughter and new wife.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
new house, home invasion, peeping tom, neighbor, family relations, mistaken identity, teenage girl, secret room, voyeurism, danger, ghost, hiding ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
156K
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, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, masked killer, murder, hostage, brutality, blood, masked man, violence, masked villain, killer ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
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118K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, 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, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
home invasion, survival, gory, masked killer, murder, massacre, twists and turns, strong female lead, deathtrap, masked man, parents and children, blood ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
missouri, usa
Similarity:
50%
16K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After their regular babysitter Maggie can’t make it, the Thompson family turns to her friend Anna to supervise their children while the parents go out to celebrate their anniversary. At first Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, slasher ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
female psychopath, babysitting, babysitter, kidnapping, family in danger, fake identity, porn, mental disorder, trophy, husband wife relationship, family home, children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, mind game, serial killer, hidden camera, murder, danger, family in danger, strangulation, psychopath, isolation, manipulation, family secret ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
family in danger, mentally unstable, pregnancy, danger, parents and children, nanny, family problems, suburbs, isolation, obsession, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Serbia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jen and a group of friends set out to hike the Appalachian Trail. Despite warnings to stick to the trail, the hikers stray off course—and cross into land inhabited by The Foundation, a hidden community of mountain dwellers who use deadly means to ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
backwoods, murder, lost in the woods, cannibalism, community, abduction, group of friends, escape, characters killed one by one, hiking, terror, blinded ...
Time:
2020s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, appalachia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Style:
twist ending, scary, suspenseful, clever, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spirit, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, dealing with death, ghost, death of wife, supernatural horror, loss, disappearance, contact, grief, remote control ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A rebellious teenage boy embarks on a gutsy crusade to stop the terrifying evil he suspects has possessed his neighbor in this bone-chilling occult thriller.
Style:
dark, demonic, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
witch, teenage boy, neighbor, supernatural, forest, creature, teenage protagonist, missing child, terror, teenager, possession, father son relationship ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980s Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, sinister, gothic horror, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, husband murders wife, ghost, terror, supernatural, haunted, supernatural horror, nightmare, small town, doll, paranormal activity, dark secret ...
Time:
80s, 2020s, year 1980, year 1979, 20th century ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
44%
64K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stepmother, suicide, cult leader, winter, mass suicide, religion, destiny, violence, murder, suicide of mother, snow, loss of mother ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
44%
75K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, surprise ending, tense, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
home invasion, serial killer, kidnapping, infidelity, murder, search party, extramarital affair, cruelty, obsession, disappearance, husband wife relationship, forest ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, columbus ohio
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Matt Miller has spent his entire life living in the shadows of his brother. He believes if his brother were to disappear then so would all his problems. So one deadly night Matt decides to take matters into his own hands.
Style:
slasher, tense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, violence, gay, brother brother relationship, family relations, escapades, youth, society, maniac, violent, psycho terror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a ...
Style:
neo noir, scary, rough, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
kidnapping, memory loss, murder, murder of a policewoman, car accident, electroshock therapy, injection, amnesia, policewoman, flashback, basement, restraint ...
Similarity:
43%
20K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Desperate to save their marriage, a young couple takes a deal to move into their dream home, but disturbing events reveal the house's troubled history.
Style:
suspense, mystical, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, supernatural, paranormal activity, intruder, house, husband wife relationship, family relations, couples, family problems, mysticism, secret, paranormal ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
During their last weekend together, a group of friends staying at a reclusive mountain house have their fun suddenly interrupted by a knock at the door.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspense, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
home invasion, clown, supernatural, masked villain, killing spree, woman in jeopardy, murder of a woman, brother, group of friends, torture, stalking, murder ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style:
suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, ghost, plot twist, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, sibling relationship, haunted house, split personality, violence, schizophrenic ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, year 2017
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, horrifying, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, hotel, neighbor, violence, old dark house, danger, gory, hollywood, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
usa, los angeles, texas
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, lovecraft ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
occult, investigation, suicide, cosmic horror, supernatural, supernatural horror, death, hospital, grief, danger, demonic possession, evil spirit ...
Time:
2020s, 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century ...
Place:
missouri, himalaya
Similarity:
43%
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, family in danger, maniac, blood, serial killer, sociopath, killer, kidnapped, black, kidnapping, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia, atlanta georgia, tennessee
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, psychopath, family in danger, couples, twists and turns, suburbs, parents and children, male nudity, cabin in the woods, kidnapping, writers, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Movie in collections
81K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, truck driver, truck, prank, twists and turns, paranoia, psychopath, brother brother relationship, torture, brutality, road trip, trap ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, north america, colorado, salt lake city utah, nebraska ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
evil wins, vacation, home invasion, hidden camera, brother brother relationship, murder, unfaithfulness, ecstasy the drug, murder disguised as accident, serial killer, missing pet, stalking ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, christmas horror, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
supernatural, winter, ghost, parents and children, family in danger, isolation, forces of nature, woods, xmas, christmas, redneck, widower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
168K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style:
slasher, suspense, dark, psychological thriller, scary ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, home invasion, deaf, survival, brutality, deafness, violence, macabre, deaf mute, masked killer, writers ...
Time:
year 2016, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
america, california
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
While digging into their town's infamous past, a group of high school students unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, found footage, murder, youth, haunted by the past, urban legend, curses spells and rituals, teenager, evil, danger, serial killer, small town ...
Time:
year 1994, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
42%
2K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
rescue, ghost, supernatural, desert, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, eye, murder, uncover truth, dark secret, american horror, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa, canada
Similarity:
42%
313K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style:
scary, creepy, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, evil force, writer's life, surprising revelation, family in danger ...
Time:
2010s, year 2000, year 1966, year 1986, year 1979 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, california, missouri ...
Similarity:
42%
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