Movies like Sam Was Here
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Sam Was Here (2016)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients, yet everything seems deserted.
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, bleak, philosophical, mind bending, retro, road movie, ambiguous ending, minimal cast, weird ...
Plot:
violence, child killer, insanity, paranoid, surrealism, identity crisis, talk show, stranded, desert, psychopath, loneliness, macabre, on the road, isolation, brutality, solitude, radio, travel, serial killer, twists and turns, puzzle, fear, telephone call, supernatural horror, exodus ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 1990s
Place:
mojave desert, california
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Most similar movies to Sam Was Here
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, slasher, scary and suspenseful films with plots about violence, death, serial killer, murder, brutality, psychopath and blood mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sam Was Here: Fender Bender (2016), The Cabin (2018), In Fear (2013), Held (2020), Home Sweet Home (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a small New Mexico town, a 17-year-old high school girl who just got her driver’s license gets into her first Fender Bender, innocently exchanging her personal information with an apologetic stranger. Later that stormy night, she is joined in ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, bleak, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, home invasion, murder, killer, violence, evil man, brutality, psychopath, terror, maniac, mercilessness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
new mexico
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a couple visit a remote cabin and cross paths with a compulsive liar, their vacation takes a dramatic turn for the worse.
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, bleak, slasher, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, couples, vacation, alter ego, murder, psychopath, violence, revenge, maniac, blood, homicidal maniac, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.
Style:
slasher, realistic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, stranger, serial killer, brutality, paranoia, maniac, survival, forest, scarecrow, stalking, danger, wilderness ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, england, somalia
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A couple's ailing marriage is put to the test when they are held hostage in an isolated vacation rental by an unseen Voice that commands their every move.
Style:
brutal, suspense, bleak, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot:
masked man, held captive, home invasion, marriage, trap, vigilante, psychopath, survival horror, brutality, infidelity, surveillance camera, marital problem ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young married couple comes home from a date night to discover that they are imprisoned in their own house with a methodical killer inside.
Style:
slasher, suspense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
home invasion, serial killer, masked killer, violence against women, murder, psychopath, sadism, danger, violence, death, evil man, bad girl ...
Similarity:
27%
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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:
26%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and ...
Style:
dark, lovecraft, creepy, spooky, satanic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
body horror, hospital, cosmic horror, another dimension, monster, macabre, violence, blood, small town, isolation, insanity, mutation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman vanishes. Her husband inquires into the strange circumstances of her disappearance. Did she leave him? Is she dead? As he goes along searching, he plunges into a world of nightmare and violence...
Style:
surreal, experimental, serious, postmodern, realistic ...
Plot:
male nudity, disappearance, whodunit, violence, danger, uncover truth, obsession, spouse in danger, violent content, nudity, crazy love, arthouse horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young man who escaped the clutches of a murderous hitch-hiker is subsequently stalked, framed for the hitcher's crimes, and has his life made into hell by the same man he escaped.
Style:
road movie, psychological, slasher, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
psycho killer, hitchhiker, serial killer, psychopath, desert, stalker, violence, sociopath, stalking, kidnapping, highway, motel ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
David has lost his girlfriend and his mind. Capps Crossing is his only refuge. When six hikers make the mistake of choosing Capps Crossing to spend the weekend, David will stop at nothing to make sure they never come back.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, camping, serial killer, hiking, violence, death, fight, escapades, psychopath, woman in danger, serial murder, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
17K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, cyber ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
internet, murder, found footage, panic, violence, danger, abduction, cyberspace, laptop, hacker, sex, hacking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
339
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A psychological horror/thriller depicting a backwoods family with a dark secret.
Style:
serious, rough, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
psychopath, danger, captivity, gory, woman in danger, confined, strong violent content, good versus evil, survival, small town, rivalry, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A masked killer, wearing World War II U.S. Army fatigues, stalks a small New Jersey town bent on reliving a 35-year-old double murder by focusing on a group of college kids holding an annual Spring Dance.
Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, bloody ...
Plot:
murder, masked killer, masked man, obsession, masked villain, soldier, sadism, small town, vengeance, youth, homecoming, love affair ...
Time:
1940s, year 1980, year 1944, year 1945, year 2016 ...
Place:
new jersey, california
Similarity:
23%
505K
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, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Style:
dark, scary, neo noir, homoerotic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, private detective, occult, fanatic, faked death, magic, investigation, desert, resurrection, tough guy, telekinesis, demon ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1982
Place:
los angeles, mojave desert, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, america
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, hostage, masked killer, woman in danger, gory, criminal heroes, confined, on the run, violence spree, backwoods, kidnapping, old dark house ...
Time:
year 2003, year 1989, 80s, year 1999, 90s
Similarity:
22%
2K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Nothing is as it seems as an ex-con and aspirant filmmaker set out to manufacture a horror film by scaring real people; however, when it goes too far and someone actually dies, the pair decide that killing for real on film is the way to make a truly ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, slasher, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot:
hanged woman, murder, filmmaking, ex convict, hanging, prostitute, accidental death, found footage, violence, youth, strong violent content, puzzle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Scott Rantzen (Brady Simenson) is a horror movie loving misfit who is teased by the popular students in school. When a date with the very popular and very beautiful Erica Carpenter (Stephanie Leigh Rose) backfires, he feels as though his life is ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, high school, crazy, respect, chase, vengeance, serial killer, friendship, characters killed one by one, death, brutality, psychopath ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The film centers on two estranged sisters who, along with their friends, become entrenched in a 48 hour whirlwind of violence after a traumatic experience at an underground music festival.
Style:
slasher, dark, talky, surprise ending, scary ...
Plot:
masked killer, characters killed one by one, maniac, violence, murder, serial killer, psychopath, friendship, youth, graphic violence, brutality, death ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The San Francisco area is beset by a series of seemingly random murders without motive or pattern. The police are taunted by phone calls and letters. Could the maniac be the violent, truck driver, or the seemingly mild-mannered mailman, or even a ...
Style:
slasher, detective, weird
Plot:
serial killer, murder, zodiac killer, killer, mystery killer, killing spree, exploitation, true crime, zombie, killing, psychotic, skirt ...
Place:
bay area, california, san francisco
Similarity:
21%
150
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A nameless man wanders the city, littered with necrotic artifacts and a trail of corpses. Are his grotesque hallucinations clues to a violent past?
Style:
bloody, scary, bleak, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot:
killer, patient, wounded, death, exile, dismemberment, suffering, extreme, brutality, violence, killing spree, violent ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
254K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style:
psychological horror, scary, suspense, spooky, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
basement, secret passageway, locked in a room, fear, kidnapping, secret room, locked in, psychopath, rape, serial rapist, terror, serial killer ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
detroit, brooklyn new york city, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A couple, Lauro and Renata, travels to a remote area surrounded by rain forest in Rio De Janeiro. Once they are there, Lauro is told by a bar owner that gruesome murders are taking place in that area. Intending to keep this information hidden from ...
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, scary, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violent, terror, crime spree, murder, revenge, serial killer, heroes, maniac, youth, death, obsession, killing spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the dead of winter, Kat and Rose, two very different girls, find themselves spending winter break at their prestigious prep school. What they don't know is that Kat is being stalked by an evil entity, and their lives are about to change ...
Style:
demonic, scary, disturbing, psychological horror, creepy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
possession, teenage girl, satanism, nun, murder, supernatural horror, demonic possession, supernatural, satan, mental disorder, evil child, flash forward ...
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of friends is stalked by a killer at an isolated destination wedding.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
death, isolation, serial killer, murder, cabin in the woods, violent, psychopath, escapades, killing spree, friends, obsession, homicidal maniac ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.
Style:
unusual plot structure, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
home invasion, robbery, brutality, violence, murder, psychopath, alter ego, danger, blood, chase, death, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
There's a campus killer on the loose who's making urban legends, like the one about eating pop rocks and soda at the same time will make your stomach explode and the one about a psycho with an axe stepping into the backseat of your car at ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, twist ending, teen, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, college, campus, strangulation, serial murder, murder, killer, female protagonist, blood, dark and stormy night, bad girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new hampshire
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
After a breakup, Wes ends up at a remote rest stop. He finds himself locked inside the bathroom with a mysterious figure speaking from an adjacent stall. Soon Wes realizes he is involved in a situation more terrible than he could imagine.
Style:
suspense, lovecraft, disturbing, absurd, rough ...
Plot:
cosmic horror, teddy bear, monster, trapped, philosophy, supernatural horror, supernatural power, fear, survival, trap, supernatural, deathtrap ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
20%
290K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, nevada
Similarity:
20%
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