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The Purge (2018)
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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 throws at them. As the clock winds down with their fates hanging in the balance, each character is forced to reckon with their pasts as they discover how far they will go to survive the night.
Style: brutal, tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, rough, bloody, bleak, intellectual, slasher ...
Plot: distopia, survival horror, masked killer, serial killer, brutality, mass murder, psychopath, massacre, psycho killer, gunfight, murder, social injustice, terrorism, serial murder, threat, murderer, party, betrayal, rebellion, evil, revolution, blood, night, nightmare, killing spree ...
Time: near future, 2040s, 21st century

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and slasher films and TV series with plots about murder, violence, death, serial killer, psychopath, blood and danger mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like The Purge: The Last of Us (2023), The Purge: Anarchy (2014), The Purge: Election Year (2016), Castle Rock (2018), Squid Game (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 5.7
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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 ...
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 ...
Time: future, year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, near future ...
Place: california, usa
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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%
 8.7
 504K
The Last of Us (2023)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
Style: exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, scary, psychological ...
Plot: epidemic, post apocalypse, apocalypse, infection, survival, pandemic, survival horror, end of the world, survivor, zombie violence, violence, danger ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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%
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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 ⇓
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
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100%
 7.5
 51K
Castle Rock (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, anthology, enigmatic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, danger, violence, investigation, paranormal phenomena, small town, blood, stephen king, death, interracial adoption, supernatural, mysticism ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 532K
Squid Game (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: "Round Six" is a story of people who fail at life for various reasons, but suddenly receive a mysterious invitation to participate in a survival game to win ten million US dollars. The game takes place at an unknown location, and the ...
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: survival, game of death, prize, brutality, violence, cruelty, game, most dangerous game, sole survivor, contests and competitions, poverty, graphic violence ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.5
 274K
Hannibal (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1680 min.
TV show
Story: Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, psychopath, mind game, cannibalism, death, murder, psychiatrist, mental patient, graphic violence, fbi, mental health ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 62K
Snowpiercer (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, the remnants of humanity inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe. Class warfare, social injustice and the politics of survival are questioned in this riveting ...
Style: apocalyptic, unusual plot structure, captivating, brutal, depressing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: train, post apocalypse, apocalypse, rebellion, struggle for survival, class system, inequality, disaster, humanity, forces of nature, distopia, caste system ...
Time: future, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 17K
Slasher (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of ...
Style: slasher, tense, anthology, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigation, serial killer, friendship, survival, teenager, pursuit, blood, forest, fight, supernatural, woman with a gun ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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Blood Drive (2017)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in a near-dystopian future, a former cop is forced to take part in a death race where the cars run on human blood. You lose a leg and you lose your head.
Style: road movie, bloody, tense, funny, black comedy ...
Plot: survival, macabre, murder, rivalry, danger, police investigation, rescue, surrealism, dishonesty, distopia, post apocalypse, car race ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Fear the Walking Dead (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: What did the world look like as it was transforming into the horrifying apocalypse depicted in "The Walking Dead"? This spin-off set in Los Angeles, following new characters as they face the beginning of the end of the world, will answer ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, surreal, captivating, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, plague, danger, life is a bitch, undead, society, chaos, post apocalypse, survival, parents and children ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Killer & I (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: Horror legend Kane Hodder (Friday the 13th Part 7-X, Hatchet 1-3) and the author of his biography, Mike Aloisi, travel the world and have insane adventures.
Style: humorous, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: murder, killer, humiliation, serial killer, violence, violent, friends, escapades, mystery killer, psycho terror, sadistic psychopath, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 2.7
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Blood Prism (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A successful art gallery coordinator, living a double life as a serial killer, preys on the hopeless as she attempts to find meaning behind the voices she hears. When she believes she is falling in love with a depressed comic book artist; she ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, psychological, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, serial murder, guts, fear, chase, murder, blood, obsession, death, violence, revenge, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
American Horror Stories (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An anthology series of stand alone episodes delving into horror myths, legends and lore.
Style: anthology, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: insanity, supernatural, nightmare, supernatural power, haunted house, blood, death, ghost, fear, danger, murder, threat ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.3
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Kill Theory (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Whilst celebrating a graduation at a secluded vacation home, a group of college students find themselves targeted by a sadistic killer who forces them to play a deadly game of killing one another in order to survive.
Style: scary, surprise ending, suspense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, murder, mind game, torture, trapped, confined, friendship, trap, rivalry, game of death, murderer, psycho ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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See (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability to see, their father must protect his tribe against a threatened queen.
Style: exciting, suspense, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, blindness, clan, distopia, blind character, tribe, warrior, blind man, medieval, lesbian, end of the world ...
Time: future, near future
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Methodic (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Methodic tells the story of a boy who becomes demonically possessed by an ominous presence known as "The Dollman". Forced to obey his dark half, the boy ultimately murders his parents on his birthday and is sentenced to a life under a ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: masked killer, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, danger, human host, mental institution, killer clown, possession, murder, psychiatrist, violence, demon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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24%
Harper's Island (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: A group of family and friends travels to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They've come to laugh... to love... and, though they don't know it... to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets ...
Style: tense, scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, multiple suspects, murder, danger, serial murder, murderer, island, gory, plan gone awry, whodunit, suspicion, victim ...
Place: washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.6
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Black Summer (2019)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: In the dark, early days of a zombie apocalypse, complete strangers band together to find the strength they need to survive and get back to loved ones.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, disturbing, tense, apocalyptic ...
Plot: zombie, survival, panic, zombie survival, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, zombie outbreak, summer, death, escape, walking dead, blood ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.4
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Jason X (2001)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the year 2455, Old Earth is now a contaminated planet abandoned for centuries -- a brown world of violent storms, toxic landmasses and poisonous seas. Yet humans have returned to the deadly place that they once fled, not to live, but to research ...
Style: slasher, suspense, sexy, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, space, murder, psychopath, masked killer, survival horror, good versus evil, friday the 13th, gory, survival, space travel, space station ...
Time: future, year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Walking Dead (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, scary, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, supernatural, pandemic, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, plague, undead, fear ...
Time: future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
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 3.6
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Sacrament (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Leaving the city behind for a weekend of booze, bud and bonding at the coast, seven friends find themselves stranded en route to South Padre Island when a big storm interferes with their plans. The town of Middle Spring is more than happy to welcome ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, bleak, scary ...
Plot: cannibalism, gay couple, gay slur, gay erotica, revenge, psychopath, psycho killer, murder victim, murderer, killing spree, true crime, torture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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24%
 7.8
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Mr. Mercedes (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A demented serial killer taunts a retired police detective with a series of lurid letters and emails, forcing the ex-cop to undertake a private, and potentially felonious, crusade to bring the killer to justice before he can strike again. Based on ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, stephen king, murder, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, murder investigation, violence, murderer, sociopath, cruelty, killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Slumber Party Slaughter (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a secretive outing to a bizarre strip club, Tom Kingsford, (Tom Sizemore) is unaware that his life is about to take a dramatic turn. Club owner and real estate mogul, William O'Toole (Ryan O'Neal) is a sadistic voyeur whose desire for ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot: psycho killer, homicidal maniac, revenge, sadistic psychopath, manhunt, kidnapping, murder, psychopath, sex maniac, chase, cruelty, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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HazMat (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The television crew of the "Scary Antics" hidden camera show sets up a disturbed young man for a practical joke, but the joke is on them when heads roll.
Style: suspenseful, rough, slasher, tense, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, mentally unstable, murder, crazy, survival, danger, manhunt, isolation, violence, found footage, jack the ripper, prank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Halloween Kills (2021)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The saga of Michael Myers and Laurie Strode continues in the next thrilling chapter of the Halloween series.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, slasher horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, masked killer, murder, killing spree, psycho, halloween, evil, gory, violence, holiday horror, maniac, psycho killer ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, 2010s, year 1978, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.4
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Lucid (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman with increasingly disturbing and violent dreams consults a famous sleep therapist known for his controversial treatments. Her experience plummets her into the dark, twisted depths of her subconscious, grasping for her sanity.
Style: suspenseful, psychotronic, slasher, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: nightmare, murder, serial killer, homicidal maniac, woman in danger, gossip and rumors, masked killer, sadistic psychopath, vengeance, disguise, characters in danger, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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