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Wayward Pines (2015)
 7.3
 60K
Wayward Pines (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Imagine the perfect American town... beautiful homes, manicured lawns, children playing safely in the streets. Now imagine never being able to leave. You have no communication with the outside world. You think you're going insane. You must be in Wayward Pines.
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, captivating, psychological thriller, exciting, retro, surprise ending, thought provoking, mysterious ...
Plot: apocalypse, society, small town, investigation, small town life, beast, danger, missing person, murder, cryogenics, confined, sheriff, suspended animation, trapped, supernatural, adaptation, murder mystery, conspiracy, multiple storylines, secret, private investigation, paranormal investigation, uncover truth, social relations, transformation ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, idaho

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, serious and atmospheric films and TV series with plots about supernatural, danger, small town, murder, twists and turns, survival and conspiracy mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Wayward Pines: From (2022), The Mist (2017), Under the Dome (2013), The Crossing (2018), Haven (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.7
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From (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – ...
Style: suspense, captivating, enigmatic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: forest, trapped, supernatural, small town, creature, supernatural horror, struggle for survival, trap, survival horror, stephen king, secret, fictional city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.4
 28K
The Mist (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A small town family is torn apart by a brutal crime. As they deal with the fallout an eerie mist rolls in, suddenly cutting them off from the rest of the world, and in some cases, each other.
Style: bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, breathtaking, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing
Plot: stephen king, survival, danger, twists and turns, small town, supernatural, fog, suicide, survival horror, salvation, family secret, exodus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 112K
Under the Dome (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Under the Dome is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King. It tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill in Maine, where a massive, transparent, indestructible dome suddenly cuts them off from the rest of ...
Style: exciting, mind bending, surreal, teen, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, survival, stephen king, trapped, small town, life turned upside down, twists and turns, isolation, teenage girl, small town life, human existence, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.1
 10K
The Crossing (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Refugees from a war-torn country start showing up to seek asylum in an American town. Only the country these people are from is America and the war they are fleeing is 250 years in the future. The local sheriff with a past, a federal agent and a ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, non-linear, spiritual
Plot: time travel, conspiracy, twists and turns, superpower, runaway, manhunt, police, adaptation, society, friendship, investigation, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.5
 41K
Haven (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: FBI agent Audrey Parker arrives in the small town of Haven, Maine to solve a murder and soon discovers the town's many secrets—which also hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of her lost past.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, detective, suspenseful, supernatural thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, supernatural ability, female protagonist, investigation, surprising revelation, small town, danger, fbi, paranormal activity, small town life, social relations, mysterious place ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: maine, usa, new england, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Persons Unknown (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, offbeat ...
Plot: trapped, group of strangers, mysterious place, captivity, abduction, riddles and clues, confined, experiment, isolation, manipulation, twists and turns, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 8.1
 98K
11.22.63 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.
Style: stylized, exciting, period piece, tense, light ...
Plot: time travel, assassination, stephen king, time, time traveler, changing the past or future, altering history, kennedy assassination, murder, love, conspiracy theory, danger ...
Time: 60s, future, 20th century, year 1963, 2010s ...
Place: usa, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.4
 14K
Black Spot (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: In the small bordertown of Villefranche, lost in the heart of a large forest, crime rate is six times higher than elsewhere in the area. Each new crime Major Laurène Weiss solves with the help of her unusual team makes her sink deeper and deeper ...
Style: scenic, dark, suspense, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: murder, supernatural, forest, small town, police, investigation, missing child, secret, isolation, danger, crime investigation, nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 7.9
 59K
Jericho (2006)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Jericho is an American action/drama series that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States.
Style: captivating, apocalyptic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: survival, post apocalypse, apocalypse, chaos, post nuclear, small town, disaster, danger, nuclear holocaust, leadership, distopia, courage ...
Time: future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 8.7
 438K
Dark (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 1455 min.
TV show
Story: A missing child causes four families to help each other for answers. What they could not imagine is that this mystery would be connected to innumerable other secrets of the small town.
Style: mind bending, atmospheric, suspense, mysterious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, investigation, time loop, time machine, mysterious past, cave, time portal, missing child, repeated event, changing the future, deja vu, small town ...
Time: year 1986, year 2019, year 1953, 50s, 80s ...
Place: germany, chernobyl
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Booth at the End (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A mysterious man sits in the booth at the end who people make a deal with to get what they want. They do the task or they don't - that is up to them, but there are no rule changes.
Style: psychological, captivating, mind bending, mind blowing, independent film ...
Plot: mysterious character, changing lives, wish come true, moral dilemma, deal, human nature, doubts and hesitations, diner, puzzle, anti hero, nypd, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.8
 214K
Twin Peaks (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1505 min.
TV show
Story: The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, mind bending, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, small town, surrealism, murder, nightmare, supernatural, investigation, secret, hallucination, mysterious death, mysterious villain, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1990, year 1989
Place: washington state, hawaii, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 8.5
 75K
Twin Peaks (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1032 min.
TV show
Story: Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, offbeat, atmospheric ...
Plot: small town, twists and turns, surrealism, small town life, supernatural, mysterious event, interdimensional travel, law enforcement, evil spirit, time, good versus evil, anger ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 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 ⇓
50%
 7.1
 36K
The Society (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
TV show
Story: When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, mysterious, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, murder, small town, society, death, friendship, survival, trapped, gay, gay teenager, separation, fantasy world ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.4
 2K
Last Light (2022)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 215 min.
TV show
Story: Separated across continents, petro-chemist Andy Yeats and his family must survive the deadly effects of a sudden global oil crisis and find the mastermind behind it all.
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: distopia, society, survival, family relations, rescue, teenage daughter, son, wife, daughter
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 10K
Between (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Between is the story of a town under siege from a mysterious disease that has wiped out everybody except those 21 years old and under. The series explores the power vacuum that results when a government has quarantined a 10-mile diameter area and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: virus, isolation, youth, plague, chaos, chaos and mayhem, teenage life, quarantine, death, danger, trapped, escape attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.4
 51K
Utopia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Utopia Experiments is a legendary graphic novel shrouded in mystery. When a group of strangers find themselves in possession of an original manuscript, their lives suddenly and brutally implode.
Style: surreal, thought provoking, mind bending, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot: conspiracy, danger, hidden truth, politician, who to trust, mysterious character, scientist, twists and turns, graphic violence, epidemic, life turned upside down, virus ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 7.7
 48K
12 Monkeys (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The provocative story of Cole, a time traveler from a decimated future in a high-stakes race against the clock. Utilizing a dangerous and untested method of time travel, he journeys from 2043 to the present day on a mission to locate and eradicate ...
Style: futuristic, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time travel, epidemic, survival, changing the past or future, time machine, existence paradox, post apocalypse, sent to the past, plague, virus, save the world, apocalypse ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 8.5
 15K
The Prisoner (1967)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 1010 min.
TV show
Story: After resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
Style: surreal, exciting, thought provoking, serious, psychological ...
Audience: kids
Plot: spy, prison, mind control, gadget, research, danger, uncover truth, government agency, mysterious character, scientist, convict, anger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, britain, europe, london, big ben london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 8.1
 116K
Bates Motel (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A "contemporary prequel" to the 1960 film Psycho, depicting the life of Norman Bates and his mother Norma prior to the events portrayed in Hitchcock's film, albeit in a different fictional town and in a modern setting. The series ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, motel, mental disorder, obsession, dysfunctional family, hotel, family problems, insanity, murder, small town, half brother, incestuous desire ...
Time: 2010s, 20th century
Place: oregon, usa, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 30K
Helix (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: scientist, deadly virus, virus, pandemic, zombie, survival, dna, danger, quarantine, save the day, immortality, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 10K
Surface (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Surface is a science fiction television series that premiered on NBC on September 19, 2005. The program aired ten episodes before going on hiatus on November 28, 2005 due to NBC's coverage of the 2006 Winter Olympics. It returned for five more ...
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, cliffhanger, enigmatic ...
Plot: sea monster, scientist, teenage life, nosy, marine biologist, uncover truth, escapades, danger, misfit, alien encounter, monster, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.0
 42K
Hemlock Grove (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story: One cannot quench his all-consuming thirst. The other cannot tame the beast clawing its way out. In the sleepy Pennsylvania village of Hemlock Grove, two young men struggle to accept painful truths: about family, themselves, the mystery of the White ...
Style: gothic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, danger, vampire, small town, protagonist as suspect, social relations, investigation, family secret, family relations, desire, gypsy ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A young couple moves to a quiet New England village, only to soon find themselves mixed up in mysterious rituals.
Style: slasher, spooky, gothic, satanic, thrilling ...
Plot: folk horror, religion, small town, occult, mythology, folklore, conspiracy, ghost, paranormal, autumn, witch, ritual ...
Time: 70s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 8.6
 247K
The X-Files (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The exploits of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully who investigate X-Files: marginalized, unsolved cases involving paranormal phenomena. Mulder believes in the existence of aliens and the paranormal while Scully, a skeptic, is assigned to ...
Style: captivating, psychological, mind bending, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, teens
Plot: ufo, supernatural, investigation, fbi, conspiracy, paranormal investigation, alien, top secret, paranormal activity, alien contact, space and aliens, female fbi agent ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, future, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 8K
The Prisoner (2009)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An update to the cult favorite series from the 1960s about a government agent who is kidnapped and sent to a remote island known as "the Village".
Style: mind bending, psychological, postmodern, captivating, surreal ...
Plot: espionage, mind control, village, uncover truth, confined, isolation, captivity, memory loss, hidden truth, lifestyle, escapades, mind game ...
Time: 2000s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 26K
Zoo (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Set amidst a wave of violent animal attacks sweeping across the planet, a young renegade scientist is thrust into a race to unlock the mystery behind this pandemic before time runs out for animals and humans alike.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pandemic, extinction, dangerous animal, mutation, save the world, experiment, pursuit, conspiracy, danger, death, survival, virus ...
Time: jurassic, 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.8
 2K
Coma (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: A young medical student discovers that something sinister is going on in her hospital after routine procedures send more than a few seemingly healthy patients into comas on the operating table. Remake of Coma 1978.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: medical school, hospital, uncover truth, workplace, woman in danger, doctors and patients, medicine, medical student, death, wrestling, medical, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.0
 16K
Siren (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The coastal town of Bristol Cove is known for its legend of once being home to mermaids. When the arrival of a mysterious girl proves this folklore all too true, the battle between man and sea takes a very vicious turn as these predatory beings ...
Style: exciting, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: mermaid, boat, legend, sea, mythical creature, suburban life, investigation, myth, supernatural being, fisherman, danger, small town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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