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The Platform (2019)
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Original name: El hoyo
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 the hole.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, futuristic, psychological, ambiguous ending, thought provoking, surreal, mind bending, intellectual, slasher ...
Plot:
struggle for survival, suspense, confined, prison, food shortage, survival, social differences, rivalry, social relations, cannibalism, society, social injustice, fear, existentialism, jail, hunger, symbolism, distopia, murder, suicide, survival horror, isolation, open ending, future dystopia, human flesh ...
Time:
future
Place:
iberian peninsula
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, weird and tense films with plots about survival, suspense, death, murder, danger, blood and isolation mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Platform: Cube (1997), Cube 2: Hypercube (2002), Snowpiercer (2013), Vivarium (2019), The Divide (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
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psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, futuristic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
survival, isolation, trapped, psychology, trap, mathematics, escape, maze, claustrophobia, group of strangers, survival horror, death ...
Time:
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Place:
canada
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The sequel to the low budget first film ‘Cube.’ This time the prisoners find them selves in a more advanced cube environment that they must escape from before they are killed. A science fiction film where space and time have more than one path.
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psychological, scary, surprise ending, futuristic, clever ...
Plot:
maze, claustrophobia, group of strangers, confined, survival, locked in a room, suspense, trapped, mathematics, parallel universe, time travel, survival horror ...
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
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thought provoking, allegory, tense, suspenseful, futuristic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
post apocalypse, train, distopia, survival, future dystopia, revolution, rebellion, social differences, winter, class struggle, society, snow ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, year 2014, 2010s ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an ...
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, absurd, allegory ...
Plot:
trapped, suspense, paradox, psychological torture, maze, human experiment, suburbs, young couple, evil child, evil wins, foster child, buying a house ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.
Style:
tense, apocalyptic, bleak, futuristic, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, confined, survival horror, isolation, torment, losing-it hero, suspense, social decay, disaster, apocalypse, group of strangers, nuclear holocaust ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, north korea, new york
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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, talky, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, morality, twists and turns, execution, prejudice, suspense, plot twist, life & death, survival horror, struggle for survival, stranger, sole survivor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
atmospheric, twist ending, psychological, scary, bad ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
monster, survival, apocalypse, suspense, religious fanatic, fear, creature, small town, macabre, spider, twists and turns, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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, tense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
home invasion, survival, self defense, violence spree, family in danger, society, distopia, suspense, social decay, killing spree, security system, chaos ...
Time:
future, near future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, murder, torture, survival, mind game, confined, friendship, trapped, rivalry, murderer, suspense, group of friends ...
Time:
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100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A television reporter and her cameraman are trapped inside a building quarantined by the CDC after the outbreak of a mysterious virus which turns humans into bloodthirsty killers.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, scary, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
quarantine, zombie, virus, found footage, survival, infection, graphic violence, suspense, supernatural, monster, macabre, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Hills Have Eyes
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two million fish washed ashore. One thousand blackbirds dropped from the sky. On July 4, 2009 a deadly menace swept through the quaint seaside town of Claridge, Maryland, but the harrowing story of what happened that Independence Day has never been ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
maryland, california, usa
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100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In life, we all deserve second chances. It doesn't matter what we have done. What if we were given a second opportunity in the form of an "escape room"? Annually, prisoners sentenced to the death penalty have the option to play this ...
Style:
slasher, tense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violence, psychopath, brutality, prisoner, death, murder, violent, fear, vengeance, second chance, suspense, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, tragic ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
space, suspense, mars, monster, space travel, space station, alien, alien life-form, astronaut, first contact, survival horror, death ...
Time:
future, near future
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The United Kingdom. Soon. Civil war rages. A woman wakes up in a blindingly white cuboid cell. Using its sophisticated functionality, her captor tortures her for information; information she claims not to have - or does she?
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suspenseful, psychological, intellectual, twist ending, futuristic
Plot:
distopia, prison, future dystopia, captivity, emotional blackmail, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, escape attempt, characters in danger, suspicion, trap, brutality ...
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Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the future, national boundaries have been broken down and two giant super-states remain—the bleak, oppressive, and totalitarian "Hemisphere," and the sprawling and futuristic "Megaville." Megaville has an elected president, ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspenseful, exciting, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cyborgs, androids and robots, struggle for survival, cyberpunk, apocalypse, alien planet, space, post apocalypse, distopia, robot, killer robot, future dystopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space, survival, space travel, post apocalypse, isolation, suspense, memory loss, survival horror, spacecraft, mission, end of the world, monster ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Group of Spanish friends on the tropical island holiday of a lifetime. Discovering a secret cave adds adventure. They enthusiastically go underground with their camera, but soon become hopelessly lost. Nail-biting tension in the tradition of recent ...
Style:
scary, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cave, survival, found footage, confined, isolation, friends, cannibalism, suspense, dehydration, disaster, survival horror, bus ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
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33%
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, tense, dark, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, survival, distopia, starvation, ice age, epidemic, dehumanization, vestiges of humanity, survival horror, underground bunker, quarantine ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A family takes refuge in a fallout shelter to avoid a dangerous outbreak.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Audience:
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Plot:
post apocalypse, virus, quarantine, survival, epidemic, father daughter relationship, suspense, underground, murder, bomb shelter, plot twist, nightmare ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A woman and a pair of children are blindfolded and make their way through a post-apocalyptic setting along a river.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, emotional, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
survival, suspense, end of the world, post apocalypse, epidemic, blindness, fear, creature, survival horror, suicide, characters murdered one by one, parents and children ...
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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, surprise ending, psychological, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, serial killer, fear, psychopath, plot twist, mind game, macabre, violent, suspense, survival horror, trapped, survival ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, deaf, home invasion, suspense, trapped, survival, murderer, deafness, female protagonist, masked killer, murder, writers ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, hotel, murder, survival horror, estranged couple, macabre, motel, voyeurism, surveillance, survival, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, home invasion, serial killer, survival, murder, survival horror, masked killer, fear, hostage, confined, macabre, torture ...
Time:
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Place:
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29%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In 2016 the sun has turned the entire world into a scorched and barren wasteland. The humans who have survived are either resourceful or violent, and sometimes both. Marie, her little sister Leonie, and best friend Phillip, are in a car headed to ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, serious, rough, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
post apocalypse, survival, distopia, cannibalism, heat wave, life is a bitch, apocalypse, chase, on the run, society, disaster, journey ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
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50%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style:
psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
drugs, science, hallucination, experiment gone awry, surrealism, obsession, suspense, transformation, isolation, macabre, university, psychology ...
Time:
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Place:
harvard university, new york, africa, california, boston ...
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33%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, intense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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28%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A troupe of struggling stage actors is rehearsing for a small-town production of a play. Everything seems to be as it should until one of the cast members turns up dead. In a panic, the others try to get out, only to find they are now locked in the ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, intense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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