Movies like Guard

If you like "Guard" you are looking for atmospheric, bleak and serious movies about / with solitude, loneliness, depression, frustration, survival, family problems and moral dilemma themes of Drama and Thriller genre shot in Russia.
Find your next favorite and similar movies in two steps: 1. Identify all themes of interest from this film (block below). 2. Look for them in the presented list.
Guard (2019)
 6.2
 2K
Guard (2019)
Original name: Сторож
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.
Style: atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspense, disturbing, talky, psychological
Plot: solitude, loneliness, depression, frustration, survival, family problems, moral dilemma, violence, revenge, justice, chase, insanity, isolation, danger, nervous breakdown, dishonesty, snow, fear, panic, drinking alcohol, drinking, domestic violence, female nudity, couples, female pubic hair ...
Time: contemporary
Place: russia

Movie in categories

Most similar movies to Guard

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, disturbing and tense films with plots about danger, violence, survival, isolation, murder, life is a bitch and death mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Guard: The Fool (2014), The Major (2013), How I Ended This Summer (2010), Living (2012), Alone (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie
 8.0
 16K
The Fool (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The Fool is a movie about a simple plumber. An honest man, he is up against an entire system of corrupted bureaucrats. At stake are the lives of 800 inhabitants of an old dorm that is at risk of collapsing within the span of the night.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, suspense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: fighting the system, society, apartment building, corruption, injustice, tragedy, rebellion, moral dilemma, violence, small town, courage, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 5K
The Major (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: On a cold winter’s day Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he’s driving too fast and runs down a boy on a passage walk, who ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Plot: moral dilemma, life turned upside down, disorder, change of heart, corrupt law enforcer, police station, life is a bitch, police corruption, social decay, police, justice, depression ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
How I Ended This Summer (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Two men at a remote Arctic base begin mistrusting each other after an important radio message.
Style: psychological, tense, atmospheric, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: wilderness, radio, solitude, arctic, isolation, human nature, danger, confined, dishonesty, survival, snow, winter ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: ussr, soviet union, russia, antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 2K
Living (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the second feature film by Russian director Vasily Sigarev, fate brings ordeals to characters that find themselves immersed in deep crisis; they must seek the strength to cope with adversity. In a remote and cold region of Russia, Galya, a ...
Style: psychological, melancholic, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, tragic love, life is a bitch, family problems, father son relationship, hopes, love, children, society, religion, self sacrifice, dialogue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
revenge movies
11313
bleak movies
7400
russia movies
1104
 3.6
 1K
Alone (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: "Alone" follows a writer seeking peace and solitude in the countryside in an attempt to recover from tragedy and finish her book. However, as the welcoming country house turns into a living hell, she soon realizes that her inner demons are ...
Style: harsh, intense, scary, bleak, surreal ...
Plot: insanity, wilderness, evil spirit, paranormal phenomena, ghost, paranormal, frustration, writer's block, evil, violence, paranoia, supernatural ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.4
 356
Samuel Bleak (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
Style: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental institution, small town life, isolation, family problems, small town, mute, suspect, society, danger, mental illness, autism, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.7
 2K
Baby Blues (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
Style: slasher, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, survival, siblings relations, danger, family relations, babies and infants, isolation, survival horror, mother kills own child, illness, depression, struggle for survival ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Under Still Waters (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: stranger, couples, sex scene, family problems, danger, mysterious character, drinking, drinking alcohol, marriage, alcohol abuse, isolation, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Movie in collections
suspense movies
20963
justice movies
5200
chase movies
13045
insanity movies
3498
 5.1
 258
Nor'easter (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: moral dilemma, missing child, clergy, religions or cults, social relations, church, small town, priest, brainwashing, winter, danger, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Blackout Experiment (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Six strangers wake up in a room full of weapons. If they do not kill each other, someone they care about will die.
Style: bleak, psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: survival, survival horror, female scientist, kidnapping, isolation, violence, brutality, doctor, cruelty, panic, videotaping, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Fine Dead Girls (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Croatia
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Iva and Maria, a young lesbian pair, rent a favorable, nice dwelling in a less good area of Zagreb, Croatia. But unfortunately, included in the rent are the neighbors, the neighbors from hell. The curious landlady, foreigners flogging nationalists, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, lgbt cinema, suspense ...
Plot: lesbian, lesbian relationship, lgbt, woman in danger, society, life is a bitch, family problems, injustice, couples, lgbtq, lesbian sex, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.3
 4K
Devil's Pond (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: What starts out as a romantic honeymoon on a deserted island turns into a horrible nightmare as Julianne discovers that her new husband is psychotic...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, island, couple relations, newlyweds, danger, isolation, honeymoon, love and romance, wilderness, insanity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.0
 104
By Dawn (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A former marine suffering from severe PTSD prepares his family for war as the deadline for an alien invasion approaches.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, humanity in peril, survival, human versus alien, heroes, death, violence, chase, fear, panic ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.3
 25
Justice (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A foul-mouthed woman fights for her soul in the belly of the city. Working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate, she sees no evil, hears no evil. In a society like ours, you have only two choices—to be a victim or a ...
Style: tense, disturbing, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: woman in danger, social decay, moral dilemma, danger, workplace, rivalry, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace situations, political corruption, workplace intrigue, down on your luck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.3
 5K
The Dawn (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following the murder of her family at the hands of her father in the wake of World War I, a young woman is sent to live in a convent. However, the demons that plagued her father follow, reawakening the nightmares of her past.
Style: disturbing, suspense, bleak, scary, psychological
Plot: supernatural, nightmare, devil, demon, church, evil, violence, paranormal activity, loneliness, danger, a vision, exorcism ...
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 200
Late Bloomer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Late Bloomer is the story of Sumida-san, a severely handicapped man, and his downward spiral into hell.
Style: scary, disturbing, tense, rough, psychological ...
Plot: serial murder, murder, disability, violence, drinking, anger, death, drunkenness, caregiver, loneliness, handicapped, violent death ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
One Hundred Mornings (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in a world upended by a complete breakdown of society, two couples hide out in a lakeside cabin hoping to survive this crisis.
Style: psychological, serious, atmospheric, bleak, apocalyptic ...
Plot: survival, infidelity, post apocalypse, life is a bitch, dishonesty, couple relations, betrayal, danger, human nature, vestiges of humanity, chaos, couples ...
Time: future
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.8
 234K
Misery (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: insanity, obsession, psychopath, hostage, stephen king, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, isolation, torture, writers, obsessed fan ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: colorado, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 3K
Text (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Ilya Goryunov has spent seven years in prison on false charges of drug trafficking. When Ilya is free he realizes that the old life that he yearned for is no more. Although he did not intend to take revenge on the man who sent him to prison, now ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, sexy, avant garde, touching ...
Plot: lust, sexual relations, revenge, falsely accused, drinking, death of mother, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wrongful conviction, depression, frame up, anguish, drunkenness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
 4K
Tony (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, loneliness, isolation, police, violence, killer, social realism, murderer, killing, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
River Runs Red (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When the son of a successful judge is killed by two police officers and the system sets them free, a hardened veteran detective finds some incriminating files on the officers and the judge teams up with another mourning father to take the law into ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, detective
Plot: murder, police, vigilantism, vengeance, black, justice, danger, conspiracy, violence, gunfight, cover up, corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisville kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.9
 401
Fatal Secrets (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: "BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: danger, dishonesty, rivalry, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 33K
Calibre (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two lifelong friends head up to an isolated Scottish Highlands village for a weekend hunting trip that descends into a never-ending nightmare as they attempt to cover up a horrific hunting accident.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, dark, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hunting, paranoia, accident, drug use, survival, paranoid, hunter, friends, danger, murder, violence, drinking alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scottish highlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
dishonesty movies
8151
snow movies
3262
fear movies
5786
Beyond The Mountain (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Miguel is a lonely boy letting his life pass by in a monotonous routine. He works in a public kiosk, takes care of his mother Consuelo and dreams with Carmela's love, one of his usual clients. One day, this perfect bubble of dissatisfaction ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: survival, danger, rescue, friendship, hopes, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wildlife, life & death, transformation, life is a bitch, redemption, adultery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.6
 622
The Last Light (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Seven strangers find themselves trapped inside an abandoned hospital after an unexplainable apocalyptic event. In addition to being haunted by what they've lost, the strangers must also fight off mysterious creatures that hunt them down one by ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, futuristic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: apocalypse, survival, danger, zombie, hospital, supernatural, survival horror, creature, monster, rivalry, violence, abandoned building ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
It's in the Blood (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: One year after a tragic incident tore their family apart, a grieving son and his estranged father embark on a journey into the wild to reconcile their past. When a horrifying accident leaves Russell badly injured, and strands them in the wild, it is ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, bleak, mindfuck ...
Plot: survival, ghost, wilderness, isolation, rescue, supernatural, danger, woods, escapades, parents and children, stalking, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.8
 3K
Monolith (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A mother and her son plan a surprise visit to Los Angeles to see her husband/his father. Halfway there they get into a terrible accident in the middle of nowhere and now must fight to survive.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, ambiguous ending, stylized ...
Plot: mother, son, suv, family relations, parents, relationships, female protagonist, child in peril, desert, canyon, survival, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.5
 779
Savage (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An exploration of masculinity and violence. A story of obsession and revenge, as a man tries to come to terms with a brutal, random attack and it's consequences.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: revenge, hate, anger, fear, violence, brutality, post traumatic stress disorder, danger, psychotherapy, mentally unstable, retribution, vengeance ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sadistic Yoga (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: bondage, yoga, sadism, torture, sadomasochism, violence, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationship problems, yoga instructor, revenge, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Locked in a Room (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: "Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, trapped, teenager, room, survival, isolation, murder, violence, teenage life, confined, mysterious character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Watch Trailers From This List to Choose a Movie