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The Watchman (2019)
2K
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:
nervous breakdown, solitude, loneliness, depression, frustration, survival, family problems, moral dilemma, violence, justice, chase, insanity, isolation, danger, dishonesty, fear, panic, drinking alcohol, drinking, domestic violence, female nudity, couples, female pubic hair, revenge, snow ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
russia
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Most similar movies to The Watchman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, tense and disturbing films with plots about isolation, survival, danger, violence, family problems, fear and revenge mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like The Watchman: The Fool (2014), The Major (2013), How I Ended This Summer (2010), Living (2012), Alone (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
18K
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:
harsh, atmospheric, realistic, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
fighting the system, apartment building, courage, injustice, society, tragedy, moral dilemma, dishonesty, violence, small town, lone hero, plumber ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
Similarity:
100%
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, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, change of heart, corrupt law enforcer, disorder, police station, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, police corruption, social decay, police, justice, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
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, isolation, survival, arctic, human nature, danger, confined, dishonesty, snow, winter ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia, antarctica
Similarity:
100%
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, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, destiny, tragic love, family problems, life is a bitch, father son relationship, hopes, love, children, dialogue, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
100%
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1K
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, bleak, suspense, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
paranormal phenomena, evil spirit, wilderness, insanity, nervous breakdown, warning, ghost, isolation, frustration, evil, paranormal, fear ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
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, autism, mental illness, woods ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the hazy mountains of eastern Kentucky, a young woman searches for the missing pieces of a mysterious event that killed her family.
Style:
southern gothic, bleak, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revenge, american south, dark past, secrets, escapades, brutality, fear, paranoia, life is a bitch, family in danger, family problems, danger ...
Place:
appalachia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional ...
Style:
suspense, political thriller, neo noir, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
secret police, communist party, villain as protagonist, secret agent, obsession, cold war, paranoia, totalitarianism, male female relationship, agent, social problems, relationship problems ...
Time:
80s
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, eastern europe, central europe
Similarity:
25%
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:
sex scene, couples, stranger, family problems, mysterious character, danger, drinking, duel, drinking alcohol, romantic triangle, marriage, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
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, realistic, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, social decay, woman in danger, workplace situations, political corruption, life is a bitch, workplace, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Rie is a PR-coordinator visiting a tunnel boring machine to portray the well-oiled European cooperation in the Metro construction when an accident suddenly occurs. Unable to escape, she takes refuge in an airlock with Croatian miner Ivo and Bharan, ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
isolation, tunnel, claustrophobia, peril, danger, survival, urban setting, news report, survivor, captivity, panic, subway ...
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
23%
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:
experimental, bloody, psychological, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
survival, survival horror, female scientist, kidnapping, isolation, videotaping, brutality, bondage, cruelty, rivalry, panic, violence ...
Similarity:
23%
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:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, couple relations, isolation, island, danger, newlyweds, love and romance, honeymoon, lake, wilderness ...
Similarity:
22%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, breaking point, problem, family problems, murderer, domestic drama, moral dilemma, character study, family conflict, female protagonist, intimate, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
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, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, danger, siblings relations, family relations, survival, survival horror, isolation, babies and infants, mother kills own child, abuse, mental disorder, eye ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An expecting couple, a survival expert and four teenagers deal with a global blackout and the disintegration of society around them. In their plight for survival, they must endure the worst of human behavior.
Style:
suspense, apocalyptic, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
blackout, survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, struggle for survival, solar eclipse, white trash, student, fight, eclipse, human nature, fear ...
Similarity:
22%
121
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:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
alien invasion, apocalypse, alien, family relations, human versus alien, humanity in peril, survival, heroes, alien encounter, chaos and mayhem, post traumatic stress disorder, end of the world ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A loner American computer hacker is brought to Russia to commit bank fraud, only to find a family and love in the incomprehensible, violent, and chaotic Moscow underworld.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Plot:
gangster, criminal heroes, love affair, chases and races, fall in love, rivalry, dishonesty, on the run, hacking, underworld, danger, organized crime ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
22%
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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, tense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, missing child, clergy, religions or cults, church, social relations, small town, gay, priest, brainwashing, winter, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
21%
407
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A serial killer tries to live peacefully with his son in a countryside village. But a girl who knows he's a killer moves in. He decides he must kill her to protect his new life.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure
Plot:
serial killer, girl, father son relationship, couples, danger, woman in danger, disguise, psychopath, chase, youth, family relations, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After learning that her abusive ex-husband is about to be released from prison, a woman flees with her teenage daughter back to her old hometown.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abusive husband, stalker, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, ex husband ex wife relationship, ex couple relations, family problems, stalking, threat, danger, domestic violence, protective mother ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kidnapped and trapped by a winter storm, this slow burn thriller follows two strangers who must outsmart an unseen killer.
Style:
suspense, tense, thrilling, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
winter, kidnapping, survival, cold, slow burn, blizzard, isolation, hostage, sniper, danger, claustrophobia, man versus nature ...
Similarity:
21%
115K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, dark, ambiguous ending, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, nightmare, schizophrenia, obsession, insanity, paranoia, nervous breakdown, dream, delusion, character study, premonition, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
ohio, columbus ohio, peru, usa
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set in Sriramagiri in 2003, Ravi is a college drop out who works as an informer to Singhanna, a Maoist leader who operates against the local politician. Sirisha, sister of the village head Eeshwar Reddy, becomes the new MRO to the village, decides ...
Style:
intense, bleak, serious, political thriller, suspense
Plot:
justice, moral dilemma, corruption, violence, social commentary, political conflict, choice, bloodbath, betrayal, power struggle, informant, revolution ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Contemporary Russia. A young couple finds a great deal on a used BMW. Unfortunately, it's haunted.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, surprise ending, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, family in danger, ghost, danger, family problems, fear, psychopath, paranoia, hallucination, survival, nightmare, supernatural ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a reclusive backwoodsman finds a mute little girl wandering alone in the forest, he must protect her from the evil forces determined to end her life.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
forest, nature, struggle for survival, teenager fighting adult, recluse, violence, life risking, child fighting adult, child in peril, survival, backwoods, danger ...
Similarity:
21%
4K
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, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, violence, isolation, loneliness, psychopath, murderer, mental disorder, social realism, crime investigation, mental illness, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, britain, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple who have renounced civilization to live in a cave in the woods are befriended by a local farmer with mysterious ulterior motives.
Style:
depressing, suspense, captivating, rough, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, desperation, savage, couples, forest, isolation, grief, trauma, bereavement, depression, depressed woman, post traumatic stress ...
Similarity:
21%
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, couple relations, post apocalypse, human nature, danger, dishonesty, betrayal, life is a bitch, vestiges of humanity, chaos, couples ...
Time:
future
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young German woman is searching for the man she loves in northern Russia.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, intercultural, detective ...
Plot:
missing person, female protagonist, danger, investigation, isolation, corruption, ethics, realism, language barrier, snow, justice, alienation ...
Similarity:
21%
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