Movies like Girl in the Box

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Girl in the Box (2016)
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Girl in the Box (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A hitchhiking woman is abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Style: psychological thriller, dark, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot: sex slave, rape, sexualized violence, slavery, sadistic cruelty, sadistic violence, kidnapped woman, slave girl, sex slavery, sexual torture, sexual abuse, violence, abduction, confined, sadism, danger, locked in a cage, violent, psychopath, hostage, inspiration, sex crime, kidnapping, feminist, captivity ...
Time: 70s
Place: canada
Keyword: feminist film

Most similar movies to Girl in the Box

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, serious, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about kidnapping, rape, sexual abuse, true crime, abduction, kidnapped and confined mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Girl in the Box: 3096 Days (2013), Cleveland Abduction (2015), Three Girls (2017), Eden (2012), Hounds of Love (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The disturbing true-story of Lisa McVey, who was abducted in 1984 but later released by her abuser, only to have people question her story.
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, true crime, abduction, child abduction, kidnapped, rape, psychopath, kidnapped girl, autobiography, homicidal maniac, homicide detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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3096 Days (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Style: realistic, rough, twisted, teen, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, rape, psychological torture, abduction, life is a bitch, basement, pedophile, violence against women, missing child, hostage, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Girl in the Bunker (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Set in 2006 and based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, this powerful film explores the tension-filled ten days Elizabeth was kidnapped and held prisoner by Vinson Filyaw. Imprisoned in a secret underground bunker hidden deep in the woodland, ...
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, rape of a minor, sex slave, sexual assault, bunker, sexual predator, pedophile, teenage girl, pedophilia, police, impersonating a police officer, rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
 8.1
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Three Girls (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
TV show
Story: The story of three of the children who were victims in the 2012 grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale, for which nine men were convicted and sentenced. The drama explores how these girls were groomed, how they were ignored by the authorities ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: human trafficking, teenage girl, rape, sex slave, working class, sexual abuse, police investigation, court case, true crime, child sexual abuse, friendship, sexualized violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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Eden (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, sex trafficking, rape, slavery, teenage life, life is a bitch, pimp, sex slave, prostitute, captivity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place: new mexico, nevada, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 13K
Hounds of Love (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple. As she observes the dynamic between her captors she quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, sexual torture, teenage girl, abduction, husband wife relationship, murderous pair, danger, domestic violence, murder, extreme, survival ...
Time: year 2016, 80s
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.3
 18K
Trade (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, detective ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, slavery, missing child, sexual abuse, sex slavery, child molestation, sexual assault, rape victim, forced prostitution, child rape, rescue ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, mexico city, el paso texas, poland, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Hide and Seek (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A desperate, childless couple kidnap a pregnant woman and lead her husband to believe that she is dead.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: pregnancy, kidnapping, surrogate mother, missing person, obsession, captivity, female psychopath, family problems, mentally unstable, woman in danger, psychopath, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.4
 502
Concrete (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, rough, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: gang rape, bullying, sexual abuse, captive, bully, kidnapping, prisoner, juvenile delinquency, serial killer, humiliation, murder, teenage girl ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
Style: touching, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: sex trafficking, sex slavery, violence against women, forced prostitution, human trafficking, striptease, sex club, sexualized violence, organized crime, sexploitation, slavery, female bondage ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blind Mountain (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Blind Mountain follows a young woman, Bai Xuemei, in the early 1990s who recently graduated from college and attempts to find work to help pay for her brother's education. In the process, she is drugged, kidnapped and sold as a bride to a ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, serious, touching, controversial ...
Plot: kidnapping, village, woman in danger, life is a bitch, confined, social relations, injustice, slavery, isolation, sexual abuse, bullying, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, tibet, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 15K
In Bar (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A group of young high society friends, aged between 18 and 25, are gathered at a friend's bar that they regularly frequent for the night. But when they finish of their last beer and prepare to head home they find themselves held captive at ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough, art house ...
Plot: gang, vigilantism, captivity, rivalry, confined, murder, sexual abuse, injustice, life is a bitch, vengeance, escape attempt, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
100 Days in the Jungle (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: jungle, amazon jungle, amazon rainforest, hostage, captive, kidnapped, survival, amazon, kidnapping, abduction, partisan, conflict ...
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Book of Revelation (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 118 min.
Story: An erotic mystery about power and sex, the entanglement of victim and perpetrator, and a man's struggle to regain his lost self.
Style: erotic, disturbing, surreal, psychological, serious ...
Plot: sex crime, kidnapping, female rapist, woman rapes man, sexual abuse, sexual humiliation, male rape victim, sex slave, male rape, rape and revenge, fetish, kidnapped man ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Am Elizabeth Smart (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.
Style: thought provoking, serious, factual, dark, realistic ...
Plot: abduction, kidnapped, kidnapping, teenager, captivity, brutality, rape, violence, running for your life, captive, abused child, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Trafficked: A Parent's Worst Nightmare (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, suspense
Plot: sex slavery, sex slave, kidnapped girl, child abduction, kidnapped child, abduction, slavery, kidnapping, slave girl, human trafficking, life
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Miranda's Victim (2023)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The true story of Trish Weir who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the nation.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious
Plot: rape, rape victim, legal, legal system, true crime, kidnapping, kidnapped woman, fight for justice, violence, abduction, criminal justice, kidnapper ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: 7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, emotional, sad ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, child abuse, pedophile, child molestation, captivity, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, danger, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1980, year 1974, year 1972
Place: northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.4
 21K
Chained (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A serial killer kidnaps a young boy after murdering his mother, then raises him to be his accomplice. After years in captivity, the boy must choose between escaping or following in his captor's bloody footprints.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, captivity, slave, misogynist, kidnapping, serial rapist, psychopath, abuse, childhood trauma, escape attempt, isolated house, slavery ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Angels of the Sun (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In Northeastern of Brazil, the father of the twelve years old illiterate Maria sells his daughter to Tadeu to be employed as a housemaid and have a better life. However, the girl is resold to the farmer Lourenço that deflowers her, and he gives the ...
Style: rough, psychological, suspense, serious, disturbing
Plot: child prostitution, prostitution, prostitute, teenage prostitute, sex slave, slave girl, slave trader, sex slavery, child abuse, brothel, slave trade, slavery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Taken in Broad Daylight (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: kidnapping, kidnapped, survival, rescue, missing person, danger, confined, hostage, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, rape, showdown, stockholm syndrome ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, montana, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.9
 18K
At Close Range (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... ...
Style: neo noir, disturbing, tense, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: rape, organized crime, small town, father son relationship, sociopath, revenge, violent, gang, murder, violence, psychopath, serial killer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Elizabeth Smart Story (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart,in June 2002, by two people, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Style: suspense, thought provoking, psychological, rough, suspenseful
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, true crime, missing child, child rape, religious cult, kidnapped, hostage, false identity, teenage girl, survival, escape ...
Place: utah, nova scotia, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
We Have Your Husband (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: American-born Jayne Valseca, her husband Eduardo, the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But in the summer of 2007, their peaceful ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: captivity, danger, kidnapping, confined, abduction, kidnapped, ambush, family problems, changing lives, strong female presence, true crime
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.1
 11K
Cargo 200 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad.
Style: rough, bleak, psychological, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, sadism, sexual abuse, murder, rape victim, sexual perversion, life is a bitch, psychopath, perversion, rape, teenage rape, psycho killer ...
Time: 80s, year 1984, 90s, 20th century
Place: afghanistan, soviet union, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.8
 49K
Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style: bleak, depressing, sad, harsh, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: human trafficking, poverty, prostitution, suicide, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, teenage prostitution, teenage life, youth, rape, slavery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: europe, denmark, russia, soviet union, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 147K
The Guilty (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A demoted police officer assigned to a call dispatch desk is conflicted when he receives an emergency phone call from a kidnapped woman.
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: police, kidnapping, woman in jeopardy, abduction, police station, who done it, woman in danger, heroes, kidnapped woman, danger, escapades, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 603
Rivals (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: stalking, teenage life, friendship, couples, youth, love and romance, bullying, seduction, rape, revenge, danger, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.1
 3K
Stoic (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.
Style: disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, rough, cerebral ...
Plot: prison life, physical abuse, confined, criminal heroes, murder disguised as suicide, society, rebellion, crime gone awry, buddies, life is a bitch, gory, prison ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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