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Fear by the Lake (2020)
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Original name: Peur sur le lac
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A mysterious and mortally contagious virus threatens the population of Annecy, in southeastern France. A desperate race against the clock envelops to find out where the virus came from and keep it from becoming an epidemic.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
Plot:
pandemic, virus, society, peril, apocalypse, survival, violence, friendship, plague, death, murder, friends, family relations, parents and children, chase, evil, fear, chaos, danger, hiding place, human nature, camaraderie, characters in danger, fate of humanity, human existence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, switzerland
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Most similar movies to Fear by the Lake
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, disturbing and scary films and TV series with plots about violence, death, chase, society, murder, peril and survival horror mostly in Drama, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like Fear by the Lake: Survivors (2015), Crimson Wedding (2018), Infected (2016), Reaction Time (2011), The Bite (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
196
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Kate Meadows (Joanne Gale) and her cameraman Duke (Simon Burbage) embark on a mission to uncover whether or not a government weapons contractor has secretly been using humans as their test subjects. As they dig deeper, they realise the brutal ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychotronic, disturbing
Plot:
virus, zombie, fate of humanity, fear, friends, human existence, supernatural, death, graphic violence, camaraderie, society, plague ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
britain
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
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Story:
There is a party atmosphere in Provence: Sandra, the daughter of a couple of renowned local restaurant owners, is getting married, and her sister Alice comes home for the occasion. The family reunion is initially a carefree affair… but then ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot:
murder, murder investigation, partner, corpse, police officer, revenge, police detective, law enforcement, uncover truth, chase, family relations, murder mystery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
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Story:
A series of six 2 minute internet web episodes from 3 June to 19 June 2014; prior "The Last Ship" screening on 22 June 2014; featuring Rhona Mitra as Doctor Rachel Scott. In these episodes, Doctor Scott sets some of the background to the ...
Style:
bleak, exciting, suspense, scary, suspenseful
Plot:
virus, navy, plague, apocalypse, killing, chaos, escapades, vengeance, graphic violence, human nature, desperation, peril ...
Time:
future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
When Marcus Smith's whole life turns completely upside down due to an Infectious disease that turns the dead into walking dead, he must ban together with his old friend Shane Valdez and a group of Survivors. Together they learn the new way of ...
Style:
psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, survival horror, heroes, walking dead, violence, undead, zombie outbreak, post apocalypse, friendship between men, zombie apocalypse, survival, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A family confined to a villa in which they live. Outside an unnatural fog that burns people that enter in contact with it. No possibility for communication with the outside, only a hypothesis about a possible cause of the phenomenon. In complete ...
Style:
allegory, bleak, suspense, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
family relations, abusive relationship, parents and children, fog, dystopian future, human existence, peril, violence, hiding place, murder, fate of humanity, supernatural power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
During an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus outbreak in New York City, two neighbors, Rachel and Lily, navigate life in quarantine. While Rachel juggles her many telemedicine clients as well as a shaky, passionless marriage, Lily is ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, contemplative ...
Plot:
virus, evil, zombie, plague, woman in danger, female protagonist, zombie apocalypse, dystopian future, killing, society, escapades, panic ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A story that follows three children from a coastal town who unintentionally film a murder scene. As the kids become involved with the suspect, it opens up a case that is far more complicated than it looks and entraps several families into an ...
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
child abuse, murder, death, investigation, uncover truth, blackmailer, society, youth, friends, danger, partner, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After Hassan discovers Zidik living alone on the streets, he takes him in and cares for him like a son. Zidik now works together with Hassan in the junkyard but both men are stuck in the past. 15 years ago, they lost their loved ones to a virus that ...
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, bleak, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie apocalypse, zombie, panic, human nature, family relations, undead, characters in danger, chaos, youth, death, society, dystopian future ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
malaysia
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The world has been devastated by the virus that has reanimated the dead to consume the living. Australia has so far remained unscathed through a brutal border protection policy and internment facilities. Derek Jones and the High Risk Response Unit ...
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, deadly virus, survival horror, military, dystopian future, violence, evil, virus, survival, plague, pandemic, human existence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A group of students, barricaded in the school library, fight for survival during a zombie outbreak. As food supplies dwindle, old rivalries resurface, and one of their own begins lash out, the kids come to understand that escape may be their only ...
Style:
bleak, suspense, disturbing, scary, psychotronic
Plot:
escape, killing, dystopian future, escapades, human nature, zombie, family relations, plague, pandemic, murder, panic, peril ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Seven years ago, a mysterious monster was found deep in a rural coal mine. Since then, rumors of a plague spread through the small town, and people experience an unexplainable mental illness. A young Shugendo practitioner goes missing only to ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, epidemic, creature, monster, pandemic, virus, peril, life is a bitch, vestiges of humanity, characters in danger, human existence, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
56%
239
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Following a nuclear power plant meltdown, a nearby village known as Nosferatu Village, became radiated, and subsequently abandoned for more than a decade. The year is 1984, and the public are now permitted to return, and a small group come back to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, bleak, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
bat, survival horror, virus, survival, violence, escape, human existence, plague, evil, hiding place, friendship, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
A plane bearing biohazardous material crashes into a town, and a deaf women has to navigate her way through the aftermath.
Style:
psychotronic, bleak, suspense, scary, disturbing
Plot:
zombie, survival, survival horror, escape, quarantine, biohazard, virus, murder, killing, chaos, society, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Sara is a research student who wants to make an immunity booster to save humanity. Her experiment however turns people into zombies and in comes Dhruva to save the day.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
fate of humanity, survival, walking dead, virus, zombie apocalypse, dystopian future, death, human existence, vestiges of humanity, insanity, vaccine, pandemic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
Two rival gangs with a history of violence rule the roost in Chennai. An upright youngster, Vijay, is pulled into their never-ending power play and has to give up his hopes of becoming a police officer when he resorts to violence.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
gang member, criminal, friendship between men, heroes, danger, tough guy, murder, violence, evil man, death, friendship, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, gangster, danger, criminal, bandit, family relations, rivalry, youth, friends, society, gang, vengeance ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Three years after Vanished by the Lake, Lise and Clovis are now by another lake, in Annecy, and face the challenge of a new family life with their nine-month-old son Tom as the couple takes on a demanding new investigation.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, crime thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, teamwork, female detective, police procedural, crime investigation, crime solving, male female relationship, forensics, police detective, tragic past ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
No sooner has 15-year-old Lee Keegan been expelled from his private school than an apocalyptic event wipes out most of the world's population. With his father dead and mother trapped abroad, Lee is given one instruction: go back to school. But ...
Style:
scary, psychotronic, suspense, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
apocalypse, escape, pandemic, teenager, school, dystopia, killing, panic, family relations, murder, death, youth ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
The story about the activity in Rostov of the gang of "phantasms" that robbed state institutions and kept the entire city in fear. Vyacheslav Tolstopyatov, having witnessed the brutal execution of protesters in Novocherkassk in June 1962, ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
youth, murder, danger, society, violence, rivalry, family relations, vengeance, friendship, political protest, demonstration, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
60s
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of survivors struggle to exist as a virus begins to turn the entire human population into flesh eating zombies.
Style:
psychotronic, exciting, scary, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
eye, survival horror, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, walking dead, human existence, supernatural, vestiges of humanity, escapades, chase, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
44%
185
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the course of a demonstration in Rome against the opening of a refugee center, an apocalypse of zombies breaks out. Enrico, an ultra-rightist young man lying on his identity, finds refuge in the center. The only safe place for him is this refugee ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
escape, racism, zombie apocalypse, refugee, fascism, nazism, corpse, survival horror, human existence, survival, characters in danger, killing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The protagonist of the story, Ercüment Çözer rebels against disrespect and rudeness that we tend to avoid, ignore and eventually forget. Ercüment Çözer is a sociopath obsessed with the idea of respect. However, this time, he is not alone on ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense
Plot:
vigilante, violence, murder, businessman, corruption, serial killer, revenge, who done it, police investigation, danger, partner, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Revolves around Marcos, a thirty something year old man largely unremarkable but for the fact that he managed to escape an epidemic of the undead sweeping through Mexico City - and, indeed, the world - by taking flight and surviving as best he can ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot:
zombie, survival, killing, dystopian future, escapades, death, human existence, fear, walking dead, insanity, murder, undead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Murder strikes a family-run perfume business, and everyone is a suspect.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot:
murder investigation, partner, vengeance, death, name calling, murder, mysterious man, suspicion, law enforcement, who done it, friends, testimony ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Five Spec Ops, Alpha Squad, head a simple Recon Mission that turns into an all out war for survival against a wave of undead experiments. Alpha Squad must fight, not just for the sake of their own survival, but the fate of the world.
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
military, apocalypse, zombie apocalypse, evil scientist, fight, plague, graphic violence, survival, walking dead, danger, peril, characters in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
The main hero of "Archivist" is Henryk Mikos (Henryk Talar), an employee of the police archives who is above average memory and intelligence, who is trying to solve unexplained criminal cases from years ago. He is partnering with a young, ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, contemplative
Plot:
partner, who done it, partners against crime, murder investigation, police detective, police investigation, chases and races, coworker, uncover truth, friends, law enforcer, mysterious man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
42%
133
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
On this ill-fated day when many in this sector of the world go completely insane, a group of virtual strangers left with sanity have to fight to stay alive by fending off those out for blood. The heart and courage of different individuals are ...
Style:
psychotronic, disturbing, scary, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
zombie, survival horror, survival, plague, illness, insanity, craziness, death, blood, murder, zombie apocalypse, walking dead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On July 4th, private Jay Williams returns home from the Middle East, but a mysterious epidemic breaks out and infects his friends at his party. On the road to salvation, Jay is joined by his ex-sergeant, who reveals chilling secrets leading to a ...
Style:
psychotronic, disturbing, suspense, scary, suspenseful
Plot:
zombie, epidemic, survival horror, infection, pandemic, walking dead, characters in danger, soldier, plague, zombie apocalypse, violence, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, frightening, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
zombie, survival, virus, post apocalypse, apocalypse, pandemic, walking dead, supernatural, zombie apocalypse, peril, plague, fear ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, atlanta georgia, georgia
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: Germany
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
An unknown plague is rapidly spreading in Berlin. All its carriers turn into blood-thirsty zombies who feed off the uninfected. After a short time, ninety five percent of the population is dead or undead; Berlin's face has changed entirely. ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful
Plot:
zombie, plague, extinction, apocalypse, walking dead, zombie apocalypse, characters in danger, killing, chaos, survival, human existence, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
40%
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