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Expectant (2020)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A pregnant woman finds herself in serious danger when she agrees to live with the couple who plan to adopt her unborn child.
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, tension, dark, disturbing, sinister, entertaining
Plot:
pregnant woman, surrogate mother, motherhood, child, woman, parents and children, adoption, danger, surrogate family, living together, relationships, life, pregnancy, kids and family, family relations, risk, lifestyle, threat, family in danger, couple relations, house, deception, parenthood, manipulation, female protagonist ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Expectant
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, suspense, tense and captivating films with plots about isolation, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, female protagonist, manipulation, revenge and home invasion mostly in Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Expectant: The Girl in the Window (2021), The Neighbor in the Window (2020), In the Forest (2022), Killer Single Dad (2018), Mommy Would Never Hurt You (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After fleeing her abusive boyfriend, Ava, a pregnant woman, is rescued from a car accident by a friendly married couple. While recovering at their home, she begins to fear the couple may have a sinister plan for her and her unborn baby
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, bleak, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, pregnancy, married couple, car, fear, woman, accident, woman in danger, pregnant woman, couples, survival, manipulation ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A suburban wife who finds herself and the security of her family threatened by another seemingly friendly neighborhood mom.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
neighbor, couple relations, parents and children, lifestyle, trapped, surveillance, fear, twists and turns, family life, characters in danger, family relations, nightmare comes true ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Helen and her daughter Emily reluctantly accompany Helen’s father Stan on a family camping trip, driving deep into the forest for a real outdoors experience, only to have angry landowner Howard arrive and force them to leave. When their RV gets ...
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival horror, struggle for survival, backwoods, forest, family relations, secret, escape, isolation, danger, deathtrap, female protagonist, death threat ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
An expectant mother befriends a Good Samaritan who saved her life, but is unaware that he is the father of her unborn baby and is "collecting" all of the children he sired as an anonymous sperm donor years before.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, dark, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
parenthood, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, family life, sperm donor, secret, expectant father, fatherhood, motherhood ...
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Riley wants to rebuild her relationship with her mother and little sister, who are shut-ins due to her sister's illness. When Riley realizes her sister may not be sick, her mother will stop at nothing to keep her daughters with her forever.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
child murderess, mother daughter relationship, murder, psychopath, female antagonist, violence, emotional manipulation, psychological abuse, control, family drama, motherhood, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Lauren and Anthony hire a new midwife after their last one mysteriously vanishes, but things may not be as they seem.
Style:
sinister, creepy, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
midwife, pregnancy, psychological manipulation, secret past, manipulation, female protagonist, deception, paranoia, family drama, newborn, isolation, intimate ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After Samantha's mother passes away, her spirits are lifted with the sudden appearance of her long lost Grandmother, Colleen. All is well until Colleen's dark past reveals itself and Sam is forced to fight for her life.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
family secret, family problems, pregnant woman, pregnancy, family relations, female ghost, ghost, dysfunctional family, psychological manipulation, survival, deception, secret identity ...
Similarity:
65%
625
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman being terrorized by a stalker hires and develops a relationship with a handsome private detective, not realizing he'd become her deadly avenging angel.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stalker, private detective, revenge, female protagonist, relationships, stalking, relationship problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, terror, problem, psycho terror ...
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A busy working mother hires a nurse to care for her wealthy father who has early onset dementia. Soon a bizarre deception creeps into play when the seductive nurse makes a play for the family fortune.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, dark
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, nurse, manipulation, greed, inheritance, betrayal, suspicion, seduction, house, dementia, female villain, family drama ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
family secret, female protagonist, secret, dark secret, family problems, family relations, housewife, dysfunctional family, dark past, psychological manipulation, domestic drama, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This gripping thriller follows Anna who moves to a remote island as the new bride of a famous mystery writer. Once there, she uncovers secrets about her new husband's dead former wife and fears she may be the next victim.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, female protagonist, life is a bitch, uncover truth, relationships, writers, problem, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, secret, threat, island ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An aspiring actress responds to a mysterious classified ad and finds herself trapped in her new boss's twisted revenge fantasy.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, revenge, aspiring actress, trap, actress, social media, obsession, price of fame, social network, life is a bitch, rising to stardom, problem ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The tale of a yuppie couple unable to conceive and desperate for a child. They enlist the services of Jennifer to act as surrogate mother. Unbeknownst to the couple, Jennifer has an ulterior motive to this union - to exact revenge for a childhood ...
Style:
suspense, sinister, tense, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, revenge, obsession, pregnancy, vengeance, motherhood, childhood trauma, deception, female villain, terror, claustrophobia, mental disorder ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A criminal husband and his wife hide in a lone trailer. Exhausted by her husbands controlling ways, she decides to leave. But then a trailer arrives with a couple which creates dangerous consequences for them all.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, tension, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot:
criminal, relationship problems, marital problem, threat, family problems, problem, life is a bitch, hiding place, isolation, fear, manipulation, domestic violence ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
52%
894
Genre: Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A grieving mother lures her daughter's killer into her smart home in order to take revenge, becoming involved in a distorted game where life and death are at stake.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tension, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, trap, murder, cat versus mouse, killing, deathtrap, avenge, problem, murderer, intrigue, mind game ...
Similarity:
51%
1K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A widower and his deaf daughter are held hostage and forced to dig under their house, revealing dark secrets from the past.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, tension, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, hostage, threat, widower, father, home invasion, problem, hidden money, father and daughter, single father, single parent, hostage situation ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jill strives to connect with her new teenage stepdaughter, Casey, who is struggling with a dark past that leads her down a path of destruction.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, father, family relations, relationships, intrigue, stepmother, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, family problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A weekend vacation turns terrifying when computer scientist Samantha (Alexandra Paul) and her daughter are lured into the hands of a killer. Kidnapped and held hostage, Samantha is given a choice: she must use her expertise to help her captors carry ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mother daughter relationship, psycho killer, abduction, danger, hostage situation, coercion, hacking, kidnapped, murderer, kidnapped woman, hostage ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Melissa, a happily married woman with an eight-year-old daughter, invites her husband's mother to live with them, only to realize that Grandma is unhinged and wants to kidnap Melissa's daughter to replace her own dead child.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, dark, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
child abduction, mother in law daughter in law relationship, parents and children, dysfunctional family, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, kidnapping, abduction, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, manipulation, family drama ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Marielle becomes suspicious when her sister-in-law escapes from a cult and seeks refuge at her home. When another cult member shows up on her doorstep, she fears her daughter is their next target.
Style:
suspense, tense
Plot:
danger, female protagonist, protective mother, family drama, stalking, escape, manipulation, secret past, paranoia, family secret, home invasion, escapee ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenage girl visits her mom on death row and gets lured into a dangerous trap to take the fall for her mother's crimes.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, guilt, false accusation, manipulation, death row, murder, trap, family problems, trapped, murderer, parents and children, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, girl next door, maniac, surveillance camera, neighbor, threat, stalking, hidden camera, isolation, manipulation, obsession, paranoia ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
survival, sex trafficking, serial killer, paranoia, trauma, human trafficking, kidnapping, female protagonist, struggle for survival, trap, trapped, murderer ...
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Thirteen years after disappearing and presumed drowned, Matt returns home to his mother Sarah. Suspicions grow when her older son Ian is injured in a car accident similar to the one that recently killed his father.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
car accident, family problems, family drama, missing person, secret past, suspicion, family secret, deception, family relations, getting home, accident, mysterious disappearance ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alyssa moves into a luxury apartment complex but is unaware she is being watched by her disturbed landlord, Robert, via hidden cameras. Robert will do anything to fill the void left by his estranged daughter–even if that means replacing her.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, female protagonist, landlord tenant relationship, stalker, surveillance, estrangement, female comedian, secretly observing, cat and mouse, danger, voyeurism, isolation ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
'Evolution of Evil' is the story of Lori and Christopher, a Pacific Northwest couple wanting to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city into the wilderness. The couple makes their way past the usual campsites, and backpack into the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tension, sinister, psychological horror ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, isolation, forest, danger, backpacking, man versus nature, couples, paranoia, camping, threat, fear ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When two female friends decide to try their hand at a storage locker auction, they unwittingly inherit a locker belonging to a dangerous serial killer. They soon find themselves in a desperate race to uncover the truth about the locker before the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, dark, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
evidence, threat, stalker, murder, female protagonist, locker, stalking, danger, problem, women, criminal, secrets ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman moves to a new town and opens her own gourmet restaurant after escaping from an abusive relationship. However, she soon finds herself in a deadly game of cat and mouse when she becomes the target of constant harassment from a jealous man.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
stalker, female protagonist, chef, female chef, restaurant, problem, relationships, male female relationship, life is a bitch, jealousy, jealous man, threat ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A single mother restores a Victorian home and opens a bed-and-breakfast, but the arrival of a guest with a hidden agenda shatters the peace.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, single mother, intruder, home invasion, problem, life is a bitch, secret, single parent, house, undercover, secrets, deception ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Following a break-in, Scott and Mara decide to install a deluxe home security system and give their new nanny all of the pass codes. With the codes, the nanny torments the couple by controlling the smart home's system from her laptop.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
woman with a gun, woman seduces a man, surveillance, privacy invasion, woman, spouse in danger, security system, computer system, danger, jeopardy, female protagonist, remote control ...
Time:
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