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X (2022)
221K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1979, a group of young filmmakers set out to make an adult film in rural Texas, but when their reclusive, elderly hosts catch them in the act, the cast find themselves fighting for their lives.
Style:
slasher, suspense, psychological, disturbing, scary, erotic, dark, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
elderly couple, serial killer, adult filmmaking, televangelist, characters murdered one by one, husband wife relationship, farmhouse, van, old woman, jealousy, farmer, old age, sex worker, cocaine, female voyeur, sex scene, murder investigation, old man, farm, cow, pond, alligator, stripper, pitchfork, trapped ...
Time:
2020s, 70s, year 1918, 20th century, 1910s, year 1979
Place:
texas, houston texas
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Most similar movies to X
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out slasher, suspenseful, scary and suspense films with plots about murder, blood, death, terror, violence, serial killer and psychopath mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like X: Pearl (2022), MaXXXine (2024), My Bloody Valentine (2009), The House of the Devil (2009), The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
156K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations and repressions ...
Style:
slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
farm, serial killer, female protagonist, farmhouse, murder, rural setting, domineering mother, world war one, serial killer as protagonist, scarecrow, mental illness, audition ...
Time:
1910s, 2020s, year 1918, 20th century
Place:
texas, europe, usa
Similarity:
100%
84K
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.
Style:
slasher horror, slasher, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder mystery, fame, serial killer, hollywood, whodunit, video store, actress, aspiring actress, porn industry, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, private detective ...
Time:
year 1985, year 1959, 80s, 1950s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry ...
Style:
slasher, scary, intense, stylized, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
miner, serial killer, mine, valentine's day, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unknown killer, mining town, strong violent content, killer, mysterious villain, psycho killer ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 1980s, college student Samantha Hughes takes a strange babysitting job that coincides with a full lunar eclipse. She slowly realizes her clients harbor a terrifying secret.
Style:
creepy, spooky, suspenseful, frightening, gothic ...
Plot:
ritual, satanic cult, supernatural, female protagonist, macabre, satanic ritual, haunted house, devil, sacrifice, lunar eclipse, female college student, religious cult ...
Time:
80s, year 2009, year 2000, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, surprise ending, splatter, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, masked killer, masked man, revenge, murder, brutality, dead teenager, halloween, maniac, reverse cowgirl, small town life, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 1976, year 2013, year 1946
Place:
arkansas, texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, teen, cult classic, scary ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, serial killer, youth, teenage life, psychopath, teenager, mystery killer, friends, murder, gory, teenage sexuality, dead teenager ...
Time:
20th century, year 2006, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
orphan, basketball, male nudity, athlete, cheerleader, caught having sex, attic, homosexual, serial killer, homosexuality, high school, hairy chested man ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Similarity:
100%
156K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, masked killer, murder, hostage, brutality, blood, masked man, violence, masked villain, killer ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ignoring the warnings of the locals, a group of teenage camp counselors takes on the job of reopening Camp Crystal Lake — on Friday the 13th no less, and raise the ire of Jason Voorhees, a masked, homicidal maniac.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
psychopath, gory, masked killer, death, group of friends, brutality, massacre, danger, revenge, maniac, camp, videotaped sex ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s, 2000s
Place:
texas, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
50%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
Similarity:
31%
505K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
31%
81K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people on a road trip from Colorado to New Jersey talk to a trucker on their CB radio, then must escape when he turns out to be a psychotic killer.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, truck driver, truck, prank, twists and turns, paranoia, psychopath, brother brother relationship, torture, brutality, road trip, trap ...
Time:
year 2001, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, north america, colorado, salt lake city utah, nebraska ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, suspense, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, voyeur, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, haunted house, old dark house, insanity, motel, nun ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style:
scary, bloody, mind bending, slasher, lovecraft ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
monster, creature, supernatural, woods, cabin in the woods, survival, trapped, cosmic horror, fear, zombie, death, werewolf ...
Time:
year 2012, 20th century, year 2000, year 2009, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A group of young horror fans go searching for a film that mysteriously vanished years ago but instead find that the demented killer from the movie is real, and he's thrilled to meet fans who will die gruesomely for his art.
Style:
slasher, bloody, splatter, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, gory, masked killer, self mutilation, murder, corpse, torture, blood, filmmaking, deliberate cruelty, wilderness ...
Time:
year 2009, 80s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
killer, masked killer, gory, friday the 13th, masked man, serial teen killer, murder, serial killer, male victim, outdoor sex, murder of a nude woman, summer camp ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, america
Similarity:
30%
144K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, group of friends, torture, murder, violence, small town, gory, brutality, ghost town, wax museum, masked man ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa, florida, louisiana, new york, paris france
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, slasher, psychotronic, sexual ...
Plot:
female nudity, tarantula, serial killer, lesbianism, dysfunctional marriage, woman in jeopardy, sadistic psychopath, serial murder, whodunit, psychopath, obsession, maniac ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
30%
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103K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, sexy, satanic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
private detective, investigation, twists and turns, satan, devil, voodoo, amnesia, satanic ritual, incest, supernatural, occult ritual, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1987, 50s, 20th century, year 1918, year 1942 ...
Place:
new orleans, southern usa, new york, louisiana, usa ...
Similarity:
30%
254K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style:
psychological horror, scary, suspense, spooky, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
basement, secret passageway, locked in a room, fear, kidnapping, secret room, locked in, psychopath, rape, serial rapist, terror, serial killer ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
detroit, brooklyn new york city, usa
Similarity:
30%
14K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, suspense, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, gory, chainsaw, exploitation, danger, stalking, sexual repression, blood, male nudity, trauma, dismemberment ...
Time:
80s, 1940s, year 1942, year 1982
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
30%
64K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological horror ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stepmother, suicide, cult leader, winter, mass suicide, religion, destiny, violence, murder, suicide of mother, snow, loss of mother ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Cherry Falls is a quiet little town - until the night that a serial killer begins preying on its youth. After a third teen is found slain, the killer's modus operandi emerges: the victims were all virgins. Sheriff Marken is concerned for the ...
Style:
slasher, independent film, teen, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, murder, father daughter relationship, virgin, gang rape, high school, teenager, dead teenager, sheriff, small town, pregnant from rape ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
usa, virginia, west virginia
Similarity:
30%
226K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate ...
Style:
scary, brutal, twist ending, frightening, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, serial killer, mind game, game of death, sadism, trap, violent, mutilation, gory, sadistic horror, killer, plot twist ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
70K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, slasher, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
revenge, underage drinking, basement, mental health, group of friends, twists and turns, teenage girl, psychopath, teenager, social network, female psychopath, teen drinking ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a seemingly innocent prank goes horribly wrong, a group of sorority sisters are stalked and murdered one by one in their sorority house while throwing a party to celebrate their graduation.
Style:
slasher, independent film, bloody, psychotronic, slasher horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, prank, female nudity, sorority, attic, murder, killer clown, voyeur, accidental death, dead woman, old woman, hallucination ...
Time:
year 2016, 20th century, 80s, 1950s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
113K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, murder, hotel, survival horror, hostage, danger, voyeurism, kidnapped, estranged couple, motel, macabre ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Stranded backpackers in remote Australia fall prey to a murderous bushman who offers to fix their car, then takes them captive
Style:
slasher, bloody, scary, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, maniac, torture, sadistic horror, psycho killer, macabre, killer, outback, massacre, gory, sadistic killer ...
Time:
year 2005, year 1999, 21st century
Place:
australia, sydney australia, oceania, texas
Similarity:
30%
336K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, slasher horror, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, holiday horror, babysitter, death, masked killer, killer, small town, psychiatrist, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1963, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america, midwest, california
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Style:
dark, psychological, spooky, slasher, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
occult, demonic possession, grief, supernatural horror, afterlife, near death experience, depressed woman, bookstore, forest, depression, suicide of husband, widow ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Similarity:
30%
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