Movies like Orphan: First Kill

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Orphan: First Kill (2022)
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Orphan: First Kill (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip, she is put against a mother who will protect her family from the murderous “child” at any cost.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, slasher, scary, atmospheric, bloody, suspense, intellectual, christmas horror ...
Plot: killer child, psycho killer, female protagonist, brutality, personality change, stolen identity, pretending to be someone else, mental disorder, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, family problems, new identity, mentally unstable, murder, past, family secret, evil girl, pretense, terror, missing daughter, hannibal, human monster, psychopath, mental patient, impostor ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, year 2007
Place: estonia, russia, moscow russia

Most similar movies to Orphan: First Kill

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about murder, psychopath, blood, serial killer, supernatural, death and danger mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Orphan: First Kill: Orphan (2009), Gothika (2003), The Boy (2016), Psycho II (1983), The Initiation (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Orphan (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, estonia
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Gothika (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mind game, hospital, haunted house, wrongfully committed ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, connecticut
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The Boy (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doll, haunted house, supernatural, plot twist, violence, nanny, macabre, murder, mansion, governess, brutality, boy ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: england, america, usa
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 6.6
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Psycho II (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, suspense, splatter ...
Plot: psychopath, serial killer, insanity, murder, mother daughter relationship, characters murdered one by one, psychiatrist, psycho, mental illness, employer employee relationship, female nudity, police station ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
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The Initiation (1984)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, bloody, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, ritual, murder, sorority, nightmare, college, psychopath, female protagonist, prank, supernatural, danger, campus ...
Time: 80s
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Init!ation (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Whiton University unravels the night a star-athlete is murdered, kicking off a spree of social media slayings that force students to uncover the truth behind the school's hidden secrets and the horrifying meaning of an exclamation point.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, fraternity, serial killer, psychopath, athlete, danger, killing spree, university, violence, chase, social media, blood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenage boy begins to suspect that his wholesome, all-American dad is actually the serial killer terrorizing their small town.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: serial killer, father son relationship, church, psycho killer, serial murder, dark past, man kills a woman, double life, teenage boy, small town, investigation, bad guys win ...
Time: 90s, 70s
Place: midwest
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Sorrow (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A couple of depraved killers find themselves in a different situation when the survivor takes matters into her own hands
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, slasher, suspense, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, revenge, escape, killer, vengeance, chief of police, female assassin, obsession, woman in danger, murder, female protagonist, killing spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Awakening the Zodiac (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, criminal, reward, murder, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, uncover truth, police, danger, killing spree, murder mystery, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 6.4
 32K
Creep 2 (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, mumblecore ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, found footage, female nudity, murder, fear, male nudity, psychopath, obsession, escapades, brutality, gory, danger ...
Time: year 2017
Place: new york
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100%
The Hamiltons (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The Hamilton's seem to be an ordinary American family, living in a small town in Northern California and dealing with the problems of everyday life. They've also been recently adjusting to the untimely death of their parents, but since ...
Style: psychological, scary, serious, slasher, suspenseful ...
Plot: incest, serial killer, family secret, murder, vampire, female psychopath, survival, twins, siblings relations, family life, kidnapping, gory ...
Place: usa, california
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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
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Sweet 16 (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A beautiful lonely girl named Melissa tries to make new friends from a town she's currently living in. The only problem is, each of the boys that she spends time with end up brutally murdered. Her sixteenth birthday is on the way, but Melissa ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, serial killer, investigation, teenage life, gory, suburban life, teenage girl, female serial killer, american horror, exploitation, high school, dead teenager ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: texas, usa
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100%
 5.5
 62K
The Omen (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, devil, murder, killer child, devil worship, evil child, antichrist, 666, prophecy, parents and children, hospital, death ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, rome italy, europe, new york ...
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Bliss (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In need of creative inspiration, a professionally stagnant and hard-partying Los Angeles artist recklessly indulges in a series of drug binges. As the narcotics fly out of control, so does her newfound and inexplicable, yet unquenchable, craving for ...
Style: disturbing, scary, suspense, psychological, horror comedy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: female nudity, bare breasts, painter, sex, vampire, painting, life is a bitch, youth, loneliness, danger, psychopath, paranoia ...
Place: los angeles
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100%
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Mosquito State (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns. His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: mosquito, mental illness, mental disorder, identity crisis, hallucination, psychopath, surrealism, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, supernatural, animal attack, male pubic hair ...
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 5.5
 45K
The Ward (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, supernatural, ghost, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, murder, doctors and patients, brutality, danger, hospital, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 60s, 21st century
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Ed Gein: The Butcher of Plainfield (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Inspired by the true story of one of the most gruesome killers in American history. Now, years after inspiring "Psycho's" Norman Bates, "The Silence Of The Lambs'" Buffalo Bill and "The Texas Chainsaw ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, police investigation, violence spree, psychopath, stalking, mind game, danger, killer, true crime, criminal ...
Time: 50s
Place: usa, wisconsin, texas
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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, bloody, psychological, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
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Duration: 100 min.
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Audience: teens
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I See You (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, bleak ...
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Slasher.com (2017)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After meeting online, Jack and Kristy go on a weekend getaway to the woodlands of rural Missouri. While discovering each other, they soon learn of the terrorizing horrors that the forest has in store.
Style: suspense, rough, psychological, scary, slasher ...
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
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Story: Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, date night
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25%
The Last Client (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Renowned psychologist Susanne (Signe Egholm Olsen) is caught in a living nightmare when her new client (Anton Hjejle) turns out to be a wanted serial killer.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tense, disturbing ...
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24%
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic young friends who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
Style: slasher, bloody, scary, suspense, twisted ...
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The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
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24%
Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things ...
Style: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: nightmare, home invasion, serial killer, ghost, sister sister relationship, insanity, sisters, female protagonist, doll, danger, paranoid schizophrenia, violence ...
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24%
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