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Barbarian (2022)
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 soon discovers that there is much more to be afraid of in the house than the other guest.
Style:
psychological horror, scary, suspense, spooky, slasher, disturbing, psychological, rough, enigmatic, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
basement, secret passageway, locked in a room, fear, kidnapping, secret room, locked in, psychopath, rape, serial rapist, serial killer, terror, female protagonist, maze, old man, kidnapper, urban setting, job interview, urban decay, plot twist, rapist, locked in a basement, father daughter incest, mental disorder, vacation gone wrong ...
Time:
2020s, 80s
Place:
detroit, brooklyn new york city, usa, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, suspense and slasher films with plots about blood, murder, fear, violence, death, supernatural and macabre mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Barbarian: Weapons (2025), Get Out (2017), Creep (2014), The Midnight Meat Train (2008), Us (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
306K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, north america
Similarity:
100%
804K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
brooklyn new york city, southern usa, indiana, new york
Similarity:
80%
82K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
found footage, psychopath, obsession, stalker, woods, killer, home invasion, cameraman, lake, serial killer, wolf, hugging ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, america
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
doppelganger, murder, home invasion, amusement park, panic, african american, fear, husband wife relationship, evil twin, traumatic childhood, childhood memory, black family ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, archaeology, survival, treasure hunt, death, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, iran
Similarity:
83%
172K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children
Plot:
danger, elderly, murder, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, grandmother granddaughter relationship, plot twist, basement, farm, parents and children, child protagonist ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
60%
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:
100%
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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, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, slasher horror, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, child abduction, phone terror, basement, serial child killer, victim, small town, locked in a basement, escape attempt, psycho killer, murder, kidnapped ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
colorado, denver colorado
Similarity:
75%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
mental institution, psychiatric ward, supernatural, ghost, brutality, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, haunted, mental illness, doctors and patients, murder, hospital ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 60s, 80s ...
Similarity:
100%
165K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, satanic ...
Plot:
devil, group of strangers, elevator, confined, supernatural, supernatural horror, police investigation, trap, mysterious character, trapped in an elevator, danger, stranded ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
scary, slasher, brutal, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, revenge, psychopath, torture, murder, kidnapping, serial killer, violence, vengeance, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, violence against women ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada, Croatia, Hungary, USA, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
vacation, accident, drug trip, writer's block, hedonism, fictional country, breaking the law, swingers, clone, american horror, group sex, police interrogation ...
Place:
fictional island, former yugoslavia, canada
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, california
Similarity:
67%
235K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain. As an overwhelming terror begins taking over her life, Rose must confront her troubling past ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
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Similarity:
56%
35K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
oregon
Similarity:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
spain, france
Similarity:
100%
194K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century, 2010s, year 2000, year 2014 ...
Place:
california, usa, santa monica california, pasadena california
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100%
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:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When hundreds of videotapes showing torture, murder and dismemberment are found in an abandoned house, they reveal a serial killer's decade-long reign of terror and become the most disturbing collection of evidence homicide detectives have ever ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york state, pennsylvania, new york
Similarity:
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Movie in collections
175K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, brutal, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, game of death, trap, plot twist, deathtrap, mind game, gory, violent, killer, game, blood, master criminal ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
295K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight ...
Style:
scary, slasher, brutal, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, torture, gory, trap, sadistic horror, mind game, serial murder, antidote, killer, violent, insanity, plot twist ...
Time:
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100%
276K
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:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, serial killer, evil child, female psychopath, fear, mysterious character, creepy child, children, parents and children, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
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Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological thriller, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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usa
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Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, demon, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, ghost, nightmare comes true, possession, fear, boy, serial killer, psychic ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 80s, year 1986 ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, psychopath, convict, woman in danger, obsession, violence spree, isolation, serial killer, murder, night, evil wins, female detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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