Movies like The Aviary

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The Aviary (2022)
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The Aviary (2022)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of “freedom” in the isolated desert campus called The Aviary, Jillian and Blair join forces to escape in hopes of real freedom. Consumed by fear and paranoia, they can’t shake the feeling that they are being followed by the cult’s leader, Seth, a man as seductive as he is controlling. The more distance the pair gains from the cult, the more Seth holds control of their minds. With supplies dwindling and their senses failing, Jillian and Blair are faced with a horrifying question: how do you run from an enemy who lives inside your head?
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, thrilling, psychological thriller
Plot: cult leader, survival, escape, desert, manhunt, female protagonist, hallucination, runaway, religious sect, women, sect, mental disorder, occult, religious cult, paranoid, threat, escape attempt, death threat, therapy, murder, new mexico desert, map, hiking, human experiment, on the run ...
Place: new mexico

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about female protagonist, threat, murder, problem, murderer, survival and woman in danger mostly in Thriller genres. Some movies like The Aviary: Psycho Party Planner (2020), Drawn Into the Night (2022), Goodbye Honey (2020), Captors (2020), Broken Star (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Psycho Party Planner (2020)
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Duration: 93 min.
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Goodbye Honey (2020)
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Captors (2020)
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Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Thriller
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Duration: 120 min.
Story: Bride-to-be Carina (Durance) decides to take four friends to an exotic Caribbean island for a hen party to remember. After arriving at the luxurious resort the women take a boat ride to an isolated island where they can bask in the sun and sand - ...
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