Movies like Play Dead
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Play Dead (2022)
5K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tension, tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, slasher horror
Plot:
female protagonist, corpse, cat versus mouse, faking one's own death, dead man, undercover, secret, disposing of a dead body, threat, dead woman, survival, deception, claustrophobia, fear, coroner, cat and mouse, fake death, escape, investigation, violence, isolation, confined, suspicion, mature, body horror ...
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Most similar movies to Play Dead
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and captivating films with plots about isolation, survival, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, female protagonist, threat and paranoia mostly in Horror, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Play Dead: The Follower (2022), Trap House (2023), In the Forest (2022), Punorjonmo 3 (2022), Double Blind (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After an unsuccessful attack on an online sensation, an enraged follower stalks a group of millennials on vacation.
Style:
thrilling, psychological horror, psychological thriller, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
stalker, psycho killer, masked killer, obsession, fear, social media, problem, murder, blogger, murderer, threat, attempted murder ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a drug epidemic ravages the city, Detective Grant Pierce decides to take matters into his own hands, going undercover to infiltrate the infamous "Trap House": a madman's meth lab outfitted with lethal and sadistic booby traps.
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, crime thriller, thrilling ...
Plot:
revenge, investigation, gang, meth lab, criminal, bandit, gunfight, crime solving, police detective, fighting crime, homicide detective, criminal's revenge ...
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:
82%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After discovering about Rafsan Haq's sinister side Rokeya is running away from him . On the other hand, Police is desperately trying to encircle Rafsan Haq. What will be his next move?
Style:
suspense, dark, crime thriller, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
escape, threat, pursuit, fear, danger, chase, psychological manipulation, law enforcement, urban, confrontation, manhunt, female protagonist ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
81%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
Style:
suspenseful, medical horror, psychological thriller, tension, thrilling ...
Plot:
insomnia, scientific experiment, sleep deprivation, isolation, experimental drug, race against time, experiment, human experiment, problem, threat, experiment gone awry, paranoia ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A remote helpline volunteer is targeted by a stranger who lures women from their homes with a recording of a crying baby.
Style:
creepy, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
killer, cold blooded killer, problem, secret, psychological manipulation, stalker, cat and mouse, paranoia, isolation, manipulation, female protagonist, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
The Dark Below is an experimental thriller set on Michigan's Great Lakes.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, tension, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, underwater, danger, isolation, frostbite, ice, hypothermia, struggle for survival, survival, fear, lake, cold ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Amy, a young woman is on the run with her young son Adrian from her abusive ex-girlfriend. When the past rises up to haunt them, they must confront the forces threatening them from both outside and in.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, psychological, gothic horror, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, problem, threat, confronting the past, troubled past, family problems, dark past, life is a bitch, mother and son, on the run, escape, paranoia ...
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two unsuspecting strangers, Jason and Allison, find themselves participants in a twisted new dating service. Led by the Matchmaker, it forces the two singles inside a nightmarish maze designed to help them find their soul mates, or die trying.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
maze, survival horror, threat, stranger, problem, dating show, survival, mind game, twisted game, psychological manipulation, isolation, dating service ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two couples drive to a secluded house in the desert for a weekend getaway, each with their own baggage, expectations, and secrets. Upon their arrival, they’re met by two strangers, claiming to have rented the house as well.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
home invasion, vacation gone wrong, vacation, serial killer, night, multiple storylines, threat, secrets, fear, murder, multiple perspectives, isolation ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A zombie plague takes over the United States.
Style:
independent film, tension, suspense, intense, grim
Audience:
adult
Plot:
zombie, undead, survival, apocalypse, fear, blood, survivor, isolation, escape, home invasion, panic, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
58%
10K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Style:
intense, mind bending, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
survival, claustrophobia, female protagonist, isolation, mature, violence, paranoia, supernatural, home invasion, body horror, slow burn, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
College students sign up for what seems a simple paid research study, they soon realize their lives are in danger. Unfortunately they've unknowingly volunteered their bodies as human collateral in an ongoing U.S. Military experiment.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
survival, experiment gone awry, danger, confined, murder, student, chaos, zombie, military, violence, fear, conspiracy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
56%
1K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A pregnant realtor must survive a night of terror when a deranged client shows up at her open house.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
home invasion, confrontation, single, fear, survival, suspicion, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, siege, isolation, escape, panic ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Following the death of a co-worker, a young woman working for a private airline learns the owner's secret and becomes the next target.
Style:
tense, suspense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, flight attendant, female protagonist, death, secret, airline, woman in danger, secrets, murder mystery, murderer, threat, dark secret ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young couple leave behind their party lifestyle and find tranquility in an isolated rental cabin only to realize they have checked into a sinister nightmare as the locals reveal the true reason for their solitude.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
survival, cabin in the woods, isolation, family relations, dark secret, threat, undercover, trapped, secret, husband wife relationship, trap, remote location ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five swimsuit models staying together in a secluded house fight to stay alive when intruders break in and hold them captive to extort money from their social media followers.
Style:
horror comedy, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
home invasion, model, extortion, hostage situation, intruder, social media, problem, survival, ransom, isolation, kidnapping, violence ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Juliet Corman, instructor for a survival training company invites her sister Holly along to the first course in a new centre in Kent woodland, unaware that waiting for them is a killer experimenting with ancient Celtic methods of human sacrifice.
Style:
slasher, tense, dread, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, woods, blood, human sacrifice, fear, survival, celtic, folk horror, violence, female protagonist, escape, occult ...
Similarity:
49%
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452
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Kathleen Quinlan is a woman working late in her locked High-Rise office building who along with Bruce Abbot struggle to elude a killer (Ben Loggins) trying to kill them.
Style:
suspense, tension, intense, dark, action thriller ...
Plot:
isolation, murder, cat and mouse, female protagonist, claustrophobia, office, survival, fear, elevator, trapped, chase, stalker ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Similarity:
49%
541
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of teens stumble across the story of now dead serial killer Baby Blue and decide he'd be the perfect subject of a true crime vodcast. But when they start digging, they quickly discover that his murder spree never stopped. Now they are ...
Style:
suspense, dark, thrilling, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, ghost, paranormal, psycho killer, supernatural horror, killing, paranormal activity, murderer, mysticism, murder, paranormal phenomena, revenge from beyond the grave ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Laura is having a day that can hardly get any worse, but then she stumbles into a cabdriver and things are about to get even worse.
Style:
intense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival, fear, struggle for survival, blood, female protagonist, panic, psychopath, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, confrontation, violent, serial killer ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
TORTURE ROOM stars Brooke Bailey and Nicki Streisel as two young women who enjoy treating men as toys, manipulating them for fun. But, when their car gets a flat tire on the way home from a big night out on the town the girls find themselves on the ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, women, maniac, torture, violent, manipulative behavior, problem, violence, sex maniac, threat, woman in danger, manipulative woman ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
As Miya and her fiancé plan their dream wedding they are stalked by an eerie and dangerous veiled bride who is determined that Miya will never walk down the aisle.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, obsession, female protagonist, wedding planning, relationship problems, wedding invitation, unfulfilled love, male female relationship, ex couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, tragic love, wedding ...
Similarity:
47%
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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:
46%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A quiet couple. An isolated farmhouse. A pair of desperate fugitives. Everything breaks under pressure...
Style:
suspense, tension, psychotronic, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
home invasion, violence, fear, torture, psychopath, farm, isolation, farmhouse, danger, psycho killer, husband wife relationship, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A self-styled messiah initiates a teenage runaway into his cult of sister-wives. Her rebellious nature upends the community, triggering a bloody uprising against the patriarch.
Style:
art house, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
messiah, island, religious cult, runaway, cult leader, satanic cult, threat, problem, teenager, escape, isolation, violence ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
A surprise birthday prank takes a turn for the worse when a popular social media duo must face the reality of the terrifying aftermath.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological horror, intense, tense ...
Plot:
found footage, prank gone wrong, social media, birthday party, house party, claustrophobia, panic, humiliation, betrayal, revenge, obsession, guilt ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The young female CEO of a new ridesharing app must stop a serial killer who's using the app to lure victims into his car.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, female protagonist, murder, investigation, crime investigation, amateur sleuth, uncover truth, crime solving, murder investigation, workplace, murderer, private investigation ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits a small island in New York and discovers it has a dangerous history.
Style:
tense, disturbing, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
island, remote island, female protagonist, problem, dark secret, undercover, threat, murder, murder mystery, secret, isolation, dark past ...
Similarity:
39%
399
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
'Apology' stars Lesley Anne Warren (with a Stefanie Powers hairdo) as a Manhattan-based sculptor/performance artist. To enhance her latest project, Warren invites the participation of anonymous phone callers, whose voices she records. One ...
Style:
tension, detective, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, confession, female protagonist, stalker, psychopath, obsession, violence, guilt, crime investigation, threat, danger, performance art ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
38%
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