Movies like The Righteous
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The Righteous (2021)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A burdened man feels the wrath of a vengeful God after he and his wife are visited by a mysterious stranger.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, art house, psychological, serious, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
isolation, grief, loss of child, mysterious stranger, house, church, loss of faith, wife, psychopath, death, murder, runaway, police officer, forest, moral ambiguity, psychological torment, ethical dilemma, revenge, supernatural, claustrophobia, family drama, paranoia, suspicion, ambiguity, slow burn ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Righteous
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological thriller, dark and suspense films with plots about isolation, slow burn, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, paranoia, supernatural and murder mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Righteous: The Stepson (2010), American Conjuring (2016), Guilt & Sentence (2010), Tethered (2022), Flee the Light (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Donna May is a grief counselor who suddenly finds herself grieving and alone after the hit-and-run death of her husband, Robert. Soon after Robert's death, Donna's estranged adopted son, Kevin, appears at her house, claiming he has cleaned ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, escape attempt, adopted son, psychopath, secret, mother son conflict, grief, rescue, manipulation, woman in danger, family relations, family drama ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A family move into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their new home has a disturbing history and that they aren't alone…
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, scary, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, paranormal, family relations, orphanage, supernatural, children's home, abandoned house, apparition, curses spells and rituals, house, haunting ...
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, depression, crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, guilty conscience, introspection, traumatic past, character study, guilt, redemption ...
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
forest, supernatural horror, supernatural, isolated house, blind man, isolation, remote location, paranormal phenomena, creature feature, survival horror, survival, blindness ...
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
72%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A psychology student attempts to cure her sister's crippling psychosis only to expose them both to its origin: an ancient creature intent on claiming their souls.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, disturbing, mystical, psychological horror ...
Plot:
psychosis, hallucination, mental illness, reincarnation, supernatural horror, sister sister relationship, mentally unstable woman, dark power, parapsychology, psychology, sister, sisters ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
murder, teenage life, teenager, fear, brutality, graphic violence, psychopath, youth, school, teenage girl, secrets, creepy child ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
inheritance, deception, evidence, death, secret, house, lie, estate, strong female character, uncover truth, grief, family secret ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A drifter passing through a small town is drugged by three masked psychopaths and forced into a bizarre game of cat and mouse. He is chased through a series of more and more bizarre events until, in the end, he finds that this evening of terror has ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, bleak, brutal ...
Plot:
game, survival, masked killer, psychopath, drifter, cat and mouse, violent, danger, murder, manhunt, gory, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
65%
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182
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A developer relocates to a remote island with his family, where the cursed land takes over his soul, but will it make him a killer?
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, serious, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
remote island, obsession, paranormal phenomena, possessed, curses spells and rituals, cursed, curse, murder, island, murderer, possession, supernatural ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An army veteran who returns home to the Ozarks finds an abandoned young boy in the woods, and as she searches for clues to the boy's identity, discovers the local folklore about a spirit, which comes in the form of a child.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, superstition, ptsd, folklore, supernatural, love interest, forest, post traumatic stress disorder, abandoned baby, child in peril, danger, isolation ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, gothic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, secret, murder investigation, death of grandmother, death, dysfunctional family, guilt, confronting the past, female protagonist, family problems, getting home, family relations ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
With her husband working all the time, Kate is thankful when her brother-in-law David reappears to help out. But she soon realizes that he wants to be the new head of the family, and will do anything to make that happen.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot:
brother in law, hostage, murder, psychological manipulation, manipulation, brother brother relationship, vengeance, brothers, family relations, danger, youth, psycho ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A story that follows a family of four leading harmonious and contented lives. When a mysterious visitor starts residing in their basement, their lives are turned upside down as strange events begin to occur.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing, captivating, mystical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
privacy invasion, noisy neighbor, neighbor, life is a bitch, changing lives, mysterious stranger, mysterious man, mysticism, undercover, lifestyle change, life, secret identity ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two couples rent a secluded house for a weekend getaway, and encounter an odd caretaker while facing a dangerous secret.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, tense, sinister ...
Plot:
couples, caretaker, secrets, isolation, claustrophobia, mistrust, psychological manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, moral ambiguity, intimate, confrontation ...
Similarity:
52%
475
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Chuan, a quiet 30-year-old man working as a chef in a Japanese restaurant, collapses suddenly and is rushed to a hospital. His colleagues send him to his father, who resides in the mountains. While there, Chuan becomes immobile: he won’t speak, ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, possession, schizophrenia, mentally unstable, parents and children, danger, family relations, strong violent content, supernatural, macabre, unsettling ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a man living alone in the woods saves the life of a young woman, they are forced to coexist. Chaos ensues when the woman makes a terrifying discovery in the woods behind the man's home and unleashes something truly haunting.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, vengeful ghost, secret, forest, problem, undercover, isolation, haunting, woods, paranormal, secrets ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A group of friends rent an isolated lake house owned by a fitness obsessed man with mysterious intentions.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, tension ...
Plot:
isolation, group of friends, survival, macabre, desperation, violence, friendship, surveillance, obsession, manipulation, paranoia, deception ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Angela (Sarah Smyth) refuses to leave her planned-parenthood clinic after it is shut down by the state, a family of fanatical evangelists vow to make her pay.
Style:
suspense, bleak, rough, serious, dark ...
Plot:
small town, sect, fanaticism, manipulation, mob violence, danger, murder, bigotry, lawlessness, violent, vigilantism, survival ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young couple awakens a terrible force when they attempt to socialize their reclusive neighbor.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
paranormal, recluse, supernatural horror, supernatural power, house, couple relations, supernatural, characters in danger, ghost, violence, paranormal phenomena, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychologist's 10-year-old patient claims she's being menaced by unseen forces after her parents were killed in a car accident. What's more bizarre? The psychologist has seen these symptoms before, in a former patient who ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, psychological horror ...
Plot:
able to see the dead, supernatural, ghost, missing person, child in peril, death in the family, orphan, dealing with death, paranormal phenomena, missing girl, trauma, psychologist ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, suspicion, murder, danger, losing-it hero, hallucination, serial killer, uncover truth, youth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
43%
1K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ju-young is a young woman with a hearing impediment who decides to investigate her sister's inexplicable disappearance, last seen in her apartment. Feeling more and more cornered, Ju-young begins to hear strange sounds and sense an evil ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful, creepy, psychological horror, mysterious ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunting, female protagonist, investigation, paranoia, claustrophobia, suspicion, isolation, obsession, slow burn, grief ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Barbara adjusts to her new life behind bars, her crimes start to haunt her. Her new cellmate Evelyn is about to start an obsessive and ghostly friendship with her, one that Barbara cannot escape from.
Style:
dark, tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
confined space, claustrophobia, character study, obsession, female protagonist, guilt, supernatural, isolation, paranoia, manipulation, power struggle, slow burn ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Mystery, Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ulrik Hansson is 45 years old and lives a secure life in a Swedish residential district together with his wife Monika and their two children. He's got a well-paid job as an architect and builds a new detached house which the family will move ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
murder, memory loss, on the run, family problems, grief, paranoia, obsession, isolation, family drama, midlife crisis, alienation, claustrophobia ...
Time:
90s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Following the death of a family member, a mother and son experience mysterious events which distort their sense of reality and make them question their sanity.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological horror, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, grief, family drama, loss of family member, psychoanalysis, problem, psychological manipulation, paranoia, isolation, mourning, supernatural horror, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
College sweethearts Brad and Ashley venture into the heartland of Germany. Their romantic holiday takes a sinister turn when encountering a German SS Officer, thrusting them into a psychological vortex revealing there is not always life in a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary, dark ...
Plot:
nazi zombie, violence, afterlife, trapped, haunted by the past, murder, psychosis, confined, ghost, danger, ss officer, psychological torment ...
Place:
europe, germany, australia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Dr. Alexanderson finds an unconscious young man by the doorstep of his cabin. He will try to piece together the mans broken memory without knowing the dangers his family and friends will be exposed to in this psychological revenge thriller.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
profanity, vengeance, rivalry, doctors and patients, revenge, uncover truth, danger, supernatural, mind game, secrets, mysterious stranger, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
She, leader of a religious sect, leads a group of people. All live together in a claustrophobic place. The arrival of a mysterious character changes everything.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tension, intense ...
Plot:
religious sect, cult leader, sect, secret society, religious cult, society, religious fanaticism, religious fanatic, religion and supernatural, supernatural horror, religions or cults, fanaticism ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young psychiatrist tries to help a young woman in an asylum who has been accused of having killed a teenage girl. But when she escapes and he goes after her, he finds himself involved in a mystery far greater than simply a woman thought to be ...
Style:
psychological thriller, creepy, twist ending, psychological horror, suspense ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, mysterious death, supernatural, haunting, obsession, paranoia, female protagonist, mother daughter conflict, claustrophobia, isolation, character study, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
33%
532
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fan Kwok Sang's schizophrenic breakdown led to the accidental death of his wife Wai Ling, and he was committed to a psychiatric hospital three years ago. Now Fan is ready to be released, with Dr. Chow Ming Kit vouching for him even though his ...
Style:
disturbing, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental disorder, psychiatrist, schizophrenia, drug addict, murder, rehabilitation, convict, psychiatric hospital, insanity, twists and turns, psychological trauma ...
Similarity:
33%
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