Movies like They Wait in the Dark
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They Wait in the Dark (2022)
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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, captivating, suspenseful, gothic horror, thrilling, suspense, psychological horror, noir
Plot:
female protagonist, life is a bitch, problem, family problems, threat, dark past, confronting the past, troubled past, mother and son, escape, claustrophobia, on the run, psychological manipulation, paranoia, survival, violence, stalking, isolation, cat and mouse, haunting, slow burn, revenge, home invasion, flashback, moral ambiguity ...
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Most similar movies to They Wait in the Dark
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspenseful and psychological thriller films with plots about isolation, claustrophobia, female protagonist, survival, moral ambiguity, slow burn and cat and mouse mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like They Wait in the Dark: Devil's Island (2021), Don't Wake Mommy (2015), Hotel Dunsmuir (2022), Sorry, Charlie (2023), The Shattering (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Molly is struggling with being a new mom, but after meeting Beth, things temporarily improve only to turn sinister as Beth's dark intentions are brought to light.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
mother, female friendship, gory, life & death, hardcore, suffering, revenge, violence against women, missing child, death, death of child, torment ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young woman with extrasensory perception flees her abusive husband, only to land at an historic hotel containing a sinister presence.
Style:
suspenseful, mystic, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted hotel, supernatural, evil spirit, abusive husband, woman, hotel, supernatural horror, problem, supernatural power, mysticism, threat, woman in jeopardy ...
Similarity:
32%
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:
31%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Claire has everything - money, a loving husband and a desired child. But suddenly her life changes. Doubts and lies bring her to the edge of insanity.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
deception, husband wife relationship, family problems, mental breakdown, infidelity, relationships, male female relationship, marriage crisis, marital problem, family relations, changing lives, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Madison Taylor (Merrin Dungey) is a forensic psychiatrist, spending her days interviewing prison inmates and her evenings with her husband Jeremy. When Jeremy is killed in a home invasion by Francis Tate (Devon Graye), her world begins to turn ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
murder, mental disorder, obsession, relationships, relationship problems, murder mystery, problem, threat, attempted murder, murder investigation, male female relationship, stalking ...
Similarity:
26%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A psychopath gunman breaks in and plants bombs in bigbrother house to change the rules of the game.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychopath, fear, home invasion, bombing, threat, terror, bomb threat, problem, desperation, paranoia, violence, panic ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Carter will again stop at nothing to find her perfect family.
Style:
thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
psycho, life is a bitch, confronting the past, terror, dark past, threat, troubled past, female protagonist, psycho terror, tragic past, female antagonist, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A woman finds herself isolated in her remote home with her brother who is seeking forgiveness for the darkest moment in their family history.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, dark past, isolation, psychopath, forgiveness, trauma, family secret, family history, guilt, life is a bitch, relationship problems, family problems ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
While recovering from an abusive relationship, Joy joins her friend's therapy group on an isolated mountainous retreat. Led by a doctor with experimental methods, the group is soon forced to confront a monstrous entity.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological horror, psychological, dread, captivating ...
Plot:
confronting the past, survival, survival horror, trauma, isolation, tragic past, dark past, troubled past, haunted by the past, violence, traumatic past, struggle for survival ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a car accident leaves her boyfriend in a coma, April’s panic attacks return and make her life a living hell. However, once she accepts the kindness of a stranger trying to help her, she realizes that he might not be the stranger she thought ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
coma, car accident, psychological manipulation, paranoia, relationships, problem, lifestyle change, changing lives, male female relationship, intrigue, secret, accident ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Photographers Brooke Konrad and Tanner Behlman travel to rural, abandoned buildings to capture the inherent beauty of long-forgotten locations, but far from forgotten are the traumatic memories that surface in Brooke when they meet The Man Upstairs, ...
Style:
creepy, psychological horror, tense, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
trauma, photography, haunting, female protagonist, memory, suspicion, isolation, confrontation, slow burn, obsession, settler, macabre ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, Dakota, is trying to move on with her life and get away from her past after being rescued from a grim basement, where she was kidnapped and abused by a monstrous man. However, when the normal life she had starts to unravel, Dakota ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalker, kidnapping, female protagonist, threat, investigation, private investigation, trauma, fear, survivor, problem, abduction, kidnapped woman ...
Similarity:
23%
402
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
After learning that her new husband touches her daughter inappropriately, Morgan's plans to leave him unwittingly turn into the fight of her life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
child abuse, protective mother, family drama, male female relationship, relationships, life is a bitch, family problems, violence, domestic violence, relationship problems, trauma, confrontation ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Having escaped a sadistic cult as a child, Owen must confront his past as his tormentors enter his new life. This time there's no escaping for anyone.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense thriller, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
abused child, religious cult, escape, sadism, satanic cult, confronting the past, tragic past, dark past, occult, sadistic horror, sadistic psychopath, revenge ...
Similarity:
23%
324
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A struggling actress tracks down the star of a movie she hopes will be remade, only to uncover dark secrets.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, noir
Plot:
female protagonist, celebrity culture, confrontation, obsession, dark past, ambition, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia, female rivalry, identity crisis, manipulation ...
Similarity:
23%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, breaking point, problem, family problems, murderer, domestic drama, moral dilemma, character study, family conflict, female protagonist, intimate, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
After suffering years of mental abuse from her husband, Jules thinks she's finally free when a physical struggle ends in a fire that takes his life. However, she's soon pushed to the edge as she starts to believe she's seeing him at ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
abusive husband, female protagonist, abuse, physical abuse, domestic violence, house fire, domestic abuse, male female relationship, family relations, social problems, relationships, pursuit ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping the clutches of a deadly stalker, a beautiful young woman flees to a remote anonymous town where she rebuilds her life and finds the man of her dreams -- until the man of her nightmares tracks her down. Based on the novel The ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
stalker, female protagonist, obsession, manhunt, runaway, new life, confronting the past, threat, problem, tragic past, troubled past, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
28-year-old medicine student Malina wakes up disoriented in a locked trunk and realizes, to her horror, that she is missing more than just her memory of what happened. With her phone as the only link to the outside world, the intelligent young woman ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, survival, female protagonist, memory loss, claustrophobia, car trunk, medical student, confined space, race against time, threat, abduction, amnesia ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Bella sees her parents killed during a home invasion. Afterwards, she keeps waking up in a strange white room and the past keeps playing over and over. Bella must solve the mystery of the White Room and move on, but to where?
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological horror, twist ending, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, room, life & death, confronting the past, tragic past, troubled past, mental disorder, murder witness, murder, life is a bitch, problem, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of ordinary people band together in a suburban home to battle imposters who have replaced their families, friends, and neighbors.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
paranoia, mind control, battles, body snatcher, paranoid schizophrenia, secret, psychopath, survival, alien invasion, paranoid, isolation, home invasion ...
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
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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 ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tension, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, corpse, faking one's own death, cat versus mouse, threat, dead woman, disposing of a dead body, secret, undercover, dead man, fake death, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
21%
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:
20%
145
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a dying 1950s town, a mysterious traveler propositions a young farmhand, Donnie, to help take down the town's tyrannical leader in exchange for the release of Donnie's mother from a primitive mind-rehabilitation center.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
revenge, dystopia, hostage, threat, fight, problem, mysterious stranger, small town, moral dilemma, rehabilitation center, power struggle, tyranny ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
basement, anti semitism, domestic drama, tragic past, confronting the past, dark past, troubled past, life is a bitch, problem, changing lives, manipulation, threat ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A promising up-and-coming country duo seek out the secluded mansion of their idol Harper Dutch, a former country music star and Nashville royalty turned recluse. What starts out as a friendly visit devolves into a twisted series of horrors forcing ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological horror, captivating ...
Plot:
country music, musician, trapped in a building, supernatural horror, trap, trapped, problem, music band, obsession, ambition, psychological manipulation, murder ...
Place:
nashville tennessee
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kidnapped and trapped by a winter storm, this slow burn thriller follows two strangers who must outsmart an unseen killer.
Style:
suspense, tense, thrilling, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
winter, kidnapping, survival, cold, slow burn, blizzard, isolation, hostage, sniper, danger, claustrophobia, man versus nature ...
Similarity:
20%
914
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a woman trying to outrun her past ends up trapped between a zombie outbreak and warring militia groups, she is caught in a world where some fight for survival but others fight for control.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
zombie, survival, female protagonist, survival horror, zombie outbreak, struggle for survival, troubled past, zombie apocalypse, confronting the past, threat, trap, tragic past ...
Similarity:
20%
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