Movies like Blackwoods

If you like "Blackwoods" you are looking for psychological, tense and serious movies about / with hotel, losing-it hero, betrayal, vengeance, woods, motel and redneck themes of Drama, Mystery and Thriller genre shot in Canada or Germany.
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Blackwoods (2001)
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Blackwoods (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Matt is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck the girl as she crossed the road. The guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality, making Matt's life a mystery full of shadows and phantoms. Now, years later Matt goes away for weekend with his new girlfriend Dawn. After a wild session of lovemaking, Dawn goes for a walk. While she is away a strange man with an ax comes into the motel room and attacks Matt. After that incident Matt goes into the woods, looking for Dawn. There he encounters Dawn's family who tie him down and put him on trail for the murder of the girl years before. They find him guilty and he is sent back into the forest to be hunted down by the family. The deeper Matt runs into the forest the farther his mind is lost to the Blackwoods.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, colorful, realistic, independent film
Plot: hotel, losing-it hero, betrayal, vengeance, woods, motel, redneck, hostage, haunted by the past, serial killer, happiness, sheriff, car accident, serial murder, guilty conscience, backwoods, guilt, car, flashback, exploitation, forest, empire, deadly, hit by a car, drunk driving ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about deadly, murder, danger, haunted by the past, serial killer, rivalry and psychopath mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Blackwoods: The Iris Effect (2005), Heart of America (2002), The Deposition (2012), Love Thy Neighbor (2006), A Sister's Secret (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Iris Effect (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Dr. Sarah Hathaway hired private eyes trying to find her missing son, the painter Thomas, who ran away from their home ten years ago after a quarrel with her. She finds a clue in a catalog of a panting exhibition in San Petersburg ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: missing person, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, amateur detective, obsessive quest, private detective, estrangement, family relations, riddles and clues, parents and children ...
Place: russia, los angeles, usa, st. petersburg russia
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100%
Heart of America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Starring Jurgen Prochnow ('The Replacement Killers' 'Air Force One' and Patrick Muldoon 'Stigmata' 'Starship Troopers'), 'Heart of America' is a powerhouse of a contemporary drama and essential ...
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: school shooting, high school, bullying, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, psychopath, teenage life, bully, life is a bitch, society, youth, social misfits ...
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54%
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The Deposition (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: memory loss, uncover truth, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, dealing with death, a vision, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Love Thy Neighbor (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: obsession, stalking, neighbor, psychopath, mind game, haunted by the past, family in danger, family problems, vengeance, mentally unstable, rivalry, amateur detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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A Sister's Secret (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: homecoming, murder, family relations, workplace, dishonesty, vengeance, betrayal, family business, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, stalker, woman in danger, psychopath, stalking, danger, computers and web, woman in peril, deadly, off the grid, young
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Madison County (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of college kids travel to a small, mountain town called Madison County to interview the author of a tell-all book on the accounts of several grisly murders that happened there. But when the kids get to Madison County, the author is no where ...
Style: slasher, serious, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, woods, uncover truth, danger, redneck, masked killer, murder, violence, animal mask, pig killer, lost, lost in the woods ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
I Dream of Murder (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, police, female protagonist, car accident, haunted by the past, danger, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Pavement (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, vengeance, animal life, amateur detective, obsessive quest, police investigation, danger, psychopath, law enforcement, haunted by the past ...
Place: south africa, usa, san francisco, alaska, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 3.9
 1K
Jill Rips (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.
Style: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: dominatrix, tough heroes, serial killer, vengeance, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, death of brother, violent, prostitute, undercover cop, stripper ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 571
Darkness Falls (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ...
Style: realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: captivity, hostage, family problems, couples, confined, vengeance, haunted by the past, estate, danger, dishonesty, unhappy wife, unhappy marriage ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.9
 303
Fate (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Four friends bound by destiny and unbeatable in the dark world. When a casino attack goes wrong as a result of betrayal, fate turns them into enemies. Now, forced to aim the gun at each other's hearts, their unavoidable battle begins.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: vengeance, betrayal, heist, rivalry, casino, dishonesty, haunted by the past, destiny, gang, gangster, caper, friends ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.5
 127
Four Jacks (2001)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Four guys plot revenge on the businessman who ripped them off.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, blind ambition, betrayal, buddies, murder, friendship, restaurant, dark humor, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.8
 406
Cold Storage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, missing person, mentally unstable, confined, danger, isolation, hostage, woods, car accident, graphic violence, corpse, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.8
 4K
Afterwards (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Newly divorced lawyer Nathan Del Amico is shaken up after he meets a doctor who claims that he can sense when select people are about to die. Though he doesn't believe the doctor, events in Nathan's life slowly make him think he's not ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic
Plot: supernatural ability, mysterious character, lawyer, doctor, haunted by the past, prophecy, supernatural, miraculous event, crumbling marriage, cheating death, supernatural power, near death experience ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.0
 429
Outrage (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lainie Wheeler has two daughters, but her husband leaves them for a Thai monastery. She completely neglects her job in TV production but finds a new vocation in nursing terminal patients, even after the death of her friend in that home. She also ...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: starting over, woman in danger, family problems, hopes, rivalry, redemption, murder, rehabilitation, violent content, graphic violence, actor's life, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Perfect Wife (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot: revenge, murder, psychopath, femme fatale, serial killer, couples, family problems, dishonesty, couple relations, infidelity, female killer, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.8
 2K
H (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He is imprisoned, awaiting the death sentence for his crimes. Yet the killings do not stop. They continue with all the same characteristics trademarks of the Shin-Hyun serial killings. ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, pregnancy, police investigation, hypnosis, partner, wannabe, psychopath, law enforcement, confined, who done it, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Movie in collections
 4.4
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Appetite (1998)
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The guests of the Station Hotel have assembled to play a game of cards. The loser will sleep in room 207, a room rumored to be haunted. It hasn't been slept in for 20 years. As their lives tangle in a paranoid deadlock, the only escape becomes ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, mind bending, gloomy ...
Plot: hotel, birthday party, murder, room, motel, card playing, flashback, dream, sailor, suicide, masturbation, female nudity ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.2
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Fatal Trust (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious
Plot: family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, love, serial killer, death, murder of father, doctor, murder of husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Haven't We Met Before? (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, realistic
Plot: reincarnation, woman in danger, police detective, serial killer, law enforcement, assault, college student, danger, memories, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Secrets From Her Past (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: hidden identity, murder, witnessing a crime, danger, gangster, haunted by the past, on the run, woman in danger, dishonesty, hitman, chases and races, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot: serial killer, danger, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, rivalry, murder, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Grindstone Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, danger, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Good Neighbour (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Good Neighbour is a 2011 German film directed by Stephan Rick. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival and was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, journalism, neighbor, manslaughter, hidden truth, power relations, danger, psycho, friendship between men, journalist, car accident, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.0
 288
Nightwaves (2003)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Recently widowed Shelby Naylor (Sherilyn Fenn) listening to her husbands police scanner overhears a husband and wife arguing on the phone. The wife ends up dead and Widow Naylor points the finger endangering herself.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, amateur detective, woman in danger, false accusation, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, hitman, couples, infidelity, who done it, danger ...
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.1
 117
The Cursed (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot: escaped mental patient, hostage, unlikely criminals, danger, escapades, daring rescue, confined, chases and races, forces of nature, psychopath, married couple, negotiation ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.8
 2K
The Riddle (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: murder, amateur sleuth, policewoman, serial murder, riddles and clues, journalism, amateur detective, law enforcement, supernatural ability, serial killer, police inspector, pub ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.8
 730
Forgotten (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, tense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, ghost, friendship, supernatural, uncover truth, little girl, island, promise, danger, life is a bitch, friends, impostor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
 2K
Treed Murray (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An advertising executive, trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting to save his life.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, sad, thought provoking ...
Plot: gang, mind game, vengeance, danger, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency, rivalry, politics, tree, mugging, criminal heroes, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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