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Swarm (2023)
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Original name: Rój
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A secluded island somewhere on a seas of the Northern Europe. A family of four has lived here for over ten years, perfecting the art of survival. They had moved onto an island to escape a falling civilization, to live in freedom, close to nature. But, things can’t be solved by simply escaping the world, and problems arise when the Mother becomes pregnant again. Moreover, Winter is coming. It seems the only solution is in leaving the island, but this meets with stern dissent from the Father, who sees the place as the only safe haven on earth. Will the others find the courage to stand up to the Father? Can their family survive what comes next?
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, psychological thriller, bleak, existential, grim, dystopian
Plot:
island, isolation, life, family relations, family drama, relationships, male female relationship, social problems, relationship problems, problem, family problems, social issues, marital problem, isolated house, isolated place, social isolation, survival, escape, claustrophobia, confined, moral dilemma, moral ambiguity, dystopia, slow burn, pregnancy ...
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Most similar movies to Swarm
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, tense, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about isolation, claustrophobia, slow burn, moral ambiguity, survival, family relations and family problems mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Swarm: Human Traces (2017), Chokehold (2023), Nanny Nightmare (2017), Sheltering Season (2022), The Hillsdale Adoption Scam (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a mysterious young man arrives on a remote Sub-Antarctic research station, secrets threaten the relationship of a married couple working on the island.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
remote island, relationships, couples, isolation, secret, relationship problems, island, job, male female relationship, problem, loneliness, secrets ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Evading a scandal, a couple from Istanbul starts over in a town on the Aegean coast — but quickly discover the locals are determined to get rid of them.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
outsider, scandal, conflict, countryside, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, problem, relationships, family relations, threat, moral ambiguity, reputation ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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68%
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:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Desperate for a child, a couple welcome a surrogate mother into their lives, only to discover she's a con artist who's out to steal their money.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
pregnancy, adoption, deception, scam, family drama, married couple, male female relationship, family problems, secret, problem, pregnant woman, family relations ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A father, immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarks on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
country house, investigation, divorce, isolated place, missing child, family drama, secret, disappearance, vanished man, mysterious disappearance, private investigation, puzzle ...
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776
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Three men, one place and one event that will change the life of each one of them.
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
social issues, villager, changing lives, social relations, social problems, society, village life, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, male protagonist, crisis, mature ...
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53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A couple and their young son leave their urban life in Copenhagen and move to an isolated forest in Sweden, hoping to reignite the spark in their relationship.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, existential ...
Plot:
couples, forest, identity, relationships, lookalikes, lifestyle change, kids and family, male female relationship, changing lives, family relations, husband wife relationship, family drama ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A desperate woman kidnaps and enforces rehab on her violent brother in a last-ditch effort to save their lives.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
addiction, kidnapping, family conflict, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, social problems, problem, family problems, life is a bitch, abuse, hostage situation, desperation ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Laura and Franco have recently separated. Franco is paying alimony which helps to care for their son Luca. Laura is takes a job as a phone sex operator in order to help make ends meet. Franco uses this as an opportunity to challenge for custody of ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
child custody, divorce, family relations, family drama, problem, relationships, male female relationship, stalker, family problems, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, divorced parents ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Kuttan, an annoyingly disciplined and a bigoted upper-caste retired police officer, is living with his son Kichu. After Bharati, Kuttan’s younger sister, falls in love with lower caste Kuttappan and elopes with him against her family’s wish, the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, thrilling, dark, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family relations, father, class conflict, family drama, paranoia, bigotry, family problems, problem, relationships, life is a bitch, father and son ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
50%
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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:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
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:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Malta
Story:
Rainer and Patricia move to Malta to reinvigorate their marriage after the loss of their child.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
family problems, tragic past, family relations, life is a bitch, male female relationship, death of child, couple relations, troubled past, confronting the past, loss of child, husband wife relationship, relationships ...
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45%
232
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anna gets released from a Polish prison on parole after fifteen years behind bars. Once free, Anna has but one goal - to find a woman whose name is Dorota.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
family secret, female protagonist, investigation, ex convict, revenge, obsession, confrontation, female rivalry, slow burn, isolation, identity, claustrophobia ...
Place:
iceland, poland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A debt-ridden father takes advantage of an unforeseen situation to disappear and live off the grid under a false identity. But a chance event occurs and the temptation to want to know his family resurfaces.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
disappearance, temptation, family bonds, family drama, fatherhood, secret, money problems, problem, social problems, regret, guilt, escape ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A gripping psychological thriller where a paranoid husband, Panos and his cunning sister plot against his unsuspecting wife. A dream of a life in the country turns into a dystopian nightmare.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
isolation, survival, dysfunctional family, paranoia, family relations, family conflict, conspiracy, farm, female protagonist, psychological abuse, manipulation, farmhouse ...
Place:
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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:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars. The challenge: Live for 50 days in a blank space. Sticking it out for thirty days, and the five million are theirs. How difficult can it be?
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, social, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, dramatic, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
mother, stalker, life is a bitch, love affair, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital problem, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, domestic drama, suspicion ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When young couple Sarah and Kyle move next door to Helen, a charismatic older woman, they have no idea she's a deeply disturbed psychopath who will stop at nothing to become Sarah's surrogate mother, and grandmother to the child she is ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, surreal, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
purgatory, afterlife, supernatural, surrealism, problem, mass suicide, guilt, sacrifice, redemption, moral dilemma, past life, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
34%
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:
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512
Genre: Thriller
Country: Chile, Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A father and his two daughters are sailing in a lake when they encounter a pair of shipwrecked men. They say to be looking for someone they lost and ask for help to find him. This begins a tense search in which the father suspects he is held hostage.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After Samantha's mother passes away, her spirits are lifted with the sudden appearance of her long lost Grandmother, Colleen. All is well until Colleen's dark past reveals itself and Sam is forced to fight for her life.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
family secret, family problems, pregnant woman, pregnancy, family relations, female ghost, ghost, dysfunctional family, psychological manipulation, survival, deception, secret identity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a security guard in a retirement home spirals out of control when he catches his wife with a lover, pushing him to the brink of insanity.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A remote jail in the middle of the ocean in runned by a devil Westerner. Prisoners will have to face all kinds of public humiliations and tortures while they try to figure out how to escape from there.
Style:
bleak, grim, serious, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
torture, brutality, escape, violence, oppression, survival, public humiliation, claustrophobia, isolation, psychological torment, corruption, colonialism ...
Time:
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