Remake movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant remake movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense, intense, visually appealing and psychotronic films and TV shows about / with dialogue, storytelling, mentor, chase, adaptation, brutality, catastrophe, murder, vengeance and runaway plots mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, Germany and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as remake: The Last House on the Left (2009), A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010), Funny Games (2007), The Vanishing (1993), King Kong (1976), Village of the Damned (1995), Sorority Row (2009), RoboCop (2014), The Magnificent Seven (2016), The Fly (1986).

List of remake movies

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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style: scary, slasher, brutal, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: rape, revenge, psychopath, torture, murder, kidnapping, serial killer, violence, vengeance, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, violence against women ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, teen, horrifying ...
Audience: date night, teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: monster, revenge, dream, nightmare, nightmare comes true, gory, killer, serial killer, nightmare on elm street, death, terror, brutality ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
Is relevant?
 6.5
 110K
Funny Games (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Ann, husband George and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, scary, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, murder, brutality, violence, torment ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Is relevant?
 6.3
 30K
The Vanishing (1993)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: missing person, obsession, kidnapping, kidnapped, psychopath, buried alive, spider, killer, slow burn, serial killer, hostage, missing girl ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, washington state
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 6.0
 38K
King Kong (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of Kong and brings him back to New York to exploit him. Even though a woman somewhat tames Kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, ...
Style: suspense, daikaiju, natural horror, funny, fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, date night
Plot: king kong, monster, kaiju, beast, gorilla, giant ape, giant monster, giant snake, island, woman in jeopardy, full moon, world trade center manhattan new york city ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, jurassic, prehistoric times, 20th century ...
Place: new york, fictional island, manhattan new york city, usa, asia ...
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Village of the Damned (1995)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
Style: scary, tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: creepy child, space and aliens, alien, genetics, small town, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, supernatural ability, mind game, alien invasion, danger, babies and infants ...
Time: 90s, 60s
Place: california, usa
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 5.2
 34K
Sorority Row (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When five sorority girls inadvertently cause the murder of one of their sisters in a prank gone wrong, they agree to keep the matter to themselves and never speak of it again, so they can get on with their lives. This proves easier said than done, ...
Style: slasher, brutal, teen, bloody, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: sorority, college, mystery killer, college life, cheerleading, sociopath, prank, serial killer, therapist, masked killer, prank gone wrong, female nudity ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant?
 6.1
 248K
RoboCop (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In RoboCop, the year is 2028 and multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the center of robot technology. Overseas, their drones have been used by the military for years, but have been forbidden for law enforcement in America. Now OmniCorp wants ...
Style: futuristic, suspenseful, intense, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: cyborgs, androids and robots, robot, police, cyberpunk, urban, technology, haunted by the past, graphic violence, superhuman powers, androids, tough law enforcer ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: detroit, usa, pentagon, tehran iran, china ...
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The Magnificent Seven (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
Style: suspense, intense, entertaining, period piece, exciting ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: teamwork, small town, bounty hunter, revenge, showdown, gunfighter, mercenary, dark hero, deception, outlaw, good versus evil, murder ...
Time: year 2016, 19th century, 2010s, 1870s, 60s
Place: america, sacramento california, california, alaska
Is relevant?
 7.6
 222K
The Fly (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style: scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: transformation, mad scientist, science, body horror, mutation, teleportation, laboratory, mutant, experiment gone awry, insect, tragic love, experiment ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Seymour Krelborn is a nerdy orphan working at Mushnik's, a flower shop in urban Skid Row. He harbors a crush on fellow co-worker Audrey Fulquard, and is berated by Mr. Mushnik daily. One day as Seymour is seeking a new mysterious plant, he ...
Style: black comedy, humorous, horror musical, horror comedy, visually stunning ...
Audience: date night, teens, kids, horror for children, adult
Plot: dentist, creature, alien invasion, music, macabre, dark humor, brutality, eaten alive, workplace, experiment gone awry, florist, impossible love ...
Time: 1900s, year 1986, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york
Is relevant?
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style: cult classic, disturbing, frightening, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: alien invasion, alien, dystopia, doppelganger, extraterrestrial, alien parasite, supernatural, parasite, evil wins, monster, alien possession, body horror ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978, 1950s, 50s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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 5.6
 47K
The Hitcher (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While driving through the New Mexico Desert during a rainy night, the college students Jim Halsey and his girlfriend Grace Andrews give a ride to the hitchhiker John Ryder. While in their car, the stranger proves to be a psychopath threatening the ...
Style: slasher, scary, road movie, teen, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, gory, desert, murder, hitchhiker, road trip, killer, sociopath, brutality, murder of family, rain ...
Time: year 2007, 70s
Place: texas, new mexico, usa
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Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Genre: Action, Horror
Country: USA, Canada, Japan, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.
Style: scary, creepy, cult classic, sexy, bloody ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, living dead, post apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, infected, zombie outbreak, blood, zombie attack, terror ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, future, year 2000, year 2003 ...
Place: usa, midwest, wisconsin
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The Amityville Horror (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A family is terrorized by demonic forces after moving into a home that was the site of a grisly mass-murder.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, splatter ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, danger, death, murder, domestic disturbance, family in danger, paranormal activity, torture, brutality ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, long island, usa, new york
Is relevant?
 7.7
 668K
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to ...
Style: clever, witty, exciting, entertaining, tense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, caper, casino, thief, cons and scams, outsmarting, deception, perfect crime, twists and turns, scheme, con artists, robbery ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, usa, atlantic city new jersey, los angeles ...
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My Bloody Valentine (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ten years ago, a tragedy changed the town of Harmony forever. Tom Hanniger, an inexperienced coal miner, caused an accident in the tunnels that trapped and killed five men and sent the only survivor, Harry Warden, into a permanent coma. But Harry ...
Style: slasher, scary, intense, stylized, brutal ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: miner, serial killer, mine, valentine's day, gory, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unknown killer, mining town, strong violent content, killer, mysterious villain, psycho killer ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Is relevant?
 6.2
 26K
Cat People (1982)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: After years of separation, Irina (Nastassja Kinski) and her minister brother, Paul (Malcolm McDowell), reunite in New Orleans in this erotic tale of the supernatural. When zoologists capture a wild panther, Irina is drawn to the cat -- and the zoo ...
Style: sexy, erotic, sensual, cult classic, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: incest, animal attack, prostitute, human sacrifice, brother sister relationship, sexual awakening, transformation, femme fatale, voyeurism, brother sister incest, leopard, zoo ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, rough, captivating, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: investigation, rape, serial killer, hacker, sexual abuse, missing person, twists and turns, murder mystery, vengeance, murder investigation, journalist, strong female character ...
Time: year 2011, 60s, 2010s, year 1966, 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, london, eastern europe
Is relevant?
 6.4
 227K
Death Race (2008)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized ...
Style: exciting, fast, visually appealing, serious, futuristic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: prison, car chase, racing, revenge, violence, car race, murder, betrayal, survival, tough guy, rivalry, ex convict ...
Time: year 2008, future, year 2012, 2010s, 2020s
Is relevant?
 5.5
 66K
The Omen (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, harsh, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, devil, antichrist, killer child, murder, evil child, devil worship, 666, prophecy, parents and children, black magic, supernatural horror ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 20th century, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place: england, london, rome italy, europe, new york ...
Is relevant?
 6.1
 118K
Bedazzled (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Elliot Richardson, suicidal techno geek, is given seven wishes to turn his life around when he meets up with a very seductive Satan. The catch: his soul. Some of his wishes include a 7 foot basketball star, a rock star, and a hamburger. But, as ...
Style: funny, light, sexy, feel good, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: devil, pact with the devil, wish come true, deal with the devil, femme fatale, fish out of water, nothing goes right, destiny, wish fulfillment, unrequited love, time machine, heaven and hell ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: san francisco, usa
Is relevant?
 8.2
 520K
The Thing (1982)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.
Style: scary, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: monster, isolation, survival, creature, body horror, alien, fear, paranoia, snow, ufo, suspicion, supernatural ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 20th century
Place: antarctica, antarctic, south pole
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A Perfect Murder (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style: suspense, sexy, clever, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: murder, infidelity, betrayal, blackmail, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, love triangle, adultery, greed, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
Is relevant?
 7.2
 339K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
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 4.6
 53K
Psycho (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: motel, psychopath, split personality, murder, hotel, psycho, murder of a nude woman, eccentric family, isolation, parents and children, serial killer, mental disorder ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, arizona
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Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines enlists help from a few "boost happy" pals to accomplish a seemingly ...
Style: intense, entertaining, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot: heist, car chase, chase, car, race against time, car theft, organized crime, betrayal, car thief, master criminal, machismo, danger ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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 6.3
 225K
The Karate Kid (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 140 min.
Story: 12-year-old Dre Parker could have been the most popular kid in Detroit, but his mother's latest career move has landed him in China. Dre immediately falls for his classmate Mei Ying but the cultural differences make such a friendship ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, sentimental, sincere, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, family friendly ...
Plot: teachers and students, boy, human spirit, contests and competitions, perseverance, bullying, martial arts, coming of age, coach, underdog, kung fu, friends ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: china, beijing china, america, asia, detroit ...
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 5.9
 117K
The Wolfman (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
Style: gothic, dark, gothic horror, period piece, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: werewolf, deadly creature, macabre, supernatural, transformation, childhood trauma, medieval, beast, gory, blood, death, violent ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1890s, 2010s, edwardian era ...
Place: europe, tower bridge london, london, england, scotland
Is relevant?
 6.5
 182K
The Mechanic (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Arthur Bishop is a 'mechanic' - an elite assassin with a strict code and unique talent for cleanly eliminating targets. It's a job that requires professional perfection and total detachment, and Bishop is the best in the business. But ...
Style: suspenseful, clever, suspense, action packed, brutal ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, chase, assassin, mentor, martial arts, loner, lone hero, tough guy, expert, vigilante, revenge, killer ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: chicago, colombia, usa, new orleans
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