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, psychotronic, cult classic and exciting films and TV shows about / with death, violence, murder, blood, danger, blood splatter, profanity, revenge, bare chested male and corpse plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, France, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as remake: The Magnificent Seven (2016), The Last House on the Left (2009), Funny Games (2007), Fright Night (2011), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Dawn of the Dead (2004), RoboCop (2014), A Perfect Murder (1998), The Manchurian Candidate (2004), Vanilla Sky (2001).

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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, tense, exciting ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: good versus evil, revenge, bounty hunter, dark hero, mercenary, criminal, deception, outlaw, duel, showdown, small town, murder ...
Time: year 2016, 19th century, 2010s, 1870s
Place: america, california, sacramento california, alaska
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The Last House on the Left (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 110 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: slasher, scary, brutal, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: rape, vengeance, psychopath, torture, violence, serial killer, rape and revenge, kidnapping, woman in danger, violence against women, murder, sadism ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 103K
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, scary, disturbing, brutal, bad ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, hostage, torture, psychopath, home invasion, murder, danger, bad guy wins, maniac, brutality, kidnapping, torment ...
Time: year 2007, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
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 6.4
 113K
Fright Night (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, India
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A teenager suspects his new neighbour is a vampire. Unable to convince anyone, he tries to enlist the help of a self-proclaimed vampire hunter and magician in this remake of the 1985 comedy-horror classic.
Style: gothic, scary, entertaining, bloody, dark ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, vampirism, vampire hunter, teenager, celebrity, stalker, transformation, high school student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gory, bullying ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
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 7.7
 614K
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, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, caper, casino, thief, cons and scams, perfect crime, outsmarting, con artists, twists and turns, deception, scheme, organized crime ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, atlantic city, usa, los angeles ...
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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, splatter, atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: zombie, apocalypse, virus, zombie apocalypse, survival, living dead, post apocalypse, infected, plague, terror, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, year 2000, future, year 2003 ...
Place: usa, midwest, wisconsin
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 6.1
 239K
RoboCop (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
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, exciting, suspenseful, intense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: cyborgs, police, robot, androids and robots, cyberpunk, urban, androids, haunted by the past, superhuman powers, graphic violence, technology, robocop ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future, 2020s ...
Place: detroit, usa, tehran iran, pentagon, china ...
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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: sexy, suspenseful, clever, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: betrayal, infidelity, blackmail, murder, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, adultery, husband wife relationship, greed, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
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The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: When his army unit was ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saved his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, then-Captain Ben Marco, was knocked unconscious. Brokering the incident for political capital, Shaw eventually ...
Style: political thriller, suspense, clever, political, tense ...
Plot: conspiracy, gulf war, political conspiracy, brainwashing, mind control, political corruption, assassin, sniper, senator, obsession, politics, assassination ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 2004, 2000s, year 1991 ...
Place: iraq, usa, new york, washington d.c.
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 6.9
 284K
Vanilla Sky (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 136 min.
Story: David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between ...
Style: psychological, surreal, philosophical, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: virtual reality, dream, surrealism, tragic love, amnesia, love, disfigurement, obsession, lost love, mind game, love story, alternate reality ...
Time: year 2001, future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Heaven Can Wait (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Joe Pendleton is a quarterback preparing to lead his team to the superbowl when he is almost killed in an accident. An overanxious angel plucks him to heaven only to discover that he wasn't ready to die, and that his body has been cremated. A ...
Style: funny, sentimental, touching, witty, sexy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night
Plot: reincarnation, afterlife, angel, american football, supernatural, heaven, body swap, soul transference, football, love, secrets, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
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 5.7
 110K
Poseidon (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, natural disaster, ship, catastrophe, ocean, shipwreck, cruise ship, ocean liner, father daughter relationship, drowning, trapped ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: atlantic ocean
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 5.8
 20K
The Getaway (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol ...
Style: neo noir, sexy, suspense, erotic, road movie ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, heist, sex scene, love, prison, betrayal, hitman, car chase, murder, lust, sexual favor, ex convict ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: el paso texas, texas, latin america, phoenix arizona, tucson arizona ...
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Thirty years after defeating the Galactic Empire, Han Solo and his allies face a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and his army of Stormtroopers.
Style: saga, futuristic, scenic, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night, adult
Plot: star wars, alien, space opera, space travel, obesity, resistance fighter, fantasy world, space, space and aliens, female protagonist, super weapon, good versus evil ...
Time: future, year 2015, 2010s
Place: space western
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Style: suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: siege, police corruption, police station, survival, gunfight, criminal's revenge, shootout, police, danger, snow, attempted murder, master criminal ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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 6.5
 171K
The Mechanic (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
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: clever, stylized, brutal, tense, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: hitman, assassin, chase, mentor, lone hero, loner, martial arts, tough guy, vengeance, revenge, deception, arms dealer ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, colombia, chicago, usa
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 5.8
 80K
Oldboy (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An everyday man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
Style: twist ending, disturbing, suspenseful, brutal, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: incest, revenge, father daughter incest, male nudity, torture, hostage, attempted rape, sex scene, incestuous sex, solitary, death, kidnapped ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, year 2005, year 2003, year 2001 ...
Place: usa, new york
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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, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: monster, dream, murder, nightmare comes true, gory, serial killer, terror, torture, danger, serial murder, youth, surrealism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
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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, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, danger, death, paranormal activity, domestic disturbance, family in danger, gory, paranormal ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 70s, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, long island, usa, new york
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Angels in the Outfield (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Roger is a foster child whose irresponsible father promises to get his act together when Roger's favourite baseball team, the California Angels, wins the pennant. The problem is that the Angels are in last place, so Roger prays for help to turn ...
Style: inspirational, touching, entertaining, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: angel, baseball, childhood, coach, magic, parents and children, hopes, ambition, wish come true, rivalry, kids and family, underdog ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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 6.0
 35K
King Kong (1976)
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
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, depressing, fairy tale ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: king kong, beast, monster, gorilla, giant monster, kaiju, giant ape, giant snake, world trade center manhattan new york city, island, full moon, survival ...
Time: 70s, prehistoric times, jurassic, year 1976, 20th century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, fictional island, asia, usa ...
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 5.7
 47K
Ben-Hur (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.
Style: biblical, intense, suspense, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, family friendly
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, roman empire, arena, religion, survival, christian, jesus, slavery, medieval, justice, mentor ...
Time: 1st century, year 2016, biblical epic, ancient times
Place: palestine, rome italy, italy, greece, jerusalem
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 7.6
 200K
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, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, mad scientist, body horror, transformation, science, mutation, mutant, gory, teleportation, creature, laboratory, scientist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place: toronto ontario canada
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 7.4
 78K
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: Steve McGarrett returns home to Oahu, in order to find his father's killer. The governor offers him the chance to run his own task force (Five-0). Steve's team is joined by Chin Ho Kelly, Danny "Danno" Williams, and Kono Kalakaua.
Style: exciting, detective, realistic, cliffhanger, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: investigation, partners against crime, police protagonist, police, crime investigation, fighting crime, hotshot, teamwork, policewoman, honest law enforcer, police detective, suspicion ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa
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 6.7
 94K
Sweet November (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Nelson is a man devoted to his advertising career in San Francisco. One day, while taking a driving test at the DMV, he meets Sara. She is very different from the other women in his life. Nelson causes her to miss out on taking the test and later ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, sad, emotional ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: love story, terminal illness, love, fall in love, cancer, tragic love, bittersweet, couples, opposites attract, leukemia, love and romance, self discovery ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: san francisco, california, usa
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The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Morocco
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon ...
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, splatter, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cannibalism, gory, desert, survival, torture, rape, fear, human monster, victim, kidnapping, danger, massacre ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa
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 7.4
 291K
The Jungle Book (2016)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA, New Zealand, France, Canada, India
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man-cub named Mowgli fostered by wolves. After a threat from the tiger Shere Khan, Mowgli is forced to flee the jungle, by which he embarks on a journey of self discovery with the help of the panther, Bagheera and the free-spirited bear, Baloo.
Style: serious, entertaining, scenic, semi serious, motion capture ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens
Plot: jungle, animal, boy, orphan, human animal relationship, courage, tiger, monkey, talking animal, wild animal, friendship, greed ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2015
Place: india, asia
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 5.2
 51K
Flatliners (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological horror, surprise ending, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical experiment, hospital, haunted by the past, afterlife, experiment, friendship, hallucination, death, medical student, near death experience, medical, supernatural ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 2000s
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 7.3
 15K
The Front Page (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Style: talky, light, humorous, hilarious, witty ...
Plot: newspaper, journalist, journalism, reporter, workplace, media, friends, media satire, workplace situations, writers, satire, scoop ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: chicago, usa
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 6.6
 43K
The Blob (1988)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Remake of the 1958 horror sci-fi about a deadly blob which is the spawn of a secret government germ warfare project which consumes everyone in its path. Teenagers try in vain to warn the townsfolk, who refuse to take them seriously, while government ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, slasher, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: monster, alien, body horror, survival, evil alien, small town, space and aliens, quarantine, giant monster, creature feature, cheerleader, creature ...
Time: 80s
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