Knocking on a door movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant knocking on a door movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out crying, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, slasher and independent film films and TV shows about / with knocking on a door, crying woman, murder, husband wife relationship, blood, telephone call, apology, man with glasses, death and cigarette smoking plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as knocking on a door: The Babadook (2014), Death on the Nile (2022), Carrie (2002), Amadeus (1984), Possessor (2020), The Golden Glove (2019), Don't Knock Twice (2016), Lizzie (2018), The Post (2017), The Party (2017).

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 6.8
 245K
The Babadook (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style: psychological, scary, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, macabre, monster, nightmare, ghost, danger, single mother, fear, book, trauma, insanity, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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Death on the Nile (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome ...
Style: detective, captivating, costume drama, artsy, non-linear ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, murder, murder investigation, honeymoon, investigation, boat, investigator, private detective, ship, secret, heiress ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two, 2020s, 1910s, year 1914 ...
Place: egypt, london, belgium
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 5.4
 11K
Carrie (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
Style: bleak, scary, suspenseful, rough, teen horror ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: telekinesis, high school, bullying, gory, stephen king, psychic power, strong violent content, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.4
 425K
Amadeus (1984)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The incredible story of genius musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told in flashback by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri – now confined to an insane asylum.
Style: inspirational, epic, costume drama, clever, period piece ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: music, classical music, composer, genius, mozart, envy, opera, musician, musician's life, mentor, obsession, bohemian life ...
Time: 18th century, 1790s, 1820s, 1800s, georgian era ...
Place: vienna, austria, eastern europe, italy, europe ...
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 6.5
 45K
Possessor (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A thriller about an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to enable its operatives to inhabit other people's bodies, ultimately driving them to carry out assassinations for high-paying clients.
Style: tech noir, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, slasher ...
Audience: date night
Plot: body horror, sociopath, murder, brutality, corporation, hallucination, mind control, virtual reality, sadism, technology, assassination attempt, suicide by cop ...
Time: 2020s, near future
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The Golden Glove (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.
Style: bleak, disturbing, controversial, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder of a prostitute, mentally unstable, macabre, murderer, brutality, sex crime, alcoholic, loser, misfit, loner ...
Time: 70s, year 2019, 20th century, year 1974, year 1970
Place: hamburg germany, germany, northern germany, west germany, central europe
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Don't Knock Twice (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.
Style: scary, mystical, suspense, spooky, suspenseful ...
Plot: curse, urban legend, evil spirit, mother daughter relationship, witch, haunted, supernatural, prank, mother daughter reunion, supernatural power, abandoned house, mother daughter estrangement ...
Place: london
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 5.9
 9K
Lizzie (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style: suspense, queer horror, historical drama, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, last will and testament, lesbian sex, lizzie borden, father daughter relationship, friendship, employer employee relationship, murder, lesbian love, oppression, double murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: massachusetts, new england
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 7.2
 161K
The Post (2017)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA, UK, India
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
Style: political thriller, political, factual, tense, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: journalism, journalist, truth, expose, newspaper office, whistleblower, newspaper, lie, cover up, wartime, freedom of the press, u.s. government ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 90s, 70s, year 1965 ...
Place: washington d.c., usa, vietnam
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 6.5
 21K
The Party (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Various individuals think they’re coming together for a party in a private home, but a series of revelations results in a huge crisis that throws their belief systems – and their values – into total disarray.
Style: minimal cast, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, disturbing ...
Plot: secret, infidelity, politician, celebration, insult, karma, lesbian, party, pride, professor, drinking, doctor ...
Time: year 2017
Place: england, london
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 4.8
 20K
Zombeavers (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: College friends find their weekend of sex and debauchery ruined when deadly zombie beavers swarm their riverside cabin.
Style: humorous, parody, absurd, scary, bloody ...
Plot: zombie, beaver, monster, mutation, gory, sorority girl, bear, creature feature, blood, animal, mutant, stupidity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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One Week and a Day (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.
Plot: mourning, neighbor, cemetery, cancer, cannabis, funeral, death, hospital, israeli, kitten, dentist, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Place: palestine
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Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A veteran actress comes face-to-face with an uncomfortable reflection of herself when she agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier.
Style: realistic, psychological, melancholic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: actress, aging, lesbian, skinny dipping, midlife crisis, divorce, women, loneliness, character study, suicide, obsession, suicide attempt ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: switzerland, alps, swiss alps, london, zurich switzerland
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 8.3
 257K
A Separation (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Australia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Style: emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, talky, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: poverty, divorce, muslim, alzheimer's disease, justice, religion, islam, marriage, parenthood, court, family drama, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: iran, persia, middle east, maghreb, nebraska ...
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As Good as Dead (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Seeking revenge for the murder of their religious leader, fundamental loyalists kidnap and torture the man they believe responsible, but the ensuing clash of right vs. left ideologies quickly reveals that they may have the wrong man, which puts them ...
Style: suspense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, hostage, kidnapping, escape attempt, brutality, deception, confined, vengeance, danger, rivalry, twists and turns, domestic disturbance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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 6.8
 2K
Local Color (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The ...
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Plot: painter, self discovery, friendship, youth, family relations, parents and children, artists and showbiz, unsupportive parent, art, inspiration, intergenerational friendship, mentor ...
Time: year 2006, year 1991, year 1974, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, new york
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 6.0
 46K
Rebecca (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
Style: suspense, psychological, gothic, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: estate, widower, second wife, investigation, manipulation, haunted by the past, obsession, incest, incestuous relationship, housekeeper, mansion, aristocrat ...
Time: 20th century, 2020s, victorian era, 1930s
Place: cornwall, england, french riviera, monte carlo
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Killing of the Dolls (1975)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Paul is the son of a gardener who works in a big mansion that has returned home with his parents after failling in his medecin degree. He is emotionally unstable. He collect dolls because he was educated as a girl because his sister died. After his ...
Style: slasher, suspense, surreal, crying, psychotronic ...
Plot: mansion, nightmare, decapitation, dead sister, serial killer, sexual intercourse, gardener, split personality, multiple personality disorder, necrophilia, cycling, arthouse horror ...
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Satanik (1968)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A youth potion transforms an old crone into a ravishing beauty. Unfortunately, her new-found gorgeousness forces the heroine to form a pact with the Devil.
Style: slasher, freeze frame, detective, psychotronic, ambiguous ending ...
Plot: superhero, exploitation, jazz, anti hero, female nudity, murder, striptease, super villainess, fountain of youth, scientific experiment, caretaker, dog ...
Place: geneva switzerland, madrid
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 5.6
 5K
Body Parts (1991)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to ...
Style: psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Plot: body horror, serial killer, police investigation, murder, medical, criminal psychologist, surgery, amputation, danger, supernatural, gory, death row ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
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 4.0
 341
The Gardener (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Carl the Gardner grows odd plants for a rich Yankee woman Ellen Bennett living in South America while exercising a mental hold over her. All his previous employers died mysteriously.
Style: disturbing, psychotronic, crying, independent film, natural horror ...
Plot: body horror, exploitation, demon, bare butt, bare chested male, nudity, dead body, street dance, thunderstorm, creature feature, good versus evil, death ...
Place: puerto rico, acapulco mexico
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The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, ...
Style: neo noir, slasher, noir, perverse, political ...
Plot: train, police, serial killer, investigation, boxing, murder, trippy, railway, age-gap relationship, swing, characters murdered one by one, police detective ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france
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The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?
Style: slasher, gothic, slasher horror, freeze frame, crying ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, drifter, killing spree, love triangle, psychotic, terror, woman with a gun, female psychopath, violence, female sexist, rape ...
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Women in Temptation (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a marriage counselor is abandoned by her husband for a younger woman, she sets out for new companionship.
Style: humorous, psychological, light, contemplative, sex comedy ...
Plot: female sexual predator, older woman younger man sex, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, chase, secret, strong female character, childhood trauma, midlife crisis, strong female lead, single woman ...
Place: czech republic, prague, central europe
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Center of My World (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, rough, lgbt cinema ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, gay, gay teenager, coming of age, gay interest, gay erotica, friendship, rejection, male objectification, gay lead character, gay sex, bisexuality ...
Time: 2000s
Place: central europe
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 6.3
 10K
The Lure (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.
Style: psychotronic, horror musical, suspense, dark, suspenseful ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mermaid, dance club, female monster, teenage girl, sister sister relationship, love triangle, dancing, body horror, sensuality, lesbian, murder, metamorphosis ...
Time: 80s
Place: central europe, warsaw poland
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At the End of the Tunnel (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A paraplegic computer engineer that moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, captivating, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tunnel, introvert, heist, surveillance, trap, investigation, police investigation, gang of outlaws, criminal, thief, robbery, police detective ...
Time: year 2016
Place: buenos aires argentina
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 5.7
 5K
S.F.W. (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An alienated and misanthropic teenager gains sudden and unwanted celebrity status after he's taken hostage by terrorists where his indifference to their threats to kill him makes news headlines.
Style: cult classic, clever, independent film, philosophical, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hostage, survival, friendship, media, coming of age, slacker, reporter, satire, stoner, social commentary, greed, violence ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: seattle
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 5.0
 3K
Neon Maniacs (1986)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A group of teenagers in San Francisco discover a nest of homicidal monsters living in a tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, but when they try to tell authorities, no one believes them.
Style: suspenseful, scary, slasher, independent film, rough ...
Plot: mutant, danger, monster, survival, deadly creature, youth, teenage life, stalking, rivalry, murder, zombie, police ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco, usa
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Ants in the Pants (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Flo is not quite a normal teenager: While all his friends only think about sex he can't even pronounce the word "S - E - X". But everything changes completely when one morning Flo wakes up from a strange call. His penis, excited for ...
Style: entertaining, teen sex comedy, humorous, sexy, sex comedy ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: sexual awakening, teenage life, puberty, looking for sex, youth, social relations, teenager, sexuality, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, older woman younger man relationship, nudity, first sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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