20 best movies like Exam (2009)

List of the best movies like Exam (2009): Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, Old, Inception, The Block Island Sound, Circle, The Hunt, The Experiment, Gone Girl, The Signal, Intruder.

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Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryUSA, South Africa

Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive as they discover all the games that they've played before.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Japan

A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:28

    Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryUSA

    What’s controlling the town on Block Island? There’s a force lurking off the coast and the wildlife and people are all behaving strangely.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:10

    Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA, Japan, China

    Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

      With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, detective
      CountrySouth Korea

      Seo-jin is a widower still grieving his wife’s death. Then he receives the news that her long-lost younger sister, Yoo-jin, who went missing 25 years ago, has turned up. Unlike the rest of his family, who welcome her into their arms, Seo-jin feels that Yoo-jin is a stranger.

      Markimdb: 8.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:05

        A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryItaly

        The morning Stella decides to take her own life, a stranger knocks at her door claiming the guest room he booked for the night. Surprised but charmed by this man who seems to know her very well, Stella decides to let him in. But when Sandro, the man who broke Stella’s heart, joins them at home, this odd sit- uation turns immediately into chaos: Giulio, the stranger, starts unveiling all the secrets of the couple and of the house. Who is Giulio? And what are Stella and Sandro hiding?

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genreaction, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, China, Canada
        Duration01:55

        A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Sweden
        Duration01:32

        A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland
        Duration01:46

          Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
          Duration02:07

          Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

          Markimdb: 5.4
          Genrethriller, detective
          CountryCanada, New Zealand, United Kingdom
          Duration01:32

          Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from classmates, she prefers to spend time with Vern, an older comic store owner who shares her passion for mind games and riddles. But when the riddles she solves lead to the deaths of those around her, she realizes the riddles are more than a simple game.....

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA

          A documentary filmmaker travels to a UFO convention in New Mexico where he meets a local artist with a dark secret. As they follow a trail of clues they discover disturbing sightings and question all they believe when they become immersed in the enigmatic culture of the Pueblo Indians.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:25

          A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.

          Markimdb: 6.6
          Genredrama, biography, history
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:10

            Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:49

            A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genrefantastic, drama
            CountryJapan

            A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious minds.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration01:30

            Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrethriller, crime, detective
            CountryUnited Kingdom
            Duration01:31

            At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.

            Markimdb: 5.7
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA

            Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.

            Markimdb: 5.1
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryCanada

            Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she's alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past may be coming back to haunt her.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountrySpain, USA
            Duration01:39

            A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:36

              Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUnited Kingdom

              A British college professor, working in Russia, investigates certain mysteries surrounding the life and death of Joseph Stalin.

              Markimdb: 7.5
              Genrethriller, crime, detective
              CountryUnited Kingdom
              Duration01:10

              Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly chosen strangers, a seemingly innocent entertainment that becomes dangerous when he crosses paths with a mysterious character.

              Markimdb: 5.9
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:30

              On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the embarrassing situation.

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration00:55

              Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.

              Markimdb: 8.1
              Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:33

                When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUnited Kingdom, France
                Duration01:41

                A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.

                Markimdb: 5.6
                Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:29

                After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

                Markimdb: 6.5
                Genremelodrama, drama
                CountryUSA

                A widow with three children hires a handyman to fix her house during a major storm. When not doing home repairs, he shares his philosophy of believing in the power of the universe to deliver what we want.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrethriller, drama, detective
                CountryNetherlands
                Duration01:54

                Young lawyer Iris discovers that she has an older, autistic half-brother Ray, who is in prison for the atrocious murder of his neighbour and her five-year-old daughter. When she meets Ray he reminds her a lot of her own son Aron, who also is autistic, and she starts to believe that he is innocent.

                Markimdb: 7
                Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryIndia

                The film's plot is set in the backdrop of 26/11 serial blasts in Mumbai, and revolves around Ashok Kumar (Ajith), who is on a mission to expose a scam regarding faulty bullet proof jackets that are provided to security forces, which resulted in many bloody deaths including his best friend and colleague, Assistant Commissioner Sanjay (Rana).

                Markimdb: 5.8
                Genrethriller, detective
                CountryIndia

                A couple checks into a beach resort in Mauritius late night with their three-year-old daughter Titli who in the next morning goes missing.

                Markimdb: 5.7
                Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:32

                After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUnited Kingdom
                Duration01:47

                Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other officials want Dobbs to drop the case. So Dobbs hires a retiring inspector, Mendel, to quietly make inquiries. Dobbs isn't at all sure as there are a number of anomalies that simply can't be explained away. Dobbs is also having trouble at home with his errant wife, whom he very much loves, having frequent affairs. He's also pleased to see an old friend, Dieter Frey, who he recruited after the war. With the assistance of a colleague and a retired policeman, Dobbs tries to piece together just who is the spy and who in fact assassinated Fennan.

                Markimdb: 3.5
                Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:33

                Nationally acclaimed evangelist John Luther is the last obstacle in the way of sweeping religious reform in the States. When a U.S. Senator and Luther's own supporters abduct and frame him in the murder of an innocent teenage girl, an unprecedented era of persecution is unleashed. Out on personal recognizance, Luther escapes police surveillance in search of the truth. And suddenly, a once-normal life is targeted by a team of ex-military operatives who wage a relentless campaign to eliminate the incriminating evidence. As evangelist turned fugitive, Luther vows to expose anyone involved with or profiting from the girl's murder; a mission that brings him face-to-face with the coming storm of persecution that will threaten the entire Christian community in America.

                Markimdb: 4.3
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:50

                After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.

                Markimdb: 6.9
                Genrethriller, drama
                CountryUnited Kingdom

                Undercover follows Maya, the first black Director Of Public Prosecutions. Just as she is about to take up the post and her life comes under intense public scrutiny, she learns that that her husband Nick has been lying to her for years. Twenty years ago Nick was a fearless and dedicated undercover officer, infiltrating organisations considered a danger to society because of their political beliefs. Nick built himself a fake past and now with his wife unsuspecting and his conscience killing him – his secret identity may compromise the new Director of Public Prosecutions.

                Markimdb: 6.1
                Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:14

                The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, smart and logical, and the perfect choice to learn more about the spacecraft.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrefantastic, melodrama, drama
                CountryAustralia, United Kingdom
                Duration01:45

                The story of the forbidden relationship between a 'low born' boy and a 'high born' girl in an alternate reality where every person's relationships and life worth are determined by their innate 'frequencies'.

                Markimdb: 6.7
                Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryNetherlands, Belgium, Denmark
                Duration01:53

                Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence unleashes a crowing gallery of distortion around the careful façade constructed by an arrogant, comfortable couple, their three children and nanny.

                Markimdb: 5
                Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
                CountrySweden, Sri Lanka

                After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.

                Markimdb: 3.5
                Genrehorror, thriller, detective
                CountryCanada
                Duration01:34

                A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.




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