20 best movies like Nor'easter (2012)

List of the best movies like Nor'easter (2012): The Divide, The Rite, A Single Shot, I Am Not a Serial Killer, Prisoners, A Walk Among the Tombstones, The Killer Inside Me, Blue Ruin, I Confess, No Country for Old Men.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Hungary, Italy
Duration01:54

Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
Duration01:56

The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
Duration02:46

Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.

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: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, USA
    Duration01:49

    Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:30

    When the quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news, he sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:35

    Unable, due to the seal of the confessional, to be forthcoming with information that would serve to clear himself during a murder investigation, a priest becomes the prime suspect.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, western, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

      Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:50

      How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when Freddy’s ex-con father, Ben, rolls into town, hell-bent on revenge.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, Japan
      Duration01:54

      A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in him slowly disintegrating mentally.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg
      Duration01:48

        A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:35

        A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany
        Duration02:02

        A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration02:05

        A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

        Markimdb: 3.6
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean's dual life wears on his psyche and his two worlds careen dangerously close to colliding. Like a graphic novel you can't put down, Boy Wonder challenges morality, distorting perceptions of what is right and what is justified, as it races to its shocking conclusion.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:56

        Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:51

        In Shirleyville, Vermont, during the sixties, sisters Merricat and Constance, along with their ailing uncle Julian, confined to a wheelchair, live isolated in a big mansion located on the hill overlooking the town, tormented by the memories of a family tragedy occurred six years ago. The arrival of cousin Charles will threaten the fragile equilibrium of their minds, haunted by madness, fear and superstition.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:35

        This is the portrait of two recently released prisoners (Pierrette Robitaille and Romane Bohringer) who learn to live in a sugar shack deep in the forest.

        Markimdb: 8.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:25

        During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:59

        Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryIran, Germany
        Duration01:30

        In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
        Duration02:21

        A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:29

          On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

          Markimdb: 4.4
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:23

          In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. Soon the woman begins to exhibit weirdly irrational behavior as the thin line between sanity and possession begins to unravel. Is she battling her inner demons, or is a much darker presence threatening them all?

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:58

          A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA

          In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.

          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: 7.8
          Genrethriller, drama, film noir
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:43

          Cashier and part-time starving artist Christopher Cross is absolutely smitten with the beautiful Kitty March. Kitty plays along, but she's really only interested in Johnny, a two-bit crook. When Kitty and Johnny find out that art dealers are interested in Chris's work, they con him into letting Kitty take credit for the paintings. Cross allows it because he is in love with Kitty, but his love will only let her get away with so much.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrethriller, drama, short
          CountryUSA

          In a small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
          Duration02:18

          Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:37

            Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:47

            Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

            For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
            Duration02:09

            Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.

            Markimdb: 5.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:31

            Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:28

            Malcom's done with his life. Only the noise of Crystal Meth gives him a reason to keep going - everything else it has long regardless. Equipped with a bag full of weapons and self-made bombs, he makes his way to the nearby mall to really stir things up. On his personal war campaign, he not only changes his life radically, but also the fate of other people who are in the wrong place at the same time: a teenager whose favorite pastime is smoking pot in his dreary existence, a housewife, where their best days have been left behind, a greedy businessman whose only desire is to increase his wealth and a depressed pervert.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:50

            A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.

            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: 7.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:28

            Burt Lancaster plays Steve Thompson, a man who seals his dark fate when he returns to Los Angeles to find his ex-wife Anna Dundee (Yvonne DeCarlo) eager to rekindle their love against all better judgement. She encourages their affair but then quickly marries mobster Slim Dundee (Dan Duryea). To deflect suspicion of the affair, Steve Thompson leads Dundee into a daylight armored-truck robbery.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:44

            A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA

            When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor, in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:54

            When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

            Markimdb: 4.8
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryFrance, Canada, USA
            Duration02:24

            A widowed child psychologist lives in an isolated existence in rural New England. When caught in a deadly winter storm, she must find a way to rescue a young boy before he disappears forever.




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