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Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | horror, action, thriller, comedy |
Country | South Africa |
Characters | Teens, Friends |
Plot | Survival, Survival, Treason |
Place | Forest |
Style | For a group of friends |
Nine friends, all harboring a dark secret, go camping in the woods. After a wild night of partying, they wake up with suicide bombs strapped to their chests, all with varying times on their countdown clocks. They decide to work out how to disarm the bombs or find help - until they discover they can 'take' one another's time by killing each other.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, comedy |
Country | USA, Canada |
Duration | 02:30 |
Characters | Strong women, Family, Brides, Newlyweds |
Plot | Survival, Survival, Pursuit, The escape, Wedding |
Place | Castle, Estate, Mansions |
Time | Dark ones |
Style | Twisted plot, Tense, Fancy, Womens in main roles, Vivid |
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, action |
Country | France |
Plot | Survival, Survival, Fight |
Place | Labyrinths, Closed Space, France |
Style | Action, Tense, Womens in main roles, Disturbing |
After getting a car ride from an unknown man, Lisa wakes up in a tube. On her arm is strapped a bracelet with a countdown. She quickly understands that every 8 minutes, fire burns an occupied section. She has no choice but to crawl into safe sections to survive. To know why she’s there and how to get out, Lisa will have to face the memories of her dead daughter…
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:31 |
Characters | Teens, Difficult teens, Newlyweds, Lovers |
Plot | Survival, Revenge, Fear, Chase, Rest |
Place | Forest, Beach, Lake |
Style | To cry, Heavy, Tense, Depressive, Disturbing |
Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy |
Country | USA, Japan, China |
Characters | Strong women, Hunters, Strangers |
Plot | Survival, Skirmishes, Abduction, Fight, Survival |
Place | Forest |
Style | Exciting, Action, Tense, Dynamic, Disturbing |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:10 |
Characters | Demons, Strangers |
Plot | Survival, Survival, UFO, Experiments, Abduction |
Place | School, Spaceships |
Style | Exciting, Psychological problems, Action, Heavy, Tense |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Characters | Dogs, Family, Strangers |
Plot | Survival, Growing up, Mental disorders, Experiments, Vacation |
Place | Islands, Beach, Ocean, Sand |
Style | Unexpected ending, Makes me think |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | USA |
Duration | 01:36 |
Plot | On real events, Survival, Experiments, Justice, Managing people |
Place | Prison |
Style | Psychological problems, Action, Fascinating, Heavy, Depressive |
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | fantastic, comedy, drama |
Country | Japan |
Characters | Dogs, Family, Soldier, Fish, Farmers |
Plot | Survival, Money, Death, Hunger, Funeral |
Place | Village, School, Japan, Trains, Beach |
Time | Night |
Style | Psychological problems, Light |
A world wide electrical outage occurs. Everything that requires electricity comes to a stop. Tokyo is nearly ruined. Yoshiyuki Suzuki decides to escape from Tokyo with his family.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | horror, thriller |
Country | USA, United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Characters | Strong women, Serial killers |
Plot | Survival |
Place | Country houses |
Style | Womens in main roles |
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Mark | imdb: 5.1 |
Genre | horror, comedy |
Country | USA, South Africa, Canada |
Characters | Revived toys, Animatronics |
Plot | Survival, Mental disorders, Hostage |
Style | Unexpected ending, Action, Black humor |
A boy named Harley and his family attend a taping of The Banana Splits TV show, which is supposed to be a fun-filled birthday for young Harley and business as usual for Rebecca, the producer of the series. But things take an unexpected turn - and the body count quickly rises. Can Harley, his mom and their new pals safely escape?
Mark | imdb: 6.5 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, detective |
Country | France, USA |
Plot | Survival, Viruses, Computers, Technology, Diving |
Place | Closed Space |
Style | Unexpected ending, Action, Fascinating, Tense, Makes me think |
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Mark | imdb: 6 |
Genre | thriller |
Country | USA, South Africa |
Characters | Strangers |
Plot | Puzzles, Survival, Survival, Mystery, Sects |
Place | Labyrinths |
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.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | horror, comedy |
Country | USA |
Characters | Teens, Demons, Tough guys, Clowns, Revived toys |
Plot | Survival, Fight, Apocalypse |
Place | Small cities |
Style | Fancy, For a group of friends, Dynamic |
When his car breaks down, a quiet loner agrees to clean an abandoned family fun center in exchange for repairs. He soon finds himself waging war against possessed animatronic mascots while trapped inside Willy's Wonderland.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | South Korea |
Characters | Poor |
Plot | Money |
Place | Asia |
Style | Exciting, Twisted plot, Serious, By books, Fascinating |
The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his girlfriend runs away with the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Soon, a dead body mysteriously turns up; Mi-ran, caught between her husband’s violence and a dead-end job as a bar hostess, she finds a young lover, Jin-tae who offers to kill her husband… And now their dog-eat-dog game starts.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | comedy, melodrama |
Country | China |
Characters | Billionaires |
Plot | Money, Soccer |
Place | China |
Style | Dorama |
A pathetic minor league Soccer Goalkeeper was given a task - to spend 1 Billion in thirty days, if successful he will get 30 Billion. However, he's not allowed to tell anyone about the task and he must not own any valuables by end of it.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama |
Country | USA, United Arab Emirates |
Duration | 01:46 |
Characters | Scientists, Terminally ill, Businessmen, Virologists |
Plot | Survival, Disasters, Investigation, End of the world, Viruses |
Style | Action, Tense, Depressive, Serious, Disturbing |
As an epidemic of a lethal airborne virus - that kills within days - rapidly grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than the virus itself.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, fantastic |
Country | Japan |
Duration | 01:57 |
Characters | Gods, Heroes, Friends |
Plot | Survival, Fight, Survival, Friendship, Death |
Place | School |
Style | Tense, Touching, Depressive, For men, Disturbing |
Takahata Shun's day at high school begins just as boring as ever, but it doesn't end that way. He and his classmates find themselves forced to play children's games with deadly stakes. With no idea who is behind, the only thing Shun and other students can do is keep trying to win.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | USA, Germany |
Characters | Astronauts, Astronauts |
Plot | Survival, Adventure, Self-sacrifice |
Place | Space, Spaceships, Mars |
Style | Exciting, Action, Fascinating, Tense |
A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.
Mark | imdb: 4.8 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure |
Country | USA |
Characters | Family, Single mothers |
Plot | Survival, End of the world, Apocalypse, Insomnia |
Place | USA |
After a sudden global event wipes out all electronics and takes away humankind’s ability to sleep, chaos quickly begins to consume the world. Only Jill, an ex-soldier with a troubled past, may hold the key to a cure in the form of her own daughter. The question is, can Jill safely deliver her daughter and save the world before she herself loses her mind.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | fantastic, thriller, drama |
Country | USA, Czech Republic, Romania, United Kingdom |
Characters | Teens, Difficult teens |
Plot | Survival, Growing up, Uprising |
Place | Space, Spaceships |
Time | Future |
With the future of the human race at stake, a group of young men and women -- bred for intelligence and obedience -- embark on an expedition to colonize a distant planet. When they uncover disturbing secrets about the mission, they defy their training and begin to explore their most primitive natures. As life on the ship descends into chaos, they soon become consumed by fear, lust and an insatiable hunger for power.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, drama |
Country | Sweden, Norway, Belgium |
Characters | Lifeguards |
Plot | Survival, Diving, Cold, Rivalry |
Place | Sea, Ocean |
Time | Winter |
Style | Exciting, Womens in main roles, Serious, Disturbing |
Two Swedish/Norwegian half sisters go on a winter diving trip in Northern Norway, when they get trapped after a rockslide.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Italy, Brazil, Greece |
Characters | Killers |
Plot | Survival, Abduction, Pursuit, The escape, Conspiracies |
Place | Greece |
Whilst vacationing in Greece, Beckett, becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating car accident forces him to run for his life across the country to clear his name but tensions escalate as the authorities close in and political unrest mounts which makes Beckett fall even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, detective |
Country | USA |
Characters | Nurses, Lovers |
Plot | Money, Inheritance, Intrigue, Cheating |
Place | Estate |
Style | Unexpected ending, Exciting, Action, Tense, Womens in main roles |
After losing her waitressing job, Katie Franklin takes a job as a caretaker to a wealthy elderly man in his sprawling, empty Chicago estate. The two grow close, but when he unexpectedly passes away and names Katie as his sole heir, she and her husband Adam are pulled into a complex web of lies, deception, and murder. If she's going to survive, Katie will have to question everyone's motives — even the people she loves.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | action, fantasy, adventure |
Country | USA, China, Germany, Japan |
Characters | Monsters, Dragons, Heroes, Military, Monster Hunters |
Plot | Survival, Apocalypse, Martial Arts, Rivalry |
Place | Parallel worlds, Portals to other worlds |
Style | By games, Exciting, Serious |
A portal transports Lt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama |
Country | USA, Germany, Canada, France |
Duration | 02:02 |
Characters | Heroes, Soldier |
Plot | Survival, Apocalypse |
Place | Bunker, New York |
Time | Post apocalypse |
Style | Action, Tense, Depressive, Serious |
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.
Mark | imdb: 3.8 |
Genre | horror, fantastic, thriller, comedy |
Country | USA |
Characters | Teens, Monsters, Aliens |
Plot | Survival, Supernatural |
Place | Beach, Party, USA, Sand |
Time | Graduation |
Style | Unexpected ending, Tense, Black humor, Depressive, Disturbing |
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water again, you can’t even get across the sand! BLOOD BEACH meets SPRING BREAKERS in an ace monster mash-up of smart nostalgia and up-to-the-minute visual effects. After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wake up under blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to make contact with the sand finds themselves at the mercy of a sea of flesh-eating tentacles. Will they ever be able to escape its carnivorous clutches?
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Characters | Criminals |
Plot | On real events, Money, Drug addict, Friendship |
Place | USA, Los Angeles |
Style | Action, Tense, Serious, Disturbing |
Utah and his girlfriend Opal, are drug addicts living on the streets in rural Ohio. After getting recruited by body broker Wood, and offered treatment in Los Angeles, Wood takes Utah under his wing and introduces him to treatment center mogul Vin. Wood and Vin bring Utah in on their lucrative and illegal dealings, where saving lives comes second to the bottom line.