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Movies that feel likeThe Purge: Anarchy (2014)

One night per year, the government sanctions a 12-hour period in which citizens can commit any crime they wish -- including murder -- without fear of punishment or imprisonment. Leo, a sergeant who lost his son, plans a vigilante mission of revenge during the mayhem. However, instead of a death-dealing avenger, he becomes the unexpected protector of four innocent strangers who desperately need his help if they are to survive the night.

If you loved The Purge: Anarchy, the closest films we have are I Saw the Devil (2010), The Woman in Black (2012) and Revenge (2017). All three share The Purge: Anarchy's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Creep (2014).

🍅 58% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. James DeMonacodreadunsettlingtensebleakrelentless
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: The Purge (2013) · The Purge: Election Year (2016) · The First Purge (2018) · The Forever Purge (2021)

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I Saw the Devil
2010 · dir. Kim Jee-woon
🍅 83%★ 7.8thriller · horror

Common ground in both: psychopath and revenge

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

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The Woman in Black
2012 · dir. James Watkins
🍅 66%★ 6.4drama · horror · thrillerParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: revenge

The difference: Easier on the bleakness than The Purge: Anarchy

The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease growing when he glimpses a mysterious woman dressed only in black. Receiving only silence from the locals, Kipps is forced to uncover the true identity of the Woman in Black on his own, leading to a desperate race against time when he discovers her true identity.

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Revenge
2017 · dir. Coralie Fargeat
🍅 92%★ 6.4action · horror · thrillerRent or buy

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Trades the bleakness of The Purge: Anarchy for an angle of its own

Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy married boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.

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Martyrs
2008 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 66%★ 7horror · drama · thriller

Both land tension and relentlessness at once

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Purge: Anarchy does

A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: murder

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Bird Box
2018 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 64%★ 6.6horror · thriller · dramaNetflix

Horror with a pulse of bleakness, in both cases

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

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Ma
2019 · dir. Tate Taylor
🍅 55%★ 5.6horror · thrillerHuluPeacock

One thread runs through both: psychopath

Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.

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Thir13en Ghosts
2001 · dir. Steve Beck
🍅 19%★ 5.6horror · thriller

Thriller built on dread, twice over

Arthur and his two children inherit his uncle's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to twelve ghosts. When the family, accompanied by a nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped inside an evil machine 'designed by the Devil and powered by the dead' to open the Eye of Hell. Aided by a ghost hunter and his rival, a ghost rights activist out to set the ghosts free, the group must do what they can to get out of the house alive.

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Hannibal Rising
2007 · dir. Peter Webber
🍅 16%★ 6.1crime · thriller · horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Unsettling horror in both cases

The story of the early, murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer, Hannibal Lecter – from his hard-scrabble Lithuanian childhood, where he witnesses the repulsive lengths to which hungry soldiers will go to satiate themselves, through his sojourn in France, where as a medical student he hones his appetite for the kill and learnt sword skills from his Japanese girlfriend, who happened to have similar fate

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I Spit on Your Grave
2010 · dir. Steven R. Monroe
🍅 32%★ 6.2thriller · crime · horror

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel. Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject her to a nightmare of degradation, rape, and violence.

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Carrie
2013 · dir. Kimberly Peirce
🍅 51%★ 5.8drama · horrorPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: murder

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

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Peninsula
2020 · dir. Yeon Sang-ho
🍅 55%★ 5.5horror · action · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

Common ground: dystopia

A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.

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