20 movies like Descent, ordered by similarity : Burning Sands(2017), Clive Barker's Book of Blood(2008), Aakrosh(2010), The Salesman(2016), Krishna Cottage(2004), A Single Man(2009), Open Window(2006), Submission(2017), Almost Adults(2016), Young Warriors(1983), Happy Death Day 2U(2019), Shirley(2020) ...
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
100 Minutes
Rosario Dawson Chad Faust Marcus Patrick Scott Bailey Alexie Gilmore Spencer Grammer Wilson Jermaine Heredia James O'Toole Scott Porter
college student graduate student rapist retail manager professor accomplice bleak brooding emotional apartment fraternity house college clothing store classroom college life rape rape aftermath change of lifestyle mental breakdown retribution
A college co-ed is brutally raped and struggles alone to rebuild her life.
Drama
USA
2017
96 Minutes
Trevor Jackson Alfre Woodard Steve Harris Tosin Cole DeRon Horton Trevante Rhodes Serayah Imani Hakim Octavius J. Johnson Rotimi Nafessa Williams
black student college student frat boy college dean professor bleak chilling dark gripping fast food restaurant car apartment college fraternity house oppression fraternity college humiliation escape fall
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Horror
2008
100 Minutes
Jonas Armstrong Sophie Ward Paul Blair Doug Bradley James Watson Clive Russell Romana Abercromby Simon Bamford
professor expert student young man partner writer suspenseful gory frightening house college bedroom diner bar truck supernatural haunted houses investigation strange happenings murder
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
India
2010
155 Minutes
Ajay Devgn Akshaye Khanna Bipasha Basu Paresh Rawal Reema Sen Amita Pathak
minister student friend police officers gripping intense powerful sad emotional india house college hospital police station murder suicide police work class conflict class distinctions rise
The Central Bureau of Investigation deputes two officers to investigate the disappearance of three medical students, which they believe to be an incident of 'honour killing' in a small, closed community.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Iran|France
2016
125 Minutes
Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti Babak Karimi Farid Sajjadi Hosseini Mina Sadati Maral Bani Adam Mehdi Kooshki Emad Emami Shirin Aghakashi Mojtaba Pirzadeh Sahra Asadollahe
husband wife tenant actor intruder bleak brooding emotional gripping touching intense tehran, iran apartment building apartment stage theater school violence domestic life mysterious strangers
While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
India
2004
129 Minutes
Sohail Khan Anita Hassandani Rati Agnihotri Hiten Tejwani Divya Palat Vrajesh Hirjee Isha Koppik Sneha Ullel
student fiancé friend girl demon professor outlandish wild shocking frightening india cottage college library banquet hall haunting possession curse evil spirits mysterious past
A group of collegians are forced to take shelter in a mysterious Krishna Cottage for the night. Little do they know that the cottage is haunted by a spirit.
Gay & Lesbian, Drama
USA
2009
99 Minutes
Colin Firth Julianne Moore Nicholas Hoult Matthew Goode Jon Kortajarena Paulette Lamori Ryan Simpkins Ginnifer Goodwin Teddy Sears Aaron Sanders Lee Pace
professor homosexual lover student friend male prostitute brooding emotional profound cheeky suburb house college beach gas station suicide grief friendship homosexuality teaching
An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.
Drama
USA
2006
97 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Robin Tunney Cybill Shepherd Elliott Gould Scott Wilson Shirley Knight Matt Keeslar Justin Ashforth
photographer fiancée rapist rape victim mother father bleak disturbing emotional house bedroom photography studio college classroom hospital engagement rape marital problems depression home invasion
The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Drama
2017
106 Minutes
Stanley Tucci Addison Timlin Kyra Sedgwick Janeane Garofalo Ritchie Coster Colby Minifie Alison Bartlett-O'Reilly Malika Samuel David Pittu Juan Castano Wali Collins
college professor college student colleague wife literary agent mother brooding engaging intense passionate sultry melodramatic houston college student-teacher relationship ethics college life writing obsession infidelity
A well-respected professor who is a celebrated novelist and loving husband loses himself when he becomes obsessed with an ambitious and talented student.
Comedy, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
Canada
2016
90 Minutes
Elise Bauman Natasha Negovanlis Winny Clarke Justin Gerhard Delphine Roussel Christina Song David John Phillips Meredith Heinrich Mark Matechuk Daryl Marks Pujaa Pandey
best friend lesbian boyfriend love interest professor family member confident cheeky cool college classroom apartment store party campus college sexual identity lesbianism dating friendship
A film about growing apart when growing up. Two best friends relationship strains when one deals with her newfound sexuality and the other with breaking up with her long term boyfriend.
Crime, Drama
USA
1983
103 Minutes
Ernest Borgnine Richard Roundtree James Van Patten Lynda Day George Anne Lockhart Tom Reilly Ed De Stefane Mike Norris
college student sister thug cop father frat boy dark brooding uneasy college street helicopter household fraternity house violence rape vigilantism fraternity murder investigation gang war
A young woman is gang raped and murdered in a California college town, sparking her brother Kevin to take up arms by night with a gang of like-minded vigilantes from his fraternity, ... See full summary »
Horror, Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Japan
2019
100 Minutes
Jessica Rothe Israel Broussard Phi Vu Suraj Sharma Sarah Yarkin Rachel Matthews Ruby Modine Steve Zissis Charles Aitken Laura Clifton Missy Yager
college student friend killer masked man roommate time traveler bleak brooding suspenseful gripping uneasy gory college dorm car classroom hospital fraternity house time travel resurrection
Tree Gelbman discovers that dying over and over was surprisingly easier than the dangers that lie ahead.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2020
107 Minutes
Elisabeth Moss Michael Stuhlbarg Odessa Young Logan Lerman Allen McCullough Edward O'Blenis Victoria Pedretti Robert Wuhl Paul O'Brien
academic writer author newlywed husband wife bleak brooding confident disheartening intense melancholy passionate profound solemn vermont college writing affair muses
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Crime
Japan|USA
2006
126 Minutes
Tatsuya Fujiwara Ken'ichi Matsuyama Asaka Seto Erika Toda Shunji Fujimura
detective college student murderer brutal disturbing dark japan college black magic investigation morality murder temptation transformation rivalry 2000s
Picking up where the first one leaves off, Light joins the task force searching for Kira in an effort to avert suspicion from himself---and get rid of L.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2000
126 Minutes
Harrison Ford Michelle Pfeiffer Diana Scarwid Miranda Otto James Remar Joe Morton Amber Valletta Victoria Bidewell Katharine Towne Rachel Singer Mark Patrick Costello
husband wife scientist friend college student girl chilling tense bleak thrilling frightening vermont house college bedroom neighborhood murder affair moving neighbors
The wife of a university research scientist believes that her lakeside Vermont home is haunted by a ghost - or that she is losing her mind.
Drama
USA
1999
92 Minutes
Andrea Ferrell John Livingston Irene Ng Jack Noseworthy Devon Odessa Sean Patrick Thomas Nicholle Tom Alanna Ubach
lesbian feminist college student girlfriend black student classmate emotional melodramatic college fraternity house ambition graduation race relations college competition life lessons love growing up pursuit 1990s
Three college students compete for an award that will determine their future.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2017
87 Minutes
Jessalyn Maguire Chris Beetem John Fugelsang Carolyn McCormick Laura Gómez Catherine Curtin Chandler Williams Nicole Ansari Cox Joseph Adams
writer pregnant woman husband mentally ill person friend family member bleak uneasy emotional thrilling suspenseful house college shop office doctor's office mental breakdown marriage reality pregnancy
A successful, young writer's first pregnancy is overshadowed by her complicated relationship with reality.
Drama
USA
2007
127 Minutes
Denzel Washington Forest Whitaker Nate Parker Jurnee Smollett-Bell Denzel Whitaker Jermaine Williams Gina Ravera John Heard Kimberly Elise Devyn Tyler Trenton McClain Boyd
professor scholar college student child prodigy uplifting inspiring positive texas college harvard university college racism discrimination debate student-teacher relationship rise quest 1930s
A drama based on the true story of Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at Wiley College Texas. In 1935, he inspired students to form the school's first debate team, which went on to challenge Harvard in the national championship.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Denmark|Norway|Germany
2019
90 Minutes
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau Tuva Novotny Jan Bijvoet Sonja Richter Robert Aramayo Johanna Wokalek Solbjørg Højfeldt Kaya Wilkins Slimane Dazi Vibeke Hastrup Anders Mossling
insurance broker married man woman depressed person bleak somber brooding emotional raw hotel resort lake medical building house office existential crisis disappearance assisted suicide life death
We follow Max, who in the midst of an existential crisis and looking to solve a cold case checks into the clandestine Hotel Aurora. A unique secretive facility that specializes in elaborate assisted suicide fantasies. His investigation uncovers a disturbing truth that forces Max to question the very nature of life, death and his own perception of reality.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Gay & Lesbian
USA
2002
91 Minutes
Mia Kirshner Meredith Monroe Dominique Swain Scott Bairstow Rachel True Taye Diggs Glynnis O'Connor Joanna Canton Eric Michael Cole
college student sheriff boyfriend drug dealer father mother cool disturbing hedonistic college campus north carolina bar trailer hospital classroom college life clique drug overdose wealth sex
A North Carolina sheriff investigates the near-fatal drug overdose of an underachieving college girl, and uncovers many sordid details of her life before and during her descent into drugs and debauchery.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2017
90 Minutes
Christie Ann Burson Christina Cox Ryan Scott Greene Sammi Barber James Dean Cedric De Souza Katherine Slingsby Aisling Goodman
student professor chilling dark emotional engaging passionate tense thrilling college canada affair school teaching marriage college discovery forbidden love growing up love
When a women's husband is brutally murdered and castrated, she enlists the help of a paranormal expert to analyze strange phone calls from his phone and her investigations lead her to a ... See full summary »