Movies and TV shows like It

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It (1990)
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It (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story: A series of murders prompts Mike Hanlon to suspect that the supernatural menace that he and a group of friends battled as children has returned. He begins to call his friends to remind them of the oath they swore: if It returned again, they would come back to Derry to do battle again.
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, dark fantasy, creepy, demonic, psychological, splatter, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: stephen king, supernatural, monster, clown, friendship, children, childhood, fear, killer clown, small town, supernatural horror, childhood trauma, bullying, child in peril, asthma, abusive father, murder, good versus evil, brutality, investigation, serial killer, missing person, halloween, suicide, creature ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s, year 1960, 80s, 1960s, 1990s
Place: maine, usa, new york
Keyword: reboot, disgust, portuguese, challenge, movie theatre

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Most similar movies to It

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, spooky, suspenseful and suspense films and TV series with plots about supernatural, supernatural power, danger, fear, ghost, blood and monster mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like It: Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990), Stranger Things (2016), Storm of the Century (1999), Salem's Lot (2004), Sometimes They Come Back (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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It (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, spooky, slasher ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: killer clown, supernatural horror, clown, evil clown, small town, stephen king, fear, monster, coming of age, child, missing person, good versus evil ...
Time: year 1989, 2010s, year 2017, 80s, year 1988
Place: maine
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94%
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a joint Canadian-American horror/fantasy-themed anthology television series. The original series was a joint production between the Canadian company Cinar and the American company Nickelodeon. The show was filmed in ...
Style: scary, anthology, semi serious, suspenseful, spooky ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, boys' night, pre-teens ...
Plot: halloween, supernatural, campfire story, paranormal, youth, surrealism, woods, danger, ghost, escapades, alien encounter, mischievous children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Stranger Things (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, sincere, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, telekinesis, small town, parallel universe, experiment, parallel world, friendship, supernatural power, super powers, missing person, government conspiracy ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, future, 2010s, 90s ...
Place: indiana, chicago, usa, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Storm of the Century (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 257 min.
TV show
Story: A very powerful blizzard hits the fictional small town of Little Tall Island off the coast of Maine. All access off the island is blocked, and no one is able to leave the island until the storm is over. While trying to deal with the storm, tragedy ...
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, creepy, intense ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, snow, demon, small town, blizzard, storm, winter, suicide, murder, village, mysterious stranger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Salem's Lot (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
TV show
Story: Writer Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot and discovers that it is being terrorized by vampires.
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, scary, spooky ...
Plot: supernatural, vampire, stephen king, hospital, good versus evil, priest, small town, murder, danger, rivalry, mysterious character, journalism ...
Place: maine, oceania, israel, usa, middle east ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Style: gothic, scary, atmospheric, christian film, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, kids, teens, family outing, horror for children
Plot: carnival, witch, boy, circus, good versus evil, small town, supernatural, youth, black magic, coming of age, devil, greed ...
Time: 1930s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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It Chapter Two (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 169 min.
Story: Because every 27 years evil revisits the town of Derry, Maine, it chapter two brings the chapters - who've long since gone their separate ways - back together as adults, nearly three decades after the events of the first film.
Style: scary, slasher, bloody, epic, spooky ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: clown, evil clown, killer clown, stephen king, fear, group of friends, evil, panic, carnival, murder, asthma, kids in trouble ...
Time: year 2019, 80s, year 1989, 2010s, year 2016
Place: maine, los angeles, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, satanic, serious ...
Plot: stephen king, ghost, supernatural, high school, monster, murder, haunted by the past, family in danger, childhood, investigation, stalking, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Shining (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min.
TV show
Story: John Torrance is a writer & recovering alcoholic, who ends up taking a job as a winter caretaker for a remote Colorado hotel which he seeks as an opportunity to finish a piece of work. With his wife and son with him, the caretaker settles ...
Style: scary, creepy, mysterious, cult classic, mystic ...
Plot: stephen king, ghost, winter, psychic, isolation, haunting, supernatural, supernatural ability, writers, killer, psychic power, mountain ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Damien (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: After discovering his origins, Damien Thorn must cope with life as the Anti-Christ.
Style: serious, suspense, suspenseful, controversial, horrifying ...
Plot: religion, antichrist, catholicism, devil, supernatural, evil, destiny, mysticism, secret, bible prophecy, satanism, religious ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 572 min.
TV show
Story: The Crains, a fractured family, confront haunting memories of their old home and the terrifying events that drove them from it.
Style: scary, enigmatic, disturbing, surreal, demonic ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, mysterious past, supernatural horror, addiction, sibling relationship, old dark house, lesbian, past coming back to haunt, spirit, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.2
 12K
Channel Zero (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by Brian Russell’s Creepypasta tale, Channel Zero: No-End House tells the story of a young woman named Margot Sleator, who visits the No End House, a bizarre house of horrors that consists of a series of increasingly disturbing rooms. ...
Style: anthology, suspense, spooky, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: supernatural, missing person, small town, kidnapping, child in peril, paranormal investigation, mysterious disappearance, private investigation, abduction, crime investigation, disappearance, investigation ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Lady in White (1988)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, halloween, supernatural, serial killer, murder, bullying, small town, child in peril, coming of age, maniac, investigation, child's point of view ...
Time: 60s, year 1962, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: A young couple moves to a quiet New England village, only to soon find themselves mixed up in mysterious rituals.
Style: slasher, spooky, gothic, satanic, thrilling ...
Plot: folk horror, religion, small town, occult, mythology, folklore, conspiracy, ghost, paranormal, autumn, witch, ritual ...
Time: 70s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Goosebumps (1995)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Goosebumps is a Canadian-American children's horror anthology television series based on R. L. Stine's Goosebumps books. It was one of the two popular television horror anthology children's series in the 1990s.
Style: anthology, dark, sitcom, dark fairy tale, scary ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids ...
Plot: supernatural, children, psychic, haunting, clairvoyant, goose, middle school, insect, magic, generation y, lycanthropy, childhood love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.1
 101K
Dead Silence (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: ghost, doll, supernatural, macabre, murder, ventriloquist, small town, clown, investigation, urban legend, danger, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
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 337K
Insidious (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, macabre, nightmare, fear, ghost, afterlife, demon, evil spirit, nightmare comes true, paranormal activity, psychic ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place: america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: After an au pair’s tragic death, Henry Wingrave hires a young American nanny to care for his orphaned niece and nephew who reside at Bly Manor with the estate’s chef Owen, groundskeeper Jamie and housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. But all is not as it ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, psychological, enigmatic ...
Plot: haunted house, lgbt, ghost, lesbian, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted, lake, nanny, lgbtq, supernatural power ...
Time: 80s, 19th century, victorian era, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Let Me In (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style: suspense, gothic, atmospheric, melancholic, biting ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: vampire, loneliness, first love, gory, blood, childhood, supernatural, friendship, adolescence, children, boy, coming of age ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Boogeyman (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, childhood, boogeyman, haunted by the past, death, thanksgiving, nightmare, hallucination, hometown, gory, danger, ghost ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 2K
Superstition (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The Mosley family keeps the secrets and dark history of a town located on the outskirts of New Orleans that is also a landing patch for the world's darkest manifestations of fear, guided into the world by a mysterious malefactor named The ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, gothic, gothic horror, dark fantasy ...
Plot: supernatural, witch, supernatural power, mysterious character, secret, underground, rivalry, danger, black magic, research, haunted by the past, african american protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
 243K
Silent Hill (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style: scary, dark, surreal, gothic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, monster, demon, survival, supernatural horror, macabre, insanity, torture, ghost town, ghost, good versus evil, missing child ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: west virginia, virginia, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Exorcist III (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, religious horror, splatter ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, demon, possession, supernatural, demonic possession, macabre, exorcist, priest, investigation, murder, violence, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa, india, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, fear, ghost, demon, nightmare comes true, child in peril, possession, macabre, psychic ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style: surreal, psychological, lovecraft, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: insanity, investigation, hallucination, paranoia, gory, supernatural, small town, mind game, mental illness, writers, fear, monster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, distant future
Place: new england, new hampshire, england, europe, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.8
 267K
It Follows (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, macabre, evil, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, sex, supernatural being, supernatural horror, peeping tom ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.3
 178K
Poltergeist (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: poltergeist, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, psychic, haunted, suburban life, haunting, paranormal, nightmare, child in peril, children ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
American Horror Story (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: American Horror Story is an anthology horror drama series.
Style: anthology, psychological, atmospheric, scary, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, ghost, witch, haunted house, evil force, danger, death, insanity, vampire, mental institution, witchcraft ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 2013, 80s, year 2011 ...
Place: new orleans, los angeles, usa, massachusetts, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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