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Photographing Fairies (1997)
 6.8
 3K
Photographing Fairies (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets
Style: psychological, spiritual, mystic, grindhouse, esoteric, independent film, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot: photograph, photography, world war one, photographer, afterlife, paranormal, magical creature, occult, pagan, creature, magic realism, folk horror, fae, death sentence, sex scene, back from the dead, woman on top, grieving widower, supernatural, love and romance, couples, imaginary, haunted by the past, unfulfillment, dealing with death ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe, alps, switzerland
Keyword: reboot

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Most similar movies to Photographing Fairies

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, atmospheric and gloomy films with plots about husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking, photograph, death, father son relationship, sex and female nudity mostly in Drama, Mystery and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Photographing Fairies: FairyTale: A True Story (1997), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Youth Without Youth (2007), What Dreams May Come (1998), Waterland (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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FairyTale: A True Story (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two children in 1917 take a photograph, believed by some to be the first scientific evidence of the existence of fairies. Based on a true story
Style: fairy tale, costume drama, touching, mysterious, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: fairy, childhood, children, writers, world war one, friendship, beautiful scenery, pagan, family relations, miraculous event, supernatural ability, hopes ...
Time: 1910s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1917, 1900s
Place: england, london, europe, united kingdom, yorkshire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 8.2
 700K
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style: fairy tale, surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: kids, date night, teen fantasy, adult, teen drama
Plot: monster, mythology, fantasy world, macabre, creature, imagination, magical, legends and myths, good versus evil, maze, young heroes, imaginary ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1944
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Youth Without Youth (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Romania, France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor ...
Style: psychological, stylized, atmospheric, melancholic, spiritual ...
Plot: hospital, destiny, existentialism, world war two, life & death, life philosophy, supernatural, danger, philosophy, imaginary, dream, new identity ...
Time: 1930s, year 2007, 70s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: india, romania, malta, europe, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, heaven and hell, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, redemption, reincarnation, spirituality, love, hell, metaphysics, life after death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 2K
Waterland (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot: teacher, high school, haunted by the past, teachers and students, self discovery, power relations, couples, introspection, couple relations, friendship, father son relationship, mental illness ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, 70s, year 1992, 1920s ...
Place: england, pittsburgh, europe, london, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
 40K
Birth (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, controversial, sexy, cerebral ...
Plot: reincarnation, deja vu, older woman younger man relationship, couples, love triangle, obsession, family relations, wedding, life & death, couple relations, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: persia, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.6
 14K
After Life (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After death, people have just one week to choose only a memory to keep for eternity.
Style: philosophical, surreal, emotional, spiritual, existential ...
Plot: afterlife, eternity, death, memory, heaven and hell, life after death, life & death, heaven, videotaping, destiny, hospital, childhood ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century
Place: the philippines, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 3K
Don't Tell (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style: psychological, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: incest, nightmare, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family relations, sexual abuse, self discovery, introspection, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, couple relations ...
Time: year 2005
Place: usa, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 74K
The Gift (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, scary, psychological ...
Plot: psychic, mental illness, investigation, clairvoyant, small town, extrasensory perception, psychic power, murder, tarot card, fortune teller, violence, macabre ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.9
 11K
The Last Wave (1977)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. ...
Style: surreal, cerebral, lovecraft, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: end of the world, lawyer, murder, native american, water, nightmare, disaster, cosmic horror, aborigine, shaman, fantasy world, distopia ...
Time: year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.2
 68K
Dorian Gray (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, sexy, stylized ...
Plot: supernatural, eternal youth, beefcake, aristocracy, painting, deal with the devil, male nudity, society, fall in love, artist, destiny, physical appearance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 2009, 1900s ...
Place: england, europe, britain, ireland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.5
 2K
The Magus (1968)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: mind game, greek island, tarot card, redemption, magician, female nudity, riddles and clues, teachers and students, mental illness, danger, chase, doctor patient relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 1910s, year 1914, year 1943, year 1941
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to ...
Style: spiritual, touching, serious, christian film, philosophical ...
Plot: afterlife, heaven, amusement park, self discovery, life is a bitch, danger, redemption, hopes, religious, heaven and hell, consciousness, grief ...
Time: 50s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.1
 40K
Dragonfly (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style: suspense, psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: afterlife, hospital, supernatural, doctor, supernatural ability, medical, death, lovers apart, dealing with death, ghost, destiny, grief ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, colombia, venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.1
 62K
Don't Look Now (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
 597
Feast of July (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
Style: stylized, talky, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, dysfunctional family, soldier, family relations, tragic hero, couple relations, love triangle, down on your luck, wartime life, love and romance, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.9
 7K
Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.8
 41K
Spider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, paranoia, misfit, insanity, psychopath, mental patient, murder, twists and turns, surrealism ...
Time: 2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 6K
Paperhouse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: nightmare, children, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, boy, visceral, transformation, serial killer, father daughter relationship, coming of age, supernatural ability, dream world ...
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
 9K
Equus (1977)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: horse, psychiatrist, religion, mental illness, obsession, therapy, psychology, male nudity, introspection, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe, greece, ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: lawyer, devil, supernatural, satan, deal with the devil, law firm, courtroom, greed, demon, law, courtroom drama, ambition ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 2K
Wetherby (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: loneliness, angst, heartache, memory, solitude, obsession, investigation, world war two, adultery, spinster, dinner party, school teacher ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: yorkshire, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
In the Dark Half (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door.
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, grindhouse, gloomy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: ghost, dead child, woods, supernatural, secret place, youth, dealing with death, teenage life, twists and turns, haunted by the past, suburbs, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Inheritors (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a small farming valley in Austria in the beginning of the 20th century a tyrannical farmer is found dead, and all the farmhands are relieved to be free of their tyrant. But the farmer was childless, so suddenly they all inherit the farm together. ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, gloomy, allegory
Plot: village life, rape, last will and testament, farm, farm hand, world war two, summer, social injustice, murder, class differences, sexuality, sex ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 1930s, 19th century, 1890s ...
Place: austria, europe, america, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Woodlanders (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now believes she can find a better husband than her childhood sweetheart, ...
Style: costume drama, realistic, serious, independent film, period piece ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, infidelity, love triangle, social differences, tragic love, looking for love, love affair, unfulfilled love, school, rich and poor, society, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: britain, england, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Death and the Maiden (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A political activist is convinced that her guest is a man who once tortured her for the government.
Style: psychological, suspense, minimal cast, sexy, disturbing ...
Plot: revenge, torture, politics, doctor, rape, lawyer, dictatorship, justice, brutality, storytelling, haunted by the past, attempted murder ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: latin america, chile, eastern europe, south america, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.1
 8K
Images (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental breakdown, mental illness, surrealism, hallucination, adultery, countryside, husband wife relationship, loneliness, delusion, country house, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
Style: enigmatic, psychological, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot: investigation, dual identity, husband wife relationship, murder of wife, assassination plot, guilt, ambiguity, publisher, murder disguised as suicide, private detective, writers, missing person ...
Place: stockholm sweden, berlin germany, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Lovely Bones (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style: emotional, dark, suspense, psychological, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, family drama, murderer, rape, loss of daughter, murder mystery, pedophile, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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