Movies like Birth

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Birth (2004)
 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 is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, controversial, sexy, melancholic, disturbing, artsy, art house, cerebral, spiritual ...
Plot: reincarnation, deja vu, older woman younger man relationship, couples, love triangle, obsession, family relations, wedding, life & death, parents and children, love and romance, couple relations, little boy, dishonesty, coming of age, child, life is a bitch, self discovery, haunted by the past, obsessive love, relationships, grief, fiance fiancee relationship, sister sister relationship, widow ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century, contemporary
Place: persia, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Keyword: doctors, dreams

Most similar movies to Birth

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about husband wife relationship, couples, death, female nudity, sex, nudity and kiss mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Birth: Lantana (2001), Spider (2002), Audrey Rose (1977), Enemy (2013), Before I Go to Sleep (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.2
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Lantana (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit ...
Style: emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: infidelity, therapist, nylons, therapy, adultery, police investigation, divorce, police, sexuality, unfaithfulness, betrayal, jealousy ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 5.8
 7K
Audrey Rose (1977)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before the girl was born.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, tense, stylized ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, creepy child, obsession, nightmare, family relations, betrayal, reincarnation, stranger, police investigation, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, india, asia, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 212K
Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, lookalikes, obsession, nightmare, surrealism, disturbed individual, actor, existentialism ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, uncover truth, life turned upside down, investigation, psychology, power relations, doctors and patients, false identity, domestic violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2014, year 2000, year 2007, year 2013 ...
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 81K
Premonition (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: time travel, destiny, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, life & death, foreknowledge, deja vu, death, family problems ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 109K
Dogtooth (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word that comes from beyond their family ...
Style: disturbing, art house, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: incest, dysfunctional family, isolated house, cat, child abuse, brother sister incest, eccentric family, overprotective father, confined, sexual awakening, perversion, greek ...
Time: 2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 114K
Stoker (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style: psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: antisocial behavior, danger, mysterious character, under the surface, psychopath, family problems, lolita, fatal attraction, family relations, estate, masturbation, mental illness ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 6.9
 10K
Bad Timing (1980)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their ...
Style: controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, non-linear ...
Plot: voyeurism, female nudity, extramarital affair, obsession, infidelity, rape, rape victim, parallel universe, erotica, overdose, psychopath, investigation ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: vienna, britain, austria, europe, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.2
 6K
Dream Lover (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone trough a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: femme fatale, adultery, marriage, sexual tension, female psychopath, dangerous attraction, family problems, betrayal, architect, paranoia, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Human Stain (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark ...
Style: emotional, erotic, sexy, melancholic, talky ...
Plot: couples, haunted by the past, loneliness, redemption, character study, justice, brutality, tennis, self destructing, writers, hidden identity, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1944, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new england, massachusetts, new jersey, oxford university, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 8.1
 1.1M
Gone Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.8
 14K
The Clearing (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When affluent executive, Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.
Style: tense, suspenseful, intense, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: kidnapping, marriage, fbi, marital problem, psychopath, haunted by the past, family life, danger, wilderness, betrayal, ransom, hostage ...
Time: year 2004
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.9
 2K
Fascination (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband's untimely death. Scott investigates with Oliver's pretty daughter, Kelly (Alice Evans), ...
Style: erotic, sexy, neo noir, serious, suspense ...
Plot: murder, dangerous attraction, conspiracy, femme fatale, uncover truth, fall in love, love affair, dishonesty, family problems, incest, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, florida, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.4
 20K
Poison Ivy (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Style: sexy, erotic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: femme fatale, older man younger woman relationship, lesbian, dangerous attraction, teenage girl, infidelity, teenage life, adultery, obsession, high school, nymphet, seduction ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 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 ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
28%
 6.3
 77K
Chloe (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A doctor hires an escort to seduce her husband, whom she suspects of cheating, though unforeseen events put the family in danger.
Style: psychological, sexy, psychological thriller, sexual, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lesbian, infidelity, obsession, couples, older woman younger woman relationship, couple relations, seduction, lesbian sex, adultery, lesbian love, lesbian romance, first lesbian experience ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, somalia, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 7.3
 85K
Hidden (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, art house, surreal ...
Plot: suicide, childhood, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, videotaping, hidden camera, family in crisis, lie, psychology, voyeurism, great ending, nightmare ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, algeria, iraq, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
 39K
The Paperboy (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent ...
Style: sexy, atmospheric, surreal, serious, tense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: reporter, prison, small town, investigation, journalism, paperboy, dangerous attraction, bdsm, injustice, police investigation, newspaper man, uncover truth ...
Time: 60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1969, 21st century
Place: florida, everglades, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.0
 43K
The One I Love (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two ...
Style: surreal, tricky, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: couples, husband wife relationship, marriage, infidelity, betrayal, love, twists and turns, family problems, moral dilemma, self discovery, magic realism, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a photographer employed by her wealthy parents. Respectable though her life is, she cannot help but feel uncomfortable in her privileged world. One ...
Style: atmospheric, intellectual, intense, surreal, enigmatic ...
Plot: photographer, biopic, photography, art, artist, photograph, couples, bdsm, fall in love, love story, friends, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.4
 954
The Demon (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears.
Style: slasher, tense, erotic, psychological, serious ...
Plot: family relations, female nudity, traumatic childhood, summer, youth, child abuse, greed, love triangle, adultery, absent father, starving child, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: japan, asia, mount fuji, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 6.8
 14K
Red Road (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jackie is a CCTV operator. Each day, she watches over a small part of the world, protecting the people living their lives under her gaze. One day, a man shows his face on her monitor, a man she thought she would never see again, a man she hoped ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, serious ...
Plot: voyeurism, stalking, video surveillance, revenge, couples, couple relations, female nudity, voyeur, vengeance, danger, dishonesty, ex convict ...
Time: year 2006
Place: glasgow scotland, britain, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 80K
Awake (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions ...
Style: twist ending, psychological, suspense, disturbing, intense ...
Plot: hospital, betrayal, uncover truth, surgery, twists and turns, doctors and patients, health situation, fiance fiancee relationship, surgical operation, dishonesty, parents and children, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Comedy of Innocence (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, family relations, supernatural, supernatural ability, obsession, dysfunctional family, death in the family, family life, siblings relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, single parent ...
Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surrealism, twists and turns, lesbian, amnesia, obsession, hollywood, nightmare, hallucination, doppelganger, alternate reality, filmmaking, dream ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ...
Style: psychological, grindhouse, mystic, esoteric, spiritual ...
Plot: photograph, photography, world war one, photographer, afterlife, paranormal, creature, pagan, magical creature, magic realism, folk horror, occult ...
Time: 1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place: london, europe, england, alps, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.7
 86K
Stay (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, confusing, gloomy ...
Plot: suicide, surrealism, twists and turns, obsession, mental illness, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, death, unfulfillment, parallel universe, mental institution, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2005, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 41K
After.Life (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
Style: psychological, bleak, mind bending, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, life & death, mysterious character, psychology, able to see the dead, supernatural, twists and turns, dealing with death, danger, nudity, mentor, betrayal ...
Time: future, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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