Movies like Apotheosis 2018
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Apotheosis (2018)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The dark twisted tale of a man who's accused of murdering his girlfriend, told from his shadow's perspective.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, bleak, surreal, ambiguous ending, crime drama, noir, mind bending ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, obsession, claustrophobia, isolation, alienation, identity crisis, paranoia, mental breakdown, morality, slow burn, urban, surveillance, female nudity, unreliable narrator, internal monologue
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Most similar movies to Apotheosis
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, psychological horror and suspenseful films with plots about isolation, claustrophobia, obsession, paranoia, slow burn, character study and urban mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Apotheosis: Four Hands (2017), Somnium (2024), The Ghoul (2016), Franklin: A Symphony of Pain (2015), Ultrasonic (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After Sophie and Jessica had witnessed a brutal crime when they were kids, Jessica promised her younger sister Sophie: "I will always protect you!" Growing older, this promise became an obsession. Now, Jessica (28) is suffering from ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, sisters, trauma, murder, family bonds, revenge, paranoia, post traumatic stress, obsession, claustrophobia, confrontation, witness protection ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Gemma moves to LA, hoping to become an actress. She takes an overnight gig at a sleep clinic that promises to make their clients’ dreams come true. But the longer she spends there, the more it becomes clear that something sinister is going on.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dream, nightmare, paranoia, female protagonist, hallucination, insomnia, identity crisis, obsession, isolation, character study, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
los angeles
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41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
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40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The mind is a terrible thing to waste
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A musician with hyper-sensitive hearing goes in search of an ominous sound that plagues him, but is inaudible to everyone else.
Style:
stylized, serious, tense, independent film, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, musician, conspiracy, isolation, mental breakdown, obsessive quest, slow burn, investigation, claustrophobia, mind control, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
John Rotit is a happy, content man with a loving wife. Hours later, he's a rock star shooting up heroin. And after that...he's something far more sinister. John unwillingly flashes between three parallel lives in which he knowingly exists ...
Style:
mind bending, existential, surreal, psychological horror, intense ...
Plot:
alternate reality, loss of control, drug addiction, identity crisis, character study, obsession, moral ambiguity, heroin, marriage, isolation, disorientation, claustrophobia ...
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32%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Henry Long desperately seeks a cure for the condition that leaves him unable to feel physical pain.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cure, patient, doctors and patients, pain, illness, disease, character study, male protagonist, hospital, ethical dilemma, scientific research, disability ...
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29%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The dark secrets of Holly's seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, independent film, tense, art house ...
Plot:
insomnia, mental illness, domestic drama, unsettling, character study, slow burn, hallucination, paranoia, mental breakdown, claustrophobia, ambiguity, haunting ...
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29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elle Overton, a college student, becomes obsessed with Katie Kampenfelt, the mysterious heroine of a novel she's just finished reading. When Elle, battling depression, becomes convinced that Katie is actually a flesh-and-blood human being, it ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, depression, mental illness, obsessed fan, possessed woman, female protagonist, problem, paranoia, character study, internet culture, identity crisis, stalking ...
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29%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Abstract artist James escapes to a private estate to work on his newest collection, but life soon imitates art, and his fantasies of love are interrupted by nightmarish delusions.
Style:
psychological, experimental, surreal, art house, atmospheric ...
Plot:
modern art, obsession, paranoia, isolation, symbolism, mental illness, haunting, creative block, self destructing, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia ...
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29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the Cold War.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, bleak, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paranoia, betrayal, isolation, conspiracy, obsession, character study, espionage, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, ethical dilemma ...
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28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When hard partying and volatile neighbours move in next door, a quiet woman's life begins to spiral, pushing her to the edge and triggering a slow, unnerving descent into obsession and revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, intense, psychological horror
Plot:
obsession, slow burn, revenge, paranoia, privacy invasion, retribution, mental breakdown, escalation, domestic drama, confrontation, isolation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
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567
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, paranoia, jealous husband, mental illness, female protagonist, obsession, claustrophobia, identity, investigation, isolation, slow burn, small town ...
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27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, family drama, character study, overbearing parent, male protagonist, advertising agency, claustrophobia, identity crisis, obsession, moral ambiguity, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable and socially isolated young man spirals out of control, determined to find a woman who will stay with him-by force if necessary.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, stalking, control, obsessive love, unsettling, loneliness, character study, paranoia, desperation, possession, threat, manipulation ...
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27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
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26%
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Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot:
trauma, identity crisis, secrets, memory loss, post traumatic stress, flashback, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia, character study, amnesia, isolation ...
Place:
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26%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Place:
new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns. His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation ...
Style:
surreal, captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
new york
Similarity:
25%
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
ENTRANCE is about the limits of our perception, how the things lurking on the periphery of our lives can lead to horrific conclusions; about how she fell out of love with the city, but it wouldn't let her go.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, mumblecore, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
danger, isolation, loneliness, paranoia, female protagonist, alienation, character study, slow burn, minimal dialogue, haunting, urban decay, uncertainty ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life. She absorbs his dreams, until finally she threaten his very existence.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, surreal ...
Plot:
obsession, isolation, psychological manipulation, character study, privacy invasion, unsettling, slow burn, claustrophobia, symbolism, mental breakdown, possession, nightmare ...
Place:
sarajevo, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style:
bleak, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
259
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
Style:
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Plot:
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15
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A perfect wife, mother, and business owner battles a deep dark obsession that pushes her over the edge in this deadly recipe for murder
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, intense, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
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24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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147
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young woman seeks independence from her protective mother, only to be questioning her own sanity when newfound friends die, and her mother suggests she is the cause of their death.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Plot:
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23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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