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The Ghost Sonata (2007)
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Original name: Spöksonaten
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The Ghost Sonata relates the adventures of a young student, who idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm. He makes the acquaintance of the mysterious Jacob Hummel, who helps him to find his way into the apartment, only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness. The world, the student learns, is hell and human beings must suffer to achieve salvation.
Style:
existential, psychological, bleak, art house, spiritual, dark, melancholic, allegory, tense, surreal ...
Plot:
suffering, student, betrayal, isolation, morality, apartment building, haunting, obsession, salvation, minimalism, manipulation, visionary, social commentary, ghost, live performance, stage play, decay, live audience, mystery
Place:
stockholm sweden
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Most similar movies to The Ghost Sonata
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out art house, psychological, existential and melancholic films with plots about isolation, minimalism, intimate, obsession, haunting, character study and slow burn mostly in Drama, Mystery and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like The Ghost Sonata: Dreamland (2015), Soul of a Beast (2021), The Forest (2009), Burrowing (2009), Stalker: The Curse of the Zone (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Thomas, a photographer from France, goes to Japan to take pictures of abandoned places. Lonely, he meets Natsuki, a young and beautiful woman, who will become his model. But Thomas has violent panic attacks and nightmares...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, art house, existential, melancholic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, nightmare, photography, trauma, mental illness, haunting, isolation, ruins, obsession, memory, intimate ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Currently in post-production. Plot unknown. Unknown plot.
Style:
existential, emotional, independent film, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family drama, father son relationship, single father, intimacy, wildlife, isolation, slow burn, chaos, animal attack, identity, survival, haunting ...
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The action of the film takes place in two periods of time. An old man leads his son through a forest, and is simultaneously under his care confined to bed with a deadly illness.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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773
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
An eleven-year-old boy observes his neighborhood as its surface orderliness rots away.
Style:
atmospheric, contemplative, melancholic, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, neighborhood, loss of innocence, isolation, minimal dialogue, childhood memory, social commentary, alienation, minimalism, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Sometime in the near future within a place of rot and wasted dreams, four men come looking for the Hall of Wishes within the contaminated zone of post-apocalyptic earth.
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, grim, mysterious, psychological ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, isolation, desolation, dystopian future, haunting, survival, moral ambiguity, radiation, slow burn, salvation, post soviet, desire ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Poetic, experimental and different, Container is described by Lukas Moodysson as "a black and white silent movie with sound" and with the following words; "A woman in a man's body. A man in a woman's body. Jesus in ...
Style:
experimental, black and white, avant garde, art film, poetic ...
Plot:
desire for fame, identity crisis, minimalism, intimate, metaphysics, human relationship, darkness
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A documentary from Nick Peterson.
Style:
existential, contemplative, psychological, surreal, melancholic ...
Plot:
alter ego, isolation, flashback, suicide, existential crisis, identity crisis, memory, mental illness, guilt, stream of consciousness, regret, mental breakdown ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bobby just needs to deal with his wife’s death, so he retreats to an old family cottage. His grief is disrupted when she comes back to haunt him, forcing him to confront what it really means to live, love, and lose.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
grief, ghost, loss, isolation, lake, mourning, haunting, supernatural, bereavement, cottage, afterlife, memory ...
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Story:
Eva auditions for a role in an obscure art-house film. An anonymous, masked director creates an intimidating atmosphere. He dominates and humiliates Eva, forcing her into prostitution. She sleeps with a Jewish film producer named Josh. When he ...
Style:
art house, disturbing, bleak, dark, tense ...
Plot:
manipulation, exploitation, control, abuse of power, humiliation, dehumanization, female protagonist, blackmail, sexploitation, intimidation, coercion, film industry ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One bullet can do a lot of damage.
Style:
tense, twist ending, black comedy, biting, bleak ...
Plot:
dark humor, irony, satire, deadpan, minimalism, absurdism, social commentary, intimate, confrontation, character study, mortality, monologue ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Inspired by the book, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Lazarus focuses on Thomas Newton, as he remains still on Earth - a 'man' unable to die, his head soaked in cheap gin and haunted by a past love. We follow Newton during the course of a few ...
Style:
psychological, existential, melancholic, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
loneliness, existential crisis, isolation, immortality, character study, relationships, social problems, troubled past, social issues, life is a bitch, lifestyle, desperation ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile, France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In the prelude of the twentieth century, Pedro arrives in Tierra del Fuego, an hostile and violent territory, to immortalise the marriage of a powerful landowner. Fascinated by the beauty of the bride-to-be, he betrays the rules and is left to face ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, period piece, dark, grim ...
Plot:
wedding, photographer, genocide, problem, violence, haunting, brutality, class conflict, obsession, isolation, moral ambiguity, tragedy ...
Place:
argentina, chile
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Visually mesmeric with countless lateral subplots set in a a nightmarish no man's land: Shakespeare in the Extreme!
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, existential, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
supernatural, alienation, isolation, adaptation, literary, ghost, palace intrigue, femme fatale, mourning, identity crisis, manipulation, ritual ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
51%
118
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
24 year old Johan spends his days in Nice on the French Riviera, supported by an aging ex-actress. Days go by between her house, the beaches and the apartment of his friend Kurt. A life in leisure and luxury. But memories of his teenage years are ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, thought provoking, dramatic, art house ...
Plot:
older woman younger man sex, couple relations, lifestyle, beach, friend, actress, couples, male female relationship, relationships, friends, alienation, shallowness ...
Place:
french riviera
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The personal story of the young student Felix Goldschmidt, who finds himself arrested for a crime he does not understand, like his fellow prisoners, he believes at first that he the victim of a mistake. But Red Gloves is also a political story, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, grim, dramatic, melancholic ...
Plot:
false accusation, wrongful imprisonment, prison, jail, political intrigue, prisoner, accusation, confined, framed for a crime, totalitarianism, injustice, oppression ...
Time:
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
investigation, privacy invasion, family relations, dishonesty, parents and children, mystery woman, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity, obsession, isolation, paranoia ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, china
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
"The Day Of The Purple Sun´´: The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe.
Her journey through the mysteries of the Egypt underworld.
Will she be coming forth by day? film in two parts by Carsten Frank
"DER TAG DER VIOLETTEN SONNE´´
...
Style:
experimental, mystical, surreal, psychedelic, meditative ...
Plot:
journey, female protagonist, ancient egypt, afterlife, transformation, rebirth, mythology, metaphysics, haunting, ritual, macabre, intimate ...
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, poignant, dark ...
Plot:
manipulation, couple relations, society, redemption, tragedy, character study, alienation, isolation, melancholy, therapy, slow burn, modern life ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
45%
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Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, bleak, psychological, independent film, emotional ...
Plot:
street life, urban, manipulation, toxic relationship, desperation, obsession, social commentary, alienation, coercion, power struggle, realism, violence ...
Time:
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Place:
london
Similarity:
45%
79
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to meet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s death.
Style:
existential, emotional, melancholic, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
grief, loneliness, isolation, identity crisis, character study, search for father, alienation, minimalism, intimate, regret, male protagonist, urban ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, tense, tragic ending, dark, art house ...
Plot:
power struggle, forbidden romance, class conflict, father daughter conflict, character study, sexual tension, female protagonist, manipulation, tragic romance, emotional breakdown, adaptation, intimate ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Andrew and Claire, a young couple attempting to restart their live, moves to an isolated school house in farm country, their neighbors and nature itself, trigger a surprising chain of events
Style:
atmospheric, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
isolation, couples, farm, introspection, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, estrangement, starting over, crumbling marriage, countryside, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
It is the turn of the century in Russia, and the revolution (at this time not yet a communist one) has sentenced government minister Joel Birkman (Etienne Glaser) to be assassinated for his role in quelling a student rebellion. To that end, they ...
Style:
political thriller, tense, suspenseful, bleak, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bodyguard, ethical dilemma, assassination, power struggle, intrigue, moral ambiguity, civil unrest, oppression, revolution, fictional country, deception, conspiracy ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
334
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
Style:
melancholic, bleak, emotional, detective, dark ...
Plot:
tragedy, sadness, police, loss, grief, investigation, loneliness, love, social commentary, obsession, realism, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1968, year 1976, year 1979
Place:
hokkaido
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A group of very different people set sail on an old warship. The passengers include a senator with his son, a newly-wed couple, a mysterious old man, a group of sex workers and a gang of violent criminals. At first the aggressive behaviour of the ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
sea voyage, cruise ship, rape, social relations, gang, bandit, criminal, cons and scams, cruise, society, sea disaster, organized crime ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A Swedish pastor fails a loving woman, a suicidal fisherman and God.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, depressing, art house, cerebral ...
Plot:
religion, existentialism, suicide, priest, winter, faith, midlife crisis, darkness, philosophy, spirituality, great ending, art ...
Time:
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Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Portrays the universe of an eternal being that exists within a lifecycle filled with disappointments and hopelessness. It's the chronicle about the search for love and the fight against oblivion.
Style:
existential, reflective, melancholic, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
loneliness, character study, loss, hopelessness, memory, frustration, identity crisis, alienation, intimate, lgbt, gay, redemption ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
This loose adaptation of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness follows Robert Klein as he sets out to find his brother, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Style:
allegory, existential, art house, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
colonialism, culture clash, journey, adaptation, white supremacy, environmentalism, moral ambiguity, self discovery, male protagonist, darkness, identity, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Monaco, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Five scenarios in which people have trouble distinguishing truth from illusions. Each segment reflects the motto of Voltaire's Candide: "Optimism is insisting everything is good, when everything is bad."
Style:
thought provoking, anthology, reflective, surreal, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
satire, irony, frustration, absurdism, social commentary, paradox, deception, bittersweet, existential crisis, moral ambiguity, mental disorder, down on your luck ...
Time:
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Place:
serbia
Similarity:
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