Movies like Homestay
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Homestay (2018)
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Original name: โฮมสเตย์
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
When a spirit inhabits the body of a teen named Min, he begins to settle into his life until he's forced to find out who caused Min's mysterious death.
Style:
emotional, psychological, melancholic, suspense, twisted, romantic drama
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, supernatural, second chance, teenager, reincarnation, identity, haunting, investigation, macabre, memory, high school life, grief, redemption, loss, coming of age, supernatural romance, regret, bittersweet, young adult, friendship, murder, bullying, fate, life after death ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
thailand
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Most similar movies to Homestay
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, psychological, emotional and suspense films with plots about supernatural, loss, grief, investigation, memory, ghost and haunting mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Homestay: One Day (2017), White Light (1991), Last Christmas (1999), Dear Uma (2025), Time of Her Life (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A man, who witnessed his wife's suicide, gradually cures his emotional scars through a fateful encounter with the spirit of a woman in coma...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
coma, bereavement, ghost, spirit, suicide, hospital, grief, loss, couple relations, depressed man, love and romance, seeing dead people ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A police officer recovers from a nearly fatal injury with visions of a mysterious woman.
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, spiritual, tense ...
Plot:
afterlife, police, resurrection, haunting, undercover, heaven, supernatural, obsession, ghost, visionary, investigation, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
90%
320
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide.
Style:
psychological, emotional, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
reincarnation, investigation, school, high school, supernatural, soul, second chance, afterlife, life & death, problem, murder investigation, teenage life ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.
Style:
emotional, sad, melancholic, reflective, heartfelt ...
Plot:
christmas, father son relationship, angel, ghost, grief, supernatural, bittersweet, mourning, loss, betrayal, afterlife, family drama ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
73%
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987
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
"Dear Uma" is a film that narrates the story of Dev, a rock star who falls in love with Uma, a medical student. As the plot unfolds, Dev realizes that he is enamored with Uma's soul rather than Uma herself. The central mystery ...
Style:
romantic drama, emotional, poignant, romantic, melancholic ...
Plot:
supernatural romance, soul, ghost, a vision, medical school, afterlife, haunting, secrets, young adult, paranormal, melancholy, memory ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two ghosts, separated by time, who have roamed the grounds of a historic English mansion, searching for each other are brought together by Ally (LAURA PENNEYCARD), a photography student who is experiencing dreams she can't explain and Emmett ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, emotional, gothic, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunting, lost love, paranormal, spirit, macabre, english countryside, supernatural romance, nightmare, dream, memory ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first born with his former wife Clara. Suddenly, however Perla, the new owner where the couple lived ...
Style:
suspense, emotional, melancholic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
father son relationship, domestic drama, mourning, grief, loss, family problems, confronting the past, life is a bitch, tragic past, father and son, marital problem, loss of daughter ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, Tim Ingram uncovers a mystery about the 15 year old boy who had once lived in the house and had died in 1910. With the help of his friend Rebecca, Tim investigates, but finds events ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, tense, psychological, melancholic ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
ghost, investigation, supernatural, teenager, macabre, coming of age, dark secret, haunting, flashback, friendship, countryside, cold case ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
59%
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380
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Nanami Hoshino, a wealthy entrepreneur, marries potter Kim Jun-ho, and they both live a seemingly happy life until Nanami is killed by a biker on her way home. Now a ghost whose presence cannot be seen, she realizes that her death was no coincidence ...
Style:
psychological, romantic, captivating, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost, investigation, supernatural, crime investigation, murder investigation, supernatural power, uncover truth, love affair, secret, crime solving, love and romance, spirit ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, tense, esoteric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
investigation, ghost, murder, supernatural, coma, danger, invisibility, teenage life, missing person, young heroes, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After taking his own life, Lyndon (Jonathan Regier), unknowingly wakes up in the middle of a circular afterlife with greetings from Death in human form (George Katt). Before understanding this painful inner circle, he must step back to the outer ...
Style:
bleak, existential, surreal, philosophical, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
afterlife, guilt, grief, mourning, suicide, sin, spiritual journey, limbo, moral dilemma, supernatural, haunting, redemption ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China, Taiwan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 2009, 28-year-old Li Zi Wei and 17-year-old Huang Yu Xuan met each other. Two innocent and unaffected lives that could each feel marks like ones of their past and present lives. However, they could not find sufficient proof to fill up the ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, sincere, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, female protagonist, youth, time travel, memory, fate, travel, destiny, bittersweet, tragic love, longing, soul mate ...
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
53%
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:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, South Africa, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Style:
suspense, teen, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenager, coma, afterlife, invisibility, out of body experience, ghost, regret, friendship, existentialism, family relations, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A coming of age story about an awkward teenage boy who falls in love with the girl next door, who he soon discovers passed away the year before from Cystic Fibrosis, and he's in love...with a ghost.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, sentimental, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural romance, ghost, young lovers, death of lover, impossible love, love, girl next door, teenager, coming of age, couple relations, love and romance, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ryoichi Yoshimori is a university student. His girlfriend, Kyoko Sawada is a few years older but the pair don’t care as they are deeply in love. After Ryoichi proposes to Kyoko, she suddenly disappears. Several days later, Kyoko re-emerges but ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, captivating, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot:
urban legend, memory loss, amnesia, guy, student, young man, young girl, local legend, young woman, university student, legend, loss ...
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17
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
What is an eternity without the ones you love? Iris has lived a life of secrets, but with the imminent death of her last living relative, she has left herself open to new feelings while still longing for her lost true love.
Style:
emotional, romantic drama, melancholic, existential, independent film ...
Plot:
loss, grief, relationships, family bonds, secret revealed, loneliness, secret past, identity, intimate, memory, uncertainty, support group ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
45%
3K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
A struggling young musician, along with his two friends, with the help of a quantum physicist goes back in time to prevent the death of his mother. What happens next?
Style:
serious, exciting, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Poor Tasos and was so young! But also very jealous. A defect that ultimately cost him his own life as during his last jealousy crisis for of his beautiful girlfriend Alice, he will fall victim of a traffic accident. Archangels will sympathize with ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, surreal, art house, philosophical ...
Plot:
afterlife, death, ghost, jealousy, second chance, supernatural, regret, tragedy, road accident, car crash, loss, relationships ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A perfect summer day ends in tragedy, weaving a cosmic connection between three suburban teenagers.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, atmospheric, tragic ending, dramatic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, disappearance, coming of age, friendship, missing person, loss of innocence, summer, youth, loss, guilt, small town, trauma ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
17 years-old Giulio is sent by his mother to a boarding school for difficult offspring of rich families. The institution is sort of a “golden prison”, isolated in the Alps, to which inadequate parents delegate the task of educating the ruling ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, neo noir, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage boy, friendship between boys, boarding school, friendship, nightclub, coming of age, adolescence, teenage life, friends, teenager, escapades, high society ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Sarah meets Mike everything she thought she knew about the world is turned upside down.
Style:
disturbing, touching, suspenseful, rough, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
angel, death, supernatural, christian, grief, coming of age, loss, family tragedy, life & death, family drama, coping, hopes ...
Similarity:
37%
3K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
After years of being away in Dubai, Joshua returns for his sister's funeral. But it gets weird when he starts seeing his beloved sister's spirit.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, poignant, spiritual
Plot:
loss, family drama, grief, supernatural, heartwarming, mourning, healing, hopes, funeral, mountain, redemption, memory ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Paul’s daughter Sherin is no more and her husband Allen has remarried. When he visits the new couple, who is also taking care of his grandson, a few doubts pop up in his mind, regarding his daughter’s death.
Style:
emotional, suspense, dramatic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
family drama, relationships, family secret, father daughter relationship, loss, grief, remarry, suspicion, investigation, parenthood, mourning, slow burn ...
Similarity:
36%
3K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three years ago, a father saved his daughter's life. After she's involved in a car accident, it looks like he'll have to do it again, no matter how many attempts it takes.
Style:
suspense, emotional, tense, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
time, time loop, time travel, father daughter relationship, family drama, moral dilemma, second chance, regret, car accident, guilt, loss, redemption ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On his way to school, Huang witnesses the death of Hsia, a popular teenager in their high school,along with Lin and Yeh, the other 2 students from their high school, whom Huang has never known before. Even though the three guys try to save her, she ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
investigation, high school, youth, high school student, amateur detective, uncover truth, coming of age, teenage life, bullying, guilt, friendship, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, taiwan
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iran
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young man leaves his birthplace, Isfahan, to come to capital city ,Tehran, to forgot his childhood memories. He is the storyteller and he tarts revealing his dreams which have been started a few months after the death of his father. In these ...
Style:
contemplative, psychological, melancholic, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
father son relationship, grief, memory, loss, longing, nostalgia, dream, identity, isolation, haunting, coming of age, journey ...
Place:
iran, tehran, persia
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 911 operator receives a ghostly call from a child murdered thirty years before and becomes obsessed with unraveling the crime. What she discovers shatters her.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, emotional, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, danger, nightmare comes true, murder, uncover truth, grief, murder mystery, haunting, twists and turns, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand, USA
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:
dark, emotional, psychological, suspense, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, serial killer, pedophile, murder mystery, rape, loss of daughter, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, family drama, loss of family member, murderer ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, delaware
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Sort of Homecoming tells the story of Amy, a New York news producer who thought she left her high school experiences long in the past. She unexpectedly returns to Louisiana at the request of her high school debate coach. Their strained reunion ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, reflective, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
getting home, childhood memory, memories, debate, teenage life, teenager, memory, teenage girl, schoolgirl, problem, school, personal growth ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
31%
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