Movies like Belle 2023
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Belle (2023)
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Iceland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young farmgirl, Belle, with a history of being trapped in toxic relationships, becomes trapped by the Beast who promises to cure her sick father with a rose if she stays with him.
Style:
dark fairy tale, tense, atmospheric, emotional, suspenseful, intense, gothic, bleak, mysterious, grim ...
Plot:
captivity, female protagonist, farm, claustrophobia, isolation, sacrifice, desperation, abuse, survival, supernatural, transformation, visceral, moral ambiguity, forbidden romance, minimalism, redemption, coming of age, body horror, slow burn, creature, witch, ghost, beast, cave, female nudity ...
Place:
iceland
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Most similar movies to Belle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, atmospheric and grim films with plots about isolation, supernatural, survival, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, slow burn and claustrophobia mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like Belle: Little Red Riding Hood (2016), The Convent (2018), Heresy (2024), WitchSlayer Gretl (2012), Jikirag (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A Brother Grimm's Horror Version of the Classic Fairytale.
Style:
fairy tale, dark fairy tale, dark fantasy, grim, sinister ...
Plot:
beast, wolf, folklore, werewolf, forest, macabre, adaptation, folk horror, violent, female protagonist, supernatural, female nudity ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
During the 17th century, a young woman is saved from execution and led to a priory to repent her sins but discovers a greater evil lies within.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, creepy ...
Plot:
convent, female protagonist, falsely accused, nun, obsession, nightmare, demon, supernatural, religion, haunting, religious, macabre ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
england
Similarity:
81%
414
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
In a medieval Dutch village, a young woman is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, mysterious, atmospheric, grim ...
Plot:
folk horror, religious fanaticism, medieval, superstition, mistrust, macabre, unsettling, oppression, witchcraft, supernatural, persecution, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Twenty years after his encounter with the witch, a grown-up Hansel returns to the haunted forest, seeking revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, atmospheric, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
witch, vengeance, supernatural, danger, bounty hunter, woods, rivalry, escapades, heroes, imaginary, witchcraft, revenge ...
Similarity:
65%
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283
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A pagan village, founded on the bones of both innocent and foul, is deeply rooted within the heart of an ancient Eden. When a balance of flesh and soil decays, the last surviving village elder battles madness and the macabre to save her people from ...
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, psychological horror, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
forest, pagan cult, paganism, supernatural, folk horror, survival, nightmare, monster, folklore, madness, pagan, fear ...
Place:
canada, vancouver
Similarity:
63%
333
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Guatemala
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
abuse, escape, social injustice, runaway, abusive father, trauma, 13 year old, violence, teenage girl, social problems, teenage life, problem ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, War
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The war amongst men had an influence on the beings of the forest. Now the beings demand revenge. Balance between men and the forest has been broken.
Style:
mystical, allegory, atmospheric, dark fairy tale, suspenseful ...
Plot:
folk horror, backwoods, retribution, isolation, revenge, supernatural, haunting, moral ambiguity, slow burn, terror, survival, troll ...
Place:
finland
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Arthur and his two children, Kathy and Bobby, inherit his Uncle Cyrus's estate: a glass house that serves as a prison to 12 ghosts. When the family, accompanied by Bobby's Nanny and an attorney, enter the house they find themselves trapped ...
Style:
scary, splatter, suspense, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
date night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, gory, supernatural horror, ghost child, confined, machine, inheritance, blood, family in danger, danger ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Style:
intense, mind bending, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
survival, claustrophobia, female protagonist, isolation, mature, violence, paranoia, supernatural, home invasion, body horror, slow burn, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A Nurse named Yuko (Ai Kago) has a strange experience while taking care of a girl named Fukie. Test results show a cyst inside Fukie’s body, but that cyst is actually the leftover grudge from a baby who was unable to be born. The cyst’s grudge ...
Style:
creepy, disturbing, dark, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
ghost, grudge, curse, female ghost, ghost story, twins, supernatural, haunting, cursed, death, childbirth, revenge ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
47%
2K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Five young trekkers and their tour guide embark on a weekend adventure in the Kollimalai hills. Despite warnings, they venture into a restricted area, unknowingly entering the domain of a malevolent spirit, which is hell bent on wreaking havoc in ...
Style:
tension, sinister, atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
macabre, spirit, black magic, fear, supernatural, folk horror, folklore, possession, curse, isolation, nightmare, witchcraft ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Once upon a time, a miller attempted to marry his daughter off to the King by promising she could spin straw into gold. With the help of a demonic imp, she completes the task, but the King becomes greedy and wants more. So, she promises the imp her ...
Style:
fairy tale, sinister, dark fantasy, demonic, folk tale ...
Plot:
deal with the devil, supernatural, sacrifice, motherhood, curse, deception, greed, supernatural horror, medieval, moral dilemma, loss of innocence, king ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the heart of a city, the inhabitants of a tower wake up one morning to find that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange dark matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it. Trapped, the ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
survival, fog, survival horror, trapped, isolation, claustrophobia, tower, paranormal activity, death threat, supernatural, threat, paranormal ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the 1860's American West, a minister and his family are traveling in a covered wagon when they hear a mysterious sound coming from the woods. Believing the sound to be God, they worship it, until they discover the sound is something much ...
Style:
religious horror, suspense, grim, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, isolation, forest, supernatural, wilderness, mass hysteria, loss of innocence, slow burn, wagon train, survival, claustrophobia, ritual ...
Time:
1860s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story narrates the struggle of a girl, the victim of a brutal gang rape, to survive in an infinite field of grass, where a thief helps her to survive.
Style:
tense, intense, emotional, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
gang rape, survival, sexual abuse, female protagonist, violence, isolation, escape, post traumatic stress, social commentary, redemption, moral ambiguity, hopes ...
Similarity:
44%
135
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young Nurse is assigned to look after a patient in a remote location in the English countryside. As the night continues she finds herself terrorized by an unseen force that is connected with her patient.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
fear, supernatural, supernatural being, night, nurse, supernatural power, countryside, patient, female protagonist, monster, isolation, paranormal ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Over six tumultuous decades, three unwitting guests of a cursed New England home stumble upon a sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors - an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the flesh of the living.
Style:
creepy, gothic, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
flesh eating, haunted house, supernatural, witchcraft, curse, mature, macabre, body horror, occult, claustrophobia, folklore, generation ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When, Birdie, fragile teenager with an overactive imagination is placed in an isolated Midwestern convent on the brink of closure, her strange and in some cases grotesque obsessions begin to consume her attention. Outside life beckons when she meets ...
Style:
independent film, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
female protagonist, religion, isolation, coming of age, hallucination, convent, adolescence, character study, lgbt, obsession, lesbian romance, mental illness ...
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a young woman faces a deadly diagnosis, she seeks dark magic from a witch in the woods... but every cure has costs.
Style:
creepy, tense, grim, psychological horror, suspense ...
Plot:
terminal illness, folk horror, witchcraft, desperation, occult, disease, supernatural, superstition, haunting, ritual, isolation, curse ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
It Crawls Beneath is a horror-thriller from Dale Fabrigar. Michael Pare (The Lincoln Lawyer) and Joseph Almani (Law of Attraction) star in the story of a young cop working on his uncle’s classic vintage car on a secluded ranch when a major ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, serious, disturbing, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
claustrophobia, survival, creature feature, survival horror, deadly creature, fight, trapped, nightmare, trap, deathtrap, panic, isolation ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pursued by her stepmother for eternal beauty, Snow White flees into a terrifying forest and aligns with seven bloodthirsty dwarves - cold-blooded assassins with a knack for brutal killings. Her spirit is tested in this grim fairy tale.
Style:
dark fantasy, gothic, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
survival, forest, assassin, revenge, macabre, graphic violence, violent, moral ambiguity, betrayal, visceral, anti hero, murder ...
Similarity:
36%
136
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
When Jason storms out on his wife, he seeks refuge in a nearby forest. Little does he know the forest is plagued with lost souls manifesting as his darkest desires and innermost fears
Style:
psychological horror, tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
forest, ghost, fear, lost in the woods, survival horror, paranormal activity, mysticism, supernatural horror, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, guilt ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An ancient Nordic entity known as The Shadow in the modern world and Ivar in the old world corrupts a priest to secure the coveted soul of a woman so he may deliver her as a gift to The Old One and thereby secure redemption.
Style:
dark fantasy, sinister, psychological horror, grim, atmospheric ...
Plot:
priest, supernatural, corruption, soul, female protagonist, sacrifice, religious conflict, folk horror, paganism, moral ambiguity, haunting, redemption ...
Similarity:
35%
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314
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Darken is set in a bizarre, mysterious, and violent unknown world with danger and death around every corner. After a young woman is accosted by a dying warrior in the middle of the street, a bizarre incantation propels her into the realm of Darken - ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival, maze, parallel universe, alternate universe, fight, alternate reality, battles, struggle for survival, alternate world, parallel world, claustrophobia, revolution ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A recently bereaved teenage girl goes to live with her aunt in a secluded woodland house, unaware that sinister forces lurk within.
Style:
psychological, mystic, suspenseful, mystical, thrilling ...
Plot:
paranormal activity, bereavement, problem, paranormal phenomena, female protagonist, house, haunted, nightmare, ghost, paranormal, haunted house, mysticism ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Reeling from a family tragedy, a beautiful vampire who dreams of becoming human must unmask a deranged killer before the blame falls on her.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vampire, vampirism, female vampire, killing, fight, desire, murder, vampire hunter, supernatural power, murderer, murder investigation, night ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror
Country: Greece
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Far from civilization, in a frozen forest on an inhospitable mountainside, a group of researchers is attacked by an unidentified figure. The sole survivor, a young biologist, takes refuge in the isolated cabin of a mysterious man.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
survival horror, isolation, killing, murder, murderer, sole survivor, forest, problem, threat, survival, paranoia, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A devoted couple's quiet weekend takes a bizarre turn when a nightmarish cult and their maniacal leader come to fulfill an apocalyptic prophesy.
Style:
religious horror, suspense, intense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
occult, supernatural, religious fanaticism, home invasion, ritual, small town, folk horror, ritual sacrifice, psychological trauma, claustrophobia, paranoia, obsession ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A dark figure appears in the night, bringing with him a virus that turns people into monsters. Hoping to gather stories to take back with him to the other side, he meets his opposite, a light figure prepared to do battle with the dark man in order ...
Style:
anthology, serious, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
zombie, survival, monster, danger, escapades, couple relations, gory, apocalypse, plague, virus outbreak, undead, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Serbia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Far away, in the desolate Serbian wilderness, a U.S.-led fracking crew uncover a dormant monster gestating inside a centuries-old French soldier. Now awakened and exposed in its most dangerously fragile state, it tears through the men on the grounds ...
Style:
independent film, intense, tense, grim, surreal ...
Plot:
body horror, monster, parasite, isolation, survival, visceral, graphic violence, violent, panic, supernatural, resurrection, confined ...
Place:
serbia
Similarity:
31%
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