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Demigod (2021)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in Germany's Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaits them.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, tense, grim, creepy, gothic, cult horror ...
Plot:
family secret, ritual, cabin in the woods, inheritance, dark secret, confronting the past, supernatural, demi god, folk horror, macabre, mythology, folklore, occult, isolation, getting home, superstition, haunting, slow burn, forest, wilderness, human sacrifice, revenge, prophecy, grief, small town ...
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to Demigod
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and dark films with plots about isolation, slow burn, supernatural, occult, haunting, claustrophobia and investigation mostly in Horror, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Demigod: The Accursed (2021), The Moor (2023), Summoning the Spirit (2023), The Knocking (2022), Leave (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Style:
suspense, tense, mystical, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
curse, family curse, supernatural, female protagonist, cursed, witchcraft, murder, family relations, supernatural horror, mysticism, betrayal, paranormal ...
Place:
balkan
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.
Style:
atmospheric, dark, psychological horror, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
folk horror, supernatural, isolation, grieving father, macabre, fog, loneliness, revelation, childhood trauma, paranormal, investigation, ghost ...
Place:
yorkshire
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carla and Dean decide to escape the hustle of the big city, purchasing a home in a remote forest. They have big plans for their new quiet life, only to find something much more sinister; they are on the land of a cult, and the leader claims a ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological horror, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
occult, bigfoot, forest, supernatural, woods, superstition, supernatural horror, religious cult, problem, monster, survival horror, human versus monster ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three adult siblings return to their childhood home, where their parents were allegedly murdered many years ago. Their plan is to get the house and estate ready to be sold but an evil force tries to prevent them from doing so.
Style:
creepy, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
forest, supernatural, haunted house, brother sister relationship, siblings relations, family relations, supernatural horror, cabin in the woods, paranormal activity, isolation, ghost, family secret ...
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, female protagonist, supernatural horror, abandoned baby, abandoned, supernatural, satanist, secret, undercover, obsessive quest, identity, occult ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An army veteran who returns home to the Ozarks finds an abandoned young boy in the woods, and as she searches for clues to the boy's identity, discovers the local folklore about a spirit, which comes in the form of a child.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, superstition, ptsd, folklore, supernatural, love interest, forest, post traumatic stress disorder, abandoned baby, child in peril, danger, isolation ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young woman discovers just how far she will go to achieve immortality while receiving the role of a lifetime in a mysterious stage play said to be cursed.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, captivating, thrilling, mystic ...
Plot:
curse, immortality, female protagonist, stage play, theater, paranormal phenomena, curses spells and rituals, cursed, paranormal activity, paranormal, mysticism, obsession ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, gothic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, secret, murder investigation, death of grandmother, death, dysfunctional family, guilt, confronting the past, female protagonist, family problems, getting home, family relations ...
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a man living alone in the woods saves the life of a young woman, they are forced to coexist. Chaos ensues when the woman makes a terrifying discovery in the woods behind the man's home and unleashes something truly haunting.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, vengeful ghost, secret, forest, problem, undercover, isolation, haunting, woods, paranormal, secrets ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Serbia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After inheriting an old mudbrick house in his home village in Eastern Europe, a man returns after spending his whole life in England, only to find out that inhabitants are hiding a dark secret about the pagan Slavic cult and his own past.
Style:
atmospheric, mystic, suspenseful, grim
Plot:
folklore, folk horror, identity, isolation, dark past, family secret, haunting, getting home, macabre, ritual sacrifice, inheritance, supernatural ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Clara faces a horrifying past when she returns to the town where she grew up while experiencing a marriage crisis. Only a police officer could help her solve what is happening to her grandparents and the rest of the people from the place.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
dark past, family secret, investigation, getting home, police investigation, troubled past, homecoming, society, puzzle, social problems, secret, tragic past ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A married couple, trying to rebuild their relationship after an affair, travels to a secluded cabin and stumbles into a blood feud between the Native American owners of the property and the neighboring clan, who obsessively guard their land and ...
Style:
suspense, scary, unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
lesbian relationship, native american, young couple, nervous breakdown, folk horror, sacrifice, family relations, native american tribe, unsettling, death, travel, ritual ...
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Cut off from civilisation, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she ...
Style:
suspense, creepy, atmospheric, tension, sinister ...
Plot:
folk horror, haunting, supernatural, isolation, creepy child, macabre, female protagonist, possession, single mother, protective parent, slow burn, occult ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A family move into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their new home has a disturbing history and that they aren't alone…
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, scary, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, paranormal, family relations, orphanage, supernatural, children's home, abandoned house, apparition, curses spells and rituals, house, haunting ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Satomi is a research student who travels to northern Japan seeking reported olden Christian relics. On the island of Hokkaido and in a village, odd deeds are occurring. As such, she bands together with another researcher and locals to uncover the ...
Style:
atmospheric, dark, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, paranormal, occult, unsettling, folk horror, macabre, isolation, investigation, haunting, island, possession, slow burn ...
Place:
hokkaido
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Monique leaves her family quarantine to help a friend who’s suffering from terrible nightmares - but she learns too late that the bad dreams are contagious, along with the demon behind them.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological horror, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, nightmare, quarantine, dreamscape, threat, trap, nightmare comes true, supernatural horror, haunting, paranoia, isolation, demonic possession ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
What seems to be the ideal setting for fun and relaxation quickly turns deadly when six vacationing college students encounter a cursed spirit with an insatiable appetite.
Style:
creepy, dark, tension, suspenseful, mysterious ...
Plot:
wendigo, supernatural, forest, wilderness, isolation, creature feature, fear, haunting, college student, survival horror, survival, desperation ...
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46%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Hunting Souls is the story of an American couple who are dealing with the hardships of caring for their sick child. They discover that they are being hunted by a demon.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating, mystical ...
Plot:
demon, sick child, supernatural, child, parents, ghost, haunting, child in peril, mysticism, supernatural horror, family in danger, family drama ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.
Style:
suspenseful, gothic, art house, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
forest, coming of age, child protagonist, nordic, macabre, imagination, boy, mysticism, grief, haunting, family tragedy, folk horror ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits a small island in New York and discovers it has a dangerous history.
Style:
tense, disturbing, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
island, remote island, female protagonist, problem, dark secret, undercover, threat, murder, murder mystery, secret, isolation, dark past ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
Three friends reconnect in a secluded mountain town after a long quarantine. While out for a hike, the trio stumble upon something dark and terrible in the deep woods.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mystical, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
distopia, town, reunited friends, problem, mysticism, secret, woods, isolation, claustrophobia, haunting, paranoia, slow burn ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Celebrated fiction writer and former priest, Colin Hampstead, and his wife, Kayleigh, are tormented by the ghost of her late sister, as the details of her grisly death are slowly uncovered.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic, rough, psychological horror ...
Plot:
ghost, investigation, paranormal, terror, uncover truth, haunting, supernatural, priest, haunted by the past, husband wife relationship, death of sister, grief ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
College sweethearts Brad and Ashley venture into the heartland of Germany. Their romantic holiday takes a sinister turn when encountering a German SS Officer, thrusting them into a psychological vortex revealing there is not always life in a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, scary, dark ...
Plot:
nazi zombie, violence, afterlife, trapped, haunted by the past, murder, psychosis, confined, ghost, danger, ss officer, psychological torment ...
Place:
europe, germany, australia
Similarity:
43%
512
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Colombia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sara and Óscar, a couple going through a marital crisis, decide to spend a week in a remote country cabin with their two children, Alicia and Tomás. The family tries to have a quiet time, but something strange happens there. There is a woman who ...
Style:
tense, suspense, tension, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
unhappy marriage, loss, marital crisis, cabin in the woods, dysfunctional family, dysfunctional marriage, male female relationship, family relations, supernatural horror, troubled marriage, relationship problems, marital problem ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
inheritance, deception, evidence, death, secret, house, lie, estate, strong female character, uncover truth, grief, family secret ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In the backwoods of New Jersey a young man navigates the serpentine mystery surrounding his long-missing sister and their family home.
Style:
creepy, psychological thriller, suspenseful, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
missing person, found footage, investigation, haunting, grief, trauma, family home, family drama, cold case, isolation, obsession, small town ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Willow follows her parents on one of their secret late-night treks to the heart of an ancient forest. After witnessing her father undergo a terrible transformation, she too becomes ensnared by the dark ancestral secret that they've ...
Style:
psychological horror, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Plot:
family secret, transformation, forest, werewolf, folk horror, undercover, secret, dark secret, turned into an animal, body transformation, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A village is terrorized by a demonic entity and a deadly ancient curse.
Style:
demonic, dark, creepy, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
curse, supernatural, folk horror, haunted, fear, superstition, investigation, isolation, occult, possession, slow burn, ritual sacrifice ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is discovered on their footage is ...
Style:
psychological horror, creepy, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
found footage, investigation, murder mystery, house, haunted house, secret, mysticism, private investigation, abandoned house, macabre, paranormal investigation, supernatural ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father's death and unearths distant memories and long-buried secrets that change everything she thought she knew about her family, past and herself.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, family secret, rural area, life is a bitch, getting home, secret, countryside, crime solving, private investigation, murder investigation, sleuth ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
40%
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