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The Master and Margarita (2024)
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Original name: Мастер и Маргарита
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A writer in 1930s Moscow has his work banned and is expelled from the official union, leaving him without income. He then writes a novel about a mysterious dark visitor and gradually starts confusing his real life with the story.
Style:
dark fantasy, satirical, surreal, allegory, metafiction, atmospheric, melancholic, existential, noir, period drama
Plot:
supernatural, political satire, magic realism, macabre, oppression, love story, revenge, witchcraft, absurdism, moral ambiguity, witch, writers, devil, body horror, psychiatric hospital, female nudity, communism, talking cat, censorship, female full frontal nudity
Time:
1930s
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out atmospheric, surreal, dark fantasy and psychological films with plots about supernatural, macabre, isolation, haunting, witchcraft, moral ambiguity and folk horror mostly in Fantasy, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Master and Margarita: Demonic Beauty (2002), Dark Whispers: Volume 1 (2019), Neelavelicham (2023), Beezel (2024), Currency Nagar (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Master is a talented writer in Moscow working on a manuscript about the biblical Jesus and Pontius Pilate. Authorities in Moscow are harassing Master by surveillance and intimidation. Victimized by their harassment, Master throws his manuscript into ...
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, mind bending
Plot:
surveillance, manuscript, mysticism, mental institution, life & death, destiny, buddies, life philosophy, surrealism, storytelling, justice, twists and turns ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, jerusalem, ussr
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
The Master and Margarita is a Russian TV mini-series, based on the novel written by Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov between 1928 and 1940.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, talky, cynical ...
Plot:
witchcraft, curses spells and rituals, chaos and mayhem, deal with the devil, good versus evil, heaven and hell, manipulation, society, supernatural, politics, sacrifice, black magic ...
Time:
1930s, year 1935
Place:
russia, jerusalem, israel, moscow russia, holy land ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Back to its origin where her story has never been clearly narrated, Kra Sue is a common name calling any lady ghost living on eating waste and flesh - in fresh and bloody raw. Her distinct capability is to take her own head off the body, and fly ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
black magic, village, revenge, witch, love, folk horror, mythology, ghost story, supernatural, folklore, soldier, magical power ...
Place:
southeast asia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When Clara discovers her deceased mother’s revered ‘Book of Dark Whispers’, she can’t stop reading the strange stories within its mystical pages. Each weird tale reveals a new facet of the twisted human psyche… or the not-so-human, as the ...
Style:
disturbing, anthology, tense, psychological horror, gothic horror ...
Plot:
supernatural, female protagonist, family curse, mysticism, curse, magical object, book of magic, supernatural horror, macabre, grief, mature, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A young, enthusiastic and free-spirited writer arrives to stay in a desolate mansion, rumored to be haunted by the apparition of a young woman named Bharghavi who committed suicide when she was betrayed in love. The writer, who begins to pen her ...
Style:
suspense, dark, gothic, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
tragic love, macabre, ghost, haunted house, female ghost, supernatural, apparition, supernatural romance, secrets, suicide, literary, slow burn ...
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60%
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:
60%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A thrill-seeking robber stumbles upon a fortune in a deceased magician’s abode. But the cash has a voice of its own, and it spins stories of greed, lust, and doom that expose the dark side of avarice.
Style:
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Plot:
greed, money, robbery, obsession, temptation, lust, corruption, morality, confrontation, satire, haunting, guilt ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and the ghost's present-day guardian. In fact, the two characters seem to be the shade of Anton ...
Style:
psychological, melancholic, art film, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Plot:
minimalism, character study, lonely, memory, literary, meditation, identity, nostalgia, haunting, encounter, ghost story, museum ...
Place:
soviet union, crimea, ussr
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Ben is a brain damaged young man who awakens from a violent accident to a restored intellect and supernatural abilities, which allow him to control the happenings of his world.
Style:
tense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
violence, superpower, brain damage, accident, brain injury, supernatural ability, friendship, rivalry, society, heroes, murder, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Encarnacion is a beautiful villager and Petronila is her jealous, evil nemesis. When Petronila's love interest, a fetching young Spanish lieutenant, starts to fall for Encarnacion, Petronila gets even by simply destroying his sanity with a vile ...
Style:
psychological horror, atmospheric, psychotronic, period drama
Plot:
superstition, supernatural, witchcraft, myth, folk horror, folklore, jealousy, apparition, mythical creature, female rivalry, haunting, ghost story ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century
Place:
costa rica, central america
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A burned-out ex-Navy SEAL and an emotionally-damaged firefighter work together as handymen in Tidewater Virginia. Things turn surreal when a simple renovation job becomes a journey to another world to rescue their client from a trans-dimensional ...
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, revenge, evil witch, witch hunt, problem, supernatural horror, surrealism, teamwork, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, macabre ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A botched wedding proposal between two small town youngsters spirals into an epic Montreal night of chaos, confusion and destiny.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, existential, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, bittersweet, coincidence, surrealism, street life, intimate, odyssey, magic realism, night, wedding, town
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
59%
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:
58%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Nanna lives a lonely and regimented life in Berlin. When her life crashes she receives a phone call from her long lost love, Martin, who reminds her of their carefree childhood. Martin wants her to join him for a hike in the wilderness together with ...
Style:
suspense, mystical, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, War
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
grim, melancholic, bleak, tense, sinister ...
Plot:
vengeance, witchcraft, revenge, witch, retribution, magic, supernatural, occupation, bloodbath, female protagonist, brutality, grief ...
Place:
ukraine
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The Devil talks only through an image and tell his stories to an imprisoned writer.
Style:
art house, psychological, existential, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
devil, temptation, supernatural, regret, melancholy, memory, symbolism, obsession, writers, fate, moral dilemma, television director ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Lily Pierce is sick of being haunted. She decides to reconnect with her estranged father, a disgraced history professor, and learn how to draw upon a time of steel and blade when armor-clad knights rode out and dueled their monsters to the death.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A Brother Grimm's Horror Version of the Classic Fairytale.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two people in love will find a hut in the woods that they decide to sleep in. The cottage is located on the shore of a lake and beautiful views is just a shadow of an ax stuck in the executioner's block of wood near the house. When they wake up ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, romantic, mystical, sinister ...
Plot:
couples, magic realism, woods, love story, symbolism, metamorphosis, isolation, cottage, intimate, nudity, nature, folklore ...
Time:
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Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alisa moves into a spacious apartment in St. Petersburg, where the mirror starts to malfunction, showing the young lodger a parallel reality of the same apartment. Only it is not Alisa who lives in this parallel reality, but the party animal Ivan. ...
Style:
romantic drama, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
longing, young adult, supernatural romance, double life, loneliness, body swapping, bittersweet, slow burn, magic realism, coming of age, metaphysics, love triangle ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When eighteen-year-old Pasha rescues a beautiful young woman from a band of strangely powerful attackers, he discovers an underworld of supernatural beings living among us.
Style:
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Plot:
supernatural, vampire, supernatural power, vampire vs vampire, vampire hunter, good versus evil, special agent, fight, ghost hunter, protector, showdown, supernatural ability ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic, surreal, atmospheric, grindhouse, sad ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, new york
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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:
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Plot:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Having just been fired and dumped by his wife, life couldn't possibly be worse for independent artist GORDON HAUGE (Mark Redfield)--until he wrecks his car and finds himself in purgatory that is. Once there, he is attacked by fanatic Shadowmen ...
Style:
independent film, dark fantasy, fantasy adventure, surreal, grim ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lurking among us are the Horrors, ancient enemies of our kind. Holding the line against them, down through the ages, are the Makai Knights. Assuming the aspect of Golden Knight Garo, Raiga Saezima has vanquished one such demonic creature, but his ...
Style:
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Plot:
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279
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
To be free of his dark visions, Kimihiro Watanuki will work for Dimensional Witch Yūko, a mystical woman quick to help those in a bind—for a fee.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Iceland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iceland, scandinavia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the ...
Style:
psychedelic, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, erotic ...
Plot:
incestuous sex, curse, fall in love, ghost, danger, supernatural, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, social relations, small town, sex ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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56%
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