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NightMare (2022)
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Original name: Marerittet
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment’s terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.
Style:
psychological thriller, creepy, suspenseful, tension, surreal, mystical, psychological horror
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nightmare, insomnia, haunted house, claustrophobia, isolation, psychological trauma, female protagonist, paranoia, obsession, mental illness, mental breakdown, slow burn, intimate, sleeping, urban, couples, psychological drama, female sitting on a toilet, crimes
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to NightMare
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful and tense films with plots about isolation, slow burn, claustrophobia, paranoia, obsession, female protagonist and supernatural mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like NightMare: Midnight Abyss (2011), Site (2025), Somnium (2024), Tiny House of Terror (2017), Noise (2024). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young man descends into a terrifying nightmare world where his greatest fears become reality.
Style:
psychological horror, atmospheric, suspenseful, tension, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After a terrifying encounter at an abandoned government test site, a small town family man begins seeing haunting visions of a past that threatens to destroy his present.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful, creepy, tension ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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93%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Gemma moves to LA, hoping to become an actress. She takes an overnight gig at a sleep clinic that promises to make their clients’ dreams come true. But the longer she spends there, the more it becomes clear that something sinister is going on.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dream, nightmare, paranoia, female protagonist, hallucination, insomnia, identity crisis, obsession, isolation, character study, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After the tragic disappearance and presumed death of her tech mogul husband, Samantha Hastings decides to escape from her fancy hi-tech house in Silicon Valley and move to a rustic and cozy tiny house, completely isolated from the prying eyes of the ...
Style:
psychological horror, psychotronic, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ju-young is a young woman with a hearing impediment who decides to investigate her sister's inexplicable disappearance, last seen in her apartment. Feeling more and more cornered, Ju-young begins to hear strange sounds and sense an evil ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful, creepy, psychological horror, mysterious ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunting, female protagonist, investigation, paranoia, claustrophobia, suspicion, isolation, obsession, slow burn, grief ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A musician with hyper-sensitive hearing goes in search of an ominous sound that plagues him, but is inaudible to everyone else.
Style:
stylized, serious, tense, independent film, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, musician, conspiracy, isolation, mental breakdown, obsessive quest, slow burn, investigation, claustrophobia, mind control, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A psychological body horror following a sleep-deprived new mother fearing for her baby's safety as she cycles through night and day, nightmare and reality seamlessly. But when help is offered... can she trust it?
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, surreal, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
body horror, sleep deprivation, female protagonist, paranoia, manipulation, slow burn, character study, claustrophobia, isolation, body transformation, motherhood, newborn baby ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Looking for a fresh start after a miscarriage, a couple find themselves being gifted the house of their dreams with one caveat - they can never open the cellar door. Whether they can live without knowing triggers shocking consequences.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
secrets, grief, macabre, temptation, mysterious past, moral dilemma, domestic drama, slow burn, miscarriage, paranoia, claustrophobia, haunted house ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nefeli (Nefeli Papaioannou) moves to her boyfriend's (Iraklis Savvopoulos) flat. After a while she discovers that strange hallucinations invade her life. Being afraid of her boyfriend's reaction to the bad news, she decides not to let him ...
Style:
psychological thriller, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hallucination, female protagonist, paranoia, mental breakdown, zombie, mental illness, uncertainty, isolation, supernatural, secrets, claustrophobia, obsession ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A mysterious white camera turns a beautician's life into a waking nightmare, especially when she watches herself dying in the videos shoots with it.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspense, dark
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a traumatic brain injury triggers terrifying visions of extraterrestrials and a newfound talent for drawing, a father-to-be begins to question his reality and becomes obsessed with the need to protect his family from an unseen threat.
Style:
psychological thriller, dread, psychological horror, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
trauma, family drama, family tragedy, obsession, hallucination, paranormal, grief, paranoia, loss, character study, slow burn, psychosis ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While staying at her boyfriend’s childhood home with him and his friends, a young woman experiences terrifying visions of a violent spirit.
Style:
psychological horror, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, mystic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Female protagonist’s brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients, they are induced into a «collective lucid ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
As Felicitas' life is turned upside down, she doesn't know if her nightmares are taking over or if something bigger is trying to control her - and the only way to find out the truth is her best friend Natascha who is locked up in an asylum.
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Duration: 87 min.
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 138 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 76 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Argentina, Mexico, UK, USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Barbara adjusts to her new life behind bars, her crimes start to haunt her. Her new cellmate Evelyn is about to start an obsessive and ghostly friendship with her, one that Barbara cannot escape from.
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After fleeing his psychotic father, a young teen and his mom seek refuge in a remote farmhouse, only to face a pack of ferocious dogs and the sinister spirits that haunt the property.
Style:
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