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Red Sheep (2012)
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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 circle where his sins began: the death of his girlfriend, Sarah (Sarah Taurchini) and subsequently the death of himself. Death, in human form, or Johnny as he calls himself, steals Lyndon's prayers for a proper reunion between the two and instead forces him to face a new and much darker reality.
Style:
bleak, surreal, existential, philosophical, tense, mind bending, dark fantasy, art house, grim, indie film ...
Plot:
afterlife, suicide, grief, guilt, mourning, supernatural, sin, redemption, moral dilemma, limbo, haunting, spiritual journey, ghost, macabre, claustrophobia, male protagonist, fate, religion, female victim, intimate, urban, psychological drama
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Most similar movies to Red Sheep
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surreal, tense, existential and art house films with plots about haunting, grief, supernatural, guilt, psychological drama, obsession and isolation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Red Sheep: In Between (1991), Limbus (2013), Redemption of a Broken Mind (2015), Apotheosis (2018), The Colours of Desire (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three strangers - two women and one man - find themselves trapped inside an unfamiliar house with no recollection of how they got there. They soon discover that the house has been borrowed to serve as a temporary way station between life and death.
Style:
minimal cast, philosophical, existential, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
limbo, life & death, metaphysics, supernatural, amnesia, character study, memory, isolation, claustrophobia, ghost, moral dilemma, haunting ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"Limbus" is a surreal thriller set in the afterlife. It's the story of four cult members after a mass suicide. Stuck in purgatory, they must search for the secrets beyond their existence. They travel through their pasts to unravel the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, surreal, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
purgatory, afterlife, supernatural, surrealism, problem, mass suicide, guilt, sacrifice, redemption, moral dilemma, past life, identity crisis ...
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85%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Fausto is destined to live the suicide of his beloved wife. After this tragic event, he’s inexplicably given the opportunity to travel back in time and change the faith of the woman who he loves.
Style:
emotional, melancholic, dark, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, redemption, guilt, regret, mourning, suicide, travel, tragic romance, fate, second chance, haunting ...
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78%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The dark twisted tale of a man who's accused of murdering his girlfriend, told from his shadow's perspective.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, crime drama, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, alienation, obsession, mental breakdown, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis, morality, slow burn, surveillance ...
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In today's world options are not running out, they are running away and we can't keep up. To be cutting edge today, one must hold their mind together when it simply feels as if it will explode. In the mind itself there are different parts ...
Style:
psychological, existential, philosophical, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
character study, modern life, isolation, self discovery, spiritual journey, loss, second chance, identity, redemption, mental illness, split personality, afterlife ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a perfect, violent-free world, a young vagabond must decide between human decency or self-interest when it comes to the matter of assassinating three people and gifting their corpses to a powerful figure full of impossible wishes.
Style:
thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, art house, bleak ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, greed, dystopia, social commentary, assassin, slow burn, taboo, magic realism, ritual, gift, death ...
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65%
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 ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
afterlife, second chance, ghost, supernatural, reincarnation, identity, haunting, teenager, memory, coming of age, redemption, regret ...
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Brazil
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Parallel stories connected through an intimacy with death. The living and the dead communicate through visions, memories and reality.
Style:
surreal, emotional, melancholic, existential, contemplative ...
Plot:
grief, loss, memories, intimate, afterlife, a vision, mourning, supernatural, ghost, haunting, existentialism, spirituality ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A troubled man survives a suicide attempt. He calls an old friend to rescue him in the middle of the night. Their journey is just beginning, and by daybreak, a tragedy will surface.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
suicide attempt, tragic event, mental health, self discovery, relationship problems, self destructing, suicide, loneliness, desperation, regret, survival, road trip ...
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55%
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:
54%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After the death of there child a couple go to stay in an island home. The woman starts to hear the noise of a baby crying and is followed by an old blind women who warns her to get out of of the house before it is too late.
Style:
psychological horror, suspense, sinister, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
grief, family tragedy, island, haunting, mourning, loss, supernatural, isolation, guilt, ghost, female protagonist, paranormal activity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Sam wakes up, gets ready and goes to do his daily job. And then the unexpected happens. A bomb explodes in the center of the shopping mall where he works. He drags himself towards the entrance to save the victims. One by one he pulls them out, until ...
Style:
tense, serious, atmospheric, emotional, surreal ...
Plot:
redemption, introspection, survival, rescue, danger, haunted by the past, dealing with death, shopping mall, suicide bomber, guilt, ghost, haunting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An ailing former scuba diver, who faces extremely tough times, begins experiencing otherworldly incidents.
Style:
mind bending, tense, scary, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
mentally unstable, haunted by the past, dealing with death, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, scuba diver, isolation, haunting, supernatural, grief, trauma, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
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:
52%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Style:
psychological, captivating, emotional, allegory, contemplative ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, motherhood, magic realism, female protagonist, family relations, relationships, social problems, woman, life is a bitch, supernatural, talking animal, family drama ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, haunted by the past, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, dealing with death, mental illness, hallucination, grief, mathematics, addiction, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Henry Long desperately seeks a cure for the condition that leaves him unable to feel physical pain.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cure, patient, doctors and patients, pain, illness, disease, character study, male protagonist, hospital, ethical dilemma, scientific research, disability ...
Similarity:
49%
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:
suspenseful, psychological, grim, intense, crime drama ...
Plot:
greed, money, robbery, obsession, temptation, lust, corruption, morality, confrontation, satire, haunting, guilt ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the coffin of Etta Rose Callahan, a charismatic dance student, is uprooted from the earth after days of rain, the small college town of Remington is haunted with questions involving the young girl's sudden suicide. Jeremiah Mouthy, a ...
Style:
suspense, gothic
Plot:
obsession, suicide, small town, tragedy, character study, jealousy, haunting, loss of innocence, mourning, scandal, grief, funeral ...
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48%
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:
viking, mythology, forest, group of friends, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, changing lives, mysticism, friends, friendship, wilderness, supernatural, swedish ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Harada is a successful scenario writer, and his best buddy has just announced an intention to propose to Harada's ex-wife. Recovering from the shock, Harada indulges in melancholy, mainly on his failure as a husband and father, and goes to a ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological horror, existential, art house ...
Plot:
ghost, childhood trauma, loss, grief, nostalgia, haunting, loneliness, supernatural, parents, melancholy, memory, obsession ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
46%
143
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A brother and a sister live on the borderline between awareness of their actions and total unconsciousness, until they commit a sin from which there is no return.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, dark, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, moral ambiguity, sin, siblings, loss of innocence, haunting, guilt, transgression, existential crisis, conscience, youth, isolation ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ivan Semciuc (a journalist), is a charismatic man nonetheless guilty of cynicism and lack of compassion. A seemingly meaningless sexual encounter with a translator in a hotel room in Kabul produces a vital revolution in Ivan’s unshakeable ...
Style:
melancholic, existential, art house, surreal, moody
Plot:
death, guilt, loneliness, grief, regret, loss, memory, mourning, hotel, obsession, suicide, mature ...
Place:
bucharest, afghanistan
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Directed by Huang Jian-zhong.
Style:
poignant, reflective, allegory, philosophical, existential ...
Plot:
ghost, bus, murder, compassion, human nature, empathy, guilt, afterlife, moral dilemma, supernatural, conscience, isolation ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
44%
376
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After losing his Kate, his high school sweetheart, in a horrific house fire Josh Higgins' life tumbles into a depressing mix of insomnia and poor choices. After taking seemingly harmless sleeping pill, Josh is thrusted from his current banal ...
Style:
serious, suspense, exciting, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
insomnia, losing-it hero, parallel world, dealing with death, death of girlfriend, mental breakdown, grief, rescue, changing the past or future, loss, psychosis, character study ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Hitler Meets Christ premiered at the Cinequest Film Festival in 2007 and went on to play at other festivals internationally. Written as a play by Michael Moriarty entitled "Hitler and Christ meet Death at the Port Authority Bus Station" ...
Style:
independent film, thought provoking, art house, controversial, philosophical ...
Plot:
character study, train station, delusion, identity crisis, hitler, impostor, ethics, urban, intimate, nihilism, redemption, minimalism ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Miguel is the perfect coyote: dedicated, single-minded, his record unblemished. His home is the winding path of the migrant: the back alley gravel, the crumbled pavement, and last - the river. Despite this perfect record, Miguel is no stranger to ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, poignant, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
migrant, coyote, death, survival, border, smuggling, isolation, illegal immigration, haunted, character study, loner, grief ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?
Style:
intense, emotional, existential, grim, tense ...
Plot:
redemption, addiction, forgiveness, character study, guilt, mental illness, moral ambiguity, curse, desperation, self destructing, love story, obsession ...
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41%
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:
41%
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:
40%
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