Movies like Lovely, Dark, and Deep
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Lovely, Dark, and Deep (2023)
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Genre: Horror
Country: Portugal, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Lennon, a new back-country ranger, travels alone through the dangerous wilderness, hoping to uncover the origins of a tragedy that has haunted her since she was a child.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, independent film, tense, noir, absurd ...
Plot:
female protagonist, isolation, desert, macabre, grief, trauma, haunting, survival, investigation, memory, secrets, uncertainty, man versus nature, character study, slow burn, lone ranger, minimalism, coming of age, flashback, folk horror, camp, missing person, park ranger, national park, psychological drama
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Most similar movies to Lovely, Dark, and Deep
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out atmospheric, suspenseful, tense and psychological horror films with plots about isolation, slow burn, supernatural, investigation, grief, female protagonist and haunting mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Lovely, Dark, and Deep: Bring Me A Skin For Dancing In (2024), Oracle (2023), Don't Open the Door (2024), Lookout (2025), A Haunting in Ravenwood (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Story:
Having recently lost her twin sister to suicide, Helen Daniels is sent to a remote English cottage to rest and recuperate by her uncle. Upon arrival she meets a few of the locals who befriend her. She describes her difficult childhood growing up in ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, surreal, psychological thriller, moody
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witchcraft, grief, supernatural, haunting, trauma, bereavement, paganism, macabre, mental health, mythology, isolation, occult ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young woman accepts a job on a property with a traumatic history. Upon her arrival, she soon realizes that the nightmares of her childhood are connected to the evil in the house.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, suspenseful, captivating, mystical ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, female protagonist, paranormal, evil, haunted house, mysticism, paranormal phenomena, tragic past, confronting the past, supernatural horror, trauma, nightmare ...
Similarity:
87%
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:
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856
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Seeking peace away from her turbulent life, a young woman accepts a job as a fire lookout at a remote wilderness tower. As she settles into her new role, eerie disturbances and strange occurrences begin to unfold, and she must uncover the chilling ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
isolation, secrets, solitude, forest, macabre, female protagonist, haunting, character study, mountain, slow burn, investigation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple arrives at the house of the husband's late wife, where the flowers have been maintained to the dead woman's memory. Soon, eerie events lead the new wife, to believe she is losing her mind.
Style:
psychological horror, suspenseful, tense, psychological, mystic ...
Plot:
haunted house, relationships, mentally unstable, supernatural horror, mental disorder, mysticism, husband wife relationship, family relations, supernatural, paranormal activity, ghost, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Story:
Verónica is a young journalist who needs to find answers as to why two of her most loved people acted in the same way, and she senses that she will only find answers that shed some light on her family problem by digging into its origins.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, suspense, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family secret, female journalist, mother daughter relationship, trauma, relationships, domestic drama, dark past, revelation, investigative journalism, investigation, intimate ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
While recovering from an abusive relationship, Joy joins her friend's therapy group on an isolated mountainous retreat. Led by a doctor with experimental methods, the group is soon forced to confront a monstrous entity.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological horror, psychological, dread, captivating ...
Plot:
confronting the past, survival, survival horror, trauma, isolation, tragic past, dark past, troubled past, haunted by the past, violence, traumatic past, struggle for survival ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A haunted curve in 1990s Kerala, named after Sumathis tragic death, draws various people into supernatural encounters. As they experience strange events, the mystery of Sumathi and the roads dark history begins to unfold.
Style:
tension, sinister, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, urban legend, macabre, curse, small town, investigation, isolation, grief, road accident, flashback, folk horror ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
70%
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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:
64%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An amateur filmmaker, struggling to turn his passion into a career, returns with friends to Loveland, Ohio, the location of his first, notorious sighting of the Frogman, determined to obtain irrefutable proof that the cryptid legend exists.
Style:
suspenseful, mystic, mystical, psychological horror, thrilling ...
Plot:
creature feature, cryptid, monster, creature, found footage, local legend, legend, mysticism, paranormal investigation, supernatural, investigation, cryptozoology ...
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
60%
320
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young couple thinks they’ve found paradise in the luxury home they’ve just purchased in the Arizona desert but danger lurks below the surface.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
fear, young couple, desert, arizona desert, supernatural horror, woman, water, female protagonist, couples, house, supernatural, jealousy ...
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona
Similarity:
60%
699
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Twenty-year-old Ryan struggles with a debilitating anxiety disorder following his father's death. Together with his two brothers, he must fight to break the destructive cycle threatening their family as ancient darkness closes in on them.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family drama, family relations, supernatural horror, grief, eccentric family, relationships, bereavement, family problems, problem, dysfunctional family, loss of father, haunting ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Hari, a young psychologist and his sister Eka, goes back to their village for the funeral of their estranged mother who committed suicide by hanging. There they are confronted with the superstitious beliefs of the locals which is behind their ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, dark, creepy ...
Plot:
folk horror, black magic, suicide, supernatural horror, superstition, female protagonist, homecoming, mysticism, magical, occult, curse, fear ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Set during the lockdown, Umayal Karthika deciding to spend time at a 100-year-old unkempt library in a bid to divert and heal from a heartbreak. From the sea of books, she picks up Karungaapiyam and with her reading different chapters, and her ...
Style:
atmospheric, metafiction, contemplative, meditative, psychological ...
Plot:
library, quarantine, heartbreak, female protagonist, healing, literary, character study, isolation, grief, intimate, single, haunting ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a small village in Leon, Spain, María José prepares to end her life after failing to get over the suicide of her bullied son years before. Everything changes when she receives a visit from Lucía, a strange little girl who could be connected to ...
Style:
bleak, tense, suspenseful, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, small village, grief, problem, rural area, myth, child suicide, saving a life, countryside, rural setting, supernatural, guilt ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A filmmaker continues his quest to uncover the truth behind a series of unsolved murders from years ago. This is the 8th installment of "The Blackwell Ghost" series.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
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113
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A decade after her mother's murder, Riley Canterbury must return home, after her neglectful, carnival owner father has gone missing. She soon realizes things in this small New England town are much stranger and sinister than she remembered.
Style:
creepy, sinister, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
carnival, cursed object, occult, supernatural, nightmare, small town, missing person, dream, macabre, ritual sacrifice, secrets, investigation ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
50%
300
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Takashi Shimizu's newest film is about a mysterious cassette tape containing a melody. People who hear this melody gradually begin to hum it themselves and become involved in a mysterious incident. What is the mystery behind this melody ?
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, creepy, thrilling, psychological horror ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, macabre, supernatural, problem, threat, secret, curse, slow burn, urban legend, obsession, possession, investigation ...
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tokyo
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, mystical, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
supernatural, paranormal activity, haunting, supernatural horror, paranormal, murder, mysticism, neighbor, paranormal phenomena, female protagonist, survival horror, murder mystery ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
On Halloween a couple, both of which are clairvoyants, drive to a cemetery. They go for fun to pick up vibrations from the tombstones of the deceased. As they pick up vibrations they have visions of how the person died. Each vibration and vision ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, mystical, mystic ...
Plot:
halloween, cemetery, supernatural, paranormal, clairvoyance, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, mysticism, supernatural ability, ghost ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
IN FURS is a tale of loss and the lengths that some will go to gain control.
Style:
independent film, psychological thriller, emotional, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
loss, obsession, loss of control, grief, control, power struggle, manipulation, mature, identity, intimate, unsettling, revenge ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A remote helpline volunteer is targeted by a stranger who lures women from their homes with a recording of a crying baby.
Style:
creepy, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
killer, cold blooded killer, problem, secret, psychological manipulation, stalker, cat and mouse, paranoia, isolation, manipulation, female protagonist, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
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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:
45%
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345
Genre: Horror
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Just now her husband died, Rini's sorrow grew when Bude, who raised her, died. While returning home to mourn, Rini's only child, Hafis, disappeared and was found unconscious in the middle of the forest. He fought alone to save the only ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
ghost, missing person, supernatural, haunting, forest, loss of husband, female protagonist, bereavement, mysterious disappearance, problem, motherhood, grief ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.
Style:
psychological horror, atmospheric, melancholic, art house, independent film ...
Plot:
folk horror, agoraphobia, folklore, trauma, isolation, haunting, lesbian, paranoia, character study, lgbtq, memory, elderly woman ...
Place:
dublin ireland
Similarity:
44%
49
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An evil supernatural presence terrorizes the locals of a small town.
Style:
creepy, sinister, dark, demonic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, small town, found footage, paranormal, unsettling, haunting, isolation, possession, ghost, occult, nightmare, confrontation ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: Argentina, Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It tells the story of Emilia, who is sent to a convent where paranormal forces start to mount among the holy and the tortured.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological horror, captivating, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 1931, 1930s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, mystic, suspenseful, mystical, thrilling ...
Plot:
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41%
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:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young mother who's crushed by guilt and shame after the disappearance of her young son five years previously, is offered a bizarre opportunity to learn the truth and set things right. Is she willing to pay the terrifying price for a chance to ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
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