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The Dead Thing (2024)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, psychological horror
Plot:
female nudity, obsession, obsessive love, secrets, dark secret, toxic relationship, deception, claustrophobia, lie, manipulation, danger, female protagonist, urban, mental disorder, young woman, stalking, jealousy, paranoia, tragic romance, isolation, cat and mouse, identity crisis, slow burn, ghost, investigation ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Dead Thing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about claustrophobia, isolation, slow burn, obsession, paranoia, female protagonist and urban mostly in Drama, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like The Dead Thing: Good Home (2025), Sweet Dreams (1996), The Free Fall (2021), Vaaradhi (2024), Nurse Jill (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Gośka meets Grzesiek online, she's sure he's her Mr. Right. Grzesiek is crazy about her, showers her with flowers, and proposes in Venice, but soon enough, the picture perfect romance starts to crumble, revealing a darker side.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, romantic drama
Plot:
online dating, toxic relationship, emotional abuse, domestic abuse, control, manipulation, fear, claustrophobia, obsession, trauma, character study, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A girl awakes from a coma to find her world has collapsed around her and she remembers nothing. But as she does remember she finds out all is not how it should be and someone is out to get her.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
amnesia, flashback, paranoia, betrayal, female protagonist, identity crisis, coma, deception, conspiracy, danger, confusion, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Sara wakes from a coma to a life she doesn't remember; a fragile, slippery reality that spirals into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, memory loss, survival horror, insanity, coma, amnesia, life is a bitch, power relations, suicide attempt, relationship problems, despot, suicide threat ...
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Chandra, a devoted husband, is left in a coma after a brutal attack. Upon waking, he discovers an imposter, Vinay, has taken his place and is dangerously obsessed with his wife, Nakshatra.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, sinister, dark ...
Plot:
impostor, obsession, obsessive love, psychological manipulation, deception, stalking, manipulative person, dual identity, amnesia, cat and mouse, female protagonist, home invasion ...
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Jill Danvers is trying to put her life back together after her divorce. But someone is watching her; following her every move...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
stalker, suspicion, paranoia, surveillance, female protagonist, obsession, cat and mouse, sexual abuse, isolation, voyeurism, personal safety, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Amy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who ...
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
stalker, paranoia, psychiatrist, obsession, female protagonist, isolation, stepmother, mental illness, family conflict, urban, slow burn, woman in danger ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Watcher Self is an unsettling psychosexual chiller written and directed by Matt Cruse about one woman's descent into hell. Cora (Karen French) begins her day facing the consequences of a nightmare. Struggling to maintain a normal routine, ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, ambiguous ending, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, paranoia, driven mad, mental breakdown, claustrophobia, character study, isolation, slow burn, identity crisis, obsession, sexual tension, experimental narrative ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
62%
148
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 13 min.
Story:
Everyone thought Danny had gone missing. Towards the end of senior year she vanished, leaving family and friends devastated and confused including her closest friend in the world, Becca. Gaslight picks up years later when Becca and her new husband ...
Style:
enigmatic, detective, psychological, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
visitor, manipulation, psychological abuse, problem, mysterious character, secrets, undercover, secret, mysterious disappearance, puzzle, lifestyle, paranoia ...
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A student diver risks her scholastic future and relationship with her father when she dates a moody transfer student consumed by their romance.
Style:
romantic drama, tense, psychological thriller, indie film, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teen romance, romantic obsession, high school, young adult, control, high school life, coming of age, possession, female protagonist, jealousy, mental disorder, domestic drama ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A group of friends rent an isolated lake house owned by a fitness obsessed man with mysterious intentions.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, tension ...
Plot:
isolation, group of friends, survival, macabre, desperation, violence, friendship, surveillance, obsession, manipulation, paranoia, deception ...
Similarity:
59%
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:
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Struggling writer Lowen Ashleigh is on the brink of financial ruin when she accepts the job offer of a lifetime: she's been hired to complete the remaining books in a successful series that bestselling thriller author Verity Crawford is unable ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, intense, psychological horror, twist ending ...
Plot:
secrets, obsession, claustrophobia, manipulation, female protagonist, cat and mouse, haunting, slow burn, sexual tension, macabre, isolation, trauma ...
Similarity:
57%
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:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
In a town where people are missing, and desires turn into disaster, the mystery of what's behind it all has uncovered the dark truth: a real estate agent is taken prisoner by the deranged tenant of his newest listing.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, secret, undercover, problem, dark secret, hostage, abduction, captivity, obsession, fear, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Following a mysterious car accident in the desert, Dafne suffers from post-traumatic amnesia. Jake, the first person she sees when she regains consciousness, tells her he's her husband.
Style:
psychological thriller, mysterious, tense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
memory loss, desert, psychological manipulation, amnesia, isolation, deception, ethical dilemma, emotional manipulation, character study, identity, moral ambiguity, loneliness ...
Place:
sahara, france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Romania, Sweden, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man becomes lured into a fictional game his ex-girlfriend has initiated. Sexually ensnared by her, and now realizing the fragility of the border between the real and the imagined, he begins to unravel. He convinces himself that if he can only ...
Style:
psychological thriller, art house, metafiction, ambiguous ending, erotic drama ...
Plot:
summer, manipulation, obsession, mind game, moral ambiguity, sexual tension, obsessive love, mature, identity crisis, jealousy, guilt, existentialism ...
Place:
eastern europe, bucharest
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
While vacationing with her husband in Italy, a middle-aged woman wakes up one morning to find that the man in bed with her is not her husband but an imposter. He, however, claims he is her husband, and she cannot get anyone to believe her.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, twist ending, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
impostor, whodunit, paranoia, female protagonist, identity crisis, manipulation, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, isolation, vanished man, honeymoon, slow burn ...
Place:
spain, america, italy
Similarity:
52%
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, tension, suspenseful, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nightmare, insomnia, haunted house, claustrophobia, psychological trauma, female protagonist, isolation, paranoia, slow burn, obsession, mental illness, mental breakdown ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Bulgaria, Chile, Switzerland, Portugal
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story of a neurotic bachelor who, after marrying a beautiful woman, submits her to increasingly deranged accusations of infidelity and pleas for forgiveness.
Style:
art house, disturbing, experimental, absurd, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
paranoia, obsession, manipulation, mistrust, psychological manipulation, moral ambiguity, dark humor, unsettling, claustrophobia, surrealism, psychosis, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder of Anna, his girlfriend/model. Attempting to start painting again, he is pursued by journalist ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, suspense, tense, grim ...
Plot:
artist, obsession, mental illness, dark past, character study, guilt, trauma, murder mystery, secrets, investigation, alienation, danger ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
50%
360
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A struggling photographer makes an amazing discovery when a new tenant in his building starts to behave strangely. Paul the landlord and photographer lives with his girlfriend Samantha. A new tenant hopeful named Elise shows up and Paul is somewhat ...
Style:
erotic, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
voyeurism, bondage, peeping tom, obsession, privacy invasion, surveillance, stalker, paranoia, suspicion, cat and mouse, apartment building, lesbian sex ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
49%
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:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A reporter and his cameraman investigate Nina, a young woman who is in pasung because she has a mental disorder that turns out to be something mystical.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, mystic, mystical ...
Plot:
found footage, psychology, ghost, mental illness, supernatural, possession, paranormal, mental disorder, paranoia, research, mentally unstable, paranormal phenomena ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
49%
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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:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style:
bleak, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
isolation, survival horror, survival, death of loved one, trauma, female protagonist, loss, grief, death, danger, mind game, trap ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Psychological thriller connecting three different people in the mysterious vortex, trying to untangle the dramatic fight of border between the truth and fantasy. Rob, a former real estate broker, unemployed, starts following a strange Japanese ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, love affair, multiple storylines, relationships, male female relationship, hidden truth, uncover truth, social problems, secret, couple relations, relationship problems, obsession ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Tense drama tells the story of Rachel Waring the daughter of a rich man named Frank Waring. Rachel dates and gets married to a magazine photographer named Eric. She finds out on her honeymoon that all is not as it seems as Eric has other plans for ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, crime drama
Plot:
kidnapping, ransom, fake kidnapping, betrayal, deception, female protagonist, murder, psychological manipulation, woman in peril, island, paranoia, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
365
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Vera is a young psychologist who visits her father's cottage in the mountains after he passes away. Her boyfriend Tony surprisingly arrives together with her best friend Tanya, they have a secret affair and they are about to confess to Vera. ...
Style:
tension, erotic, suspenseful, art house, independent film
Plot:
betrayal, female protagonist, infidelity, grief, nudity, love triangle, small town, emotional breakdown, black ops, jealousy, manipulation, nature ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Bella sees her parents killed during a home invasion. Afterwards, she keeps waking up in a strange white room and the past keeps playing over and over. Bella must solve the mystery of the White Room and move on, but to where?
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological horror, twist ending, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, room, life & death, confronting the past, tragic past, troubled past, mental disorder, murder witness, murder, life is a bitch, problem, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Shortly after discovering the dead body of her roommate, a young woman becomes embroiled in supernatural shenanigans.
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:
42%
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