Movies like Dead Lover
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Dead Lover (2025)
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, dark comedy, gothic, surreal, satirical, grotesque, black humor, campy
Plot:
resurrection, grief, cemetery, tragic love, mourning, loneliness, macabre, obsession, obsessive love, reanimation, body horror, undead, isolation, haunting, ethical dilemma, coastal town, grave robbing, nun, lovers, dead, poet, scientific experiment, funeral, brother sister relationship, corpse ...
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Most similar movies to Dead Lover
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological horror, atmospheric and surreal films with plots about isolation, obsession, macabre, supernatural, haunting, grief and slow burn mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Dead Lover: Lookout (2025), Undying (2024), Torment (2025), SOULM8TE (2026), Frankenstein Reborn (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
Genre: Short, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, USA
Duration: 26 min.
Story:
A tragic car accident puts a woman in a two year coma. She wakes up to find her fiance' is dead and her friends have abandoned her. So she calls on an evil spirit to raise her fiance' from the dead and exact revenge. But revenge always ...
Style:
psychological horror, sinister, suspense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
supernatural, resurrection, grief, guilt, female protagonist, occult, trauma, isolation, revenge, macabre, curse, corpse ...
Similarity:
92%
277
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An exhausted security guard is transferred to a morgue and, on their first night, discovers that the shadows and silences hide a torment from which there may be no return.
Style:
dark, psychological, creepy, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
security guard, morgue, nightshift, psychological torment, supernatural, isolation, haunting, silence, mental breakdown, paranoia, claustrophobia, loneliness ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A man acquires an Artificially Intelligent android to cope with the loss of his recently deceased wife. In an attempt to create a truly sentient partner, he inadvertently turns a harmless lovebot into a deadly soulmate.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful
Plot:
androids, artificial intelligence, loss, grief, obsession, manipulation, identity, ethical dilemma, mourning, trauma, moral ambiguity, intimacy ...
Similarity:
81%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The latest psychiatrist assigned to assess whether inmate Victor Frank is mentally fit to stand trial for murder gives up in frustration and so the asylum head Dr Robert Walton steps in to do the job. Frank tells Walton his story. He was a scientist ...
Style:
suspense, medical horror, dark, psychological horror, gothic ...
Plot:
frankenstein, reanimation, mad scientist, body horror, virus, resurrection, mutation, experimental technology, nanotechnology, laboratory, isolation, neurosurgeon ...
Place:
africa
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man struggling with a broken heart learns that his new place is full of restless spirits.
Style:
satirical, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural horror, demon, supernatural, broken heart, problem, haunted, life is a bitch, haunting, male protagonist, spirit ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A teenager is left orphaned by a car crash that wipes out his entire family; he is subsequently haunted by his dead brother.
Style:
slasher, melancholic, dark, psychological horror, teen ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
family tragedy, grief, haunting, car accident, bereavement, ghost story, adolescence, supernatural, isolation, loneliness, macabre, nightmare ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
Style:
psychological horror, supernatural thriller, suspense, sinister, tension ...
Plot:
ritual, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, loss, grief, resurrection, desperation, occult, trauma, mourning, family drama, mysterious stranger ...
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Manhattan surgeon Franken rebuilds the broken body of a John Doe patient with spare parts.
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, tense, medical drama, independent film ...
Plot:
transplant, mad scientist, reanimation, body horror, ethical dilemma, macabre, moral ambiguity, obsession, taboo, gory, identity crisis, isolation ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A grief-stricken arborist and her son awaken a haunting when they begin felling trees at the estate of a mysterious recluse.
Style:
melancholic, psychological thriller, psychological horror, gothic, supernatural thriller ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, grief, family drama, haunting, trauma, secrets, supernatural, confronting the past, slow burn, isolation, obsession, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
dark fantasy, psychotronic, melancholic, psychological, gothic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, deal with the devil, supernatural, satan, paranormal, redemption, supernatural romance, soul, afterlife, zombie, haunting, temptation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
south america
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A writer is kidnapped and surgically transformed into a human crash test dummy.
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, intense, psychological thriller, existential ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mature, identity crisis, transformation, human experiment, body horror, isolation, alienation, claustrophobia, laboratory, satire, macabre ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
55%
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:
54%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A professor of cybernetics comes to believe that his dead daughter is communicating with him from the netherworld. |
Style:
suspense, psychological, atmospheric, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, father daughter relationship, mourning, paranormal, grief, loss, haunting, family tragedy, professor, macabre, afterlife ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A photographer uses dead bodies as props in her erotic photos. Everything was going well until she fell in love.
Style:
psychological thriller, erotic drama, suspense, experimental, independent film ...
Plot:
exploitation, corpse, photography, photographer, macabre, obsession, taboo, female protagonist, tragic love, ethical dilemma, forbidden romance, alienation ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A research scientist who makes national news proving she can track people into the afterlife - Rose sees a way out and Teddy sees his chance to finally make it. These two strangers, both harboring dark secrets, race to join the doctor's ...
Style:
satirical, existential, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
ghost, scientific experiment, road trip, afterlife, mental health, suicide, paranormal phenomena, satire, experiment, paranormal, grief, loneliness ...
Place:
new york, san francisco, arizona
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Brilliant young Victor Karlstein finds himself lost in an abyss of personal turmoil and professional stress after the woman he most likely seemed to love dies while under the care of his own mysterious medical facility. Determined to keep her alive, ...
Style:
dark, medical horror, disturbing, gothic, creepy ...
Plot:
mad scientist, murder, body horror, resurrection, gory, reanimation, graphic violence, macabre, obsession, taboo, monster, grave robbing ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
An artist, Robert Pickman, becomes obsessed by visions of unworldly horror, revealed to him through an ancient artifact discovered in an abandoned church.
Style:
lovecraft, disturbing, tense, psychological horror, suspense ...
Plot:
cosmic horror, painting, madness, driven mad, insane, possessed human, obsession, insanity, treasure, creative block, supernatural, macabre ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, erotic, sinister, melancholic ...
Plot:
vampire, cemetery, castle, supernatural, forbidden love, female protagonist, seduction, terminal illness, macabre, immortality, aristocracy, haunting ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A successful city lawyer abandons his practice and heads out to the country. There he comes upon a stately, but neglected, homestead. He moves in, and during his first night a beautiful ghostly woman makes love to him, in his sleep. Soon his ...
Style:
erotic, atmospheric, psychological, sensual, emotional ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunting, seduction, dream, afterlife, supernatural romance, obsession, forbidden love, isolation, mysterious past, tragedy ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A man falls in love with a pretty ghost and travels back in time to save her soul from an evil knight.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, mystical, dark fantasy, psychological ...
Plot:
zombie, ghost, haunting, curse, supernatural, vengeful ghost, travel, revenge, legend, macabre, supernatural romance, seduction ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Julie just started university in Bordeaux. She moves into the house of Elizabeth, an old widow who lends her a room in exchange for her help with daily chores. There’s one condition: acting as if Victor, Elizabeth’s dead husband, was still ...
Style:
tension, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, widow, memory, love triangle, grief, supernatural, student, obsession, loneliness, romantic obsession, mourning, intimate ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After his beloved wife dies, an unbalanced painter who believes himself to be the reincarnation of Vincent Van Gogh goes over the edge and digs up her corpse--with the help of his necrophiliac butler--to bring it back to his castle and use it for ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological horror, grim, transgressive, suspense ...
Plot:
necrophilia, rape, obsession, macabre, taboo, madness, obsessive love, body horror, castle, serial killer, dog, female nudity ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A French artist struggling to put the finishing touches on his masterpiece finds his concentration repeatedly broken by the unusual sounds emanating from his neighbor's apartment in this black comedy from Ann Marie Fleming. Immediately ...
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, psychological, independent film, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
murder, blood, mental health, female protagonist, odd couple, loneliness, isolation, macabre, artist, intimacy, relationships, romantic obsession ...
Similarity:
46%
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a disabled war veteran discovers the dead body of a beautiful singer in his back yard, his fascination with her photographic image soon turns to obsession
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
obsession, veteran, corpse, female corpse, supernatural horror, sexual obsession, war veteran, character study, longing, loneliness, grief, loss ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Five friends, all affected in some way by a mercury poisoning incident are partying when a freak accident put them on a collision course with an entity that is in no mood to forgive their misgivings.
Style:
medical horror, silent, psychological horror, black and white, atmospheric ...
Plot:
unsettling, macabre, social commentary, trauma, haunting, guilt, minimal dialogue, high school reunion, body horror, retribution, isolation, supernatural ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
William Brown, a neurotic, self-absorbed musician determined to finish his prog-rock magnum opus, faces a creative roadblock in the form of a noisy and grotesque neighbor named Vlad. Finally working up the nerve to demand that Vlad keep it down, ...
Style:
horror comedy, dark comedy, psychological, captivating, bloody ...
Plot:
zombie, progressive rock, neighbor, punk rock, zombie attack, murder, rock and roll, rock, accidental killing, violence, body horror, escalation ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
By uncovering a world thought only to exist in his imagination, Ethan brings the love of his life back from the dead in order to clear her name and expose the truth behind her apparent suicide. However, he did not expect the chaos that would come ...
Style:
suspense, satirical, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
zombie, revenge, love triangle, satire, tragic love, love affair, relationship problems, supernatural, cover up, murder, ghost, afterlife ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Tim films his brother Sean's funeral after his suicide, then uncovers Sean's fixation with a nonexistent online urban legend about a failed government mind control experiment.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mind control, found footage, grief, conspiracy, brotherhood, obsession, trauma, mourning, paranoia, suicide, urban legend, family drama ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The films revolves Around three main characters, out of which one character is a groovily ghost, with deathly emotions, wanting and waiting to bleed the victim, but the other characters are not aware. The soul is embalmed around the farm house and ...
Style:
psychological horror, suspense, tension, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost story, haunting, ghost, farmhouse, death, isolation, revenge, danger, female ghost, secrets, victimization ...
Similarity:
40%
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