Movies like Dollhouse 2025
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Dollhouse (2025)
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Original name: ドールハウス
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After losing their child, a mother finds solace in a life-sized ancient doll she finds on the market. When a new daughter enters the family's life, strange things begin to happen and no matter how hard the family tries to get rid of it, the doll always finds its way back.
Style:
psychological horror, suspense, creepy, dark fairy tale, tragic, asian horror
Audience:
adult
Plot:
doll, supernatural, mysterious disappearance, loss of child, family tragedy, haunting, unsettling, obsession, melancholy, family drama, possession, occult, isolation, slow burn, folk horror, death of child, island, haunted doll, monk, suicide, elevator, baby, mother daughter relationship, hide and seek, ritual ...
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Dollhouse
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological horror, suspense, creepy and tense films with plots about isolation, supernatural, slow burn, occult, family drama, haunting and possession mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Dollhouse: The Forbidden Play (2023), The Surrender (2025), The Deliverance (2024), Don't Go (2018), Soul (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Naoto Ihara lives happily with his wife Miyuki and their son Haruto. Their happiness is crushed when Miyuki suddenly dies in a car accident. Naoto falls into deep grief over the death of his wife. Meanwhile, Haruto buries his dead mother ...
Style:
psychological horror, suspense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
paranormal, resurrection, family tragedy, paranormal activity, curse, supernatural horror, evil, supernatural, grief, paranormal phenomena, mysticism, occult ...
Similarity:
95%
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:
81%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services and threaten to tear the ...
Style:
demonic, creepy, suspenseful, tense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
possession, supernatural, haunted house, spiritual warfare, family drama, redemption, nightmare, small town, occult, exorcism, isolation, claustrophobia ...
Place:
indiana
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Devastated by his daughter's death in a terrible accident, Ben becomes convinced that he can bring her back through a recurring dream. But is it just a dream? Or is Ben losing his mind?
Style:
psychological thriller, mind bending, tense, emotional, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
grief, bereavement, nightmare, death of child, dream, mourning, loss of daughter, family tragedy, death, obsession, haunting, mental breakdown ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Cut off from civilisation, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she ...
Style:
suspense, creepy, atmospheric, tension, sinister ...
Plot:
folk horror, haunting, supernatural, isolation, creepy child, macabre, female protagonist, possession, single mother, protective parent, slow burn, occult ...
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Kaushik, a timid medical student, finds himself battling not only his inner demons but also a sinister entity named Ghatikachalam that whispers through shadows and feeds on his fears. As his nights turn sleepless and his grip on reality begins to ...
Style:
dark, psychological horror, suspense, tension, supernatural thriller ...
Plot:
supernatural, nightmare, haunting, exorcism, paranormal, folklore, possession, family drama, occult, sleep deprivation, superstition, isolation ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A chilling tale of a family at odds against a sinister evil that they don't understand. The Origin of Molly Bannister is here and its more terrifying than you could have imagined.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, disturbing, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, freak, evil, christmas, doll, haunted house, creepy doll, xmas, evil power, supernatural power, evil force, good versus evil ...
Time:
year 2014
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.
Style:
creepy, tense, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot:
supernatural, evil, secret, secret identity, undercover, investigation, isolation, unsettling, paranormal investigation, female protagonist, occult, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A struggling novelist moves his wife and young son to an old country home, but when a presence begins to communicate with his son, the family must escape an evil that threatens to doom them to the house for eternity.
Style:
suspenseful, creepy, dramatic, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, country house, supernatural, haunted house, writers, evil, novelist, haunting, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, fear, supernatural power ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.
Style:
mystical, psychological horror, mystic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, exorcism, supernatural horror, folk horror, supernatural, curse, problem, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, mysticism, ghost ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman's mother makes a last-minute deal with the Devil to save her daughter's life, not realizing that her daughter's life is her stake. The daughter lives but with no chance of children. 20 years later, she mysteriously becomes ...
Style:
dark, satanic, demonic, suspense, creepy ...
Plot:
pregnancy, occult, evil child, pregnant woman, priest, catholic, childbirth, baby, supernatural, deal with the devil, black magic, curse ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychologist's 10-year-old patient claims she's being menaced by unseen forces after her parents were killed in a car accident. What's more bizarre? The psychologist has seen these symptoms before, in a former patient who ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, psychological horror ...
Plot:
able to see the dead, supernatural, ghost, missing person, child in peril, death in the family, orphan, dealing with death, paranormal phenomena, missing girl, trauma, psychologist ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, Argentina, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Andrea, in search of her biological family, feels stalked by an invisible threat. Other women before them have suffered the same fate. Twenty years earlier, on the other side of the world, Camille, fascinated by Marie, tries to warn her of a threat ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, sinister, suspense, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, supernatural horror, stalking, supernatural, slow burn, haunting, family drama, moral ambiguity, possession, obsession, investigation ...
Time:
2020s, 90s
Place:
madrid, brussels belgium
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style:
splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy, cult horror ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, nightmare, haunted, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, danger, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, elevator ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young woman's faith is put to the ultimate test when she is forced to uncover the truth behind her husband's horrific visions.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
a vision, husband wife relationship, obsession, priest, danger, death threat, belief in god, self sacrifice, family drama, family in crisis, supernatural, doubt ...
Similarity:
50%
2K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, female protagonist, supernatural horror, abandoned baby, abandoned, supernatural, satanist, secret, undercover, obsessive quest, identity, occult ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When her teen daughter displays increasingly disturbing behavior after a near death experience, a mother becomes convinced the girl brought something evil back from the other side.
Style:
mysterious, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, unpredictable ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, motherhood, near death experience, supernatural, possession, paranormal, haunting, protective mother, family drama, unsettling, suspicion, trauma ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
49%
448K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style:
psychological horror, satanic, psychological, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dysfunctional family, fear, supernatural horror, supernatural, occult, demon, grief, trauma, seance, ghost, attic, possession ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
utah, america
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Hunting Souls is the story of an American couple who are dealing with the hardships of caring for their sick child. They discover that they are being hunted by a demon.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating, mystical ...
Plot:
demon, sick child, supernatural, child, parents, ghost, haunting, child in peril, mysticism, supernatural horror, family in danger, family drama ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Follows socially awkward teenager Ryan, who discovers that the night his sister disappeared she had played ‘The Elevator Game’ — a ritual conducted in an elevator in which players attempt to travel to another dimension using a set of rules ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
elevator, ritual, supernatural, alternate dimension, monster, supernatural horror, urban legend, supernatural being, curses spells and rituals, superhuman powers, another dimension, supernatural power ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
45%
3K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a mysterious entity manifests itself, a family finds themselves on a scary and dark journey into their own self-created madness.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, captivating, disturbing, gothic horror ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, madness, craziness, family in danger, trapped, crazy, life is a bitch, threat, trap, family tragedy, guilt, grief ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A family move into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their new home has a disturbing history and that they aren't alone…
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, scary, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, paranormal, family relations, orphanage, supernatural, children's home, abandoned house, apparition, curses spells and rituals, house, haunting ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After an accident that killed both of Tara's parents, Tara now only has a younger brother named Gian as a member of her family. However, the accident traumatized Gian, so Gian chose to end his life.
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, creepy, supernatural thriller, dark ...
Plot:
supernatural, possession, haunted doll, evil doll, trauma, paranormal, grief, family tragedy, vengeful ghost, doll, guilt, revenge ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.
Style:
atmospheric, dark, psychological horror, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
folk horror, supernatural, isolation, grieving father, macabre, fog, loneliness, revelation, childhood trauma, paranormal, investigation, ghost ...
Place:
yorkshire
Similarity:
43%
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:
42%
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:
42%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her ...
Style:
suspense, creepy, atmospheric, psychological horror, classic horror ...
Plot:
nightmare, monster, snake woman, supernatural, macabre, haunted house, catholic orphanage, female protagonist, family secret, witch, orphan, dream ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
40%
3K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
A chef's life is disrupted by a chime that brings with it an increasing sense of dread.
Style:
suspense, dread, psychological thriller, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunting, mature, supernatural, paranoia, claustrophobia, slow burn, panic, obsession, isolation, mental disorder, small town, surrealism ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young psychiatrist tries to help a young woman in an asylum who has been accused of having killed a teenage girl. But when she escapes and he goes after her, he finds himself involved in a mystery far greater than simply a woman thought to be ...
Style:
psychological thriller, creepy, twist ending, psychological horror, suspense ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, mysterious death, supernatural, haunting, obsession, paranoia, female protagonist, mother daughter conflict, claustrophobia, isolation, character study, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
40%
619
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:
adult
Plot:
paranoia, government conspiracy, family drama, supernatural, confronting the past, grief, small town, claustrophobia, memory loss, isolation, slow burn, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
39%
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