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Ekō (2025)
8K
Original name: എക്കോ
Genre: Adventure, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In the misty hills of Kaattukunnu, an aging woman and her servant boy struggle to survive the ghosts of the past, as the hunt for Kuriachan — a legendary dog breeder and outlaw — blurs the line between myth, memory, and vengeance, revealing that even in absence, he still rules the hills.
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, sinister, art house, psychological, mystical, slow cinema, ambiguous ending
Plot:
legend, revenge, forest, myth, fog, memory, folklore, dog, silence, isolation, outlaw, haunting, slow burn, folk horror, survival, moral ambiguity, animal, claustrophobia, grief, mourning, echo, animals
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Most similar movies to Ekō
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, atmospheric, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about isolation, slow burn, haunting, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, survival and supernatural mostly in Mystery, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Ekō: Kishkindha Kaandam (2024), Heads or Tails (2005), Bhoothakaalam (2022), In the Blind Spot (2023), In the Light of the Night (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Strange events unfold in a monkey-inhabited village, driving a newlywed couple and forest officials to embark on a mission to uncover the root of the unusual disturbances.
Style:
intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, sinister ...
Plot:
forest, investigation, newlyweds, folklore, moral ambiguity, isolation, supernatural, mythology, slow burn, malayalam, psychological drama
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95%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Four interlinking stories about a benign native american legend that has been distorted throughout the years into something much darker.
Style:
anthology, atmospheric, art house, gloomy, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
folklore, urban legend, symbolism, haunting, memory, character study, moral ambiguity, folk horror, tragedy, identity, myth, native american ...
Place:
maryland
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Following the death of a family member, a mother and son experience mysterious events which distort their sense of reality and make them question their sanity.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological horror, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, grief, family drama, loss of family member, psychoanalysis, problem, psychological manipulation, paranoia, isolation, mourning, supernatural horror, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A film crew from Germany, filming in a remote village in northeastern Turkey, interviews an elderly Kurdish woman. She performs an ancient ritual to keep alive the memory of the son she lost years ago. The young woman, who helps the German crew with ...
Style:
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Plot:
intimate, paranoia, grief, mourning, memory, haunting, ritual, remote village, slow burn, elderly woman, conspiracy, interview ...
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young woman attempting to restore an abandoned mill in a remote area soon discovers the place harbors a dangerous creature.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
secret past, secret, confronting the past, abandoned building, abandoned house, mysterious past, female protagonist, isolation, macabre, creature feature, family secret, folk horror ...
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a man living alone in the woods saves the life of a young woman, they are forced to coexist. Chaos ensues when the woman makes a terrifying discovery in the woods behind the man's home and unleashes something truly haunting.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, vengeful ghost, secret, forest, problem, undercover, isolation, haunting, woods, paranormal, secrets ...
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82%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
Sometime in the near future within a place of rot and wasted dreams, four men come looking for the Hall of Wishes within the contaminated zone of post-apocalyptic earth.
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, grim, mysterious, psychological ...
Plot:
post apocalyptic, isolation, desolation, dystopian future, haunting, survival, moral ambiguity, radiation, slow burn, salvation, post soviet, desire ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Carla and Dean decide to escape the hustle of the big city, purchasing a home in a remote forest. They have big plans for their new quiet life, only to find something much more sinister; they are on the land of a cult, and the leader claims a ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological horror, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
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78%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
Three friends reconnect in a secluded mountain town after a long quarantine. While out for a hike, the trio stumble upon something dark and terrible in the deep woods.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, mystical, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
distopia, town, reunited friends, problem, mysticism, secret, woods, isolation, claustrophobia, haunting, paranoia, slow burn ...
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78%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, obsession, grief, motherhood, loss, lifestyle, mentally unstable, new neighbor, tragic past, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Satomi is a research student who travels to northern Japan seeking reported olden Christian relics. On the island of Hokkaido and in a village, odd deeds are occurring. As such, she bands together with another researcher and locals to uncover the ...
Style:
atmospheric, dark, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, paranormal, occult, unsettling, folk horror, macabre, isolation, investigation, haunting, island, possession, slow burn ...
Place:
hokkaido
Similarity:
77%
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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 ...
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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:
77%
670
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Greece, Bulgaria, USA, UK, Netherlands, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Neurologist Katerina and former doctor Yannis are heading off to a deserted seaside resort. Silence descends on the car as they travel across dunes in a windy autumn, matching the less-than-pleasant occasion: Yannis has been called to identify the ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, art house, existential, suspenseful
Plot:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Green is a gripping psychological thriller set against the backdrop of a mysterious, terrifying forest. As the protagonist descends deeper into isolation and fear, the forest grows darker, blurring the line between reality and delusion. Intense and ...
Style:
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Plot:
mental illness, paranoid schizophrenia, hallucination, trauma, recovery, forest, character study, isolation, resilience, therapy, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in Germany's Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaits them.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family secret, ritual, cabin in the woods, inheritance, confronting the past, dark secret, folk horror, demi god, supernatural, macabre, folklore, mythology ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Meg is trying to readjust to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping — but her grounded sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate when she travels with her husband to his wealthy family’s isolated compound.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Shankar is a wounded, reluctant and reclusive aghora on a quest to find the cure for his very rare human condition – the one that will be cured, only when he can confront and conquers the haunting ironical questions of his life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, mystical ...
Plot:
amnesia, spiritual journey, problem, memory lapse, amnesiac, repressed memory, secret past, trauma, quest, identity, isolation, symbolism ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A man gets lost in an underground passage. He follows the "guide" through the passage, but one after another, strange things happen to him. Is this space real? Or an illusion? Will the man be able to escape the passage?
Style:
psychological, psychological horror, dark, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Peru, Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A white man searches for a legendary gold mine in the depths of the Peruvian jungle.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, detective, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
murder investigation, officer, job, police, crime investigation, investigation, police station, police officer, murder, police investigation, true crime, female victim ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, grim, action drama, art house ...
Plot:
russian civil war, expedition, survival, isolation, capture, wilderness survival, man versus nature, betrayal, escape, imprisonment, loyalty, treachery ...
Time:
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Place:
siberia, russia
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
quebec
Similarity:
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116
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Morocco, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Five people with contrasting profiles compete for a position within Matsuika, a multinational corporation recently set up in Morocco. Following an interview with the C.E.O., they are advised to undertake a mysterious test in a secret location. It ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, surreal, existential ...
Plot:
survival, desert, fear, hallucination, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, character study, competition, slow burn, social experiment, identity ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A ghost walking tour group visits an abandoned radio station, inadvertently awakening a vengeful spirit.
Style:
suspense, tense, atmospheric, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted, supernatural, paranormal, abandoned building, fear, darkness, urban legend, terror, claustrophobia, isolation, panic ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Kazuyuki Kuga aspires to become an actor. He auditions for the lead role in a theater company's next work. Among the 300 people who take part in that audition, only 7 people are selected for a final audition round. Kazuyuki Kuga is among the ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
audition, disappearance, winter, isolation, acting audition, problem, vanished man, actor, mysterious disappearance, undercover, secret, trap ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, captivating, mystical ...
Plot:
religion, mysterious stranger, catholic, village, faith, teenager, christianity, folklore, youth, mysticism, magical power, religious community ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, ireland
Similarity:
74%
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