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Ultrasonic (2012)
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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:
serious, stylized, tense, independent film, psychological thriller, suspenseful, experimental, intense, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, musician, conspiracy, isolation, mental breakdown, obsessive quest, investigation, claustrophobia, slow burn, mind control, urban, cat and mouse, losing-it hero, mystery
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful and surreal films with plots about isolation, obsession, paranoia, slow burn, claustrophobia, urban and character study mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Ultrasonic: The Letter (2012), Apotheosis (2018), Never Here (2017), Restless (2024), Franklin: A Symphony of Pain (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When hard partying and volatile neighbours move in next door, a quiet woman's life begins to spiral, pushing her to the edge and triggering a slow, unnerving descent into obsession and revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, intense, psychological horror
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The mind is a terrible thing to waste
Style:
bleak, psychedelic, dark, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
cult leader, betrayal, psychotic, symbolism, self mutilation, mental breakdown, trauma, hallucination, isolation, paranoia, captivity, claustrophobia ...
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44%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a ...
Style:
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Plot:
train, witnessing a crime, investigation, twists and turns, disappearance, adultery, murder, mystery woman, obsession, chance meeting, identity crisis, character study ...
Time:
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Place:
new york
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43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Hasret has been seeing the same nightmare for some time, but she keeps living unaware that what she sees is actually remembering. A 30-year-old woman who works in a News Channel, living alone in the flat left by her musician parents who died in a ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
nightmare, dream, trauma, memory, paranoia, female protagonist, isolation, obsession, haunting, grief, slow burn, claustrophobia ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological horror, psychotronic, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, kidnapped, husband, nightmare, isolation, isolated place, isolated house, house, woman in danger, woman, privacy invasion, claustrophobia ...
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38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Adapted from same-name popular manga. Hyeon-woo is visually impaired but always listens to people. Then one day, Chong-soo comes along and talks about the murder that occurs in his book. However, the murder in the novel becomes real and Hyeon-woo is ...
Style:
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Audience:
adult
Plot:
musician, serial killer, saving a life, blind man, blindness, murderer, salvation, rescue, killing spree, serial murder, woman, fear ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
38%
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:
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
ENTRANCE is about the limits of our perception, how the things lurking on the periphery of our lives can lead to horrific conclusions; about how she fell out of love with the city, but it wouldn't let her go.
Style:
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Plot:
danger, isolation, loneliness, paranoia, female protagonist, alienation, character study, slow burn, minimal dialogue, haunting, urban decay, uncertainty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, surreal, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
36%
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 ...
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36%
383
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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196
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
As Felicitas' life is turned upside down, she doesn't know if her nightmares are taking over or if something bigger is trying to control her - and the only way to find out the truth is her best friend Natascha who is locked up in an asylum.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, america
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32%
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Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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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 ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A command center operator becomes increasingly obsessed with a single mother when he begins monitoring her life through his company's residential interior cameras.
Style:
psychological thriller, creepy, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Plot:
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Kate Aldrich, a successful career woman is devastated when her husband leaves her for stay at home mom, Laura, with whom she is forced to share custody of her beloved daughter, Izzy. But Kate's despair soon turns to terror as she begins to have ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
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Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Qiuming is a trainee at a digital mapping company. His job is to survey the streets of the ever-changing city and keep the mapping system up to date. Typical of his generation, Qiuming is upbeat, energetic, and totally immersed in the world of ...
Style:
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Plot:
investigation, privacy invasion, family relations, dishonesty, parents and children, mystery woman, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity, obsession, isolation, paranoia ...
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