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Ingenium (2018)
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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:
psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, dark, suspenseful, psychological horror, emotional, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
nightmare, mental illness, female protagonist, female friendship, paranoia, trauma, investigation, obsession, memory, claustrophobia, isolation, identity crisis, mysterious past, haunting, moral ambiguity, slow burn, urban, friend, gaslight, bare feet, barefoot, barefoot woman, female bare feet
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Ingenium
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense and suspense films with plots about slow burn, isolation, claustrophobia, obsession, paranoia, female protagonist and investigation mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Ingenium: Some Girls (2013), Twisted (2022), The Harrowing (2017), House of Darkness (2016), Inflame (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Taking a breather from the crisis of her marriage, a surgeon named Celina visits the country house of an old friend who she hasn't seen since their university days. When she gets there, she realizes that something is going on with Paula, her ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, psychological horror, intense, surreal ...
Plot:
secrets, suicide attempt, mental breakdown, female protagonist, nightmare, guilt, uncertainty, midlife crisis, small town, country house, female friendship, isolation ...
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147
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young woman seeks independence from her protective mother, only to be questioning her own sanity when newfound friends die, and her mother suggests she is the cause of their death.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Plot:
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80%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Accused of the ritualistic murder of his best friend, a vice detective bent on finding the truth is plunged into Hell when he goes undercover and discovers that demons might be real.
Style:
detective, dark, psychological thriller, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
demon, undercover, insanity, guilt, trauma, investigation, paranoia, supernatural, obsession, ritual, mental institution, occult ...
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72%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, the supernatural thriller "House of Darkness" recounts the mysterious case of a San Francisco family who claimed that a dark force was responsible for the tragic events that unfolded. Trying to save their ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, mystical, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, ghost, haunting, possession, haunted house, paranoid schizophrenia, insanity, paranormal, haunted, paranoid, mysticism, fear ...
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65%
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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:
63%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
Amy, a young woman with amnesia, pieces together her past with deadly consequences.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, twisted, dark ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, secrets, identity, identity crisis, danger, female protagonist, investigation, psychological manipulation, trauma, paranoia, past life ...
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56%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, assault, violence, uncover truth, danger, memory loss, psychological trauma, twists and turns, murder, survivor, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A troubled teenage girl, downloads a new app, 'Shall We Play?' in an attempt to heal her past but unknowingly, the app possesses her into the game.
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
girl, past, possessed, game, teenager, technology, adolescent girl, obsession, game of death, teenage girl, loss of control, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emma's quiet beach retreat takes an unsettling turn with the arrival of an enigmatic artist out of her mother's past. He challenges, enthralls, and frightens her, as she comes to suspect him of a terrible crime.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, creepy, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
beach house, slow burn, obsession, suspicion, manipulation, female protagonist, family secret, mature, intimate, coming of age, isolation, sexual attraction ...
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51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A promising novelist finds himself trapped in a terrifying reality as he reckons with the notion that a murderer is in his midst.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, dark, psychological horror ...
Plot:
novelist, whodunit, murder investigation, suspicion, mature, claustrophobia, slow burn, isolation, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, obsession, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Yellow Wallpaper (Motion Picture) is an "Origins Myth"... rather than a direct adaptation of the famous Charlotte Perkins Gilman story. Drawing from the original short story and a number of Gilmans' other gothic works (The Giant ...
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, psychological horror, gothic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
isolation, afterlife, female protagonist, mental illness, mental disorder, life is a bitch, haunting, grief, claustrophobia, postpartum depression, countryside, attic ...
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50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Female protagonist’s brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients, they are induced into a «collective lucid ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychological horror, emotional ...
Plot:
nightmare, dream, fear, female protagonist, group of strangers, sleeping, dreamscape, alternate reality, supernatural, haunting, insomnia, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Rejected by her friends, harassed by the police, and dismissed by the medical profession, a determined Mia forces herself to attend a residential alternative therapy training, led by Franklin Spitz, a British celebrity therapist who specialises in ...
Style:
psychological thriller, captivating, psychedelic, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
female protagonist, perjury, hallucination, therapy, ptsd, escape from reality, life is a bitch, mental illness, mental disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, witness, problem ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The dark twisted tale of a man who's accused of murdering his girlfriend, told from his shadow's perspective.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, crime drama, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, alienation, obsession, mental breakdown, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis, morality, slow burn, surveillance ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Struggling to balance her demanding job and managing her daughter Daphne while separating from her husband, hospital researcher Maria enlists her friendly new neighbor, Eve, to babysit. But Maria soon learns that Eve has ulterior motives and will do ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A film director, his assistants and the cook go for a story discussion in a palatial bungalow. There, they discover footage of a family trapped by an unidentified "maskman."
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, intense ...
Plot:
paranoia, found footage, claustrophobia, isolation, slow burn, investigation, mysterious past
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Lebanon
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Lina, a pre-med student, is sent home to Beirut, Lebanon, after severe nightmares ruin her life. Xapa, also known as "Joy," is prescribed to help her recover. However, as Lina’s terrifying nightmares worsen and a link between them and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
dream, nightmare, paranoia, female protagonist, hallucination, insomnia, identity crisis, obsession, isolation, character study, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Cayman Islands
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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513
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A woman's peaceful mountain getaway takes a bizarre turn when her boyfriend disappears, and a random naked man shows up claiming to be him.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Arthur Sydenham Sharp, a travelling spiritual medium, arrives in Finland for the final seance of his tour. Immersed in the oppressive atmosphere of an unwelcoming hotel, Arthur's sense of reality becomes increasingly distorted by eerie visions ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological horror, psychological thriller, dark, tense ...
Plot:
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Place:
finland
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15
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A perfect wife, mother, and business owner battles a deep dark obsession that pushes her over the edge in this deadly recipe for murder
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Twin sister librarians Nan and Ana plan revenge when their author mother commits suicide, with her final words suggesting her biographer murdered her.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
wales
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological horror, intense, tense, atmospheric, surreal
Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, creepy, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, fear of ghosts, kidnapping, supernatural, macabre, moral ambiguity, mental illness, dual identity, female antagonist, possessed, superstition, trauma ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rishi and his girlfriend Adithi are on their way to visit Rishi's father and their car breaks down. A stranger offers them a stay at his house. What is Rishi's connection with the stranger, and how does they come out of the weird situation
Style:
twisted, suspense, twist ending, tense, creepy ...
Plot:
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38%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the quiet nighttime corridors of a city hospital, Abigail (Nistratova) consoles her traumatized brother, Billy (Davi) who is now a paraplegic. Billy suffers from horrible nightmares in which he revisits his childhood, where we meet his alcoholic ...
Style:
tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
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104
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
After a woman survives a bizarre attack at an abandoned well, her mental state deteriorates as she tries to prove to others what really happened.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
mulholland drive
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
Style:
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