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The Lodger (2020)
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Original name: Messe basse
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 alive. But soon, Julie starts feeling his presence… and an inescapable and dangerous love triangle begins.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense, tension, art house, creepy, ambiguous ending
Plot:
ghost, widow, supernatural, love triangle, memory, grief, student, loneliness, obsession, romantic obsession, mourning, haunting, intimate, macabre, young woman, claustrophobia, isolation, manipulation, elderly woman, supernatural romance, slow burn, identity, possession, gender roles, love ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Lodger
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, atmospheric, psychological and creepy films with plots about isolation, supernatural, slow burn, ghost, claustrophobia, macabre and haunting mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Lodger: Splinter (2021), Black Mold (2023), Torment (2025), Cracked (2022), The House That Screamed (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Following the murder of his wife and son, an agoraphobic man becomes convinced that someone, or something is invading his home... Kindred is a tense psychological thriller set entirely inside the home of the protagonist.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, atmospheric, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
isolation, grief, family tragedy, loneliness, mourning, mental breakdown, paranoia, male protagonist, claustrophobia, supernatural, guilt, character study ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Photographers Brooke Konrad and Tanner Behlman travel to rural, abandoned buildings to capture the inherent beauty of long-forgotten locations, but far from forgotten are the traumatic memories that surface in Brooke when they meet The Man Upstairs, ...
Style:
creepy, psychological horror, tense, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
trauma, photography, haunting, female protagonist, memory, suspicion, isolation, confrontation, slow burn, obsession, settler, macabre ...
Similarity:
63%
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:
63%
622
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ruja inherited the painting from her deceased father and hired Tim, an art restorer to repair it, but they don't know that this invaluable art came with invaluable horror.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, painting, magical object, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, mysticism, curse, ghost, portrait, inheritance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A recently widowed writer rents a haunted house in which to write his latest novel and is soon beset by the various ghosts in the house bent on claiming him as their next victim.
Style:
suspense, tension, dark, supernatural thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, macabre, supernatural, haunting, fear, old mansion, paranormal, terror, spirit, alone, isolation ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young woman working her first night shift at a remote motel begins to suspect that she is being followed by a dangerous character from her past. As the night progresses and increasingly supernatural events occur, she quickly finds out that ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological horror, suspense, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
motel, ghost, nightshift, night, supernatural, spirit, haunted, workplace situations, vengeful ghost, workplace, fear, haunting ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The story of Adèle, a youg woman who’s literally haunted by the death of her husband, killed in a trench during World War One. Desperate and unable to face this tragic loss, Adèle turns to black magic in the hope to bring her lover back. The ...
Style:
suspenseful, creepy, psychological horror, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
black magic, grief, death, mourning, supernatural, tragic love, psychological torment, occult ritual, loss of family member, bereavement, loss of husband, loss of spouse ...
Time:
1910s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nefeli (Nefeli Papaioannou) moves to her boyfriend's (Iraklis Savvopoulos) flat. After a while she discovers that strange hallucinations invade her life. Being afraid of her boyfriend's reaction to the bad news, she decides not to let him ...
Style:
psychological thriller, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hallucination, female protagonist, paranoia, mental breakdown, zombie, mental illness, uncertainty, isolation, supernatural, secrets, claustrophobia, obsession ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Accidentally shot in the head by his best friend on a hunting trip, Salih needs both material and spiritual help to heal the buckshot in his brain. Luckily, his mother knows some uncanny ways to look after her precious boy...
Style:
dark, psychological, atmospheric, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, supernatural, forest, occult, superstition, betrayal, brain injury, folk horror, macabre, small town, love triangle, grief ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Village girl named Amira went to the city to find work. He then started working as a nurse in a hospital. When he worked, he began to be haunted by whispers of a mysterious woman. He started looking for answers and found that a woman needed her help.
Style:
dark, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, medical drama ...
Plot:
hospital, nurse, mystery woman, haunting, macabre, supernatural, ghost, claustrophobia, female protagonist, slow burn, secrets, isolation ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
malaysia
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a doctor looking for her missing child awakens to find herself in an abandoned school, she must survive the supernatural terror and face her own demons if she is to find the truth about where her son is.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, dark, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, coma, school, alternate reality, missing child, supernatural horror, abandoned building, parents and children, paranormal, survival, isolation ...
Similarity:
48%
198
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a producer suggests that screenwriter Grace Mitchel pen a horror story set in an old hotel, the lond-abandoned Lyndora seems theperfect inspiration. The turn-of-the-century hotel is known for its rough and seedy past - the doors to its rooms ...
Style:
suspense, bleak, enigmatic, scary, creepy ...
Plot:
ghost, ghost child, writers, abandoned hotel, possession, macabre, haunted hotel, paranormal phenomena, insanity, murder, dark past, supernatural ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
46%
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:
46%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance discovers that the mirror is able to bring back her former boyfriend, who had been killed in a ...
Style:
suspense, creepy, psychological, tense, gothic ...
Plot:
occult, mirror, spirit, ghost, supernatural, possession, psychiatrist, macabre, paranormal, obsession, resurrection, superstition ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
After a glamorous career as a successful model, Gaby must start a new life, away from the catwalk and the limelight. But she cannot bring herself to accept that the peak of her career is now behind her. In an effort to lift her spirits, Dan, her ...
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspenseful, melancholic, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
identity crisis, macabre, country house, isolation, obsession, fashion model, aging, claustrophobia, slow burn, mental disorder, surveillance, haunting ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A young woman from a small town moves out on her own for the first time only to realize something sinister lurking inside her new home.
Style:
psychological horror, atmospheric, creepy, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
haunted house, macabre, isolation, slow burn, claustrophobia, loneliness, paranoia, female protagonist, supernatural, young woman, intimate, mental disorder ...
Similarity:
41%
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:
41%
1K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ju-young is a young woman with a hearing impediment who decides to investigate her sister's inexplicable disappearance, last seen in her apartment. Feeling more and more cornered, Ju-young begins to hear strange sounds and sense an evil ...
Style:
tension, suspenseful, creepy, psychological horror, mysterious ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunting, female protagonist, investigation, paranoia, claustrophobia, suspicion, isolation, obsession, slow burn, grief ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Amy has moved east from Kansas, determined to start a new life. She thinks she has found the perfect small quiet town, a great neighborhood on a quiet street. As she moves into her brand new apartment, eager to start a dream job, happy to befriend ...
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, captivating, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, new neighbor, new house, apparition, supernatural power, haunted, haunting, supernatural, haunted house, supernatural horror, ghost house, small town ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Three filmmakers embark on a paranormal challenge by barricading themselves in a house so haunted, no one has been able to live in for more than 21 days.
Style:
suspense, creepy, psychological, bleak, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
found footage, haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural, paranormal activity, paranormal, evil, darkness, trapped, evil force, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Set during the lockdown, Umayal Karthika deciding to spend time at a 100-year-old unkempt library in a bid to divert and heal from a heartbreak. From the sea of books, she picks up Karungaapiyam and with her reading different chapters, and her ...
Style:
atmospheric, metafiction, contemplative, meditative, psychological ...
Plot:
library, quarantine, heartbreak, female protagonist, healing, literary, character study, isolation, grief, intimate, single, haunting ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man, whose girl friend was killed during an illegal abortion.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, bleak, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, nightmare, haunted, obsession, guilt, dream, grief, mental illness, character study, loss of loved one ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
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135
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young Nurse is assigned to look after a patient in a remote location in the English countryside. As the night continues she finds herself terrorized by an unseen force that is connected with her patient.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
fear, supernatural, supernatural being, night, nurse, supernatural power, countryside, patient, female protagonist, monster, isolation, paranormal ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Based on a work by Edgar Alan Poe. A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Also known as The Oval Portrait
Style:
gothic horror, psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder, buried alive, possession, claustrophobia, catatonia, ghost, civil war, female protagonist, isolation, macabre, haunting, supernatural ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Patricia Woodhouse has been estranged from her sister for quite a few years due to a family feud. Suddenly she receives a letter detailing the sudden death of her sister Susanna Baylock, Patricia returns to pay her respect where she meets Annabel ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, suspense, enigmatic, tension ...
Plot:
occult, ghost, haunted house, inheritance, family feud, murder, supernatural, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, danger, sister sister relationship, death of sister ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man with supernatural gifts meets his match in this suspenseful independent drama. Clay Doyle is a drifter with an unusual psychic talent -- as he puts it, "Places talk to me," and when Dale visits someplace he's never been before, ...
Style:
independent film, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Plot:
psychic, paranormal, supernatural, a vision, secrets, small town, investigation, murder mystery, haunting, macabre, ghost, isolation ...
Place:
florida, southern usa, valencia spain
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On a rainy night, Jaanu returns home after shopping, only to encounter strange and eerie happenings, questioning if there's an evil presence, presenting challenges that she must navigate to overcome the hurdles thrown her way.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
female protagonist, paranoia, uncertainty, macabre, claustrophobia, supernatural, isolation, independent woman, survival, slow burn, haunting, paranormal ...
Similarity:
35%
208
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Driven to investigate the mysterious disappearance of his father, New York psychologist Ed Hunter travels to a remote village in the West of Ireland and finds a community that has been living in fear for centuries. He meets a mysterious girl who ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, melancholic ...
Plot:
ghost, family curse, folk horror, supernatural, cursed, secret, life is a bitch, curse, buried alive, dark secret, investigation, murder mystery ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Seduced by the ghost of a Civil War soldier, Barbara Haughton creates a love that is undying.
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, historical romance ...
Plot:
supernatural, obsession, dangerous attraction, supernatural romance, fall in love, ghost, danger, human host, haunted house, ex soldier, haunting, forbidden love ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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