Movies like Chronos
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Chronos (1992)
31K
Original name: Cronos
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
Style:
gothic, surreal, scary, suspenseful, thought provoking, bloody, dark, disturbing, splatter, atmospheric ...
Plot:
immortality, supernatural, vampire, addiction, suspense, invention, aging, death, haunted by the past, eternal life, race against time, macabre, goth, cult, secret, zombie, christmas, fear, supernatural being, body horror, exploitation, mythology, catastrophe, monster, demon ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1937, year 1997, 16th century, year 1996, 30s
Place:
rome italy, mexico, los angeles, usa, latin america, mexico city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out dark, weird, splatter and scary films with plots about blood, supernatural, gory, macabre, brutality, storytelling and transformation mostly in Horror, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Chronos: He Never Died (2015), Interview with the Vampire (1994), The Devil's Backbone (2001), The Lair of the White Worm (1988), The Addiction (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
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A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After losing his father, 10-year-old Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucia School, which shelters orphans of the Republican militia and politicians, and is taken in by the steely headmistress, Carmen, and the kindly professor, Casares. Soon after his ...
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
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scary, psychological, philosophical, disturbing, suspenseful ...
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vampire, supernatural, addiction, philosophy, drug abuse, transformation, infection, university, obsession, cult, life is a bitch, human nature ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 118 min.
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gothic, dark fantasy, atmospheric, dark, serious ...
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28%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, ...
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26%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho), a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life as a vampire. Now, ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
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25%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Duration: 95 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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22%
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Country: USA, UK
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Story:
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22%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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21%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. ...
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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