Movies like The Dark 2005

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The Dark (2005)
 5.3
 11K
The Dark (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter as she is tormented by Celtic mythology from the past.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, gothic horror, cult classic, classic horror, spooky ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suicide, missing person, child abuse, haunted by the past, uncover truth, mind game, family in danger, mysterious character, afterlife, sect, folk horror, life is a bitch, supernatural ability, secret, spirit, abuse, shark, nature, women, youth, heaven and hell, occult, lookalikes ...
Time: contemporary
Place: wales

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Most similar movies to The Dark

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about supernatural, ghost, danger, murder, death, blood and fear mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Dark: Half Light (2006), The Lodge (2019), Hereditary (2018), The Ring (2002), The Woman in Black (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Half Light (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, murder, lighthouse, death of child, uncover truth, mentally unstable, loss of child, woman in danger, writers, afterlife, death in the family ...
Place: scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 57K
The Lodge (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stepmother, winter, suicide, cult leader, snow, murder, mass suicide, nudity, religious cult, vacation gone wrong, female nudity, destiny ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 373K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fear, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family, ghost, grief, demon, seance, supernatural, evil spirit, possession, secret society, funeral ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Woman in Black (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: ghost, haunted house, estate, isolation, supernatural, afterlife, curses spells and rituals, haunting, vengeance, blood, haunted, tragic event ...
Time: victorian era, 1910s, year 2012, edwardian era, 1900s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The House at the End of Time (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of Dulce, a mother who has encounters with apparitions inside her old house. She must decipher a mystery that could trigger a prophecy: the death of her family.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, mind bending, mystic ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted by the past, time travel, twists and turns, haunted house, ghost, murder, danger, family in danger, life is a bitch, elderly, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the ...
Style: suspense, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, killer child, orphan, pedophilia, poisoning, child, underage sex, friendship, murder, father, life is a bitch, introspection ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, couple relations, adultery, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, spiritualism ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: vermont, persia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.5
 114K
Pet Sematary (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At ...
Style: scary, suspense, tense, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: zombie, macabre, stephen king, supernatural horror, indian burial ground, grave robbing, killer child, cemetery, family in danger, murder, supernatural, gory ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: maine, usa, chicago, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 6K
The Guardian (1990)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The idyllic lives of Phil and Kate seem complete when they select the winsome young Camilla as a live-in nanny for their newborn child. But the lovely young Camilla s not what she appears to be.
Style: scary, suspenseful, sexy, creepy, erotic ...
Plot: supernatural, witch, death, babies and infants, gory, macabre, mysterious character, danger, hidden identity, human sacrifice, curses spells and rituals, folk horror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 69K
The Awakening (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style: scary, gothic, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, afterlife, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, ghost child, supernatural power, twists and turns, investigation ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2000, post world war one
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.9
 87K
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, hypnosis, supernatural, psychic, supernatural horror, murder, clairvoyance, paranoia, able to see the dead, psychic power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
 38K
The Empty Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style: psychological, suspense, lovecraft, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, supernatural, suicide, investigation, cosmic horror, danger, teenager, death, riddles and clues, legend, experiment, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2020s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 2019 ...
Place: missouri, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.1
 62K
Don't Look Now (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.1
 2K
Hurt (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: orphan, ghost, rescue, supernatural, desert, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, murder, dark secret, uncover truth, american horror, child abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 85K
The Uninvited (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns ...
Style: twist ending, scary, surprise ending, slasher, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, mental illness, ghost, family problems, woman in danger, parents and children, uncover truth, family in danger, siblings relations, pretense, sisters, blood ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place: maine, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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An American Haunting (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted by the past, rape, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, curse, sexual abuse, death, chase, redemption, supernatural horror, witch ...
Time: 19th century, year 2006, year 2005, ancient times, year 2000 ...
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Children's Play (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot: good versus evil, children, ghost, family in danger, dealing with death, danger, mentally unstable, family problems, siblings relations, supernatural power, possession, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: stephen king, haunted house, ghost, afterlife, uncover truth, losing-it hero, woman in danger, infidelity, supernatural, mysterious character, dangerous attraction, supernatural ability ...
Time: 1900s
Place: washington state, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.2
 12K
Desperation (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: survival, small town, sheriff, curses spells and rituals, stephen king, supernatural, mine, murder, mysterious character, danger, family in danger, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, vietnam, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The House That Dripped Blood (1971)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Style: anthology, suspense, scary, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: vampire, curse, haunted house, witchcraft, investigation, murder, female vampire, wax museum, country house, supernatural power, evil child, serial killer ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: scotland yard, scotland, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 5.5
 51K
White Noise (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Style: twist ending, scary, psychological, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spirit, ghost, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, dealing with death, obsession, loss, contact, supernatural horror, grief, macabre, death of wife ...
Time: year 2000, year 2005, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.4
 844
Ghost Son (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, South Africa, Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: "Ghost Son" takes place in South Africa. A married couple Stacey and Mark live on the farm with their black teenage maid. Mark and Stacey love each other deeply. Unfortunately Mark dies in a tragic truck accident.Stacey returns to the farm ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, suspense, mystic ...
Plot: pregnancy, ghost, supernatural, family in danger, uncover truth, parents and children, family problems, missing child, supernatural ability, life is a bitch, babies and infants, death in the family ...
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Stir of Echoes: The Homecoming (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A soldier returns home from the Iraq war only to be haunted by visions of the dead.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak, psychological horror ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, murder, mental illness, supernatural romance, family in danger, uncover truth, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, war veteran ...
Place: middle east, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.5
 62K
The Omen (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A diplomatic couple adopts the son of the devil without knowing it. A remake of the classic horror film of the same name from 1976.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, atmospheric, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demon, devil, murder, killer child, devil worship, evil child, antichrist, 666, prophecy, parents and children, hospital, death ...
Time: year 2006, year 2000, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: england, london, rome italy, europe, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Haunting of Julia (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
Style: slasher, classic horror, spooky, cult classic, suspense ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, haunting, ghost child, folk horror, supernatural, mental breakdown, seance, imaginary friend, macabre, evil child, haunted ...
Time: 70s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
 293K
1408 (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, hotel, fear, stephen king, isolation, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, writers ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Disappointments Room (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.
Style: scary, tense, serious, mysterious, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, child in peril, family in danger, parents and children, estate, parent child relationship, isolation, family problems, danger, mind game, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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