Movies like The Dead Zone 1983
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The Dead Zone (1983)
72K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
Style:
psychological, neo noir, suspenseful, dark, scary, tense, atmospheric, cerebral, mind blowing, mind bending ...
Plot:
supernatural, dark hero, serial killer, suspense, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, twists and turns, destiny, psychology, investigation, a vision, murder, tragedy, paranoia, macabre, small town, adaptation, time travel, heroes, corrupt politician, evil politician, snow, changing the past or future, insanity ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, 70s
Place:
maine, canada, usa, new hampshire
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Most similar movies to The Dead Zone
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, atmospheric, suspenseful and scary films with plots about suspense, storytelling, macabre, dialogue, murder, death and supernatural mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like The Dead Zone: Doctor Sleep (2019), Altered States (1980), Firestarter (1984), Christine (1983), The Fury (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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199K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, dark fantasy, enigmatic, gothic ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, psychic power, hotel, psychic, murder, doctor, suspense, native american, mind game, fear, magician ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, 2010s, year 1980, 80s ...
Place:
new jersey, iowa, ohio, florida, colorado ...
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100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style:
psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
drugs, science, hallucination, experiment gone awry, surrealism, obsession, suspense, transformation, isolation, macabre, university, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place:
harvard university, new york, africa, california, boston ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
As youths, Andy McGee (David Keith) and his future wife, Vicky (Heather Locklear), participated in secret experiments, allowing themselves to be subjected to mysterious medical tests. Years later, the couple's daughter, Charlie (Drew ...
Style:
scary, psychological, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
supernatural, psychic, father daughter relationship, little girl, experiment gone awry, suspense, on the run, supernatural ability, government agency, pyrokinesis, conspiracy, fire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
vermont, new york
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100%
86K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
car, obsession, macabre, killer car, supernatural, murder, friendship, objects come to life, suspense, betrayal, bullying, brutality ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 50s, 70s, year 1978 ...
Place:
california, los angeles, southern california, plymouth, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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16K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A government agent is determined to come to his son's rescue, when a sinister official kidnaps him to harness his extremely powerful psychic abilities.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, supernatural, suspense, vengeance, government agency, chase, family relations, rescue, visceral, paranoia, parents and children, secret government organization ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1977, year 1978
Place:
middle east, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Se7en
188K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
suspense, experiment, scientist, mad scientist, body horror, science, mutant, transformation, macabre, mutation, teleportation, genetics ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
201K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychology, insanity, twists and turns, suspense, split personality, losing-it hero, isolation, nervous breakdown, murder, macabre, writer's life, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
58K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Darryl Revok is the most powerful of all the scanners, and is the head of the underground scanner movement for world domination. Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain/damage on their ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, tense, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
scientist, telekinesis, suspense, violence, exploitation, cult, murder, body horror, mind reading, supernatural ability, investigation, misfit ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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218K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
insanity, obsession, psychopath, loneliness, snow, kidnapping, hostage, female psychopath, isolation, obsessed fan, torture, rage ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
105K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
Style:
psychological, surreal, psychedelic, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
serial killer, surrealism, race against time, coma, psychiatrist, virtual reality, psychopath, macabre, mind game, fbi, suspense, investigation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young man awakens from a six-year coma with the ability to see into peoples futures. This is the first two episodes of the television series.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, psychotronic
Plot:
afterlife, car accident, a vision, extrasensory perception, small town life, stalking, haunted by the past, ghost, supernatural ability, destiny, who done it, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1976
Place:
vietnam, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, mind bending, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
evil child, suspense, children, supernatural, alien, church, killer child, supernatural ability, social misfits, prodigy, moral dilemma, macabre ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, future
Place:
london, tokyo, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
alien, space and aliens, pregnancy, small town, alien life-form, genetics, husband wife relationship, suspense, mind game, supernatural ability, babies and infants, small town life ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
31K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Harassed by classmates who won't accept his shocking appearance, a shy young man known as "Powder" struggles to fit in. But the cruel taunts stop when Powder displays a mysterious power that allows him to do incredible things. This ...
Style:
emotional, sad, inspirational, thought provoking, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, supernatural, albino, paranormal phenomena, miraculous event, christ allegory, bullying, healing power, struck by lightning, electricity, bully, supernatural power ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
11K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Carrie White is a lonely and painfully shy teenage girl with telekinetic powers who is slowly pushed to the edge of insanity by frequent bullying from both classmates at her school, and her own religious, but abusive, mother.
Style:
bleak, scary, suspenseful, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, telekinesis, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, youth, parents and children, life is a bitch, prom, strong violent content, bullying, psychic power ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Split similar movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, obsession, identical twins, twins, drug addiction, mental illness, love triangle, addiction, mistaken identity, drugs, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1988, 80s, 50s ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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32%
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 ...
Style:
psychological, gothic, surreal, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
insanity, investigation, hallucination, suspense, monster, paranoia, supernatural, small town, disappearance, mental illness, writers, fear ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, new hampshire, europe, england, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, female nudity, suspense, body swapping, supernatural, apocalypse, macabre, distopia, monster, evil wins, end of the world ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, sexy ...
Plot:
suspense, snow, insanity, woman in danger, winter, isolation, audition, psychopath, missing person, macabre, survival, imprisonment ...
Time:
80s
Place:
boston, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
103K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, bleak, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, paranoia, insanity, nightmare, schizophrenia, obsession, nervous breakdown, dreams, suspense, fear, twists and turns, storm ...
Time:
year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Butterfly Effect similar movies
108K
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, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
zombie, macabre, cemetery, indian burial ground, death, grave robbing, ghost, family in danger, killer child, suspense, murder, supernatural ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, new england, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, dark ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, suspense, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, murder investigation, mind game, brutality, fbi ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, maryland, chicago illinois, memphis, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
alien, alien abduction, alien contact, psychiatrist, ufo, hypnosis, writers, halloween, supernatural, paranoia, macabre, extraterrestrial ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic ...
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot:
supernatural, writers, murder, twins, blackmail, life philosophy, investigation, supernatural ability, lookalikes, alter ego, suspense, zombie ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, satanic, splatter ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, high school, bully, suspense, monster, tunnel, bad kids, bus, demon, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in Switzerland where he meets Dr. Victor ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, gothic, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
time travel, mad scientist, monster, supernatural, destiny, murder, death, alternate reality, suspense, macabre, mutant, vengeance ...
Time:
future, 19th century, 2030s, 1810s, 21st century
Place:
switzerland, geneva switzerland, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, suspense, psychopath, investigation, mind game, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, macabre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, gothic, atmospheric, light ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, ghost story, haunted house, suspense, life & death, vengeance, small town, murder, death, guilt, macabre ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
new england, usa, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
cult, killer child, children, suspense, religion, supernatural, small town, violence, murder, isolation, good versus evil, brutality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The angel Gabriel comes to Earth to collect a soul which will end the stalemated war in Heaven, and only a former priest and a little girl can stop him.
Style:
serious, dark, dark fantasy, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
devil, afterlife, angel, supernatural, prophecy, good versus evil, suspense, god, religion, christianity, vicious, religions or cults ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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