Movies like Dream House
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Dream House (2011)
71K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, suspense, enigmatic, psychological thriller, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, twists and turns, supernatural, plot twist, memory loss, nervous breakdown, murder, mental patient, danger, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, insanity, writers, murder mystery, hallucination, family relations, family problems, ghost, family in danger, investigation, parents and children, brutality, amnesia, family drama, psychology ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
new england, usa
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Most similar movies to Dream House
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending and suspense films with plots about twists and turns, plot twist, death, storytelling, murder, blood and supernatural mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Dream House: Shutter Island (2010), The Number 23 (2007), The Others (2001), The Sixth Sense (1999), Secret Window (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Similarity:
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221K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, insanity, plot twist, losing-it hero, escape from reality, a vision, murder, riddles and clues, uncover truth, investigation, paranoia ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
los angeles, usa, virginia
Similarity:
100%
424K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Similarity:
81%
Movie in collections
220K
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, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, gothic, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, mental patient, insanity, plot twist, psychiatrist, edgar allan poe, madhouse, doctors and patients, doctor, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1800s, year 1900
Place:
england, britain, usa, oxford university, tuscany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
imaginary friend, plot twist, twists and turns, split personality, psychologist, supernatural horror, mental illness, haunted by the past, single father, murder, child's point of view, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
time travel, destiny, death, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, deja vu, couples, family problems, housewife ...
Time:
year 2007, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
184K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.
Style:
psychological thriller, twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, twists and turns, secrets, bullying, gift, bully, husband wife relationship, plot twist, stalker, home invasion, pregnancy, stalking ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016
Place:
los angeles, chicago, california
Similarity:
100%
295K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Style:
surprise ending, atmospheric, suspense, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
plot twist, isolation, forest, twists and turns, psychology, village life, village, utopia, mysterious place, woods, autumn, small town ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 1890s, 19th century, 18th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, new england
Similarity:
100%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
mental institution, psychiatric ward, supernatural, ghost, brutality, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, haunted, mental illness, doctors and patients, murder, hospital ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 60s, 80s ...
Similarity:
100%
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, suspenseful, clever, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spirit, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, dealing with death, ghost, death of wife, supernatural horror, loss, disappearance, contact, grief, remote control ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
124K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, enigmatic, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, mental institution, time loop, amnesia, supernatural, hallucination, destiny, memory loss, disorder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
vermont, iraq
Similarity:
100%
172K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience:
teens, kids, horror for children
Plot:
danger, elderly, murder, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, grandmother granddaughter relationship, plot twist, basement, farm, parents and children, child protagonist ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
89%
111K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological thriller, bleak, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
hospital, paradox, riding accident, loss of control, organ trafficking, disappearance, desperation, rescue, insanity, missing child, loss of family, tragedy ...
Similarity:
80%
124K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Similarity:
63%
313K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style:
scary, creepy, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, evil force, writer's life, surprising revelation, family in danger ...
Time:
2010s, year 2000, year 1966, year 1986, year 1979 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, california, missouri ...
Similarity:
100%
276K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
adoption, orphan, killer child, serial killer, evil child, female psychopath, fear, mysterious character, creepy child, children, parents and children, family in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
Similarity:
67%
Movie in collections
78K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style:
surprise ending, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, investigation, missing person, uncover truth, corpse, adulterous husband, haunted by the past, vengeance, morgue, spouse killer, adultery ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
plot twist, occult, ghost, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural, supernatural horror, macabre, rite, ritual, black magic ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, year 2005, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, southern usa
Similarity:
78%
290K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, nevada
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style:
suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, ghost, plot twist, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, sibling relationship, haunted house, split personality, violence, schizophrenic ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, year 2017
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychology, investigation, power relations, uncover truth, domestic violence, memory, psychiatrist, life turned upside down, amnesiac ...
Time:
90s, year 2014, year 2007, year 2000, 2010s ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
83%
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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, surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, couple relations, supernatural horror, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, infidelity, supernatural, couples, adultery, psychology ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, persia, usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
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, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, mental illness, ghost, family problems, supernatural horror, woman in danger, parents and children, uncover truth, family in danger, secret relationship, siblings relations, mistrust ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place:
maine, new england
Similarity:
100%
92K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, mind twisting, confusing ...
Plot:
suicide, obsession, twists and turns, death, surrealism, guilt, unfulfillment, suicide attempt, mental illness, depression, parallel universe, psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions ...
Style:
psychological, scary, horrifying, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, murder, supernatural, haunted, death threat, uncover truth, haunted by the past, family in danger, family problems, psychopath, family life ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north dakota, chicago
Similarity:
100%
20K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, dark, demonic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, time loop, afterlife, supernatural, rescue, trapped, coming of age, murder, youth, danger, haunted ...
Time:
2010s, year 1953, 80s, year 1983, year 1985 ...
Place:
usa, canada, ontario canada, california
Similarity:
100%
170K
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:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological, gothic ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, macabre, fear, haunted, death, missing child, tragic event, haunted by the past, imaginary friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
50%
185K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
airplane, twists and turns, missing child, conspiracy, airplane accident, female protagonist, kidnapping, disappearance, strong female lead, flight attendant, family relations, little girl ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, persia, newfoundland, new york, germany
Similarity:
60%
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