Movies like Ghost Story

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Ghost Story (1981)
 6.3
 10K
Ghost Story (1981)
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: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, creepy, light, psychological, exciting, serious, gothic horror, scary ...
Plot: ghost story, ghost, supernatural, haunted house, life & death, guilt, death, vengeance, small town, murder, justice, brutality, snow, sex scene, curse, death of son, haunting, friendship, haunted by the past, haunted, revenge, nudity, father son relationship, supernatural horror, storytelling ...
Time: 1930s, 80s, 20th century
Place: new england, usa, england

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Most similar movies to Ghost Story

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about supernatural, ghost, haunted house, death, danger, haunting and supernatural power mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Ghost Story: The Fog (1980), What Lies Beneath (2000), Haunted (1995), The Skeleton Key (2005), The Terror (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fog (1980)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses ...
Style: slasher, creepy, atmospheric, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, lighthouse, small town, revenge, ship, blood, radio station, sword, monster, ghost ship, supernatural horror, murder ...
Time: year 1980, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1979
Place: california, northern california, usa, pacific ocean
⇓ 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 ⇓
100%
 6.2
 7K
Haunted (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its ...
Style: gothic, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, murder, haunting, supernatural, betrayal, nanny, uncover truth, family relations, haunted by the past, siblings relations, mentally unstable ...
Time: 90s, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Skeleton Key (2005)
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, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: plot twist, occult, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, macabre, supernatural horror, ritual, rite, black magic ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.0
 8K
The Terror (1963)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman. He asks the road to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn't answer, ...
Style: gothic, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, castle, supernatural, murder, monster, twists and turns, baron, soldier, haunted by the past, obsession, uncover truth, danger ...
Time: 19th century, year 1963
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 77K
The Dead Zone (1983)
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 ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, dark hero, serial killer, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, destiny, macabre, investigation, premonition, murder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire
⇓ 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%
 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 ⇓
40%
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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Style: scary, gothic, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, world war two, supernatural horror, child in peril, haunting, afterlife, death of child, death, haunted, ghost story ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1941, year 1940
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
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: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, satanic, serious ...
Plot: stephen king, ghost, supernatural, high school, monster, murder, haunted by the past, family in danger, childhood, investigation, stalking, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.5
 7K
The Hand (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, vengeance, comic book, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, cartoonist, christmas ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
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 ...
Style: suspense, gothic, dark, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, spanish civil war, orphan, child abuse, boarding school, orphanage, supernatural, revenge, children, coming of age, civil war, republican ...
Time: 1930s, year 2001, year 2000, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: spain, portugal, europe, andalusia, madrid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
 5.8
 15K
The Canal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, haunted house, protagonist as suspect, husband wife relationship, xmas, tragedy, adultery ...
Time: 2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 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%
 6.9
 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 ⇓
38%
The Perfect Host: A Southern Gothic Tale (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While sorting her dead grandmother's affairs, a young woman boards in an eerie, southern mansion and soon discovers the matriarch may desire more than just her company.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, surprise ending, southern gothic ...
Plot: mother daughter relationship, nightmare, death, elderly, female protagonist, ghost, daughter, old mansion, haunted house, evil spirit, ghost story, mansion ...
Time: 1920s
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, haunted, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, supernatural horror, macabre, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1975
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 8.4
 1.1M
The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, demonic ...
Plot: macabre, supernatural, possession, occult, ghost, demon, supernatural horror, ouija board, spiritualism, teenager, witchcraft, survival ...
Time: year 2016, 60s, year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
 148K
Carrie (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, slasher, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: bullying, high school, telekinesis, prom, blood, stephen king, mother daughter relationship, humiliation, supernatural ability, teacher, supernatural, social misfits ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
 25K
Wind Chill (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two college students share a ride home for the holidays. When they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they're preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, christmas horror, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, winter, danger, on the road, road trip, frostbite, snow, wilderness, haunted, haunting, isolation ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 2000s, 50s, year 1953 ...
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 7.3
 178K
Poltergeist (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: poltergeist, haunted house, ghost, supernatural, psychic, haunted, suburban life, haunting, paranormal, nightmare, child in peril, children ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.2
 33K
Boogeyman (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, childhood, boogeyman, haunted by the past, death, thanksgiving, nightmare, hallucination, hometown, gory, danger, ghost ...
Time: year 2005
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 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%
 4.6
 6K
Deadline (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Style: scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, mental breakdown, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, haunted by the past, woman in danger, mind game, confined, writer's life, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 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 ⇓
37%
Presence of Mind (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Henry James' classic tale of terror The Turn of the Screw receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella ...
Style: gothic, scary, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, haunted by the past, supernatural, ghost, master and servant, family relations, family problems, death in the family, family in danger, woman in danger, evil child, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.8
 2K
The Hearse (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
Style: cult classic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, killer car, supernatural, haunted house, woman in danger, small town, car, cemetery, living dead, exploitation, machine, macabre ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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