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Giorgino (1994)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgio finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....
Style:
gothic, psychological, enigmatic, melancholic, surreal, sinister, art house, period piece, grim, stylized ...
Plot:
death, missing child, post war, memory, isolation, secrets, loss, mourning, trauma, haunting, investigation, obsession, fog, childhood, swamp, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, misdirection, literary, unhappy ending, control, town, village, winter, snow ...
Time:
1910s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, tense and psychological horror films with plots about isolation, haunting, obsession, supernatural, claustrophobia, slow burn and moral ambiguity mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Giorgino: Savage Hunt of King Stakh (1979), The Thing Behind The Door (2023), Neelavelicham (2023), Torment (2025), The Chinese Room (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A mystical drama based on a story by V. Korotkevich. The film is set in out-of-the-way Belarusian woodlands at the end of the 19th century. A young ethnographer, Andrej Bielarecki, comes here to research local folk legends…
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gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric, mystical, sinister ...
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curse, folklore, literary, legend, remote village, supernatural, isolation, symbolism, haunting, provincial life, castle, swamp ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
russia
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95%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The story of Adèle, a youg woman who’s literally haunted by the death of her husband, killed in a trench during World War One. Desperate and unable to face this tragic loss, Adèle turns to black magic in the hope to bring her lover back. The ...
Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A young, enthusiastic and free-spirited writer arrives to stay in a desolate mansion, rumored to be haunted by the apparition of a young woman named Bharghavi who committed suicide when she was betrayed in love. The writer, who begins to pen her ...
Style:
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Plot:
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277
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An exhausted security guard is transferred to a morgue and, on their first night, discovers that the shadows and silences hide a torment from which there may be no return.
Style:
dark, psychological, creepy, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
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It was based on a novel by Vivien Connell.
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art house, psychological, psychedelic, surreal, enigmatic ...
Plot:
drug addiction, hallucination, character study, intimate, obsession, paranoia, isolation, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, room, voyeur, doctor ...
Time:
60s
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Photographers Brooke Konrad and Tanner Behlman travel to rural, abandoned buildings to capture the inherent beauty of long-forgotten locations, but far from forgotten are the traumatic memories that surface in Brooke when they meet The Man Upstairs, ...
Style:
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trauma, photography, haunting, female protagonist, memory, suspicion, isolation, confrontation, slow burn, obsession, settler, macabre ...
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66%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Jasmine returns to her childhood home on her brother's death. Is the house now haunted by spirits or by living beings trapped by emotional bonds?
Style:
atmospheric, tension, creepy, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunted house, loss, ghost, supernatural, family drama, mysterious past, female protagonist, trauma, grief, memory, secrets, isolation ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Set in three different time periods between 1990 and 2020, "Route No 17" unfolds a revenge thriller narrative as trespassers venture into the closed-off path, only to face a fate shrouded in mystery.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
Style:
psychological horror, supernatural thriller, suspense, sinister, tension ...
Plot:
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63%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young psychiatrist tries to help a young woman in an asylum who has been accused of having killed a teenage girl. But when she escapes and he goes after her, he finds himself involved in a mystery far greater than simply a woman thought to be ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 100 min.
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense ...
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Duration: 114 min.
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Story:
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Plot:
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196
Genre: Thriller
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic, dark, suspenseful, creepy, psychological horror ...
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A child disappears from his parents sight in a mysterious but haunting forest after a punishment.
Style:
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