Movies like Harlequin

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Harlequin (1980)
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Harlequin (1980)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this modern-day version of the Rasputin story, David Hemmings plays an up-and-coming senator, Nick Rast, whose young son is terminally ill with leukaemia. A mysterious faith healer, Gregory Wolfe (Robert Powell), appears and seems to cure the boy. Rast's wife Sandy (Carmen Duncan) falls in love with Wolfe, but the powerful interests behind Rast's career, represented by geriatric monster Doc Wheelan (Broderick Crawford) are less happy with events.
Style: atmospheric, political, political thriller, scary, psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film ...
Plot: psychic power, witch, witchcraft, exploitation, mind power, clown, magic, telekinesis, paranormal, president, occult, brain, leukemia, supernatural power, 666, senator, psychokinesis, politics, supernatural, murder, afterlife, missing person, espionage, parents and children, intrigue ...
Time: year 1980, 80s
Place: australia
Keyword: french

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Most similar movies to Harlequin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, murder, supernatural ability, supernatural power and ghost mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Harlequin: The Survivor (1981), The Echo Game (2009), Witch Hunt (2021), The Guardian (1990), Something Weird (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Survivor (1981)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When a 747 crashes shortly after take-off, the sole survivor is the pilot. Virtually unhurt, he and the investigators look for the answers to the disaster. Meanwhile mysterious deaths occur in the community and only a psychic, in touch with the ...
Style: cult classic, slasher, atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: airplane crash, supernatural, disaster, aviation, paranormal, telekinesis, psychic, psychic power, pilot, ghost, sole survivor, memory loss ...
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95%
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The Echo Game (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young mother must protect her daughter from a rogue scientist on a murderous rampage to steal the girl's psychic powers for herself.
Style: serious, scary, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, mad scientist, family relations, supernatural ability, parents and children, chase, danger, sexual content, profanity, psychic power, psychic, murder ...
Time: 21st century
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81%
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Witch Hunt (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: witch, witch hunt, creature, supernatural, hunting, witchcraft, friendship, chase, fear, rescue, youth, good versus evil ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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
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66%
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Something Weird (1967)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An accident victim makes a deal with a particularly hideous witch, in which he receives extraordinary ESP powers. He uses these powers to help the police solve crimes.
Style: stylized, psychedelic, grindhouse, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: supernatural, danger, witchcraft, psychic, telekinesis, witch, supernatural horror, psychic power, martial arts, murder, serial killer, small town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Mystics in Bali (1981)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Researching a book that takes her to Bali and the black magic cult of Leák, Cathy meets an evil witch which promises to train her in the dark arts. Tricked, Cathy is turned into a Penanggalan; a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her ...
Style: suspenseful, surreal, scary, cult classic, psychotronic ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, folklore, deal with the devil, save the lady, power relations, danger, good versus evil, save the day, village, curses spells and rituals, religions or cults ...
Time: 80s
Place: asia, indonesia, bali
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60%
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 ⇓
49%
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The Source (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Four outcast teenagers acquire mystical powers that allow them to become gods on campus, with deadly consequences.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, teenage life, supernatural, supernatural ability, bully, teenage love, social misfits, youth, prank, rivalry, vengeance, danger ...
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49%
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5ive Girls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five wayward teenage girls are sent to a reformatory and discover they possess unique powers to battle the ancient demon, Legion, which holds thrall over the sinister institution.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, tense, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: demon, demonic possession, healing power, girls' boarding school, good versus evil, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, danger, youth, teachers and students ...
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48%
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The Circle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An otherworldly evil is slipping into a small town in Sweden. Six unrelated girls have been chosen to fight this evil. Together they must overcome their differences in order to save themselves and the world.
Style: satanic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: witch, friendship, magic, high school, small town, witchcraft, evil, demon, murder, bullying, save the world, friends ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Visitors (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: ocean, supernatural, insanity, hallucination, ghost, danger, isolation, sailing, cat, sea voyage, fire, race ...
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46%
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Evil Eyes (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: On a day of solar eclipse, five year old, Naina, loses her eyesight and her parents in a road accident in London. Twenty years later, she is bestowed with the gift of sight thanks to the marvels of modern science. Her period of darkness is over; or ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, woman in danger, haunted by the past, survival, disability, destiny, curses spells and rituals, transplant, solar eclipse, psychic power ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, hong kong, europe, england, asia
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45%
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Dead Awake (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Kate Bowman (Jocelin Donahue) is an average social worker who is investigating in the mysterious deaths of people who died in their sleep. Shortly before their deaths, the victims all reported a supernatural force that appeared to them while they ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, creature, social worker, sudden death, nightmare, sleeping, exorcism, revenge, vengeance, chase, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Initiation of Sarah (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A withdrawn young girl joins an unpopular sorority in college. It turns out she has psychic and telekinetic powers, and she uses them against a rival sorority.
Style: spooky, scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, witch, psychic, telekinesis, revenge, psychic power, mind power, campus, mental disorder, magic, bullying, psychokinesis ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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42%
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
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39%
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Witchboard (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.
Style: scary, cult classic, creepy, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ouija, supernatural, ouija board, ghost child, witch, evil spirit, medium, possession, ghost, psychic, witchcraft, haunted house ...
Place: california
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38%
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Observance (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, characters in danger, escapades, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, hunting, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, rescue, vengeance, loss, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Deadtime Stories 2 (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: An anthology of three horror stories presented by George A. Romero. In "Valley of the Shadow," a woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America, only to be in great danger herself. In "Wet," a lonely man ...
Style: anthology, scary, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, missing person, danger, parents and children, survival, medical experiment, murder, terminal illness, unplanned pregnancy, zombie, sexually aggressive woman, cannibalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Death Factory (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A bus full of strangers find themselves fighting for their lives when one of them reads from an ancient Gothic tome, bringing six dead serial killers back to life, who proceed to hunt them down one by one.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, survival, jack the ripper, reincarnation, violence, abusive relationship, clown, killer clown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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37%
Edgar Allan Poe's the Black Cat (1989)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Mark Ravenna, a famous Italian horror film director, sets out to script his latest film entitled 'Suspiria : De Profundis'. His film is based on Dario ArgentoÆs 'Suspiria' and 'Inferno' and deals with the story of ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, scary, serious, stylized ...
Plot: witch, killer animal, edgar allan poe, demon, supernatural, filmmaking, evil, murder, strong violent content, good versus evil, rivalry, supernatural ability ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: europe, italy
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37%
The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, possession, murder, survival, supernatural, danger, legends and myths, haunted, haunting, haunted house, woman with a gun, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Old Ways (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cristina, a journalist of Mexican origin, travels to her ancestral home in Veracruz to investigate a story of sorcery and healing. There, she is kidnapped by a group of locals who claim she's the devil incarnated.
Style: suspense, scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: exorcism, supernatural, mission, journalist, demon, creature, supernatural power, peril, woman in danger, good versus evil, youth, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
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36%
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The Sight (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying ...
Style: psychological, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, ghost, architect, supernatural, haunted by the past, supernatural ability, mind game, law enforcement, danger, investigation, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Sender (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A disturbed telepathic man is able to transmit his dreams and visions into the minds of the people around him.
Style: psychological, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: psychic, mind control, supernatural, mental illness, mental institution, psychic power, hospital, mind game, suicide attempt, psychopath, doctors and patients, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, year 1965
Place: los angeles
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36%
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
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36%
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: "I have a gift for disaster," says John Morlar (Ricard Burton). Morlar is cursed with a unique telekinesis power that only seems to cause disaster.
Style: psychological, scary, serious, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot: disaster, psychic, psychic power, telekinesis, psychopath, brain, supernatural power, investigation, mind power, psychokinesis, body horror, paranormal ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, london, europe, scotland yard
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35%
Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, split personality, ghost, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, danger, mental illness, twists and turns, curses spells and rituals, a vision, gory ...
Time: 50s, 1920s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Invisible (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, tense, esoteric ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: ghost, investigation, murder, supernatural, danger, invisibility, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, young heroes, youth, coma, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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34%
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First Born (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family in danger, mentally unstable, nanny, danger, parents and children, family problems, isolation, suburbs, obsession, supernatural ability, pregnancy, curses spells and rituals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Wizard of Gore (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, magician, hypnosis, magic, psychopath, mind game, police investigation, supernatural, mysterious character, wizards and magicians, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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