Movies like Lady in the Water
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Lady in the Water (2006)
108K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Apartment building superintendent Cleveland Heep rescues what he thinks is a young woman from the pool he maintains. When he discovers that she is actually a character from a bedtime story who is trying to make the journey back to her home, he works with his tenants to protect his new friend from the creatures that are determined to keep her in our world.
Style:
fairy tale, suspense, melancholic, stylized, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, visual, touching, modern fairy tale ...
Plot:
swimming pool, mermaid, mythical creature, nymph, redemption, legends and myths, save the lady, religion and supernatural, good versus evil, friendship, swimming, imaginary, imaginary character, getting home, fish out of water, water, stuttering, magic, alien invasion, supernatural, mythology, creature, monster, pagan, death ...
Time:
year 2006, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
philadelphia, usa
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Most similar movies to Lady in the Water
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out atmospheric, suspense, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about supernatural, death, macabre, mentor, storytelling, dialogue and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Lady in the Water: The Village (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Wendy (2020), Big Fish (2003), Mirrormask (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, surreal, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
kids, teen fantasy, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
monster, fantasy world, imagination, creature, mythology, macabre, legends and myths, magical, young heroes, imaginary, good versus evil, maze ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, year 1944, 20th century, year 2006
Place:
spain, south america, europe, canada
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A re-imagining of "Peter Pan" from the point of view of Wendy Darling, who finds herself lost on a mysterious island where aging and time have come unglued. She must fight to save her family, her freedom and the joyous spirit of youth.
Style:
captivating, sincere, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, island, rescue, peter pan, child, magic, fantasy world, danger, imaginary, adaptation, sea creature, girl ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
100%
477K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Throughout his life Edward Bloom has always been a man of big appetites, enormous passions and tall tales. In his later years, he remains a huge mystery to his son, William. Now, to get to know the real man, Will begins piecing together a true ...
Style:
surreal, feel good, sentimental, touching, fairy tale ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
surrealism, fish, journey, storytelling, fantasy world, father son relationship, childhood, mermaid, magic, loneliness, adventurer, free spirited ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2003 ...
Place:
texas, usa, alabama, southern usa, paris france ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
Style:
visually stunning, offbeat, surreal, cerebral, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot:
circus, coming of age, fantasy world, magic, imaginary kingdom, alternate reality, alternate dimension, good versus evil, trippy, parallel universe, imaginary, drawing ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
brighton, england
Similarity:
100%
165K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of people trapped in a elevator realizes that the devil is among them.
Style:
scary, psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, satanic ...
Plot:
devil, group of strangers, elevator, confined, supernatural, supernatural horror, police investigation, trap, mysterious character, trapped in an elevator, danger, stranded ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.
Style:
creepy, surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
gory, ambition, aspiring actress, hollywood, religions or cults, secret society, violence, casting couch, casting, body horror, violent, occult ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
465K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
plot twist, superhero, father son relationship, invulnerability, security guard, swimming pool, self discovery, twists and turns, train crash, good versus evil, supernatural power, a vision ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, y2k, future, 20th century ...
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
35%
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133K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, gothic, creepy, biting ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, loneliness, childhood, first love, blood, gory, friendship, coming of age, supernatural, friends, mysterious character, children ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, italy, europe, stockholm sweden ...
Similarity:
28%
182K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Style:
mysterious, psychedelic, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
aging, vacation, time, island, rapid aging, island prison, ocean, family vacation, mortality, corpse, race against time, disease ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
10-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie - a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother ...
Style:
scenic, fairy tale, touching, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
children, mermaid, island, seal the animal, celtic, selkie, friendship, fishing boat, legend, ancient mystery, pagan, magic ...
Time:
year 1946, year 1994, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe, scotland
Similarity:
27%
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:
27%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.
Style:
atmospheric, surreal, neo noir, captivating, modern fairy tale ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, small town, curse, sadism, obsession, greed, riddles and clues, family relations, danger, trippy, nuclear bomb, body horror ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
41K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, death, hospital, supernatural ability, medical, lovers apart, destiny, supernatural, doctor, contact, dealing with death, ghost ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, colombia, south america, venezuela ...
Similarity:
27%
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:
27%
348K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, satanic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch, supernatural, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, religion, wilderness, black magic, paganism, family bonds, isolation, sacrifice ...
Time:
17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place:
new england, america, new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
26%
6K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Norwegian folklore turns out to be real when Leo and Elvis encounter a girl called Thale in a basement. A regular cleaning job turns into a struggle for survival, while they're trying to figure out what or who Thale is. Could Thale be a ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
deadly creature, supernatural, creature, folklore, folk horror, legends and myths, wrong place wrong time, danger, confined, gory, isolation, secret place ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Four young men who belong to a supernatural legacy are forced to battle a fifth power long thought to have died out. Another great force they must contend with is the jealousy and suspicion that threatens to tear them apart.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, satanic, teen, fairy tale ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
supernatural, good versus evil, teenager, magic, warlock, youth, wizards and magicians, curses spells and rituals, high school, chase, friendship between men, supernatural ability ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, 17th century, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, nova scotia, usa
Similarity:
26%
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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:
26%
35K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
Style:
philosophical, psychological, confusing, cerebral, surreal ...
Plot:
alternate reality, losing-it hero, obsession, metaphysics, screenwriter, pug, house arrest, supernatural, lifestyle, parallel universe, artist, human nature ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
26%
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, scary, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
witch, witch hunt, supernatural, creature, hunting, youth, witchcraft, friendship, friends, danger, good versus evil, society ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Lily Pierce is sick of being haunted. She decides to reconnect with her estranged father, a disgraced history professor, and learn how to draw upon a time of steel and blade when armor-clad knights rode out and dueled their monsters to the death.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
monster, supernatural, knights templar, mythical creature, fight, female protagonist, woman with a gun, warrior, battles, ghost, female warrior, supernatural power ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.
Style:
suspense, scary, bleak, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
supernatural, cosmic horror, occult, killing, ghost, supernatural power, curses spells and rituals, rescue, youth, death, victim, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, bleak, twist ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, mysterious character, life & death, psychology, twists and turns, danger, dealing with death, supernatural, nudity, mentor, adaptation, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
35K
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:
spiritual, inspirational, sad, philosophical, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, albino, christ allegory, disappearance, electricity, struck by lightning, psychic, hospital, death, bully ...
Time:
future
Place:
tibet
Similarity:
25%
302K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In a series of escalating encounters, security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man who has twenty-four personalities. Meanwhile, the shadowy presence of Elijah Price emerges as an ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological thriller, bad ending, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
dissociative identity disorder, mental illness, twists and turns, pig, psychology, feminine beauty, superpower, mental patient, psychic, split personality, cheerleader, sociopath ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After the death of there child a couple go to stay in an island home. The woman starts to hear the noise of a baby crying and is followed by an old blind women who warns her to get out of of the house before it is too late.
Style:
psychological horror, suspense, sinister, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
grief, family tragedy, island, haunting, mourning, loss, supernatural, isolation, guilt, ghost, female protagonist, paranormal activity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
733
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After Brad and Meg move to a detached house in need of major repairs after a fire and decades of neglect, they're happy that cheerful teenage son Tyler behaves normally, for puberty. Young daughter Gina's stories about sometimes evil ...
Style:
suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
goblin, family relations, supernatural, ghost, riddles and clues, danger, family life, monster, psychiatrist, little creatures, magical creature, psychiatric hospital ...
Time:
year 1955
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – ...
Style:
gothic, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunted house, haunted, ghost, insomnia, evil, supernatural, mansion, psychology, destiny, danger, domestic disturbance, ghost child ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, depression, crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, guilty conscience, introspection, traumatic past, character study, guilt, redemption ...
Similarity:
24%
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