Movies like The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
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The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
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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Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town.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 landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
Style:
psychological, suspense, sexy, atmospheric, disturbing, creepy, slasher, scary, psychosexual thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer child, teenage girl, murder, orphan, friendship, poisoning, father, pedophile, evil child, underage sex, creepy kid, teenage boy, child murders an adult, blackmail, cover up, pedophilia, life is a bitch, child, isolation, teenage life, introspection, female nudity, children, coming of age, secret ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
maine, new england, canada
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Most similar movies to The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, suspense and psychological films with plots about death, murder, danger, deadly, macabre, supernatural and storytelling mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane: The Other (1972), Bad Ronald (1974), Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), Ghost Story (1981), Cracks (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic ...
Style:
creepy, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
macabre, evil child, creepy child, twins, coming of age, child, evil twin, psychology, supernatural, murder, creepy kid, children ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1935, year 1972
Place:
connecticut, holland, usa, europe, california ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A shy teenager accidentally kills a mocking peer, and his mother helps him hide in a spare room in their house. Problems arise when the mother goes for an operation and dies, and the house is sold to a new family, with the teen still living inside.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
murder, voyeurism, hidden room, death of mother, mysterious character, voyeur, social misfits, teenage life, parents and children, secret, teenager, loner ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. But when Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to ...
Style:
creepy, slasher, frightening, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, murder, female villain, killing spree, holy communion, evil child, blood, child, female serial killer, child molester ...
Time:
year 1961, year 2016, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
creepy, suspense, light, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, ghost story, supernatural, life & death, vengeance, guilt, death, small town, snow, sex scene, murder ...
Time:
1930s, 80s, 20th century, year 1931
Place:
new england, usa, new york, miami, england
Similarity:
100%
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22K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, erotic, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, obsession, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian, sexualized violence, lgbtq, teenage girl, asthma, boarding school life, child abuse, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
1930s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
europe, england, spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, serial killer, love, death of father, doctor, running, ex lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
evil child, killer child, childhood trauma, father, murder, creepy kid, school, family relations, danger, adopted daughter, redhead girl, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
evil child, killer child, island, children, pregnancy, isolation, manhunt, creepy kid, terror, murder, tourism, teenager ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iberian peninsula, mediterranean sea, spain, angola, fictional island
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, twist ending, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, female protagonist, teenage life, youth, haunted by the past, murder, voyeur, locked in a room, divorce, bullying, ghost, danger ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, sexy, horrifying ...
Plot:
ghost, revenge, orphan, spanish civil war, disappearance, child abuse, gold, boarding school, haunted, coming of age, supernatural, orphanage ...
Time:
1930s, year 2001, year 2000, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place:
portugal, south america, spain, europe, madrid ...
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
16 year old Alice Palmer drowns in a local dam. When her body is recovered and, her grieving family buries her. The family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help ...
Style:
mockumentary, psychological horror, scary, creepy, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, found footage, haunted house, slow burn, supernatural horror, paranormal activity, family life, drowning, lake, psychic, uncover truth, investigation ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
australia, usa, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' resistance, the therapist soon suspects that ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
creepy child, supernatural, psychiatrist, mental disorder, social relations, teenage life, danger, supernatural ability, babies and infants, clergy, multiple personality disorder, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
67%
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, tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural horror, death, haunted by the past, rape, supernatural, sexual abuse, chase, paranormal phenomena, curses spells and rituals, teenage daughter, flash forward ...
Time:
year 2006, 19th century, ancient times, year 2005, 2000s ...
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Style:
gothic, dark, creepy, scary, gothic horror ...
Plot:
haunted, supernatural, haunting, old mansion, macabre, children, hide and seek, ghost story, haunted house, schizophrenia, insanity, paranoid ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1961, 1860s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
children, psychopath, death, evil child, manipulation, murder, problem child, killer child, deception, disbelieving adult, parents and children, brutality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, asia, japan, new england ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, murder investigation, mind game, fbi, cannibal ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pittsburgh, baltimore, persia, usa, memphis ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, visually stunning, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, culture clash, amateur detective, snow, family problems, mathematics, death in the family, winter, disorder, danger, human nature ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
denmark, greenland, copenhagen, europe, antarctica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Fire-and-brimstone preacher sees Satan everywhere, trains gullible young boy to "detect" evil, and the two of them commit several murders in the name of Jesus. Based on a true story.
Style:
dark, independent film, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, supernatural hunter, witch, exploitation, occult, pagan, religion, folk horror, killing spree, murder, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
abuse, ghost, supernatural, suicide, folk horror, missing person, child abuse, haunted by the past, uncover truth, family in danger, mysterious character, mind game ...
Place:
wales
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
23K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, creepy ...
Plot:
conspiracy, amateur detective, transplant, medical, investigation, coma, hospital, serial killer, hired killer, black market, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Style:
psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
audition, danger, attic, insanity, blizzard, mansion, gas station, actress, winter, isolation, woman in danger, psychopath ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
usa, new york, boston
Similarity:
100%
43K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, childhood trauma, murder, haunted by the past, paranoia, mental patient, misfit, macabre, psychopath, twists and turns, mental health ...
Time:
2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 50s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, east end london, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, serial killer, talking to the dead, new neighbor, death, fugitive, sex, train, flashback ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style:
splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy, cult horror ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, nightmare, haunted, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, danger, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, elevator ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A seemingly mild mannered man -- who has just murdered his entire family -- quickly adopts a new identity and leaves town. After building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter, he struggles to hide his true identity and maintain a ...
Style:
slasher, frightening, scary, bloody, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, psychopath, maniac, serial killer, murder of family, male nudity, fake identity, stepfather, new identity, murderer, killer, mental illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
turkey, seattle, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style:
meditative, scenic, breathtaking, gothic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, victorian era, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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