Movies like The Lovely Bones
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style:
emotional, surreal, psychological, serious, dark, tense, scary, melancholic, sad, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, serial killer, rape, pedophile, loss of daughter, death in the family, investigation, missing child, suspense, murder mystery, death of child, loss of family member, murderer, dealing with death, loss of child, tragic event, child killer, father daughter relationship, justice, loss of loved one, serial child killer, teenage girl, heaven, child murder, death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, delaware, united states, united states of america
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Most similar movies to The Lovely Bones
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, intense, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about death, storytelling, mentor, dialogue, catastrophe, police investigation and vengeance mostly in Drama, Thriller and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Lovely Bones: The Invisible (2007), Mystic River (2003), What Dreams May Come (1998), Dragonfly (2002), If I Stay (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, South Africa, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, sad, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, ghost, afterlife, coma, invisibility, suspense, regret, teenager, friendship, existentialism, family relations, supernatural ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, depressing, emotional, twist ending, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
vengeance, loss of child, murder, suspense, sexual abuse, childhood, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, child abuse, death in the family, revenge ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style:
surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
afterlife, heaven and hell, life philosophy, life & death, redemption, love, death, destiny, metaphysics, true love, spirituality, husband wife reunion ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, suspense, twists and turns, hospital, supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, death, doctor, lovers apart, dealing with death, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, latin america, chicago illinois, venezuela, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mia Hall, a talented young cellist, thought the most difficult decision she would ever have to make would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at prestigious Juilliard or follow her heart to be with the love of her life, Adam, a rock ...
Style:
touching, emotional, tear jerker, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
love, teenager, teenage girl, hospital, love and romance, youth, teenage love, teenage life, parents and children, death in the family, out of body experience, high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Movies similar to Prisoners
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, psychological, scary ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, neighbor, voyeurism, house arrest, paranoia, suspense, murder, loneliness, investigation, death, arrest, teenager ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, teenager, investigation, father daughter relationship, bullying, child abuse, rape and revenge, internet, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, teenage girl, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, california, usa, cleveland ohio, milwaukee wisconsin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
rape, obsession, revenge, murder, psychopath, vigilante, vigilantism, rape and murder, vengeance, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
37K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. ...
Style:
christian film, philosophical, spiritual, psychedelic, inspirational ...
Plot:
christian, forgiveness, god, guilt, death of daughter, depression, a vision, hate, missing child, jesus, death of child, faith ...
Place:
oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. ...
Style:
sentimental, romantic, touching, sweet, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
ghost, love, afterlife, love story, love and romance, death, supernatural, life & death, supernatural romance, psychic, psychic power, loss of loved one ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Films like The Green Mile
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before the girl was born.
Style:
scary, psychological, tense, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, afterlife, suspense, obsession, nightmare, betrayal, family relations, stranger, police investigation, love and romance, couple relations, reincarnation ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, india, asia, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twists and turns, haunted house, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, suspense, murder, mental patient, ghost, nervous breakdown, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, mind bending, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
time travel, alternate reality, destiny, time loop, death, parallel world, dealing with death, memory loss, twists and turns, foreknowledge, family problems, couples ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
On his 83rd birthday, Eddie (Voight), a war vet and a maintenance worker at the Ruby Pier amusement park, dies while trying to save a girl who is sitting under a falling ride. When he awakens in the afterlife, he encounters five people with ties to ...
Style:
emotional, touching, christian film, serious, spiritual ...
Plot:
afterlife, heaven, death, amusement park, self discovery, redemption, life is a bitch, hopes, religious, heaven and hell, elderly, consciousness ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, mind bending, bleak, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, life & death, suspense, mysterious character, psychology, twists and turns, able to see the dead, supernatural, dealing with death, nude, mentor, adaptation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Movies like Bridge to Terabithia
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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:
emotional, sad, inspirational, thought provoking, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, supernatural, albino, paranormal phenomena, miraculous event, christ allegory, bullying, healing power, struck by lightning, electricity, bully, supernatural power ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
ghost, investigation, murder, supernatural, afterlife, invisibility, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, young heroes, youth, coma, missing person ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nightmare, children, supernatural, visceral, serial killer, transformation, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, alternate reality, coming of age, supernatural ability, boy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, scary, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, supernatural, insanity, dream, murder mystery, supernatural ability, investigation, haunted by the past, woman in danger, macabre ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago ...
Style:
gothic, dark fantasy, atmospheric, dark, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vampire, prostitution, supernatural, fall in love, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, supernatural romance, deadly creature, dangerous attraction, immortality, female vampire, monster ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
england, ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
16%
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Movies similar to Gone Girl
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
Style:
suspenseful, sexual, sexy, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, teenager, stalker, dangerous attraction, obsessive love, fatal attraction, suspense, virginity, borderline personality disorder, rivalry, rapist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seattle, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, twist ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
vengeance, torture, manipulation, mind game, age difference, pedophilia, revenge, sexual abuse, child abuse, pedophile, kidnapping, vigilantism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, intense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, murder, obsession, hit and run, tragedy, vengeance, redemption, loss of daughter, justice, suspense, crime gone awry, car accident ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, nebraska, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
ghost, twists and turns, supernatural, afterlife, suspense, psychology, death, psychiatrist, life & death, plot twist, child, boy ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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:
suspenseful, psychological, scary, serious, sad ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
children, suspense, manipulation, problem child, killer child, evil child, parents and children, murder, psychopath, brutality, death, disbelieving adult ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, japan, asia, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Movies similar to The Shack
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy tries to cope with rural life circa 1950s and his fantasies become a way to interpret events. After his father tells him stories of vampires, he becomes convinced that the widow up the road is a vampire, and tries to find ways of ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
coming of age, surrealism, supernatural, molestation, child abuse, boy, murder, brother brother relationship, vampire, family relations, parents and children, suicide ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
idaho, usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a ...
Style:
psychological, tense, intense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
redemption, investigation, obsession, dysfunctional family, loss of child, lawyer, character study, family problems, losing-it hero, parents and children, cover up, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
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, gothic, melancholic, biting, scary ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, suspense, loneliness, first love, friendship, childhood, supernatural, small town, adolescence, coming of age, mysterious character, vampire human love ...
Time:
20th century, year 1983, 80s
Place:
california, new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
38K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, controversial, sexy, enigmatic ...
Plot:
reincarnation, older woman younger man relationship, deja vu, couples, love triangle, obsession, family relations, life & death, wedding, twists and turns, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
152K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, murder, suspense, split personality, imaginary friend, maniac, macabre, double life, investigation, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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