Movies like The Monitor

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The Monitor (2011)
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The Monitor (2011)
Original name: Babycall
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange noises echo in the baby monitor from elsewhere in the building. Reliving the nightmare she recently escaped, Anna will need to figure out what's real and what isn't before she loses her sanity and her child.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, social, grindhouse, underground horror ...
Plot: delusion, haunted by the past, family relations, danger, social worker, murder, mother son relationship, ghost, nordic, teenager, psychology, wedding, supernatural, mental disorder, illness, underground, mental illness, haunting, thoughtful, abused woman, child in peril, school, death, suicide, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: europe
Keyword: norwegian, norway

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Most similar movies to The Monitor

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and psychological films with plots about ghost, supernatural, deadly, danger, haunted by the past, murder and haunted house mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Monitor: Next Door (2005), Hidden (2009), The Haunting of Helena (2012), Lizzie (2012), The Ganzfeld Haunting (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Next Door (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After Ingrid leaves John, he allows himself to be pulled into a mystical and scary world where it is impossible to separate truth from lies.
Style: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, obsession, neighbor, seduction, sexual relations, surrealism, mentally unstable, dishonesty, couples, breakup, voyeur, haunting ...
Time: distant future
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
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 5.6
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Hidden (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: house, dead mother, mental illness, homecoming, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, death in the family, woods, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Haunting of Helena (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted, parents and children, child in peril, danger, family relations, supernatural horror, survival horror, evil spirit, supernatural being, paranormal ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 2.5
 875
Lizzie (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: ghost, vengeance, uncover truth, danger, nightmare, memory loss, haunted by the past, murder, haunted house, childhood trauma, unfulfillment, losing-it hero ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Ganzfeld Haunting (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a world where past meets present and the present gets lost in time, reality is blurred for 5 College psychology students who are pushing all boundaries during an ESP experiment over a lost weekend...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, serious, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, psychology, supernatural, experiment gone awry, danger, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, gory, violence, haunting, experiment, college ...
Time: 1950s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.6
 2K
Acacia (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, obsession, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, parents and children, adoption, adopted son, extreme ...
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26%
 4.5
 1K
Knife Edge (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A successful Wall Street trader returns to England with her new husband and five-year-old son, but their new start together turns into a nightmare when they move into a country house which contains a terrible secret.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, spooky ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, couples, psychopath, uncover truth, stalking, danger, mind game, gory, estate, haunted house, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 4K
The Skeptic (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: haunted house, afterlife, lawyer, ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, doll, supernatural, danger, haunted, family problems, domestic disturbance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 2K
Dark House (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, supernatural being, trapped in a building ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Grindstone Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, danger, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.0
 442
London Voodoo (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to London, his wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) discovers a new disturbing power and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. As Mathers notices that the family ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, couples, family relations, curses spells and rituals, ghost, couple relations, danger, mysterious character, family problems, parents and children, gory, intrigue ...
Place: london, europe, england, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.2
 368
House of Bad (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, family relations, on the run, drug dealing, survival, starting over, supernatural power, murder, haunted house, woman peeing, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 3.1
 173
The Forest (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
Style: serious, scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural, profanity, woods, urban legend, rivalry, murder, violence, living dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.7
 2K
Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.2
 608
Stalker (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: When novelist Paula Martin retreats to the seclusion of her family home Crows Hall she hopes to clear her mind and focus on her new book. The arrival of an assistant, Linda, should take the pressure off... but as the bodies pile up, Paula finds ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: danger, mentally unstable, isolation, murder, country house, paranoia, woman with a gun, bad girl, railway, mental illness, incest, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.5
 937
Cubbyhouse (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Following a messy divorce, Lynn Graham moves back home to Australia with her three American-born children in tow. Buying an old house on the same street as her sister seems like a good idea, but its low price reflects a unpleasant history of murder ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot: curse, family in danger, supernatural, ghost, satanic ritual, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, parents and children, vengeance, murder, isolation, mischievous children ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Child's Eye (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bangkok, November 2008. Six young holidaymakers from Hong Kong are stranded in Bangkok when the airport is occupied by demonstrators demanding the prime minister's resignation: Rainie (Rainie Yang) and Lok (Shawn Yue), who are on the verge of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, missing person, isolation, danger, curse, supernatural, amateur detective, paranormal investigation, survival, uncover truth, children, eye ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.4
 336
5 Souls (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, rivalry, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, vigilantism, moral dilemma, supernatural, paranormal, dealing with death, amateur detective, stranger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 6.0
 36K
6 Souls (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, psychiatrist, murder, supernatural horror, doctors and patients, split personality, female psychiatrist, twists and turns, mental illness, witch doctor, voodoo, demon ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.5
 2K
The Chosen (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, curses spells and rituals, danger, supernatural, demon, saving a life, violence, death, meme, child in peril, girl, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Haunting of Alice D (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the late 1890s the Davenport House was a famous and successful brothel, until a young prostitute named Alice killed herself there. After her death, the brothel became haunted by Alice's ghost, and was eventually abandoned. More than a ...
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, prostitute, curse, brothel, haunted house, hooker, poltergeist, evil spirit, danger, murder, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.3
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Visible Scars (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, confined, isolation, ghost, law enforcement, danger, woman in danger, youth, violent content, mountain, supernatural, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Shock Labyrinth (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The horror-thriller follows a group of teenagers dealing with the disappearance of one of them, Yuki, at an amusement park s ghost house. On a rainy day 10 years later, Yuki inexplicably returns. However, no sooner is she united with her former ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot: maze, amusement park, hospital, isolation, confined, danger, friendship, supernatural, survival, ghost, fear, haunting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Two Eyes Staring (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Nine-year-old Lisa discovers her sinister new friend is the ghost of the dead twin of Lisa's mother. Lisa's father also begins to suspect his wife of hiding a terrible secret, resulting in deadly consequences
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, dark, bleak ...
Plot: family relations, haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, parents and children, countryside, secret past, little girl, husband wife relationship, loneliness, disorder, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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21%
 4.9
 2K
The Unspoken (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1997 the close-knit Anderson family vanished from their home without a trace. No bodies were ever found and no explanation satisfied curiosity. For 17 years the house has remained undisturbed...until now. This eerily expert frightener is further ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, murder, death, family in danger, danger, sibling relationship, haunted by the past, paranormal investigation, exorcism, evil force, investigation ...
Time: year 1997, year 2004, 21st century
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21%
 5.0
 8K
Unrest (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: hospital, supernatural, medical, murder, gory, haunted by the past, insanity, student, autopsy, prostitute, exploitation, spell ...
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Die! Die! My Darling! (1965)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
Style: grindhouse, suspense, psychotronic, gothic horror, noir ...
Plot: hagsploitation, religious fanatic, insanity, psychotic woman, revenge, exodus, mental disorder, female psychopath, anti christianity, macabre, wedding, village ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.2
 1K
Isabelle (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, evil spirit, parents and children, danger, nightmare, demon, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, evil force, fear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Drowning Ghost (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned himself in a lake nearby and his body was never found. The story has become a legend for generations of students as well as a yearly ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: boarding school, ghost, murder, vengeance, investigation, teenage life, life turned upside down, supernatural, youth, legends and myths, gory, drowning ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Il nascondiglio (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, mentally unstable, investigation, hopes, uncover truth, haunted by the past, haunted house, woman in danger, starting over, murder, losing-it hero, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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