Movies like Magic
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Magic (1978)
15K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Style:
scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, demonic, classic horror, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
evil doll, ventriloquist, alter ego, ventriloquist dummy, magic, doll, slow burn, split personality, rise and fall, puppet, objects come to life, toys, couple relations, scary doll, imaginary friend, imagination, mental disorder, mannequin, maniac, terror, redheaded woman, serial killer, killer, hunting, depression ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
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Most similar movies to Magic
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, psychological and slasher films with plots about murder, danger, deadly, macabre, death, blood and gory mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Magic: May (2002), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Blind Beast (1969), Tourist Trap (1979), The Shining (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
44K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style:
psychological, gothic, creepy, bloody, dark ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, mental illness, imaginary friend, psychopath, female psychopath, childhood trauma, insanity, dangerous attraction, violence, dark humor, murder, doll ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style:
psychological, classic horror, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satanic cult, devil, pregnancy, paranoia, satanism, satanic ritual, witchcraft, secret society, supernatural horror, coven, occult, antichrist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1966, year 1968 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young woman and use her as a model. In the darkness of an abandoned warehouse, she suffers at the hands of the artist, eventually losing both her sight and her mind as whips give way to knives and knives give ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, erotic drama, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
sex, rape, model, sexploitation, blind man, bondage, fashion, fashion model, surrealism, blindness, dismemberment, escape attempt ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Their car breaks down and four friends find themselves stranded at The Lost Oasis, a strange museum run by the friendly Mr. Slausen. Even though they are warned not to, the teens explore a house nearby and learn that it belongs to Davey, Mr. ...
Style:
slasher, scary, cult horror, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mannequin, serial killer, psychopath, insanity, murder, psychic, fear, group of friends, masked man, chase, old dark house, blood ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Similarity:
43%
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1.2M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Style:
suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, vengeance, obsession, comic book, brutality, hallucination, midlife crisis, family in danger, rivalry, cartoonist, christmas ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, vermont, new york, reno nevada
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
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, suspense, psychological, tense, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, nightmare, reincarnation, afterlife, stranger, hypnosis, betrayal, family relations, husband wife relationship, police investigation, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, india, usa, asia
Similarity:
50%
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14K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic ...
Style:
surreal, cult horror, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, serial killer, female pubic hair, curse, murder, shyness, hidden identity, mental disorder, teenage life, zombie, socially awkward ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, romania
Similarity:
37%
22K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style:
slasher, frightening, grindhouse, cult horror, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, maniac, gory, violent, extreme violence, murder, exploitation, schizophrenic, schizophrenia, disturbed individual, male victim, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspense, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, police detective, protagonist as suspect, murder, dead prostitute, morgue, frame up, danger, riddles and clues, murder suspect, friend ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
67K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological horror, dark, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, macabre, psychology, twists and turns, haunted, mental illness, hospital, ghost, insanity, transformation, murder, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
35%
318
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, danger, vengeance, mental illness, gory, split personality, obsession, rivalry, suburbs, suburban life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
As a child, Donald was tormented by his mother who used fire as a punishment. Now a deranged adult, Donald stalks women at clubs, then takes them home where he kills them with a flamethrower.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, scary, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, sadism, burned alive, abusive mother, obsession, loss of control, murder, burn victim, exploitation, child abuse, maniac, deeply disturbed person ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new jersey, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An earnest life-coach/author, Thomas Carter, is mysteriously abducted by a deranged client, Angel Sanchez, who delves into Thomas' teachings and uses his spiritual messages of Karma - action and reaction (Vipaka), against him to terrorize him ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, slasher, action thriller ...
Plot:
psychopath, terror, family in danger, rivalry, split personality, maniac, murder, villain, black, psycho, mental illness, black girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, perverse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex doll, obsession, stalking, murder, loner, doll, mentally unstable, abduction, couples, objects come to life, love affair, love and romance ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Luxembourg, Spain, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Style:
gothic, scary, dark, dark comedy, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
dracula, vampire, filmmaking, supernatural, filmmaker, monster, escapades, human nature, imaginary, artists and showbiz, great ending, bloodsucker ...
Time:
1920s, y2k, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, eastern europe, czechoslovakia, central europe, europe
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1988 film.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
evil doll, killer doll, characters killed one by one, macabre, murder, neighbor, danger, creepy doll, friendship, doll, puppet, terror ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
vietnam, chicago, japan
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there who may or may ...
Style:
creepy, atmospheric, scary, slasher, cult classic ...
Plot:
vampire, lake, cemetery, haunted, hearse, zombie, ghost, musician, hearing voices, farmhouse, boat, mental illness ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
connecticut, new england, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style:
bleak, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
isolation, survival horror, survival, death of loved one, trauma, female protagonist, loss, grief, death, danger, mind game, trap ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
Style:
mumblecore, scary, serious, suspenseful, twisted ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, danger, woman in danger, revenge, violence spree, small town, haunted by the past, fanatic, remorse, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A young girl witnesses her brother murder a man through a reflection in a mirror. Twenty years later the mirror is shattered, freeing his evil spirit, which seeks revenge for his death.
Style:
slasher, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, nightmare, murder, vengeance, curse, psychiatrist, fear, danger, priest, sexual attraction, letter, pitchfork ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, sexy, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, drug addiction, obsession, identical twins, losing-it hero, twins, mistaken identity, brother brother relationship, love triangle, addiction, schizophrenia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1954, 1950s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
twist ending, disturbing, surreal, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
nightmare, paranoia, delusion, memory, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, dealing with death, soldier, macabre ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
home invasion, maniac, murder, family in danger, psychopath, insanity, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, serial killer, eccentricity, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
80s, year 2016
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Story:
Robert Francis Garrow was a serial rapist and murderer whose reign of terror paralyzed the North Country between the years of 1960 and 1978. Born in Mineville, New York in 1936, Robert's childhood was an endless cycle of unimaginable horror. ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, tense, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, prison escape, brutality, jail, danger, woman in danger, psychopath, convict, murder, maniac, violent, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
131K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Style:
scary, slasher, bloody, cult classic, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children, adult
Plot:
serial killer, doll, killer doll, psychopath, gory, evil doll, macabre, blood, murder, dark humor, voodoo, black magic ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, grindhouse, offbeat, controversial ...
Plot:
ventriloquist, ventriloquist dummy, killer doll, puppet, doll, toys, evil doll, hypnosis, mind control, female nudity, soul, supernatural power ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, europe, england, berlin germany
Similarity:
30%
263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
Similarity:
30%
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