Movies like The Mothman Prophecies
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The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, mind bending, dark, thought provoking, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
twists and turns, urban legend, conspiracy, suspense, death of wife, reporter, supernatural, investigation, hallucination, warning, psychic, ghost, destiny, supernatural power, alternate reality, fantasy world, life philosophy, mysterious event, omen, paranormal phenomena, precognition, haunted by the past, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, escapades ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
west virginia, washington d.c., usa, chicago illinois, ecuador, ohio
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Most similar movies to The Mothman Prophecies
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and psychological films with plots about suspense, storytelling, supernatural, dialogue, death, catastrophe and police investigation mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Mothman Prophecies: What Lies Beneath (2000), Premonition (2007), The Sixth Sense (1999), The Others (2001), Half Light (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, scary, twist ending ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, suspense, adultery, couple relations, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural horror, supernatural, woman in danger, haunted by the past, spiritualism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, usa, boston
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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, 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 ⇓
86%
373K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 101 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:
surprise ending, twist ending, scary, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, suspense, supernatural, afterlife, nightmare, twists and turns, mysterious character, spiritualism, mansion, isolation, supernatural horror ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place:
europe, english channel, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, murder, lighthouse, death of child, suspense, uncover truth, mentally unstable, loss of child, woman in danger, writers, afterlife ...
Place:
london, scotland, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Shutter Island similar movies
150K
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, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
devil, supernatural, elevator, group of strangers, stranded, mysterious character, confined, police investigation, supernatural horror, twists and turns, isolation, trapped in an elevator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Style:
twist ending, scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, spirit, paranormal phenomena, dealing with death, death, obsession, suspense, loss, secrets, death of wife, remote control ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
ufo, alien abduction, hypnosis, found footage, alien encounter, space and aliens, alien, suspense, investigation, disappearance, supernatural, space ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
alaska, usa, california, antarctica
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A family living on a farm finds mysterious crop circles in their fields which suggests something more frightening to come.
Style:
scary, psychological, enigmatic, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, ufo, single father, first contact, suspense, alien encounter, faith, survival, twists and turns, loss of faith, small town ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania, north america, mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The Others related movies
357K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, twists and turns, race against time, death, urban legend, investigation, life is a bitch, macabre, female protagonist, uncover truth ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, gothic, mysterious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, plot twist, occult, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural horror, twists and turns, suspense, ritual, black magic, macabre, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
158K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
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:
scary, twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, fear, macabre, missing child, death, tragic event, twists and turns, afterlife, orphanage, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
ghost, doll, macabre, supernatural, murder, ventriloquist, small town, investigation, twists and turns, clown, uncover truth, homecoming ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, clergy, exorcism, church, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, supernatural ability, teachers and students, supernatural horror, suspense, demonic possession, catholic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vatican, italy, latin america, europe, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, enigmatic, scary, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, suspense, murder, nightmare, chase, death, brutality, macabre, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, a vision, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Style:
scary, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, voodoo, psychology, macabre, nightmare, disability, insanity, uncover truth, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
year 1988, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
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100%
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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 ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A group of men who were clearing bush for the government arrive back in town, claiming that their friend was abducted by aliens. Nobody believes them, and despite a lack of motive and no evidence of foul play, their friends' disappearance is ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, disturbing, psychological, bad ending ...
Plot:
alien, ufo, alien abduction, alien contact, alien encounter, space and aliens, space, extraterrestrial, working class, investigation, murder, natural disaster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, dark, disturbing, satanic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
devil, demon, religion, supernatural, courtroom, supernatural horror, priest, investigation, death, suspense, legal, evil force ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Coherence similar movies
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's ...
Style:
scary, intense, gothic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, evil force, paranormal phenomena, funeral home, occult, seance, curses spells and rituals, reverend, hallucination, cancer patient, suspense ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa
⇓ 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, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, investigation, serial killer, murder, small town life, small town, incest, mental illness, hallucination, supernatural, rape, double life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1988, 80s, year 1989
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain ...
Style:
enigmatic, suspenseful, exciting, thought provoking, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
alien, supernatural, conspiracy, suspense, investigation, abduction, psychic, supernatural ability, special agents, snow, secrets, psychopath ...
Time:
2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
virginia, usa, west virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, captivating, psychological, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
village, plot twist, psychology, isolation, forest, utopia, macabre, twists and turns, mysterious place, small town, village life, cult ...
Time:
18th century, 1890s, 2000s, 19th century, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style:
psychological, gothic, surreal, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
insanity, investigation, hallucination, suspense, monster, paranoia, supernatural, small town, disappearance, mental illness, writers, fear ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new england, new hampshire, europe, england, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Primal Fear related movies
18K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely ...
Style:
psychological, scary, gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
murder, religions or cults, suspense, supernatural, twists and turns, catholic church, religion, uncover truth, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, sin, conspiracy theory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vatican, rome italy, europe, paris france, italy ...
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50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
psychological, surreal, neo noir, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, hallucination, hollywood, alternate reality, obsession, nightmare, doppelganger, lesbian sex, filmmaking ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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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:
scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, found footage, drowning, investigation, uncover truth, teenage life, paranormal activity, family life, supernatural ability, loss of daughter, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
australia, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, frightening, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, paranormal activity, demon, nightmare comes true, child in peril, suspense, serial killer, boy, afterlife ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
60K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychology, supernatural, mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, lobotomy, ghost, haunted house, suspense, insanity, transformation, hospital ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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