Movies like Stonehearst Asylum

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Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
 6.8
 58K
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style: twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending, tricky, stylized ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, insanity, mental patient, psychiatrist, doctors, plot twist, suspense, doctors and patients, conspiracy, mad scientist, madhouse, uncover truth, psychology, adaptation, love, escape, torture, obsession, macabre, beautiful scenery, supernatural, hospital, good versus evil ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1900, 1800s
Place: england, usa, tuscany, london

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, weird and tense films with plots about twists and turns, suspense, psychology, storytelling, macabre, death and murder mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Stonehearst Asylum: Shutter Island (2010), Crimson Peak (2015), Secret Window (2004), Dream House (2011), A Cure for Wellness (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 8.2
 1.3M
Shutter Island (2010)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: twists and turns, investigation, mental illness, insanity, suspense, plot twist, psychology, paranoia, psychiatrist, mental institution, memory, isolation ...
Time: year 1954, 1940s, year 1945, 20th century, year 1952 ...
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.5
 152K
Crimson Peak (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror, twist ending ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, incest, macabre, suspense, murder, psychopath, female protagonist, brother sister incest, betrayal, estate ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 201K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, suspense, split personality, losing-it hero, isolation, nervous breakdown, murder, macabre, writer's life, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 68K
Dream House (2011)
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%
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A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style: gothic, dark, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: suspense, cure, therapist, patient, hospital, spa, capitalism, slut, capitalist, dark secret, nubile girl, torture ...
Time: future, 2010s
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, germany, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
97%
 7.7
 397K
The Machinist (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surreal, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot: insanity, insomnia, hallucination, uncover truth, paranoia, obsession, twists and turns, mysterious character, suspense, losing-it hero, loneliness, schizophrenia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style: twist ending, suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: memory loss, suspense, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, memory, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, psychology, doctors and patients, domestic violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2013, year 1999, year 2007, 2000s ...
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 15K
Mary Reilly (1996)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Style: gothic, dark, atmospheric, scary, stylized ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, servant, suspense, mad scientist, laboratory, prostitute, human nature, dual identity, master and servant, power relations, dangerous attraction, insanity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5.5
 43K
The Ward (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, ghost, supernatural, split personality, dissociative identity disorder, murder, doctors and patients, twists and turns, brutality, confined, suspense ...
Time: 80s, 60s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 115K
Gothika (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mental institution, mind game, hospital, crazy, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 254K
Identity (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style: twist ending, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, mental disorder, suspense, murder mystery, psychology, investigation, murderer, murder, stranded, twists and turns, split personality, mental illness ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Skeleton Key (2005)
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%
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Story about a man haunted by the spirit of his dead wife and her effect on his second marriage.
Style: gothic, surreal, mind bending, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, monster, twists and turns, cult, suspense, cat, cemetery, obsession, black cat, hospital, male nudity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1820s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 267K
The Village (2004)
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 ⇓
73%
 7.3
 12K
Shock Corridor (1963)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: mental institution, insanity, mental illness, murder, investigation, psychiatrist, journalism, twists and turns, macabre, murder mystery, serial killer, suspense ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: africa, japan, usa, mount fuji
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 38K
Passengers (2008)
Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened ...
Style: surprise ending, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, twist ending ...
Plot: afterlife, suspense, survivor, supernatural, love and romance, love affair, psychology, tragedy, ghost, female protagonist, twists and turns, hidden truth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 60K
Session 9 (2001)
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 ⇓
50%
The Blue Elephant (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Psychiatrist Dr. Yehia returns to El-Abbaseya Hospital five years after the death of his family. His return coincide with the arrival of a new patient, Sherif, a friend from college, who is accused of murder.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: mental institution, confined, doctors and patients, twists and turns, losing-it hero, psychiatrist, uncover truth, friends, mysticism, power relations, graphic violence, schizophrenia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.4
 48K
Unsane (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot: mental institution, suspense, obsession, mental illness, stalking, psychopath, mental patient, maniac, murder, sexual assault, psychiatric ward, stalker ...
Place: boston, pennsylvania, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
They Look Like People (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: mental illness, psychology, supernatural, demon, paranoia, secrets, insanity, obsession, twists and turns, monster, mental disorder, nude ...
Time: 80s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.6
 113K
The Invitation (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style: scary, twist ending, dark, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: dinner party, suicide, obsession, conspiracy, suspense, suspicion, cult, deception, old friend, insanity, vengeance, survival ...
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
 82K
The Uninvited (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns ...
Style: scary, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, suspense, parents and children, mental illness, family problems, woman in danger, uncover truth, family in danger, teenager, twists and turns, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 1986, 21st century
Place: maine, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 206K
The Number 23 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, twists and turns, obsession, murder, losing-it hero, paranoia, a vision, uncover truth, escape from reality, investigation, plot twist, psychology ...
Place: los angeles, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Movie in collections
 8.2
 1.0M
The Sixth Sense (1999)
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 ⇓
50%
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot: spanish inquisition, suspense, insanity, investigation, vengeance, castle, monster, conspiracy, religions or cults, hidden identity, dishonesty, haunted by the past ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, 14th century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.9
 39K
After.Life (2009)
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 ⇓
25%
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, ghost, suicide, twists and turns, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, haunted house, tragedy, suspense, children, guilt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, south korea, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
 7K
The Other (1972)
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: disturbing, atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: twins, suspense, evil child, twists and turns, coming of age, psychology, supernatural, macabre, murder, evil twin, child, creepy child ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: california, new jersey, holland, usa, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.9
 20K
Coma (1978)
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: suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: conspiracy, hospital, investigation, suspense, twists and turns, amateur detective, coma, serial killer, medical, black market, intern, obsession ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.3
 511K
Split (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, intense, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, kidnapping, suspense, murder, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, insanity, psychopath, serial killer, psycho, schizophrenia, paranoia ...
Time: 2010s
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%