Movies like Neverwas
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Neverwas (2005)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Zach Riley (Aaron Eckhart) is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, 'Millwood'. What he doesnt reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the very place where his novelist father, T.L. Pierson (Nick Nolte), spent many years of his life.
Style:
psychological, serious, fairy tale, whimsical
Plot:
psychiatrist, novelist, father son relationship, secret, reality vs fantasy, mental institution, alternate reality, death of father, paranoia, writers, family relations, parents and children, writer's life, haunted by the past, puzzle, afterlife, mental illness, schizophrenia, forest, wine, schizophrenic, sword, mental patient, sheriff, autumn ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, suspenseful and atmospheric films with plots about death, family relations, flashback, father daughter relationship, haunted by the past, storytelling and husband wife relationship mostly in Drama, Mystery and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Neverwas: Deeply (2000), Awake (2012), K-PAX (2001), Proof (2005), Waterland (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On Ironbound Island, native Fiona McKay arrives from Europe with her teenage daughter Clair, hoping that the peace of the island will help the girl get over the death of her boyfriend. The girl finds comfort in the company of a visiting American ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, atmospheric, fairy tale, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
curse, island, memory, hopes, starting over, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, writers, viking, funeral, remote island, coming of age ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, berlin germany, nova scotia
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
Michael lives in two separate realities after a car accident. In one reality, his wife Hannah survives the accident; in the other reality, his son Rex survives. Michael does not know which reality is "real", and uses the wristbands to ...
Style:
mind bending, psychological, serious, emotional, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alternate reality, double life, car accident, police investigation, family problems, loss, therapy, sanity, police officer, accident, loss of loved one, insanity ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away Planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations.
Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, surprise ending, futuristic ...
Plot:
alien, patient, extraterrestrial, planet, mysterious character, psychiatrist, mental institution, hypnosis, mental illness, science, investigation, space ...
Time:
future, 90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, grand central station manhattan new york city, albuquerque new mexico, greenland ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, clever, intellectual, enigmatic ...
Plot:
mental illness, mathematics, insanity, science, paranoia, prodigy, life, character study, adaptation, university, depression, manic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, chicago illinois, usa, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
teacher, high school, teachers and students, haunted by the past, self discovery, couples, power relations, introspection, couple relations, fear, mental illness, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 70s, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
england, pittsburgh, london, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of ...
Style:
psychological, spiritual, captivating, surreal, serious ...
Plot:
world war one, photographer, afterlife, fae, paranormal, magic realism, magical creature, pagan, creature, death sentence, back from the dead, sex scene ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, alps, switzerland
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48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Switzerland, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..
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psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
psychiatrist, suspense, kidnapping, mental illness, race against time, haunted by the past, murder, police investigation, heist, manipulation, torture, bank robbery ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, year 1991, year 2001
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Margaret Lea, a young biographer, attempts to interview writer Vida Winter, whose health is deteriorating. Vida has previously denied access to the secrets of her life and childhood home. Vida tells her story to Margaret, helping Margaret to ...
Style:
gothic, captivating, touching, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, twins, family secret, writer's life, sister sister relationship, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, sibling relationship, writers, suspense, secret, female writer ...
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A lawyer who is killed in a car accident finds himself resurrected as a character in his daughter's novel.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, sincere, offbeat
Plot:
supernatural, afterlife, family relations, writer's life, parents and children, unfulfillment, dealing with death, death in the family, alternate reality, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, novelist ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
incest, nightmare, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family relations, sexual abuse, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, couples, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Today, Camille turns nine. He had sworn that on his 9th birthday he would show his parents the videos he was shooting on the side - the tail of a cat scampering away, a window, and a veiled woman's face - an intriguing picture... Later that ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, family relations, obsession, supernatural ability, supernatural, death in the family, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, family life, family problems, single parent, nanny ...
Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe, indochina, algeria, alps
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, family relations, missing person, homecoming, hopes, haunted by the past, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, youth, life is a bitch, parents and children, creative block ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
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46%
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:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
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mind bending, serious, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
mind game, greek island, island, tarot card, redemption, magician, riddles and clues, mental illness, teachers and students, chase, doctor patient relationship, teacher ...
Time:
1940s, year 1914, year 1941, 1910s, year 1943
Place:
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46%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
Style:
controversial, realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
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90s
Place:
france, europe, alps
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46%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, serious, surprise ending ...
Audience:
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Plot:
obsession, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, afterlife, nobody believes, death in the family, a vision, loss of daughter, mental illness, mathematician, subconscious, hallucination ...
Time:
1940s, near future, 60s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story is set in 1947, following a long-retired Holmes living in a Sussex village with his housekeeper and rising detective son. But then he finds himself haunted by an unsolved 50-year old case. Holmes' memory isn't what it used to be, ...
Style:
clever, enigmatic, meditative, tense, dramatic ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, aging, private detective, death, elderly, uncover truth, character study, one last case, haunted by the past, who done it, police investigation, memory ...
Time:
1940s, future, 1910s, year 1947
Place:
england, japan, london, europe, asia ...
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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 ...
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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
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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 ...
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Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Julien lives alone with his cat. He dreams of Marie, and a few minutes later, he sees her on the street and makes a date. He asks her to move in with him, and she does. Her boyfriend is dead, the rest of her past a mystery. Although they quickly ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
brother sister incest, incest, forbidden love, family relations, deportation, erotica, brother and sister, politics, deception, incestuous desire, concentration camp, stepfather ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, mentally unstable, mental illness, family relations, infidelity, fear, nanny, obsession, dishonesty, parents and children, love affair, hearing voices ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After Ben Garvey foolishly turned back to crime, he thought his life was over when he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. But his death sentence isn't quite what it seems, as Ben regains consciousness near an eerie psychiatric ward, ...
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suspenseful, scary, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Maud Bailey, a brilliant English academic, is researching the life and work of poet Christabel La Motte. Roland Michell is an American scholar in London to study Randolph Henry Ash, now best-known for a collection of poems dedicated to his wife. ...
Style:
romantic, clever, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
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fall in love, investigation, writers, infidelity, forbidden love, uncover truth, opposites attract, lesbian, love affair, couples, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The film tells the story of Russian emigree and the only survivor from ship crash Yanko Goorall and servant Amy Foster in the end of 19th century. When Yanko enters a farm sick and hungry after the shipwreck, everyone is afraid of him, except for ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A doctor dealing with the aftermath of his son's death tries to help a troubled young man.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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