Movies like Night Tide

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Night Tide (1961)
 6.4
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Night Tide (1961)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Writer/director Curtis Harrington does an admirable job working around the severe budget limitations of the 1961 psychological chiller Night Tide. Sailor Johnny (Dennis Hopper) falls in love with carnival-girl Mora (Linda Lawson), despite warnings that Mora is a "jinx" who has brought about the deaths of two previous suitors.
Style: surprise ending, suspense, atmospheric, classic horror, independent film, detective, psychotronic, lovecraft, weird
Plot: mermaid, sailor, fortune teller, carnival, sea, nightmare, love, obsession, beach, tragedy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, scuba diving, mental disorder, water, tarot card, supernatural power, creature, amusement park, american horror, underwater, dancing, suicide, orphan, deception, obsessive love ...
Time: year 1961
Place: los angeles
Keyword: dreams, scuba

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Most similar movies to Night Tide

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious and independent film films with plots about murder, blood, obsession, death, danger, female nudity and kiss mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Night Tide: She Creature (2001), Spellbinder (1988), Resurrection Mary (2007), Half Light (2006), The Bad Seed (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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She Creature (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two carnies (Sewell and Gugino) abduct a mermaid in Ireland, circa 1900, and decide to transport her to America. As their ship loses its way and heads towards the mythical Forbidden Islands, the mermaid begins to display its deadly side.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, mythical ...
Plot: mermaid, ship, creature, dangerous animal, countryside, creature feature, sailor, sea monster, danger, rescue, escapades, pregnancy ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century, year 1900
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.8
 3K
Spellbinder (1988)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When Jeff and his friend rescue a young beautiful woman (Kelly Preston) from an apparently abusive boyfriend, the trouble starts. Jeff unknowing becomes involved with Miranda (Kelly) and the web of intrigue that follows her. Miranda is on the run ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, satanic ...
Plot: witchcraft, witch, dangerous attraction, occult, satanism, human sacrifice, satanist, lawyer, betrayal, rescue, fall in love, supernatural ability ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style: dark, surreal, stylized, black and white, art house ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, loneliness, cat, prostitute, murder, father son relationship, drug addict, women, following someone, drug use, feminist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place: middle east, iran, persia, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Resurrection Mary (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: On a dark and creepy road, teenager Jeff Pryce nearly runs down a beautiful, yet mysterious young girl walking alone by Resurrection Cemetery. Jeff offers to give her a ride and by the time he drops her off, a mutual attraction is obvious. But ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural romance, ghost, supernatural, danger, reincarnation, teenage life, legends and myths, homecoming, paranormal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, night, cemetery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Movie in collections
 6.0
 14K
Half Light (2006)
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: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, murder, lighthouse, death of child, uncover truth, mentally unstable, loss of child, woman in danger, writers, afterlife, death in the family ...
Place: scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.5
 530
The Bad Seed (1985)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rachel is a 9-year-old girl who is perfection itself - unless she's crossed or challenged. Several disturbing recent incidents have led Rachel's mother Christine to suspect that her child is a latent murderess. Upon discovering that she ...
Plot: evil child, creepy child, tiny, youth, female villain, psycho, dilemma, violence, moral dilemma, bad kids, widow, suicide ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 7.9
 241K
True Romance (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Style: stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, intense, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, cocaine, gunfight, mafia, organized crime, drug dealing, husband wife relationship, hotel, pimp, love, mobster, gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: los angeles, usa, detroit, california, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.3
 10K
Ghost Story (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.
Style: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, creepy, light ...
Plot: ghost story, ghost, supernatural, haunted house, life & death, guilt, death, vengeance, small town, murder, justice, brutality ...
Time: 1930s, 80s, 20th century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Movie in collections
 4.1
 1K
Barracuda (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Little coastal town is being terrorized by deadly Barracudas.
Style: suspense, tense, natural horror, exciting, rough ...
Plot: sea monster, underwater, monster, mutant, shark, scuba diving, killer fish, mutation, creature feature, conspiracy, water monster, toxic waste ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.8
 2K
The Hearse (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
Style: cult classic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, killer car, supernatural, haunted house, woman in danger, small town, car, cemetery, living dead, exploitation, machine, macabre ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.8
 41K
The Roommate (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Sara, a young design student from Iowa, arrives for college in Los Angeles, she is eager to fit in and get to know the big city. Her wealthy roommate, Rebecca, is more than eager to take Sara under her wing and show her the ropes. The two ...
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, intense, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: obsession, female psychopath, college, stalker, mind game, fraternity, mentally unstable, obsessive love, bad girl, murder, lesbian, female stalker ...
Time: year 2000, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.1
 445
A Perfect Fit (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychological drama about an unstable man, tormented by nightmares, who seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relationship he is unable to control.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: nightmare, dangerous attraction, obsession, losing-it hero, doctors and patients, psychopath, mentally unstable, male female relationship, paranoia, mental illness, therapy, mental disorder ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.9
 325
October Moon (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A straight man's life becomes disastrous - and obsessively dangerous - when his family, fiancee and friends all begin to reject him after he realizes he has fallen in love with another man.
Style: suspense, art house, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: obsession, gay, friendship between men, male bonding, jealousy, gay couple, romantic obsession, survival, psycho, fired from the job, lust, rage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.4
 1K
Roman (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, independent film ...
Plot: isolation, murder, factory, psychopath, dangerous attraction, serial killer, obsession, destructive relationship, investigation, mentally unstable, stalking, danger ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.4
 252K
The Lighthouse (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style: suspense, minimal cast, psychological, mysterious, lovecraft ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: isolation, hallucination, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, drunkenness, symbolism, island, nightmare, fight, storm, madness, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: nova scotia, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 4K
Love Object (2003)
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: disturbing, scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sex doll, abduction, psychopath, obsession, murder, doll, mentally unstable, objects come to life, couples, love affair, love and romance, danger ...
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Golden Earrings (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ronnie and Sara are best friends and roommates. And for Ronnie, Sara is her whole world. She does everything with her and their small group of friends. But one day, Sara suddenly disappears and Ronnie is left with a hole in her life that she cannot ...
Style: psychological, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending ...
Plot: obsessive love, missing person, obsession, insanity, ghost, murder, depression, hearing voices, mental illness, friend, split personality, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Tintorera: Killer Shark (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Two shark hunters flirt with an attractive British lady while hunting down a large tiger shark terrorizing the Mexican East coast.
Style: natural horror, queer horror, grindhouse, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: shark attack, shark, killer animal, water, animal attack, sea monster, killer shark, killer fish, boat, nature, monster, lust ...
Time: 70s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Movie in collections
 5.4
 3K
Heartthrob (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Sam Maddox, a troubled girl whose father committed suicide, has earned a reputation at her high school for being a bit promiscuous. When Sam begins seeing brilliant, MIT-bound Henry Sinclair, the two opposites really attract. Although Sam ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, dark
Plot: obsessive love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, pursuit, murder, waitress, rivalry, stalking, age difference, voice over narration, hand job, psychopath, memorial service ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Run Sweetheart Run (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman runs for her life though the streets of Los Angeles after her blind date suddenly turns violent.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, rough, brutal ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, blind date, psychopath, survival horror, harassment, car crash, woman in jeopardy, babysitter, female warrior, holy water, employer employee relationship, breaking the fourth wall ...
Time: 2020s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.0
 92K
Pearl (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, New Zealand
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations and repressions ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, disturbing, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, female protagonist, farm, murder, mental illness, world war one, domineering mother, female serial killer, rural setting, murder confession, farmhouse, female nudity ...
Time: 1910s, 2020s, year 1918, 20th century
Place: texas, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, obsession, danger, ocean, haunted by the past, witch, dangerous attraction, supernatural, vengeance, serial killer, rape and revenge, dark secret ...
Time: 70s
Place: malibu california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.0
 34K
Obsessed (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Things couldn't be better for Derek Charles. He's just received a big promotion at work, and has a wonderful marriage with his beautiful wife, Sharon. However, into this idyllic world steps Lisa, a temporary worker at Derek's office. ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, sexy, intense, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, stalking, dangerous attraction, obsessive love, unrequited love, fatal attraction, workplace, black man white woman relationship, sexual obsession, manipulation, stalker, rape ...
Time: 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Dark Side of Genius (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder of Anna, his girlfriend/model. Attempting to start painting again, he is pursued by journalist ...
Style: independent film
Plot: bare chested male, model, art collector, art critic, older man younger woman relationship, art, sex scene, female nudity, woman on top, male female relationship, fall in love, crimes of passion ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.3
 5K
Homecoming (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A jealous woman (Mischa Barton) plots revenge after her former beau (Matt Long) returns to their hometown with a pretty new girlfriend (Jessica Stroup).
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, obsessive love, female psychopath, college, jealousy, dangerous attraction, cheerleader, girlfriend, american football, desire, suspicion, torture ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Beyond Paradise (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Haunted by a tragic past, a stunning music student flees her homeland and ends up in an estranged marriage in Los Angeles, where her piano teacher's lover sparks a passion in her that threatens to destroy everything.
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, romantic, ambiguous ending ...
Plot: passion, forbidden love, love triangle, female empowerment, husband wife relationship, friendship, star crossed lovers, marital problem, unrequited love, cross cultural relations, haunted by the past, husband wife estrangement ...
Place: kurdistan, barcelona, malibu california, los angeles, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.8
 84K
Jaws 2 (1978)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
Style: suspense, scary, natural horror, slasher, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: shark, killer shark, shark attack, survival, monster, creature feature, underwater, creature, boat, panic, fish, animal ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, usa, new england, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.4
 849
Alias (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Eva accidentally witnesses (and tapes) the suicide of a girl. The tape is stolen but retrieved by Dieter, with whom she starts an affair.
Style: psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: witnessing a crime, wrong place wrong time, woman in danger, couples, danger, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, psychopath, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, investigation, insane asylum, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium, ghent
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.4
 40K
Body Heat (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Style: neo noir, sexy, sexual, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, murder, adultery, lawyer, husband wife relationship, female nudity, passion, fatal attraction, greed, adulteress, lust ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
 116K
Safe Haven (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Style: touching, romantic, teen, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: small town, love story, obsession, starting over, love, small town life, love and romance, single father, domestic violence, power of love, fall in love, choice ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa, boston, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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