Movies like Nomads

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Nomads (1986)
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Nomads (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: French anthropologist Jean-Charles Pommier and his wife have come to LA so he can take up a position as lecturer. To his surprise he encounters a group of urban nomads. As he investigates things become more unsettling as he realizes the price paid for being civilized.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, surreal, anthropological, surprise ending ...
Plot: anthropologist, ghost, doctor, scientist, obsession, murder, danger, mentally unstable woman, ancient mystery, hospital, anthropology, vampire, home invasion, post apocalypse, rock, 007, folklore, skyscraper, vandalism, demon, gang, sex scene, nun, punk, nomad ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Keyword: french, bruise, visit, outburst

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Most similar movies to Nomads

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and psychological films with plots about murder, danger, supernatural, blood, deadly, death and investigation mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Nomads: Oculus (2013), Gothika (2003), The Return (2005), Murder 101 (1991), 13th Child (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Oculus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, frightening, suspense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, mirror, supernatural horror, danger, siblings relations, paranormal activity, ghost, insanity, brother sister relationship, demon, hallucination ...
Time: year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, year 2002, 2000s ...
Place: usa
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95%
 5.8
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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: adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mind game, hospital, haunted house, wrongfully committed ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, connecticut
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91%
 4.7
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The Return (2005)
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, scary, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, murder, nightmare, death, brutality, supernatural ability, danger, a vision, haunted by the past, amateur detective, obsession, flash forward ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.3
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Murder 101 (1991)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
Style: realistic, psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, dishonesty, uncover truth, frame up, who done it, police corruption, protagonist as suspect, mind game, law enforcement, amateur detective, false accusation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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13th Child (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: People are being killed by someone or something using superhuman strength. A clever DA Assistant is sent to investigate. Is this just a way to commit the perfect murder or will the legend of the Jersey Devil prove to be true?
Style: suspenseful, scary, rough, serious
Plot: demon, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, law enforcement, gory, devil, brutality, rescue, urban legend, folklore, monster ...
Place: new jersey, usa
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83%
 5.5
 45K
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, date night
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, supernatural, ghost, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, murder, doctors and patients, brutality, danger, hospital, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 60s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.8
 267K
It Follows (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, macabre, evil, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, sex, supernatural being, supernatural horror, peeping tom ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
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83%
One on Top of the Other (1969)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.
Style: realistic, sexy, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, love triangle, murder, investigation, who done it, sexual fantasy, false accusation, death row, killer, plot twist, lookalikes ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: italy, paris france, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 5.8
 4K
Jack's Back (1988)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young doctor is suspected when a series of Jack the Ripper copycat killings is committed. However, when the doctor himself is murdered, his identical twin brother claims to have seen visions of the true killer.
Style: slasher, detective, sexy, scary, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, jack the ripper, murder of a prostitute, prostitute, doppelganger, serial murder, evil twin, lookalikes, whodunit, erotica, teenager, name calling ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.2
 1K
The Pact (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Suddenly, Clara, Mónica's daughter, falls into a deep coma. With Clara left to die, a mysterious man proposes Monica to make a pact: Clara will be saved if Mónica does something for him.
Style: suspense, psychotronic, tense, bleak, scary ...
Plot: abused woman, mother daughter relationship, parenthood, guilt, guilty conscience, teenage girl, manipulation, saving a life, girl, missing child, supernatural, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.0
 4K
The Shortcut (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Derek (AnDrew Seeley) moves to a new town and discovers a shortcut through the woods to his high school, he learns about a crazy old man who lives near its path: Legend has it that he abducted a group of teenagers years ago. Ignoring the ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, urban legend, woods, chase, danger, murder, friendship, missing person, trespassing, high school, child in peril, serial killer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1955, year 1953, year 1946, year 1945 ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Lord of Illusions (1995)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.
Style: dark, neo noir, scary, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, magic, investigation, occult, private detective, fanatic, violence, good versus evil, desert, murder, telekinesis, demon ...
Time: 90s, year 1982, 80s
Place: los angeles, new york, mojave desert, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 5.4
 174K
Annabelle (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, evil doll, supernatural horror, demonic possession, doll, death, toys, self sacrifice, curses spells and rituals, paranormal activity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2000, year 2014, 2010s ...
Place: usa, california, santa monica california, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Phone (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Soon after Ji-won gets a new cell phone, her friend's young daughter, Yeong-ju, puts it to her ear and immediately begins screaming in terror. When other strange things start happening in connection with the phone, Ji-Won does some ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, journalism, phone terror, telephone call, evil spirit, haunted by the past, obsession, investigation, teenage life, danger, vengeance ...
Place: south korea
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79%
The Valdemar Legacy (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Luisa Llorente, an expert on taxation of old buildings, had recently gone to the Victorian mansion Valdemar to conduct an inventory of property ownership. After she mysteriously disappeared, Maximilian, president of her company, engaged the services ...
Style: gothic, lovecraft, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, curses spells and rituals, investigation, missing person, private detective, uncover truth, woman in danger, danger, supernatural, missing woman, cosmic horror, demon ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 19th century, 21st century
Place: europe, spain
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76%
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The Abandoned (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A film producer who was adopted as a baby and sent to America, returns to her native Russia and the family farm. Once there, strange things begin to happen including the disappearance of her guide, the manifestation of ghosts (including her own!) ...
Style: suspense, psychological, demonic, stylized, intense ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, insanity, ghost, zombie, gory, family relations, confined, haunted, danger, survival ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: russia, moscow russia
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75%
Mirror Mirror (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Shy teenager Megan moves to a new town with her widowed mother and quickly becomes the most unpopular girl in high school. But when she starts to communicate with a mysterious mirror, her tormentors begin to meet with a horrifying series of ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, gothic, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: murder, goth girl, teenage girl, violence, danger, supernatural, black magic, mirror, blood, bullying, curses spells and rituals, nightmare ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 1930s, year 1939
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.1
 101K
Dead Silence (2007)
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, supernatural, macabre, murder, ventriloquist, small town, clown, investigation, urban legend, danger, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style: scary, suspenseful, slasher, rough, serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, gory, evil spirit, survival, mental institution, supernatural horror, danger, murder, haunted by the past, isolation ...
Time: 90s, 1930s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: stalking, obsession, woman in danger, danger, psychopath, family in danger, mentally unstable, who done it, mind game, dangerous attraction, serial killer, telephone call ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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73%
 5.8
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V/H/S (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire a rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they bargained for.
Style: anthology, disturbing, scary, atmospheric, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, supernatural, ghost, demon, nudity, macabre, ghost child, danger, halloween, videotaping, gory, haunted house ...
Time: year 2012, year 1998, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Night Warning (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style: slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: orphan, basketball, homosexuality, gay teacher, serial killer, attic, homosexual, male nudity, high school, gay, obsession, teenage boy ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Psycho III (1986)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style: slasher, suspense, bloody, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, mental illness, homicidal maniac, accidental death, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, voyeur, old dark house, insanity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.9
 87K
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, hypnosis, supernatural, psychic, supernatural horror, murder, clairvoyance, paranoia, able to see the dead, psychic power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Toolbox Murders (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A historic Hollywood hotel houses a supernatural evil. It's been subdued for decades - but when renovations start, a series of murders take place. It's up to our heroine to solve the mystery.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, hotel, old dark house, violence, danger, neighbor, gory, woman in danger, hollywood ...
Time: year 2004
Place: usa, los angeles, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 4.6
 2K
Lost Voyage (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Twenty five years ago, the SS Corona Queen disappeared in the region known as, "The Bermuda Triangle". Now, it has returned. Seven people go on board to learn the truth behind her disappearance but the ship did not return alone...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: bermuda triangle, ghost, afterlife, cruise ship, ghost ship, survival, investigation, supernatural ability, danger, obsession, ocean, journalism ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
A Haunting in Salem (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the new sheriff of Salem, Massachusetts discovers that he is the victim of a centuries-old curse, he must protect his family from the vengeful ghosts that torment his home.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, witchcraft, small town, murder, witch, pursuit, sheriff, drowning, relocation, danger, parents and children ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Something Wicked (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young couple embark upon their honeymoon against the chilling landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. But when tragedy strikes, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, scary, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, stalking, couples, wedding, haunted by the past, danger, couple relations, mind game, violence, family relations, death, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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