Movies like Audition
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Audition (1999)
84K
Original name: オーディション
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
scary, disturbing, tense, bloody, surreal, controversial, suspenseful, dark, splatter, psychological ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, macabre, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, sadism, revenge, suspense, serial killer, violence, obsession, vengeance, mentally unstable, sadistic horror, loneliness, widower, supernatural, cult, exploitation, body horror, plot twist, sex, female killer, femdom ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, psychological, suspenseful and weird films with plots about blood, suspense, visceral, macabre, violence, brutality and violent mostly in Horror, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Audition: Saw II (2005), Helter Skelter (2012), Martyrs (2008), Suicide Club (2001), Visitor Q (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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258K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight ...
Style:
scary, slasher, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, trap, suspense, twists and turns, sadistic horror, serial murder, mind game, psychopath, brutality, violent, fear ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress, and singer. However, soon, her body, unable to withstand the ...
Style:
disturbing, psychotronic, scary, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
capitalism, lesbian, flaunting, feminine beauty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, model, female nudity, plastic surgeon, hair, employer employee relationship, asian girl, hallucination ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia
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100%
98K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, scary, twist ending, brutal, splatter ...
Plot:
torture, cult, kidnapping, violence, child abuse, brutality, revenge, death, afterlife, torment, vengeance, torture chamber ...
Time:
year 1971
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suicide, cult, conspiracy, death, police investigation, violent, surrealism, high school, brutality, macabre, hacker, student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A father who is a failed former television reporter tries to mount a documentary about violence and sex among youths. He proceeds to have sex with his daughter who is now a prostitute, and films his son being humiliated and hit by classmates. ...
Style:
disturbing, surreal, psychological, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
rape, incest, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, heroin, breast feeding, macabre, sex, obsession, violent, necrophilia ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Movies like Se7en
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, psychedelic ...
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, ghost, psychopath, supernatural, suspense, snow, imaginary friend, evil, winter, caretaker ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, usa, florida, miami ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, sexy, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, obsession, twists and turns, rape, insanity, skin, revenge, sexual perversion, tragic love, isolation, gender bending, abuse ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
430K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, surprise ending, psychological, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, serial killer, fear, psychopath, plot twist, mind game, macabre, violent, suspense, survival horror, trapped, survival ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style:
disturbing, rough, controversial, bloody, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
yakuza, violence, organized crime, massacre, torture, rage, insanity, gangsters, psychopath, gang, sadism, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like American Psycho
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, monster, obsession, insanity, macabre, occult, hysteria, demon, supernatural, serial killer, existentialism, infidelity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, poland, east germany ...
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67%
38K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style:
gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, imaginary friend, psychopath, obsession, murder, insanity, female psychopath, cannibalism, goth, suspense, lesbian ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
81K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Justine’s family everyone is a vet and a vegetarian. At 16, she’s a gifted teen ready to take on her first year in vet school, where her older sister also studies. There, she gets no time to settle: hazing starts right away. Justine is forced ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, brutal, scary, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, cannibalism, cannibal, meat, vegetarian, school, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, sisters, twists and turns, peer pressure, sex scene ...
Time:
70s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
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67%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young med student struggling with her tuition fees is drawn into the shady world of underground body modification.
Style:
scary, disturbing, rough, dark, brutal ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, amputation, stripper, rape and revenge, surgery, rape, plastic surgery, violence, organized crime, revenge, brutality, student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Plot:
yakuza, gangsters, surrealism, obsession, murder, nightmare, hitman, mission of murder, mental illness, twists and turns, cult, violent ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ⇓
46%
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
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45%
72K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, investigation, suspense, urban legend, macabre, cult, journalist, curse, woman in danger, vengeance, violent ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, macabre, cult, hotel, paranormal investigation, paranormal, fear, paranormal activity, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
“Three” is an anthology of three horror shorts from three different Asian countries.In "Dumplings" an aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, ...
Style:
disturbing, scary, psychological, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
cannibalism, murder, suspense, healing power, macabre, spouse in danger, violent, vengeance, betrayal, jealousy, guilt, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, china, hong kong, korea, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When Naoko was a freshman in high school she was kidnapped and imprisoned by a man who lived next door. For one month, she went through hell. Finally, she killed the man and escaped. Now as an adult, Naoko is a doctor specializing in infertility ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
dominatrix, torture, bdsm, rape, held captive, kidnapping, sexual abuse, s&m, imprisonment, masochism, abduction, sadism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
macabre, hospital, death, urban legend, supernatural, child abuse, spirit, good versus evil, mysterious death, ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past ...
Time:
future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, nightmare, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, macabre, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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589K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate businessman seeks revenge on his captors.
Style:
bleak, psychological, twist ending, gloomy, surprise ending ...
Plot:
revenge, incest, vengeance, older man younger woman relationship, mind game, loneliness, psychological torture, kidnapping, psychopath, confined, torture, imprisonment ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2003, year 1988 ...
Place:
south korea, korea, asia, new york, seoul ...
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50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, demon, possession, hospital, violence, priest, investigation, macabre, suspense, demonic possession, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1998
Place:
washington d.c., virginia, usa, india, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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42K
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style:
disturbing, scary, brutal, slasher, bloody ...
Plot:
suspense, pregnancy, evil wins, survival, serial killer, torture, home invasion, woman in danger, insanity, female killer, mental illness, kidnapping ...
Place:
france
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41%
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
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41%
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 ⇓
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alexia travels with her friend Marie to spend a couple of days with her family in their farm in the country. They arrive late and they are welcomed by Alexia's father. Late in the night, a sadistic and sick killer breaks into the farmhouse, ...
Style:
scary, slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, macabre, home invasion, psycho killer, torture, sadistic horror, insanity, kidnapping, suspense, killing spree, split personality, disturbed individual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
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