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Paperhouse (1988)
7K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane present, she is drawn only deeper into a dream turning into a nightmare.
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, surreal, creepy, intense, serious, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, horror for children
Plot:
nightmare, children, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, boy, visceral, supernatural, dream world, serial killer, transformation, supernatural ability, macabre, childhood, youth, coming of age, imaginary friend, character study, fantasy world, little girl, child, surrealism, dog, teacher, photograph, girl ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, britain
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Most similar movies to Paperhouse
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, weird, atmospheric and psychological films with plots about surrealism, fantasy world, death, storytelling, dream, childhood and children mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like Paperhouse: The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), Bridge to Terabithia (2007), Tideland (2005), The Company of Wolves (1984), Before I Wake (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, dark, cerebral ...
Plot:
surrealism, alternate dimension, alternate reality, metaphysics, nightmare, female nudity, renaissance, magic realism, time travel, macabre, trippy, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jesse Aarons trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school, so he's very upset when newcomer Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and other differences, including that she's rich, he's poor, and ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sad, tear jerker, teen ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
friendship, childhood, imagination, children, escape from reality, fantasy world, classmate, loneliness, magical, imaginary, teenage girl, loss of friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
36K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, imagination, heroin, mental illness, drug addiction, surrealism, addiction, abandoned house, imaginary friend, mentally challenged, death by overdose, talking doll ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, austin texas, texas, usa
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into ...
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sexy, cult classic, dark ...
Plot:
werewolf, surrealism, little red riding hood, legends and myths, grandmother, woman in danger, wolf, dangerous animal, coming of age, girl, folk horror, beast ...
Time:
18th century, year 1984, 80s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.
Style:
psychological, scary, spooky, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural horror, insomnia, subconscious, nightmare, dream, orphan, danger, child, supernatural power, monster, haunted, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, surreal, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
kids, teen fantasy, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
monster, fantasy world, imagination, creature, mythology, macabre, legends and myths, magical, young heroes, imaginary, good versus evil, maze ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, year 1944, 20th century, year 2006
Place:
spain, south america, europe, canada
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but ...
Style:
touching, psychological, sad, thought provoking, depressing ...
Plot:
teacher, mental illness, estrangement, friendship, children, inspiration, introspection, school, imaginary, alice in wonderland, imaginary friend, imagination ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, ireland
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. ...
Style:
dark fantasy, creepy, surreal, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, curse, obsession, small town, surrealism, darkness, insanity, transformation, body horror, mental disorder, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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23K
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Invisible forces exert power over us in our sleep. A mercenary named Ink, on a literal nightmare mission, captures the spirit of 8-year-old Emma in the dream world. To save her, the dream-givers marshal all their resources, focusing on saving the ...
Style:
surreal, dark fantasy, atmospheric, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
another dimension, parallel universe, nightmare, good versus evil, time paradox, businessman, imagination, supernatural, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, surrealism, dystopia ...
Similarity:
75%
14K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, nightmare, dream, supernatural, woman in danger, mental institution, doctor, psychic link, housewife, psychiatric hospital, female protagonist ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Similarity:
100%
2K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set in mid 1950s Australia, with the fear of communism in the air and the country's farmlands overrun by a plague of rabbits, the film depicts a long hot summer seen through the eyes and over-active imagination of nine year old Celia. Shaken by ...
Style:
period piece, independent film, stylized, slasher, surreal ...
Plot:
coming of age, folk horror, girl, folklore, corporal punishment, child, rabbit, human animal relationship, mother daughter relationship, death of grandmother, child protagonist, animal cruelty ...
Time:
1950s, year 1989, 20th century, 50s
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A man is convinced that a young girl is the reincarnation of his own daughter Audrey Rose, who died in a fiery car accident, along with his wife, two minutes before the girl was born.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, tense, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, nightmare, reincarnation, afterlife, stranger, hypnosis, betrayal, family relations, husband wife relationship, police investigation, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, india, usa, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style:
costume drama, touching, feel good, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot:
childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, friendship, beautiful scenery, mansion, little girl, sick child, children, old mansion ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 90s, year 1993 ...
Place:
india, england, liverpool, eastern europe, africa ...
Similarity:
100%
17K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
Style:
gothic, surreal, gothic horror, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, demon, ss, magic, supernatural, monster, surrealism, fortress, jewish man, vampire, devil ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 80s
Place:
germany, romania, transylvania, black sea, bucharest ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, haunted by the past, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, dealing with death, mental illness, hallucination, grief, mathematics, addiction, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, disturbing, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
witch, medieval, beautiful scenery, magic, violence, castle, fantasy world, ogre, brutality, fight scenes, monster, circus ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
italy, southern italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home
Style:
visually stunning, offbeat, surreal, cerebral, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen fantasy, kids ...
Plot:
circus, coming of age, fantasy world, magic, imaginary kingdom, alternate reality, alternate dimension, good versus evil, trippy, parallel universe, imaginary, drawing ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
brighton, england
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, Ana, a sensitive seven-year-old girl in a rural Spanish hamlet is traumatized after a traveling projectionist screens a print of James Whale's 1931 "Frankenstein" for the village. The ...
Style:
art house, surreal, visual, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, spanish civil war, children, imagination, existentialism, surrealism, art, magic realism, youth, civil war, biopic ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1973
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Days after her friends disappear during a trip to a mysterious cave, a girl is approached by a grown man claiming to be one of her missing pals.
Style:
romantic, captivating, suspenseful, surreal, dramatic ...
Plot:
mythical creature, family relations, resistance, imagination, magic, brutality, mythology, rebel, twists and turns, peril, escape from reality, dishonesty ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy, cult horror ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, nightmare, haunted, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, danger, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, elevator ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
White Australian lawyer David Burton agrees with reluctance to defend a group of aborigines charged with murdering one of their own. He suspects the victim was targeted for violating a tribal taboo, but the defendants deny any tribal association. ...
Style:
dark fantasy, surreal, philosophical, lovecraft, psychological ...
Plot:
nightmare, cosmic horror, lawyer, murder, water, folk horror, disaster, extreme weather, aborigine, shaman, surrealism, fantasy world ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century, future
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style:
dark, emotional, psychological, suspense, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, serial killer, pedophile, murder mystery, rape, loss of daughter, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, family drama, loss of family member, murderer ...
Time:
70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, delaware
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Fabiola is convinced that she, herself, is a witch by Graciela, who then uses the fear that ...
Style:
modern fairy tale, gothic, terrifying, deep, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
occult, witchcraft, witch, evil child, spell, pagan, teenager, religion, child, 666, creepy child, murder ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A fear-obsessed freelance cameraman investigates an urban legend involving mysterious spirits that haunt the subways of Tokyo.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, atmospheric, psychological, lovecraft ...
Plot:
supernatural, found footage, murder, obsession, investigation, danger, gory, haunted by the past, extreme, ghost, father, good guys win ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
"We are all angels. It is what we do with our wings that separates us." In the next two days, the town of Northfork will cease to exist. The year is 1955 and Northfork is literally about to be "dammed," flooded to make way for a ...
Style:
visually stunning, surreal, psychological, melancholic, touching ...
Plot:
small town, adoption, boy, dream, coming of age, society, hopes, human nature, social relations, sick child, priest, terminal illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1955
Place:
montana, usa, california, minnesota, tokyo
Similarity:
28%
127K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Africa, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, ...
Style:
surreal, offbeat, fairy tale, cerebral, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, date night, adult
Plot:
hospital, surrealism, suicide attempt, imagination, escape from reality, suicide, desert, storytelling, stuntman, magic realism, imaginary kingdom, friendship ...
Time:
1920s, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
india, los angeles, california, cambodia, taj mahal ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Eight-year-old Nelly has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. She explores the house and the surrounding woods where her mother used to play and where she built the fort Nelly has ...
Style:
talky, psychological, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
forest, friendship, death of grandmother, female protagonist, magic realism, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, pyramid, female bonding, lake, father daughter relationship, little girl ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his ...
Style:
philosophical, artsy, surreal, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens, family outing
Plot:
childhood, philosophy, spirituality, existentialism, coming of age, death, father son relationship, hopes, parenthood, religion, grief, family relations ...
Time:
1950s, year 2011, prehistory, 20th century, 50s ...
Place:
texas, southern usa, america, usa, china
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe – for a time when he’s no ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, sad, surreal, harsh ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
poverty, climate change, children, global warming, magic realism, father daughter relationship, childhood, coming of age, flood, single father, crab, child protagonist ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, southern usa, usa, tokyo ...
Similarity:
28%
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, grindhouse, esoteric, mystic ...
Plot:
photograph, photography, world war one, photographer, back from the dead, woman on top, sex scene, cryptozoology, fae, occult, pagan, creature ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
london, europe, england, alps, switzerland
Similarity:
28%
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