Movies like Phone

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Phone (2002)
 6.1
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Phone (2002)
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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 investigating and discovers that of the people before her who had the same number, almost all of them died suddenly under unusual circumstances. As Yeong-ju's behavior becomes increasingly alarming, Ji-won digs deeper into the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of the number's first owner, a high school girl named Jin-hie.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher, splatter, art house, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, journalism, phone terror, telephone call, evil spirit, investigation, obsession, haunted by the past, teenage life, vengeance, danger, mentally unstable, father daughter relationship, murder, death of child, reporter, haunted house, supernatural horror, haunted, journalist, nightmare, post apocalypse, serial killer, children ...
Time: contemporary
Place: south korea, korea
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and psychological films with plots about ghost, danger, supernatural, deadly, murder, supernatural power and haunted house mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Phone: The Grudge 3 (2009), The Red Shoes (2005), The Grudge 2 (2006), One Missed Call 2 (2005), Sinister (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 4.6
 20K
The Grudge 3 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, stylized ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, curse, demonic possession, haunted house, murder, runaway, serial killer, investigation, profanity, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, chicago, asia, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Red Shoes (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, obsession, murder, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, woman in danger, gory, curses spells and rituals, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, extreme ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.0
 51K
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, good versus evil, demon, serial killer, investigation, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: chicago, japan, asia, usa, pasadena california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's ...
Style: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, afterlife, curse, investigation, vengeance, journalism, danger, supernatural, teenage life, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, cell phone ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 278K
Sinister (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, investigation, evil force, paranormal activity, writer's life ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 60s, year 1966 ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Bunshinsaba: Ouija Board (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Yu-jin and her blind mother move to a small village from Seoul. On her first day at the new school, Yu-jin gets picked on by her classmates. Along with other victims of hatred, Yu-jin puts a curse on the four girls tormenting them through a Ouija ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, spooky ...
Plot: curse, ghost, vengeance, danger, rivalry, youth, supernatural, village, curses spells and rituals, mute or deaf, ouija, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.9
 3K
Cello (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A cellist is haunted by strange events after a car wreck.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, twisted ...
Plot: ghost, musician, haunted by the past, family in danger, losing-it hero, obsession, family problems, mentally unstable, supernatural, teachers and students, supernatural ability, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 ⇓
68%
Movie in collections
 5.8
 119K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 7.0
 49K
Shutter (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
Style: scary, twist ending, dark, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, photograph, photographer, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, spirit, macabre, secret lover ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, fear, ghost, demon, nightmare comes true, child in peril, possession, macabre, psychic ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 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 ⇓
61%
 4.9
 3K
Fingerprints (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary ...
Plot: urban legend, ghost, rehabilitation, murder, small town, uncover truth, missing child, small town life, school, haunted by the past, serial killer, haunted house ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 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 ⇓
59%
 6.7
 35K
Dark Water (2002)
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: psychological, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, haunted, nightmare, haunted by the past, danger, losing-it hero, custody, parents and children, family problems, single parent ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.3
 60K
Sinister 2 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Style: scary, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, murder, evil child, burned alive, nightmare, investigation, deputy, ghost child, abusive husband, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.5
 3K
The Incubus (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the small New England town of Galen, a young teenage boy claims he has dreams of young women being brutally raped and murdered. A doctor and the local sheriff discover that the boy's dreams are real and that a sinister occult might be behind ...
Style: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: murder, curse, demon, small town, rape, mysterious character, teenage life, haunted by the past, danger, amateur detective, supernatural ability, dangerous attraction ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new england, usa, ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
One Missed Call (2003)
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, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: macabre, telephone call, hospital, urban legend, death, supernatural, child abuse, spirit, good versus evil, mysterious death, vengeance, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Movie in collections
 5.6
 2K
Acacia (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, obsession, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, parents and children, adoption, adopted son, extreme ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.8
 8K
Trauma (1993)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An anorexic young woman escapes from a psychiatric clinic and meets a young man who wants to help. She is caught and returned to her parents, who are soon beheaded by a garrotting stranger making the rounds about town, apparently striking only when ...
Style: psychological, slasher, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, rain, kidnapping, journalism, gory, female serial killer, amateur detective, danger, teenage life, woman in danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Baby's Room (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When Juan's sister and her husband visit the couple, they give ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, gothic ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, family in danger, old dark house, family problems, obsession, supernatural horror, parallel world, missing child, mind game, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.5
 139K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, split personality, ghost, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, danger, mental illness, twists and turns, curses spells and rituals, a vision, gory ...
Time: 50s, 1920s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Movie in collections
 4.4
 2K
Psych:9 (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young woman with a troubled past takes a job at recently closed down hospital. Working the night shift alone she begins to experience a series of unsettling events that lead her to believe that the hospital may be connected to a number of recent ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, atmospheric, underground film ...
Plot: hospital, murder, haunted by the past, terror, danger, mentally unstable, serial killer, haunted, haunted house, ghost, blood, nightshift ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Insidious: The Last Key (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, N.M., to investigate a man's claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family's old home.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, demonic ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, spirit, medium, haunted, psychic, father daughter relationship, supernatural horror, kidnapped girl, evil spirit, demon ...
Time: year 1953, year 2010, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.8
 14K
They (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, supernatural horror, demon, nightmare, suicide, haunted by the past, mind game, danger, supernatural ability, fear, psychology, child in peril ...
Time: year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.4
 1K
Body (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Chon is suffering from having bad times while sleeping. He tries not to sleep because he's scared of a girl in his nightmares. In the dreams, the girl screams for help before she is cruelly killed. Ae, Chon's sister is worried about the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, bloody ...
Plot: ghost, murder, danger, hypnosis, husband wife relationship, imaginary friend, mental illness, hallucination, investigation, haunted house, haunted, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.2
 93K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.8
 15K
The Canal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, haunted house, protagonist as suspect, husband wife relationship, xmas, tragedy, adultery ...
Time: 2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.2
 77K
Ring (1998)
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, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, investigation, macabre, curse, supernatural horror, urban legend, journalist, woman in danger, telephone call, danger, haunting ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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