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Phone (2002)
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Original name: 폰
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, haunted house, supernatural, telephone call, journalism, phone terror, evil spirit, investigation, obsession, haunted by the past, teenage life, vengeance, danger, mentally unstable, threatening telephone call, cursed, father daughter relationship, murder, death of child, reporter, supernatural horror, haunted, nightmare, serial killer, children ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
south korea, korea
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and serious films with plots about danger, ghost, deadly, supernatural, murder, blood and haunted house mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Phone: House on Haunted Hill (1999), Spider Forest (2004), Witchboard (1986), Cello (2005), The Red Shoes (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.
Style:
scary, creepy, homoerotic, cult classic, terrifying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ouija, possession, ghost child, supernatural, ouija board, medium, witch, skeptic, haunted house, ghost, obsession, gory ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, extreme horror ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
curse, losing-it hero, ghost, supernatural, obsession, murder, haunted by the past, haunted, woman in danger, gory, curses spells and rituals, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, taiwan, asia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, chicago, usa, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
34%
313K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, creepy, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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124K
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: Thailand
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK, Canada, USA
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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scary, suspenseful, creepy, serious, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, suspenseful, spooky, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new england, usa, ireland, europe
Similarity:
25%
99K
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, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
oregon, usa
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Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, UK, Netherlands
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Story:
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Time:
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Story:
Dr. Joyce Reardon, a psychology professor, leads a team of psychics into the decrepit mansion known as Rose Red. Her efforts unleash the spirit of former owner Ellen Rimbauer and uncover the horrifying secrets of those who lived and died there.
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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