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Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
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Ring 0: Birthday (2000)
Original name: リング0 バースデイ
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, atmospheric, splatter, art house, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, split personality, ghost, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, twists and turns, mental illness, danger, a vision, curses spells and rituals, gory, extreme, murder, tragedy, post apocalypse, children, journalist, technology, evil child, bad kids, good versus evil, killer, parapsychology, theatre group ...
Time: 50s, 1920s, 20s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
Keyword: reboot, wizards, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and suspense films with plots about ghost, supernatural, danger, deadly, murder, supernatural power and curses spells and rituals mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ring 0: Birthday: Ring (1998), The Grudge (2004), The Ring (2002), The Ring 2 (1999), One Missed Call 3: Final (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 7.1
 373K
The Ring (2002)
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, suspense, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, race against time, investigation, life is a bitch, death, supernatural horror, twists and turns, curse, macabre, journalist, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.9
 15K
The Ring 2 (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s ...
Style: scary, surprise ending, splatter, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: curse, ghost, supernatural power, psychic, evil child, revenge, supernatural, vengeance, good versus evil, extreme, videotaping, myth ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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One Missed Call 3: Final (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Emiri, a timid high school girl, is bullied mercilessly by her classmates, but when her friend, Asuka, stands up for her, Asuka becomes the target of the bullying instead. Emiri, not wanting to be bullied again, avoids Asuka. Worn down, Asuka ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, woman in danger, teenage life, danger, high school, supernatural ability, bullying, supernatural horror, mobile phone, fright ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, busan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
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, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
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The Sixth Sense (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, psychology, plot twist, psychiatrist, death, life & death, psychic, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place: usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
52%
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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
Style: scary, disturbing, psychological, suspense, dark ...
Plot: curse, haunted house, supernatural, murder, afterlife, fear, brutality, grudge, investigation, danger, missing child, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 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 ⇓
50%
 5.4
 101K
The Ring Two (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rachel Keller must prevent evil Samara from taking possession of her son's soul.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, creepy, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, macabre, ghost, supernatural horror, evil child, nightmare, investigation, mental institution, family problems, supernatural ability, small town, scared ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: astoria oregon, oregon, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: vengeful ghost, haunted house, ghost, afterlife, ghost story, revenge, curse, supernatural, danger, abandoned house, curses spells and rituals, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.1
 4K
Three (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea, Thailand
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Memories: A woman wakes up on a street without memory. A husband cannot remember why his wife left him. The woman wanders the streets trying to contact the only phone number she has on her. The husband see's her ghost in his apartment and ...
Style: anthology, psychological, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: doll, uncover truth, supernatural, missing person, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, danger, ghost, losing-it hero, curses spells and rituals, memory loss, husband wife relationship ...
Place: japan, china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 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 ⇓
49%
 5.4
 4K
They Wait (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, serious, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, death in the family, murder, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, supernatural ability, danger, haunted by the past, gory, parents and children ...
Place: vancouver, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Appearing (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, curse, curses spells and rituals, danger, human host, small town, showdown, evil, murder, ghost, paranormal, possession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 3.1
 173
The Forest (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
Style: serious, scary, tense, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural, profanity, woods, urban legend, rivalry, murder, violence, living dead ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.3
 3K
Retribution (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, crime drama ...
Plot: ghost, serial killer, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, supernatural power, supernatural, mysterious character, psychopath, who done it, rivalry, danger ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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 ⇓
46%
 3.7
 2K
Sadako 3D (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Akane is a high school teacher who hears a rumor from her students that there is actual footage on the Internet of someone's suicide. The footage is said to drive anyone who sees it to also commit suicide. Akane does not believe the rumor at ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: supernatural, vengeance, heroes, danger, ghost, school, computers and web, teenage life, woman in danger, cons and scams, supernatural power, extreme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Il nascondiglio (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, mentally unstable, investigation, hopes, uncover truth, haunted by the past, haunted house, woman in danger, starting over, murder, losing-it hero, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 25K
Pulse (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: ghost, internet, supernatural, afterlife, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 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 ...
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45%
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The Locker (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A group of teenagers unleash a curse when they use haunted public lockers in Shibuya. Supposedly, if you leave a gift in one of the lockers you will be lucky in love. However, the results are anything but lucky as a creepy female ghost with long ...
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, urban legend, supernatural, danger, youth, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, looking for love, city life, student life, friendship, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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44%
 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 ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
43%
 4.7
 2K
Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.8
 45K
The Forest (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Style: scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, dark, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suicide, twists and turns, missing person, sisters, haunted house, hallucination, woods, mental illness, forest, storytelling ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: japan, mount fuji, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Ju-on: The Curse 2 (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story: On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Style: scary, suspense, spooky, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, danger, curses spells and rituals, monster, extreme, grudge, curse, family problems, family relations, supernatural, supernatural ability ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Attic Expeditions (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Trevor Blackburn is accused of murdering his girlfriend, Faith, in a brutal ritual. He's sentenced to live in an experimental rehabilitation community and falls into a coma. When he wakes up, he meets the mysterious Dr. Elk, who tortures Trevor ...
Style: disturbing, rough, psychological, lovecraft, suspense ...
Plot: murder, mental illness, mental institution, surgery, psychopath, losing-it hero, mind game, supernatural, mad scientist, supernatural ability, mentally unstable, ghost ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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