Movies like In the Dark Half
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In the Dark Half (2012)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A teenage girl comes to terms with the unexplained death of the boy next door.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, gloomy, surprise ending, twist ending
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
ghost, dead child, forest, supernatural, youth, teenage life, secret place, dealing with death, twists and turns, suburbs, haunted by the past, teenager, hallucination, funeral, hiding place, death threat, seeing dead people, hunting, hunter, halloween, marijuana, nanny, bunker, spirit, suicide ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, atmospheric and gloomy films with plots about youth, family relations, haunted by the past, death, teenager, friendship and ghost mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like In the Dark Half: Marchlands (2011), Story of Jen (2008), Photographing Fairies (1997), The Chalk Garden (1964), Waterland (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A supernatural drama telling the story of three different families living in the same house in 1968, 1987 and the present day, linked by the spirit of the young daughter of the 1960s family, who drowned in mysterious circumstances.
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, mysterious, sad, scary ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, family life, parents and children, loss of daughter, little girl, seeing dead people, multiple storylines, uncover truth, investigation, couple relations ...
Time:
80s, 60s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
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95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man commits suicide leaving a disturbing note. His wife and his daughter try to cope with it when the step-brother of the deceased visits them.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, realistic, bleak
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage life, parents and children, estrangement, family relations, on the run, escapades, youth, odd couple, death in the family, single parent, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
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, captivating, surreal, serious ...
Plot:
world war one, photographer, afterlife, fae, paranormal, magic realism, magical creature, pagan, creature, death sentence, back from the dead, sex scene ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, alps, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A grandmother seeks a governess for her 16 year old granddaughter, Laurel, who manages to drive away each and every one so far by exposing their past, with a record of three in one week! When an applicant with a mysterious past manages to get the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, clever
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, governess, problem child, young adult, friendship, orphan, lost girl, isolation, mental disorder, judge, adolescence ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
teacher, high school, teachers and students, haunted by the past, self discovery, couples, power relations, introspection, couple relations, fear, mental illness, father son relationship ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 70s, 1920s, 1910s
Place:
england, pittsburgh, london, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, ghost, friendship, supernatural, uncover truth, island, promise, little girl, friends, life is a bitch, impostor, overdose ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, murder, suspense, death threat, uncover truth, family in danger, haunted by the past, family problems, psychopath, teenage life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
north dakota, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Margaret Lea, a young biographer, attempts to interview writer Vida Winter, whose health is deteriorating. Vida has previously denied access to the secrets of her life and childhood home. Vida tells her story to Margaret, helping Margaret to ...
Style:
gothic, captivating, touching, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
family relations, twins, family secret, writer's life, sister sister relationship, haunted by the past, childhood trauma, sibling relationship, writers, suspense, secret, female writer ...
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Toss lives on a sheep farm with her father in New Zealand. When Toss's father dies in an accident, Ethan, an itinerant hunter, wanders onto the family farm and is given a job by her grandfather. Toss's fairly innocent relationship with ...
Style:
uplifting, art house, gloomy, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, hunter, sheep, badass female lead, loss of father, funeral, mirror, hawk, ritual, nature, imagination, fog ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Tommy and his older brother Eric live in the midst of vast remote forests. The death of their friend pushes them close to the edge. Eric doesn’t know how to channel his energy. All at once, nature’s vastness feels stifling.
Style:
rough, serious, touching, bleak, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, human nature, haunted by the past, dealing with death, teenage life, family relations, tragic event, youth, life is a bitch, life philosophy, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A schoolboy Nicholas always worries about something. When he goes on a school skiing trip, all his visions and nightmares take him over.
Style:
controversial, realistic, psychological, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
coming of age, children, youth, child abuse, boy, winter, traumatic childhood, lgbt, sleep disorder, friendship, family relations, gay subtext ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
ghost, twists and turns, supernatural, afterlife, suspense, psychology, death, psychiatrist, life & death, plot twist, child, boy ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, Sweden, Cayman Islands
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man moves his two daughters to Italy after their mother dies in a car accident, in order to revitalize their lives. Genoa changes all three of them as the youngest daughter starts to see the ghost of her mother, while the older one discovers her ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, teenage love, youth, friendship, parents and children, family life, dealing with death, hopes, starting over, siblings relations, family in crisis, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
145K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, gloomy, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poverty, missing person, small town, family in crisis, female protagonist, girl, dysfunctional family, realism, down on your luck, bail, life is a bitch, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
missouri, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, haunted by the past, rape, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, curse, sexual abuse, death, chase, redemption, suspense, flashback ...
Time:
19th century, year 2006, 2000s, 1810s
Place:
tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Movies similar to Jacob's Ladder
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After the death of her daughter, Julia Lofting, a wealthy housewife, moves to London to re-start her life. All seems well until she is haunted by the sadness of losing her own child and the ghosts of other children.
Style:
slasher, psychotronic, sad, gothic, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, mental breakdown, haunted house, seance, imaginary friend, death, basement, suspense, young girl, evil child, macabre ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A tearaway teenage girl, at war with her mum, and trying to take control of her life, forms an amazing and unbreakable bond with a new friend. They raise hell, stick two fingers up at the world, and laugh like they never have before... but can Ellen ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, touching, rough, disturbing
Plot:
sex with a minor, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, friendship, party, single mother, female friendship, friend, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drunkenness, dancing ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, France, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
incest, nightmare, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, family relations, sexual abuse, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, couples, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Style:
psychological, bleak, compassionate, meditative, atmospheric ...
Plot:
youth, obsession, redemption, apprentice, teenage life, going straight, family problems, parents and children, working class, teachers and students, loss of son, death in the family ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
france, tokyo, europe, usa, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, rough, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, rebellion, teenage boy, forest, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, social misfits, youth, friends, escape from reality, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot:
afterlife, destiny, terrorism, supernatural, life is a bitch, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, teenage life, dealing with death, religions or cults, forest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, change of luck, society, hopes, alcohol abuse, youth, confronting the past, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, troubled past, friendship, psychology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, gothic ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, children, mentally unstable, nanny, estate, repression, youth, female nudity, possession, power relations, master and servant ...
Time:
victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, dark ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suicide, missing person, child abuse, haunted by the past, uncover truth, family in danger, mind game, mysterious character, afterlife, sect ...
Place:
wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style:
scary, gothic, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, afterlife, suspense, haunted by the past, supernatural horror, macabre, supernatural power, twists and turns ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
england, europe, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
British television film starring Martin Kemp
Style:
enigmatic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
police investigation, missing person, teenage girl, murder suspect, childhood memory, father daughter relationship, 17 year old, investigation, mysterious disappearance, family secret, suspense, uncover truth ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
is a story about elite high school seniors, the top 1%, who are prepared to go to extremes to get into prestigious universities. A student who has ranked number one at an esteemed school dies in a remote mountain. Finding out why and the ultimate ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, twisted ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, twists and turns, ambition, teenage life, social relations, rivalry, youth, social differences, destructive relationship, emotionless, murder, rivals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A mysterious Inspector investigates the wealthy Birling family and their dinner guests following the suicide of a young woman.
Style:
surprise ending, serious, thought provoking, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, inspector, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, introspection, family problems, haunted by the past, suicide, justice, rich and poor ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, year 1912
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, family relations, missing person, homecoming, hopes, haunted by the past, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, youth, life is a bitch, parents and children, creative block ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, romantic, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, life is a bitch, youth, uncover truth, slave, ghost story, farm, haunted by the past, teenage love, corpse, swimming, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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