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Retribution (2006)
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Original name: 叫
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 follows him, and he begins to question his identity. His realization of what seems to have really happened results in something much more sinister and larger in scope, and it leaves his psyche scarred.
Style:
scary, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective, suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological horror, crime drama ...
Plot:
serial killer, ghost, police investigation, murder, supernatural power, uncover truth, psychopath, supernatural, mysterious character, obsession, rivalry, who done it, danger, law enforcement, mind game, mystery woman, investigation, macabre, death, puzzle, asian school, haunting, guilt, drowning, life is a bitch ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
japan, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about murder, deadly, danger, serial killer, police investigation, psychopath and supernatural mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Retribution: Cure (1997), Gothika (2003), Under the Salt (2008), Spider Forest (2004), Pulse (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
serial killer, murder, amnesia, investigation, macabre, hallucination, hypnosis, police detective, interrogation, murder mystery, husband wife relationship, police ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
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Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot:
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind twisting, erotic ...
Plot:
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Place:
south korea
Similarity:
100%
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31K
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:
psychological, atmospheric, scary, dark, creepy ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
internet, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, suicide, missing person, haunting, depression, college student, technology, lifestyle, confined ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, asia, japan, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A man (Christopher Denham) must use his newfound intellect to stop a brutal series of murders.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, who done it, danger, supernatural, brother brother relationship, psychopath, woman in danger, gory, siblings relations, clergy ...
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman (Nicolette Sheridan) who underwent an eye transplant is haunted by visions of her donor's last moments of life, and she is convinced that the woman was murdered.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, suspense
Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves her car to help the victim and another car runs over her and she falls in a deep coma. Her twin sister Catalina telepathically feels the pain of Agata and ...
Style:
scary, serious, enigmatic, bleak, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, twins, murder, teenage life, haunted by the past, supernatural, afterlife, vengeance, danger, isolation, estrangement, eye ...
Place:
mexico, mexico city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Ting, an actress for murder illustration is hired to simulate a real-life murder case of Min, a former Miss Thailand who was brutally killed.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, psychopath, serial killer, police investigation, obsession, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger, protagonist as suspect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Style:
disturbing, scary, atmospheric, spooky, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
south korea, korea, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying ...
Style:
psychological, rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, perverse ...
Plot:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The American successful architect Michael Lewis travels to London with his partner and friend, the builder Jake, to refurbish an old hotel. Michael is having successive nightmares, and once in London, he realizes that twenty-one spirits are trying ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
28%
5K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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22%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Japan
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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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Similarity:
20%
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A struggling freelance writer, while investigating the transvestite night life, stumbles across a serial killer in action. The two then strike up a bizarre partnership to document the killer's motives and handiwork as a possessed detective ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 107 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: USA
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Story:
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Style:
disturbing, scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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39K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience:
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Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, psychiatrist, twists and turns, doctors and patients, split personality, voodoo, child in peril, witch doctor, demon, female psychiatrist ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, splatter ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
157K
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:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, murder, gory, curse, imaginary, macabre, scared, vengeance, death, medical ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A naked teenage boy covered in blood appears at a remote sheriff's station one year after the brutal unsolved murder of a local girl. Now Sheriff Jack Shepherd, guilt ridden over the girl's murder, must confront his own demons as he ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, slasher ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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