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Session 9 (2001)
60K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak, suspenseful, dark, tense, gothic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychology, supernatural, mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, lobotomy, ghost, haunted house, suspense, insanity, hospital, transformation, obsession, macabre, adaptation, murder, secrets, paranoia, mind game, haunted by the past, rivalry, mentally unstable, fear, mental disorder, imaginary friend ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, psychological and weird films with plots about supernatural, suspense, macabre, brutality, storytelling, ghost and twists and turns mostly in Mystery, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Session 9: 1408 (2007), The Ward (2010), The Changeling (1980), Gothika (2003), Secret Window (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, confusing, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, suspense, hotel, haunted house, supernatural, isolation, fear, survival, evil, insanity, trapped, writers ...
Time:
15th century, 21st century
Place:
new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city
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80%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style:
scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, ghost, supernatural, split personality, dissociative identity disorder, murder, doctors and patients, twists and turns, brutality, confined, suspense ...
Time:
80s, 60s, 21st century
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
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scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic, disturbing ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, isolated house, supernatural, suspense, senator, murder, investigation, revenge, musician, composer, death of daughter ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, 70s, turn of the century, 80s
Place:
seattle, canada, washington d.c., new york, usa ...
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100%
115K
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:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mental institution, mind game, hospital, crazy, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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201K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychology, insanity, twists and turns, suspense, split personality, losing-it hero, isolation, nervous breakdown, murder, macabre, writer's life, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, macabre, cult, hotel, paranormal investigation, paranormal, fear, paranormal activity, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa
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100%
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
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100%
158K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
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, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, fear, macabre, missing child, death, tragic event, twists and turns, afterlife, orphanage, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, intense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal investigation, claustrophobia, mental institution, suspense, abandoned hospital, monster, maze ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rookie cop's world is turned upside down when she comes face to face with Paymon - King Of Hell. Officer Jessica Loren has the last shift at a transitioning police station, assigned to wait for a crew picking up bio-hazard waste from the ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
supernatural, police station, ghost, cult, brutality, female protagonist, haunted house, twists and turns, demon, isolation, serial killer, workplace ...
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
109K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Romania, Germany, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, bad ending ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, evil, twists and turns, mirror, supernatural horror, investigation, demon, death, disappearance, uncover truth, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, new york
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, suspense, insanity, investigation, vengeance, castle, monster, conspiracy, religions or cults, hidden identity, dishonesty, haunted by the past ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, 14th century
Place:
spain, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in ...
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atmospheric, scary, disturbing, intense, harsh ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, redemption, guilt, russian, village, haunted by the past, medieval, curses spells and rituals, suspense, macabre, dark secret ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages
Place:
finland, europe, russia
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, witch, fear, suspense, forest, supernatural, survival, wilderness, videotaping, panic, urban legend, supernatural horror ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, surreal, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental illness, ghost, suicide, twists and turns, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, haunted house, tragedy, suspense, children, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, south korea, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
twins, suspense, evil child, twists and turns, coming of age, psychology, supernatural, macabre, murder, evil twin, child, creepy child ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
california, new jersey, holland, usa, connecticut ...
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36%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, dark, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
dinner party, suicide, obsession, conspiracy, suspense, suspicion, cult, deception, old friend, insanity, vengeance, survival ...
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
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scary, disturbing, tense, bloody, surreal ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, macabre, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, sadism, revenge, suspense, serial killer, obsession, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
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34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. ...
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psychological, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
ghost, imaginary friend, haunted house, suspense, supernatural horror, divorce, supernatural, mother daughter relationship, fear, paranoia, starting over, haunted by the past ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, manhattan new york city, new york, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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, ...
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scary, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, murder, investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, cheating, husband wife relationship, tragedy, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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34%
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:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, nightmare, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, macabre, isolation ...
Time:
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33%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
imaginary friend, suspense, plot twist, split personality, twists and turns, psychologist, mental illness, haunted by the past, ghost, murder, single father, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, suspense, parents and children, mental illness, family problems, woman in danger, uncover truth, family in danger, teenager, twists and turns, siblings relations ...
Time:
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Place:
maine, new england
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32%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
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scary, suspenseful, disturbing, splatter, atmospheric ...
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teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, demon, possession, hospital, violence, priest, investigation, macabre, suspense, demonic possession, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1998
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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, scary, atmospheric, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, investigation, suspense, urban legend, macabre, cult, journalist, curse, woman in danger, vengeance, violent ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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32%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual abuse, rape, supernatural, ghost, demon rape, female nudity, paranormal phenomena, sexual assault, invisibility, suspense, macabre, cult ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
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32%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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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, surprise ending, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, car accident, secret lover, photographer, macabre, suspense, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, dark past ...
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
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31%
135K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, home invasion, serial killer, survival, murder, survival horror, masked killer, fear, hostage, confined, macabre, torture ...
Time:
2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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