Movies like Shadow of the Vampire

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Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Style: gothic, scary, dark, psychological horror, dark comedy, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, disturbing, black comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dracula, vampire, supernatural, obsession, filmmaking, monster, filmmaker, megalomaniac, escapades, human nature, imaginary, artists and showbiz, great ending, bloodsucker, undead, movie business, gory, blood, satire, love, ghost, hunter, frankenstein, dream, living dead ...
Time: 1920s, year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 20th century, 20s
Place: berlin germany, eastern europe, czechoslovakia
Keyword: fang

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Most similar movies to Shadow of the Vampire

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about supernatural, danger, deadly, blood, macabre, murder and death mostly in Horror, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Shadow of the Vampire: The Lighthouse (2019), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), The Shout (1978), Dracula (1979), Count Dracula (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Lighthouse (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style: suspense, minimal cast, psychological, mysterious, lovecraft ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: isolation, hallucination, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, drunkenness, symbolism, island, nightmare, fight, storm, madness, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: nova scotia, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Style: gothic, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, monster, dangerous attraction, dracula, goth, legends and myths, gory, bloodsucker, vampire bite, love triangle, vampire human love ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: london, transylvania, england, ottoman empire, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 5K
The Shout (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A traveller by the name of Crossley, forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, psychological, psychedelic, dark ...
Plot: surrealism, erotica, folk horror, small town, mental institution, nudity, witchcraft, composer, spirituality, witch, hotwife, occult ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
Place: eastern europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten ...
Style: scary, gothic, dark, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, transformation, mythical creature, wilderness, sister, snow, curses spells and rituals, danger, winter, beast ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period, georgian era, 1800s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Dracula (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, dark ...
Plot: vampire, dracula, supernatural, macabre, countryside, gangster, betrayal, greed, imaginary, female vampire, danger, vampire human love ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1979, victorian era, 1910s ...
Place: cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Count Dracula (1970)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, cult classic ...
Plot: dracula, vampire, supernatural, female vampire, monster, occult, living dead, frankenstein, paranormal, goth, sexy female vampire, 666 ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, transylvania, romania, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.2
 3K
Dracula (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, spooky, scary ...
Plot: vampire, dracula, reincarnation, supernatural, bloodsucker, macabre, countryside, village, stalking, destiny, haunted by the past, woman in danger ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.1
 78K
Fright Night (1985)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nobody believes teenager Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) when he discovers that his suave new neighbor, Jerry Dandrige (Chris Sarandon), is a vampire. So when the bloodsucker starts stalking Charley, he turns to has-been actor Peter Vincent ...
Style: scary, suspense, horror comedy, slasher, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, monster, supernatural horror, blood, mysterious character, neighbor, teenager, gory, bloodsucker, brutality, werewolf ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Dracula (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is one the verge of being wed. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, dracula, supernatural, terminal illness, chaos, couples, danger, supernatural ability, escapades, couple relations, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1890s, turn of the century, 1900s
Place: england, europe, transylvania, united kingdom, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Scars of Dracula (1970)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood and Dracula is resurrected. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one... loved to death ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, rough, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: vampire, dracula, supernatural, castle, good versus evil, priest, village, monster, supernatural ability, dangerous attraction, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style: gothic, surreal, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, murder, medieval, macabre, revenge, plague, life & death, good versus evil, brutality, tragic villain, transformation, sacrifice ...
Time: middle ages, victorian era, medieval times
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, visually appealing, scary, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, vampirism, dark hero, bonding, child vampire, life & death, vampire human love, monster as victim ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, san francisco, paris france, louisiana, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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May (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.
Style: gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mental illness, serial killer, imaginary friend, obsession, psychopath, murder, doll, insanity, female psychopath, dangerous attraction, dark humor, cannibalism ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Blood for Dracula (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, sexy, satirical, atmospheric ...
Plot: vampire, rape, supernatural, lesbian incest, sister sister incest, erotica, male nudity, blood, vampire bite, female nudity, exploitation, virgin ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1920s
Place: italy, europe, england, paris france, rome italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Haunted (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its ...
Style: gothic, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, murder, haunting, supernatural, betrayal, nanny, uncover truth, family relations, haunted by the past, siblings relations, mentally unstable ...
Time: 90s, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 8.4
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The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.5
 37K
The Innkeepers (2011)
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: disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, spooky, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, paranormal investigation, macabre, hotel, paranormal, ghost story, fear, paranormal activity, haunted, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.1
 943
Vampire Clan (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five friends welcome real life vampirism into their lives. They cut their own wrists and let their friends drink from them. Rod, the leader, and a very psychotic young guy, ends up killing Heathers parents and stealing their car to go on a crazy ...
Style: slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, investigation, uncover truth, gory, suburbs, vampire, goth, true crime, supernatural being ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 2000s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Thirst (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho), a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life as a vampire. Now, ...
Style: dark, disturbing, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, priest, deadly virus, infection, asian, experiment gone awry, transformation, doctor, murder, infidelity, danger ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: east asia, asia, korea, south korea, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal ...
Style: gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, goth, rock star, vampire human love, fatal attraction, supernatural, immortality, vampirism, brutality, vengeance, female vampire, blood ...
Time: 2000s, y2k, year 2002, 1780s, 18th century
Place: new orleans, america, california, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Lesbian Vampires (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Style: erotic, gothic, grindhouse, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: lesbian vampire, vampire, lesbian, sexploitation, lesbian sex, supernatural, murder of a nude woman, female protagonist, obsession, sexy female vampire, sex show, striptease ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: spain, istanbul turkey, turkey, constantinople
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-wound of an unconscious priest attempting exorcism. And once more fear and terror strikes Transylvania as the undead Prince of Darkness stalks the ...
Style: gothic, classic horror, terrifying, suspense, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dracula, supernatural, monster, castle, vampire, priest, revenge, corpse, lightning, hanged girl, superstition, resurrection ...
Time: 1900s, 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.3
 42K
Possession (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, mind bending, art house, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, insanity, occult, hysteria, supernatural, monster, body horror, serial killer, existentialism, possession, cosmic horror ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 6.8
 13K
Magic (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Style: scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: evil doll, ventriloquist, magic, ventriloquist dummy, doll, mental illness, split personality, rise and fall, slow burn, toys, puppet, objects come to life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
 14K
The Keep (1983)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
Style: surreal, gothic, scary, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Plot: world war two, nazi, demon, supernatural, magic, monster, ss, vampire, devil, surrealism, good versus evil, military ...
Time: year 1941
Place: germany, romania, black sea, transylvania, bucharest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara ...
Style: gothic horror, suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary ...
Plot: werewolf, serial killer, vampire, supernatural, stalking, transformation, trial, lycanthropy, mind game, dangerous attraction, dangerous animal, legends and myths ...
Time: 1850s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.6
 5K
Dracula 3D (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the count has sinister designs on his wife, Mina, Harker seeks help from vampire slayer Van Helsing.
Style: gothic horror, serious, scary, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: vampire, dracula, supernatural, evil, danger, bloodsucker, woman in danger, supernatural horror, good versus evil, blood, female friendship, female vampire ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s
Place: romania, transylvania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
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, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: castle, spanish inquisition, insanity, vengeance, investigation, macabre, monster, gory, edgar allan poe, conspiracy, religions or cults, hidden identity ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, year 1961, medieval times ...
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 63K
Session 9 (2001)
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, twist ending, suspenseful, bleak, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, supernatural, psychology, mental illness, twists and turns, lobotomy, macabre, ghost, insanity, transformation, hospital, obsession ...
Time: year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 18K
The Entity (1982)
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, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: rape, supernatural, sexual abuse, female nudity, demon rape, paranormal phenomena, ghost, haunted, sexual assault, invisibility, torment, sex crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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