Movies like Shutter 2008
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Shutter (2008)
40K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Japan, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Style:
psychological, sexy, road movie, intense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, surprise ending, mysterious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
spirit, ghost, rape and revenge, vigilante, photograph, supernatural, wedding, photographer, revenge, police investigation, photography, car accident, obsession, haunted by the past, uncover truth, danger, haunting, forbidden love, vengeance, fear, honeymoon, rape, evil spirit, gang rape, exorcism ...
Time:
year 2008, contemporary
Place:
japan, tokyo, new york, asia, brooklyn new york city, mount fuji
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Most similar movies to Shutter
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and suspense films with plots about ghost, supernatural, macabre, death, supernatural horror, haunting and danger mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Shutter: The Uninvited (2009), White Noise (2005), The Forest (2016), Find Me (2014), House on Haunted Hill (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
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:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, mental illness, ghost, family problems, supernatural horror, woman in danger, parents and children, uncover truth, family in danger, secret relationship, siblings relations, mistrust ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place:
maine, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Style:
twist ending, scary, suspenseful, clever, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spirit, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, dealing with death, ghost, death of wife, supernatural horror, loss, disappearance, contact, grief, remote control ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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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, atmospheric, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, ghost, supernatural horror, photographer, supernatural, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, secret lover, spirit, darkroom, blood ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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, psychological, enigmatic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suicide, sisters, missing person, twists and turns, destiny, hallucination, forest, mental illness, haunted house, storytelling ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, creepy, serious, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted by the past, woman in danger, vengeance, danger, riddles and clues, macabre, haunted house, rivalry, wedding, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style:
scary, slasher, gothic, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, gory, mental institution, survival, danger, haunted by the past, murder, ghost, evil spirit, isolation ...
Time:
90s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
170K
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:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological, gothic ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, macabre, fear, haunted, death, missing child, tragic event, haunted by the past, imaginary friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
99K
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, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, evil child, demon, supernatural horror, social worker, creepy child, child abuse, macabre, twists and turns, uncover truth, mysterious character, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
100%
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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, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, curse, good versus evil, supernatural horror, demon, investigation, serial killer, danger, twists and turns, scared, hospital ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, japan, usa, asia, illinois ...
Similarity:
100%
616K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, paranormal investigation, fear, witch, danger, supernatural horror, possession, doll, investigation ...
Time:
year 2013, 70s, year 2000, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
Similarity:
67%
108K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, doll, ventriloquist, macabre, small town, clown, investigation, supernatural horror, puppet, supernatural, plot twist, danger ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
suspenseful, intense, stylized, surreal, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, demonic possession, curse, murder, profanity, haunted house, runaway, investigation, serial killer, asthma, gory, family in danger ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, chicago, usa, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – ...
Style:
gothic, demonic, suspenseful, suspense, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunted house, haunted, ghost, insomnia, evil, supernatural, mansion, psychology, destiny, danger, domestic disturbance, ghost child ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
George is a high-strung professional photographer who is starting to unravel from the stress of his work with a Manhattan advertising agency. Needing some time away from the city, Jake, his wife Kim, and their son Miles head to upstate New York to ...
Style:
atmospheric, creepy, suspenseful, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
wendigo, isolation, beast, spirit, snow, gory, family relations, danger, parents and children, winter, monster, folk horror ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s
Place:
new york, new york state, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style:
scary, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twins, afterlife, possession, demonic possession, supernatural horror, brutality, insect, death, masked killer, ghost, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
67%
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:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, supernatural horror, murder, psychiatrist, twists and turns, doctors and patients, split personality, voodoo, child in peril, witch doctor, demon, female psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, India
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed by a Gypsy, but her boyfriend is skeptical. ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
horror for children, adult
Plot:
witch, demon, supernatural, evil wins, ghost, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror, evil, dark humor, macabre, exorcism, legends and myths ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1969, 60s ...
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california
Similarity:
100%
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19K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her ...
Style:
dark, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
cursed object, death, ghost, curse, photograph, death of friend, teenager, supernatural, mind game, photography, photographer, blood ...
Time:
70s, year 1974
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
One year after his young son disappeared during a Halloween carnival, Mike Cole is haunted by eerie images and terrifying messages he can’t explain. Together with his estranged wife, he will stop at nothing to unravel the mystery and find their ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
halloween, police, ghost, missing child, supernatural, cursed, terror, revenge, rescue, professor, transformation, pumpkin ...
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, new orleans, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Newlywed Melinda Gordon tries to help the dead communicate with loved ones, 'but sometimes the messages she receives are intense and confusing.' Most of Melinda's efforts involve resolving conflicts that are preventing the spirits ...
Style:
captivating, atmospheric, serious, spiritual, thrilling ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, talking to the dead, dealing with death, mysterious character, psychic power, couples, supernatural ability, strong female lead, couple relations, murder, afterlife ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, 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:
atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
vengeful ghost, ghost, afterlife, ghost story, curse, haunted house, traffic accident, pregnancy, revenge, danger, supernatural, abandoned house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
Style:
scary, psychological, cult classic, atmospheric, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, afterlife, vengeance, investigation, social worker, panic, haunted by the past, halloween, family problems, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
31%
Movie in collections
14K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Max, who is recovering from a traumatic accident, takes a job as a nighttime security guard, he begins to see visions of a young mysterious woman in the store's mirror.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, rough, serious, saga ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, female nudity, vengeance, mentally unstable, murder of a nude woman, rape and revenge, survival, murder, supernatural power, store, supernatural horror ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
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:
splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, creepy, cult horror ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, nightmare, haunted, losing-it hero, haunted by the past, danger, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, elevator ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Japan, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, slasher, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, supernatural horror, investigation, uncover truth, cowardice, delusion, friendship, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, spirit, serial killer ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 21st century
Similarity:
50%
31K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts. And some of these ghosts are down right unfriendly. So she embarks on a ...
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, able to see the dead, supernatural, blindness, afterlife, fear, woman in danger, transplant, supernatural ability, transformation, elevator, gory ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia, thailand, japan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Darwin, a senior photographer who consistently uses a manual camera, is shocked to discover the appearance of a woman's shadow in every photo he takes. Soon, the woman's figure appears in real life, terrorizing him. Pia, Darwin's ...
Style:
creepy, psychological horror, intense, psychological, psychiatric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural horror, ghost, haunting, terror, identity, photographer, shadow, demon, murder, photograph, photography, dead ...
Similarity:
29%
14K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, rough, atmospheric, demonic ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, vengeful ghost, abusive husband, house arrest, supernatural, woman in danger, murder, vengeance, haunted by the past, confined, confinement indoors ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
29%
424K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
Similarity:
29%
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