Movies like Sisters 1972
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Sisters (1972)
23K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.
Style:
psychological horror, disturbing, detective, grindhouse, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, bloody, suspense, surreal ...
Plot:
private detective, twins, amateur detective, mental illness, reporter, twin sister, bakery, neighbor, hallucination, witness, murder mystery, journalist, birthday, restaurant, murder victim, freakshow, sisters, murder, model, voyeurism, evil twin, serial killer, doctor, body horror, siblings ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, canada, quebec, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Sisters
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about murder, danger, twists and turns, serial killer, blood, catastrophe and brutality mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sisters: Black Christmas (1974), It Follows (2014), Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), Psycho II (1983), Don't Look Now (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, sexy, suspense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
christmas, serial killer, holiday horror, telephone call, holiday, killer, violence, sorority, murder, mental illness, serial murder, maniac ...
Time:
70s, near future, year 1974, 20th century, 80s
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
296K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, macabre, being followed, evil, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, supernatural being, peeping tom, swimming pool, death ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. But when Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to ...
Style:
creepy, slasher, frightening, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, murder, female villain, killing spree, holy communion, evil child, blood, child, female serial killer, child molester ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
35K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After years of treatment at a mental institution for the criminally insane, serial killer Norman Bates is finally released. Deciding to move back into his long-dead mother's infamous old house, he soon finds himself tormented by "her" ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspense, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, insanity, psychopath, psychiatrist, murder, psycho killer, psycho, revenge, homicidal maniac, male victim, swamp, waitress ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time:
70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
italy, venice, europe
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, sexy, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, drug addiction, obsession, identical twins, losing-it hero, twins, mistaken identity, brother brother relationship, love triangle, addiction, schizophrenia ...
Time:
20th century, year 1954, 1950s, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style:
creepy, dark, cult horror, twist ending, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
folk horror, religion, paganism, occult, disappearance, ritual, human sacrifice, female nudity, temptation, sacrifice, investigation, conspiracy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
scotland, fictional island, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton (Mia Farrow), recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Style:
slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, disability, insanity, trapped, investigation, amateur detective, blind woman, female protagonist, disabled, conflict, ghost ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
boston
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A reporter witnesses a brutal murder, and becomes entangled in a mystery involving a pair of Siamese twins who were separated at birth, one of them forced to live under the eye of a watchful, controlling psychiatrist.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, absurd ...
Plot:
twins, amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, mysterious character, obsession, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, danger, haunted by the past, dishonesty, body horror ...
Place:
canada, vancouver
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style:
creepy, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban legend, private detective, obsession, stalker, stalking, threatening telephone call, home invasion, psychopath, babysitter, serial killer, telephone call, murder ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
47K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, murder, psychopath, manic, intrigue, murder mystery, female serial killer, danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, darkness ...
Time:
70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, canary islands, lebanon ...
Similarity:
37%
53K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
motel, psychopath, split personality, murder, hotel, psycho, murder of a nude woman, eccentric family, isolation, parents and children, serial killer, mental disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
36%
124K
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:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
mental institution, serial killer, murder, mental illness, mind game, supernatural, insanity, investigation, psychiatrist, supernatural horror, rape, violence against women ...
Time:
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Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is still running his little motel, and he has kept the dressed skeleton he calls mother. One of his guests is a young girl who has left the convent where she lived. To get some help he employs a young man. One day a nosey journalist ...
Style:
bloody, slasher, suspense, cult horror, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, psycho, murder, hotel, voyeur, characters murdered one by one, domineering mother, haunted house, old dark house, insanity, motel, nun ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
276K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, connecticut, estonia
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more ...
Style:
suspenseful, detective, suspense, intense, tense ...
Plot:
insanity, adultery, psychologist, twins, serial killer, kidnapping, outdoor sex, multiple personality disorder, split personality, sex, evil twin, hospital ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
Style:
psychological, spooky, scary, horrifying, slasher ...
Plot:
blindness, woman in danger, mysterious villain, suicide, who done it, twin sister, disability, murder, uncover truth, unsupportive parent, blind character, delusion ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
europe, spain
Similarity:
33%
47K
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, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
mental institution, psychiatric ward, supernatural, ghost, brutality, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, haunted, mental illness, doctors and patients, murder, hospital ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2010, 2010s, 60s, 80s ...
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A famous fashion photographer develops a disturbing ability to see through the eyes of a killer.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, supernatural, photography, psychic power, photograph, police investigation, fashion, murder, murder mystery, premonition, fashion model ...
Time:
70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place:
new york, california
Similarity:
33%
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:
32%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style:
psychological, sexy, twist ending, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, hypnosis, murder, afterlife, supernatural, murder mystery, haunted, psychic, supernatural horror, paranoia, disappearance ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
32%
505K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Norman Bates is again released from the mental hospital he was placed in at the end of Psycho III after serving another few years and is apparently rehabiliated for the second time. Norman is now married to a young nurse named Connie and is ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, cult horror, suspense ...
Plot:
voyeur, split personality, childhood trauma, psycho killer, psychopath, double murder, poisoning, incestuous desire, schizophrenia, matricide, child abuse, oedipus complex ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 80s, 50s, 20th century ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Beautiful Mandy Lane isn't a party girl but, when classmate Chloe invites the Texas high school student to a bash in the countryside, she reluctantly accepts. After hitching a ride with a vaguely scary older man, the teens arrive at their ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, teen, cult classic, scary ...
Audience:
date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, serial killer, youth, teenage life, psychopath, teenager, mystery killer, friends, murder, gory, teenage sexuality, dead teenager ...
Time:
20th century, year 2006, 2000s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, america
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Kelly, a young woman, has been plagued by nightmares of a burning man her entire life. Upon entering college, she pledges a sorority that forces them to perform an initiation night prank. With several of her friends, she breaks into a store and ...
Style:
slasher, sexy, scary, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, ritual, campus, sorority, murder, female protagonist, nightmare, prank, female nudity, secret, mental institution, danger ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
32%
156K
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:
slasher, scary, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
home invasion, survival, serial killer, masked killer, murder, hostage, brutality, blood, masked man, violence, masked villain, killer ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
36K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, cerebral, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, amnesia, investigation, macabre, hallucination, hypnosis, police detective, interrogation, murder mystery, husband wife relationship, police ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
japan, okinawa japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, twist ending, surreal ...
Plot:
twins, mental illness, brother brother relationship, torture, divorce, dead child, boy, animal mask, children, isolation, single parent, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
austria, germany, central europe
Similarity:
31%
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