Movies like The Ghost 1963
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The Ghost (1963)
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Original name: Lo spettro
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A woman and her lover murder her husband, a doctor. Soon, however, strange things start happening, and they wonder if they really killed him, or if he is coming back from the dead to haunt them.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, suspense, grindhouse, psychotronic, cult film, cult movie cast
Plot:
ghost, undead, old dark house, folk horror, revenge, chess, love triangle, death, murder, genie, doctor, deception, mansion, safe, seance, housekeeper, supernatural power, woman, perversion, last will and testament, husband wife relationship, secret passageway, irony, faked death, poison ...
Time:
year 1963, 1800s, 19th century
Place:
scotland
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Most similar movies to The Ghost
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out gothic horror, gothic, psychotronic and suspense films with plots about supernatural, murder, ghost, italian gothic, supernatural power, macabre and haunted house mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Ghost: The Long Hair of Death (1964), The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962), The Virgin of Nuremberg (1963), Castle of Blood (1964), Nightmare Castle (1965). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and put to death. Her beautiful older daughter knows the real reason for the execution lies in the lord's sexual desire for her mother. After confronting the lord on the matter, ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot:
witch, execution, revenge from beyond the grave, witch burning, ghost, evil woman, curses spells and rituals, folk horror, medieval, female villain, revenge, supernatural ...
Time:
15th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot:
zombie, lawyer, plague, grave, occult, revenge, edgar allan poe, bubonic plague, voice over narration, widow, dead woman, black magic ...
Time:
medieval times
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, medical horror, slasher ...
Plot:
necrophilia, necrophiliac, hospital, second wife, folk horror, sadomasochism, dead wife, mad doctor, secret passageway, wife, woman, mystery woman ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, slasher, psychotronic
Plot:
castle, torture chamber, rat, nazi, macabre, folk horror, murder, nudity, death, secret passageway, dead woman, fire ...
Time:
year 1963
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A writer accepts a wager that he cannot spend the night alone in a haunted castle on All Soul's Eve. Once night falls at the castle, several who had been murdered therein return to life, reliving their deaths and seeking to kill the writer for ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, suspense, grindhouse, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted, ghost, edgar allan poe, supernatural, haunting, halloween, tomb, writers, snake, reporter, lgbt, love story ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman and her lover are tortured and killed by her sadistic husband. The pair return from the grave to seek vengeance.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, mad scientist, possessed woman, murder, infidelity, rivalry, haunted by the past, experiment gone awry, danger, vengeance, obsession ...
Time:
60s, 1800s, 1870s, 19th century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Count Karnstein sends for a doctor to help his sick daughter Laura. Her nurse believes she is possessed by the spirit of a dead ancestor;Carmilla. A young woman becomes intrigued by the mysterious deaths surrounding Laura after a carriage accident ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot:
castle, vampire, female vampire, witch, crypt, family curse, supernatural power, curse, isolated place, evil, hanging, historian ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
afterlife, witch, castle, curse, torture chamber, supernatural, hanging, auction, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
15th century, year 1972, 70s
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, suspense, sexy, psychotronic ...
Plot:
ghost, chess, mishap, lake, village, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, curse, witchcraft, supernatural power, secret passageway, house fire ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Upon his uncle's death, Serge Chekov journeys to a spooky Scottish village for the reading of the will. But when he inherits the estate, Serge runs afoul of his uncle's jealous wife , his business partner , his maid and others. It's ...
Style:
gothic horror, atmospheric, gothic, suspense, classic horror ...
Plot:
living dead, zombie, occult, mad scientist, cemetery, autopsy, corpse, obsession, small town, butler, supernatural power, satanism ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century
Place:
scotland, europe, central europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Kinski plays a retired doctor and jealous husband who returns with his wealthy wife (Katia Christian) to her family castle. He discovers his late father-in-law's basement laboratory, and angry at the attention his wife is paying to an old ...
Style:
suspense, gothic horror, gothic
Plot:
rape, doctor, castle, jekyll and hyde, murder, jealous husband, jealousy, forest, murder trial, scientific experiment, drifter, killing spree ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico, Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Based on a work by Edgar Alan Poe. A woman finds herself possessed by the soul of another woman trapped inside a painting. Also known as The Oval Portrait
Style:
gothic horror, psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder, buried alive, possession, claustrophobia, catatonia, ghost, civil war, female protagonist, isolation, macabre, haunting, supernatural ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three short tales of supernatural horror. In “The Telephone,” a woman is plagued by threatening phone calls. In "The Wurdalak,” a family is preyed upon by vampiric monsters. In “The Drop of Water,” a deceased medium wreaks havoc on ...
Style:
gothic, disturbing, atmospheric, anthology, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, macabre, vengeance, murder, afterlife, ghost, supernatural horror, visceral, family in danger, nobility, death, revenge ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 1800s, 60s, 19th century ...
Place:
london, russia, serbia, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A warlock burned at the stake comes back and takes over the body of his great grandson to take his revenge on the descendents of the villages that burned him.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, lovecraft, serious, tense ...
Plot:
curse, afterlife, edgar allan poe, mansion, burned alive, haunted house, cosmic horror, ghost, murder, mutant, haunted, cthulhu ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, classic horror, psychotronic
Plot:
vampire, countess, female nudity, decapitation, dracula, terror, paranoia, murder, bloodbath, castle, killing an animal, big natural breasts ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
Style:
dark, gothic, enigmatic, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
vampire, death, blood, nosferatu, seduction, transformation, supernatural, fear, priest, seance, fall in love, vampire human love ...
Time:
18th century, 1780s
Place:
venice, italy, israel
Similarity:
20%
439
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A murdered woman seeks revenge, possesses her husband's new wife.
Style:
suspense, supernatural thriller, sinister, creepy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
possession, haunted house, ghost, revenge, supernatural, murder, macabre, afterlife, female protagonist, family secret, marriage, occult ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In the 19th century, a sadistic nobleman terrorizes the members of his family. He is found dead, but his ghost soon returns to haunt the residents of his castle.
Style:
gothic, sexy, gothic horror, grindhouse, surprise ending ...
Plot:
masochist, ghost, sadomasochism, haunted castle, bdsm, haunted by the past, crypt, nobleman, father son relationship, folk horror, haunted house, female psychopath ...
Time:
year 1963, 19th century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A deranged killer lives in the basement of an old mansion and pops out occasionally to commit grisly murders that include be-headings.
Style:
bloody, psychotronic, lovecraft, grindhouse, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, blood, gory, violent, murder, insanity, serial killer, ghost, vengeance, undead, dead body, babysitter ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, boston, new england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allen Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, suspense, classic horror ...
Plot:
vampire, ghost, edgar allan poe, snake, castle, dracula, reporter, murder, psychopath, couples, survival, dangerous animal ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This ghost story, set at the turn of the century, centers on the plight of elderly dowager Marianna, who is tormented by the alleged specter of a young man roaming the corridors of her mansion. After spotting a face in an old photograph that seems ...
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, sinister, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunting, supernatural, mansion, ghost story, apparition, elderly man, macabre, haunted house, isolation, mourning, family drama, slow burn ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1890s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabel’s resurrection. But doing this won’t be easy as the women aren’t gonna give in very easily.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, gothic horror
Plot:
witch, folk horror, occult, lgbt, vampire, eroticism, virgin sacrifice, woman, immolation, old man, death, supernatural horror ...
Time:
14th century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This is the fifth film to feature Spanish actor Paul Naschy as Waldemar the Wolfman. Here he comes to swinging seventies' London, seeking a cure to his malady. Unfortunately he meets Dr. Jekyll who injects him with a serum that turns him into ...
Style:
classic horror, grindhouse, gothic, gothic horror, suspense ...
Plot:
lycanthropy, jekyll and hyde, wolfman, werewolf, female nudity, attempted rape, mad doctor, wolf, underground, murder, monster, woman ...
Time:
70s
Place:
transylvania
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
Style:
gothic horror, atmospheric, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, curse, afterlife, supernatural, haunted house, woman in jeopardy, rottweiler, danger, haunted by the past, psychopath, domestic disturbance, mysterious character ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A tale of witchcraft, black magic and a haunted house in the Amish country.
Style:
gothic, spooky, suspense, psychotronic, satanic ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted, witch, haunting, bible, house, supernatural, old dark house, 666, occult, hagsploitation, supernatural horror ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Elizabeth travels to the family castle to hear her uncle's will. Once there, she encounters a crazy woman in a wheelchair, a murderer and has nightmares about the legendary ghost who is said to be in the castle. As if that were not bad enough, ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror
Plot:
folk horror, erotica, inheritance, castle, murder, dark and stormy night, death of uncle, impostor, governess, blonde, fistfight, dog attack ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
An old man sells his soul to the devil, and turns into a young man. He then uses witchcraft and black magic to win a woman from his rival.
Style:
classic horror, sinister, black and white, supernatural thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, occult, soul selling, pact with the devil, black magic, witchcraft, moral corruption, temptation, love triangle, deception, revenge, transformation ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Upon arriving at the dilapidated estate of his mentor, Dr. Harker finds his former professor, Dr. Usher, radically changed. Instead of the reasoned scholar he once knew, a paranoid man is in his place and he's spiraling into madness.
Style:
gothic, grim, atmospheric, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
haunted house, mad scientist, supernatural, murder, madness, insanity, edgar allan poe, zombie, revenge, ghost, psychosis, macabre ...
Similarity:
18%
416
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Baron Ivan Rassimov, a brilliant doctor, died horribly during a fire burst in his laboratory. Since that day, his daughter Tanja retired to a life of reclusion, covering with a dark veil her disfigured face. Professor Nijinski was once a student of ...
Style:
suspense, dark, psychological horror, gothic, retro ...
Plot:
mad scientist, disfigured face, medical experiment, murder, obsession, disfigurement, macabre, sadism, violent, cosmetic surgery, body horror, obsessive love ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
England, 1897. Abraham Van Helsing receives a letter from his former student Dr John Seward requesting his urgent assistance in the northern town of Whitby, where his fiancée Lucy is showing all the signs of vampirism. Van Helsing follows the ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, psychotronic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
female vampire, supernatural power, supernatural ability, romantic rivalry, evil, friendship, death, vampire bite, death of loved one, killing, rivalry, loss ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
18%
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