Movies like The Spiral Staircase
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The Spiral Staircase (2000)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
People are trapped in a house with a killer.
Style:
enigmatic, psychological, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, dark and stormy night, murder, sheriff, secret, mansion, suspense, stranded, island, storm, handicapped, brother, thunderstorm, mute, secret passageway, dead woman, mute woman, plot twist, twists and turns, spiral staircase, secret door, secret passage
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Most similar movies to The Spiral Staircase
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, serious and realistic films with plots about murder, serial killer, suspense, deadly, investigation, danger and death mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like The Spiral Staircase: Isle of Darkness (1997), Clue (1985), Awakened (2013), The Lost Angel (2005), Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Julie is a young and newly qualified teacher from Copenhagen, Denmark. Fed up with her unfaithful boyfriend and big city life, she takes a job as a teacher on an idyllic island in southern Norway. Julie finds it difficult to be accepted in the ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
serial killer, ghost, sex crime, sex scene, forced sexual contact, police officer, schoolboy, murder, sex, doctor, bicycle, school ...
Place:
norway
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss ...
Style:
surprise ending, parody, funny, humorous, mind bending ...
Audience:
chick flick, kids
Plot:
murder, butler, whodunit, investigation, multiple suspects, twists and turns, mansion, murder mystery, mystery killer, maid, blackmail, mind game ...
Time:
year 1954, 50s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
new england
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, murder, investigation, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, suspense, ghost, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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73%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style:
scary, serious, realistic, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, crucifix, investigation, law enforcement, murder, dealing with death, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, who done it, church, goth girl ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, law enforcement, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, suspense, evidence, escapades, twists and turns, witnessing a crime, nypd ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Movies similar to Gone Girl
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
agoraphobia, mental illness, mental disorder, death, murder, car accident, suspense, suicide, espionage, uncover truth, deception, plot twist ...
Place:
new york
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72%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a ...
Style:
dark, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot:
nightmare, vengeance, memory, sheriff, parent child relationship, banker, murder, secret, corpse, ghost, serial killer, supernatural ...
Place:
florida
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71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows disillusioned young family man John as a mysterious stranger, Richie takes him on a murder-fueled ride that transforms the weak-willed John into a desperate hero willing to go to any length to protect his family.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, mysterious character, moral dilemma, family in danger, violence spree, human nature, life is a bitch, serial killer, suspense, assassin, gang, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An account of serial killer Richard Ramírez and his rampage in California during the mid-1980s.
Style:
psychological, tense, slasher, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, rape, police, death, murderer, rapist, serial murder, violence, brutality, maniac ...
Time:
year 1980
Place:
california
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70%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, partners against crime, police investigation, murder, private detective, law enforcement, partners, suspense, nypd, police procedural, fictional country, deadly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Movies like Identity
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, car accident, police, female protagonist, suspense, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, courtroom, killer, lawyer, courtroom drama, death sentence, murderer, true crime, hunting, art, violence, insanity ...
Time:
80s
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70%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The long-awaited missing pieces from the original version of the film – nearly an hour-and-a-half of deleted/alternate scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – often referred to as the “holy grail” of Twin Peaks fandom.
Style:
enigmatic, psychological, disturbing, scary, post modern
Plot:
serial killer, murder, doppelganger, dead girl, investigation, surrealism, secret, sheriff, fbi, salvation, small town, corpse ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, enigmatic
Plot:
uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, serial killer, law enforcement, strong female presence, lifetime, deadly, danger
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
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69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
reincarnation, woman in danger, police detective, serial killer, law enforcement, assault, college student, deadly, danger
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A prosperous couple find the perfect live-in nanny but soon discover she intends to do her job to deadly perfection.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, slasher, sexy ...
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, nanny, mind game, family relations, family problems, crumbling marriage, rivalry, murder, neighbor, mysterious girl, mental illness ...
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.
Style:
psychological, sexy, enigmatic, melancholic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, femme fatale, obsession, murder, secret service, voyeurism, secrets, stalking, false identity, mysterious character, investigation, private detective ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, chicago illinois, alaska, boston, utah ...
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69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, mind game, rivalry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, who done it, police investigation ...
Place:
usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
woman in danger, murder, stalker, psychopath, stalking, computers and web, suspense, lifetime, danger, off the grid, deadly
Time:
21st century
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68%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, ghost, psychic power, talking to the dead, serial killer, death, suspense, new neighbor, fugitives, runaway, train, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A successful woman in New York City finds her life upended when she is forced to confront a dark truth that threatens to unravel her meticulously crafted life.
Style:
emotional, psychological, touching
Plot:
psychology, media, coming of age, suspense, sexual assault, rape, school shooting, female protagonist, traumatic past, sexual abuse, murder, private school ...
Place:
new york
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68%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, uncover truth, psychopath, who done it, mysterious character, mind game, police detective, murder, experiment gone awry, haunted by the past, killer ...
Place:
brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, bleak, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, island, whodunit, estate, haunted by the past, vigilante, death, guilt, paranoia, faked death, secret, poisoning ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of a young man who, through a series of surreal visions, comes to believe that he is a serial killer targeting pedophiles.
Style:
surreal, suspenseful, psychological, bleak
Plot:
pedophile, serial killer, investigation, vigilantism, suspense, killer child, haunted house, sibling, siblings
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68%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, psychological thriller
Plot:
investigation, private school, uncover truth, murder, school, winter, suspense, dishonesty, teenager, bullying, snow, boarding school ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, sexual murder, writer's block, sheriff, investigation, alcohol abuse, motel
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67%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot:
conspiracy, hospital, investigation, suspense, twists and turns, amateur detective, coma, serial killer, medical, black market, intern, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
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67%
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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 ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Gemma and Will are shattered when their son dies in an accident. Gemma blames herself and starts to have panic attacks that affect her eyesight - and the audience's point of view. Will, tormented, believes he is hearing his son's voice ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending, light ...
Plot:
obsession, missing person, secret, friend, paranoia, deception, husband wife relationship, mind game, isolation, disappearance, suspicion, tragedy ...
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67%
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Dr. Seung-hoon sedates his landlord before a medical check-up, when the old man begins telling him a convincing murder confession.
Style:
slasher, psychological, suspenseful, twisted
Plot:
murder, suspense, surgical operation, secret, surgery, uncover truth, doctor patient relationship, family relations, doctors and patients, twists and turns, justice, life & death ...
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67%
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