Movies like The Stepford Wives 1975
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The Stepford Wives (1975)
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The urban aspirant photographer Joanna Eberhart moves from Manhattan to Stepford, Connecticut with her family. Her husband Walter Eberhart decided to live in a calm suburb, but Joanna did not like the neighborhood with beautiful and perfect housewives. She becomes friend of Bobbie Markowe and Charmaine Wimperis, and when they change Joanna tries to escape.
Style:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, clever, allegory, sexy, intellectual ...
Plot:
robot, housewife, conspiracy, feminism, small town, women's liberation, suburbs, suspense, distopia, investigation, missing person, woman in danger, paranoia, suburban life, female protagonist, couple relations, twists and turns, androids, utopia, satire, female robot, friendship, cyborgs, female nudity, neighbor ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, connecticut, manhattan new york city, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, weird, scary and psychological films with plots about suspense, twists and turns, storytelling, dialogue, catastrophe, death and mentor mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like The Stepford Wives: Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Vivarium (2019), Coma (1978), Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Village of the Damned (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
What does it take to become a Stepford wife, a woman perfect beyond belief? Ask the Stepford husbands, who've created this high-tech, terrifying little town.
Style:
semi serious, satirical, feel good, humorous, clever ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
housewife, women, battle of the sexes, transformation, suburban life, robot, twists and turns, secrets, suspense, brainwashing, suburbs, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa, new york
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75%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A TV reporter arrives in the quiet town of Stepford to launch an investigation into why the town has the lowest divorce and crime rates in America. However, she begins to notice some bizarre behavior in the women of the town, discovering that ...
Style:
psychotronic, tech noir
Plot:
housewife, small town, suburbs, wedding, feminist, twins, evil twin, suspense, reporter, pharmacy, conspiracy, mind control ...
Place:
new england
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, investigation, serial killer, murder, small town life, small town, incest, mental illness, hallucination, supernatural, rape, double life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1988, 80s, year 1989
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an ...
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surreal, suspenseful, disturbing, absurd, allegory ...
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trapped, suspense, paradox, psychological torture, maze, human experiment, suburbs, young couple, evil child, evil wins, foster child, buying a house ...
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90%
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
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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.
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disturbing, suspenseful, scary, enigmatic, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, supernatural, photographer, police investigation, murder, murder mystery, obsession, psychic power, stalking, fashion, supernatural ability, nightmare comes true ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An American village is visited by some unknown life form which leaves the women of the village pregnant. Nine months later, the babies are born, and they all look normal, but it doesn't take the "parents" long to realize that the kids ...
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
Style:
scary, tense, talky, intense, stylized ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min.
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Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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38%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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38%
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Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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