Movies like Dario Argento's Suspiria
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Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977)
115K
Original name: Suspiria
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
Style:
suspense, creepy, scary, gothic, dark, satanic, surreal, classic horror, cult classic, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
witch, murder, boarding school, coven, black magic, gory, supernatural, ballet school, spell, witchery, killer, darkness, hanged woman, supernatural horror, lesbian subtext, brutality, supernatural power, female victim, time machine, violent, serial murder, surrealism, conspiracy, folk horror, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, italy, west germany, american
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Most similar movies to Dario Argento's Suspiria
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about macabre, murder, supernatural, gory, danger, demon and blood mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Dario Argento's Suspiria: Inferno (1980), Deep Red (1975), Phenomena (1985), The Sentinel (1977), Suspiria (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
26K
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Style:
dark, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, scary ...
Plot:
death, amateur detective, witch, haunted house, gory, supernatural, violent, murder, serial killer, eclipse, danger, riddles and clues ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
italy, rome italy, new york
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
33K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Style:
surreal, creepy, scary, slasher horror, perverse ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
supernatural, chimpanzee, telepathy, psychic power, teenage girl, serial killer, killer, mysticism, insect, female psychopath, investigation, violent woman ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
europe, switzerland, zurich switzerland, alps, munich germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A commitment-shy New York fashion model moves into an old brownstone apartment, meets her weird neighbours and discovers she’s sitting on the gateway to Hell.
Style:
scary, creepy, gothic, suspense, satanic ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, devil, secret society, model, occult, investigation, supernatural horror, murder, hell, demon ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
usa, italy, new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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104K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style:
suspense, psychological horror, dark, sinister, avant garde ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
ritual sacrifice, dead woman, curse, witchcraft, secret, paranormal phenomena, mysterious event, corporal punishment, occult, good versus evil, spiritualism, witch ...
Time:
year 1977, year 1948, 70s, year 1943, post world war two
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, italy, ohio, east berlin
Similarity:
68%
111K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style:
slasher, bloody, medical horror, perverse, grindhouse ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, holiday horror, masked killer, masked villain, stalking, killer, masked man, psycho killer, voyeur ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
illinois, midwest, chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, gory, cannibal, blood, cannibalism, island, extreme, survival, danger, isolation, mysterious character, supernatural ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
europe, athens greece, greece
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman has visions that suggest the eruption of the living dead into the world through a portal, spurred on by the suicide of a priest.
Style:
scary, bloody, disturbing, splatter, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
zombie, gory, suicide, violent, curse, extreme violence, buried alive, darkness, living dead, small town, ouija, apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1980, 80s
Place:
new england, usa, savannah georgia, new york, georgia ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style:
psychological, classic horror, surreal, psychological horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
satanic cult, devil, pregnancy, paranoia, satanism, satanic ritual, witchcraft, secret society, supernatural horror, coven, occult, antichrist ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1966, year 1968 ...
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa ...
Similarity:
67%
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: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
Style:
slasher, grindhouse, gothic, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
violent, supernatural horror, blindness, gory, darkness, ghost, afterlife, hell, zombie attack, murder, haunted house, surrealism ...
Time:
80s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
louisiana, italy, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
murder, supernatural, supernatural horror, nightmare, fear, dream, serial killer, gory, sleep deprivation, teenager, nightmare comes true, high school ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
ohio, usa, canada
Similarity:
67%
29K
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Style:
demonic, scary, satanic, perverse, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
demon, zombie, plague, body horror, gory, death, demonic possession, supernatural, panic, survival horror, danger, chaos ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, europe, berlin germany, germany, italy ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, island, virus, zombie outbreak, gory, survival horror, zombie attack, living dead, zombie apocalypse, boat, doctor, shark ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, caribbean, italy, fictional island ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.
Style:
splatter, disturbing, atmospheric, surreal, gothic ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, occult, radio station, devil, violent, losing-it hero, spell, curse, radio, radio dj, burned alive ...
Time:
2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
salem massachusetts, new england, usa, massachusetts, boston ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An American photographer (Mimsy Farmer) and a Scotland Yard inspector (David Warbeck) suspect a man's (Patrick Magee) cat of murder.
Style:
gothic, demonic, slasher, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, murder, mysterious character, mind game, uncover truth, dangerous animal, supernatural ability, danger, edgar allan poe, animal life ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, stylized, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
black magic, curse, demonic possession, satanic cult, spell, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, dark secret, occult, good versus evil, evil witch, chaos ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
rome italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A young girl's arrival at a convent after the death of her parents marks the beginning of a series of events that unleash an evil presence on the girl and her mysterious new friend, an enigmatic figure known as Alucarda. Demonic possession, ...
Style:
satanic, gothic horror, suspenseful, scary, serious ...
Plot:
convent, nunsploitation, female monster, hysteria, curses spells and rituals, occult, telekinesis, religious fanaticism, erotica, evil nun, male nudity, nun ...
Time:
19th century, 1860s, 1800s, year 1865
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Style:
surreal, psychological, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, memory loss, sadistic psychopath, art, murder, killer, psycho killer, surrealism, obsession, vengeance, rape, violent ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, florence
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A university student is pursued by a man with a demonic secret.
Style:
surprise ending, scary, lovecraft, cult classic, creepy ...
Plot:
occult, folk horror, good versus evil, cosmic horror, cthulhu, professor, female nudity, supernatural power, villain played by lead actor, grandfather grandson relationship, small town, library ...
Similarity:
100%
495K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to ...
Style:
scary, suspense, demonic, classic horror, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
religion, demon, exorcism, priest, supernatural, devil, demonic possession, possession, occult, supernatural horror, exorcist, crisis of faith ...
Time:
70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., persia, iraq, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Two horror segments based on Edgar Allan Poe stories set in and around the city of Pittsburgh. "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" concerns a cheating wife who is trying to scam her dying husband out of millions by having her ...
Style:
anthology, gothic, creepy, cult classic, scary ...
Plot:
blood, zombie, spirit, macabre, greed, ghost, murder, older woman younger man relationship, female criminal, inquisition, supernatural, gory ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 90s
Place:
america, pittsburgh, new york
Similarity:
100%
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410K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style:
gothic, dark, scary, atmospheric, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, witch, ghost, murder, investigation, supernatural horror, magical, witchcraft, small town, horseman, goth, legends and myths ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 90s, year 1999 ...
Place:
new york, new york state, britain, america, madagascar
Similarity:
50%
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style:
psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place:
colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dream demon Freddy Krueger is resurrected from his apparent demise, and rapidly tracks down and kills the remainder of the Elm Street kids. However, Kristen, who can draw others into her dreams, wills her special ability to her friend Alice. Alice ...
Style:
slasher, scary, spooky, surreal, classic horror ...
Audience:
date night, teen fantasy, teens, adult
Plot:
nightmare on elm street, supernatural, body horror, high school, cheerleader, asthma, serial killer, murder, characters murdered one by one, teenage girl, male victim, haunted house ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1991
Place:
ohio, usa, midwest
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
Style:
satanic, slasher, gothic, grindhouse, gothic horror ...
Plot:
folk horror, rape, teenage girl, human sacrifice, occult, devil, satanism, beast, witchcraft, villainess, lust, femme fatale ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, year 1971, 17th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
100%
25K
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A Beverly Hills teen (Billy Warlock) discovers his parents are part of a gruesome orgy cult for the social elite.
Style:
horror comedy, creepy, dark comedy, surreal, homoerotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
body horror, conspiracy, surrealism, secret society, dark humor, cannibalism, cheerleader, paranoia, transformation, satire, black magic, making love ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills
Similarity:
100%
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:
17%
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