Movies like The Uninvited

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The Uninvited (2009)
 6.3
 82K
The Uninvited (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions.
Style: scary, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, slasher, psychological, intense, gothic, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, suspense, parents and children, mental illness, family problems, woman in danger, uncover truth, family in danger, teenager, twists and turns, siblings relations, pretense, mistrust, revenge, death of mother, adaptation, evil woman, psychology, sisters, schizophrenia, fear, psychiatry, plot twist, puzzle ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 1986, 21st century, contemporary
Place: maine, new england

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Most similar movies to The Uninvited

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, psychological and weird films with plots about suspense, supernatural, ghost, twists and turns, blood, macabre and storytelling mostly in Mystery, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Uninvited: The Others (2001), Half Light (2006), Orphan (2009), Hide and Seek (2005), Shutter (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 7.6
 373K
The Others (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, scary, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, suspense, supernatural, afterlife, nightmare, twists and turns, mysterious character, spiritualism, mansion, isolation, supernatural horror ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1945
Place: europe, english channel, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 14K
Half Light (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, surprise ending, intense ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: ghost, supernatural, murder, lighthouse, death of child, suspense, uncover truth, mentally unstable, loss of child, woman in danger, writers, afterlife ...
Place: london, scotland, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 236K
Orphan (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, 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, surprise ending ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: orphan, suspense, adoption, killer child, murder, twists and turns, female psychopath, mysterious character, parents and children, fear, serial killer, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.9
 87K
Hide and Seek (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: imaginary friend, suspense, plot twist, split personality, twists and turns, psychologist, mental illness, haunted by the past, ghost, murder, single father, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.2
 36K
Shutter (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Thailand
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A newly married couple discovers disturbing, ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. Fearing the manifestations may be connected, they investigate and learn that some mysteries are better left unsolved.
Style: scary, atmospheric, psychological, twist ending, road movie ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: ghost, suspense, supernatural, death, spirit, revenge, police investigation, car accident, obsession, wedding, haunted by the past, uncover truth ...
Place: japan, tokyo, new york, asia, mount fuji ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
What Lies Beneath (2000)
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, scary, twist ending ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, suspense, adultery, couple relations, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural horror, supernatural, woman in danger, haunted by the past, spiritualism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: vermont, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, scary, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, ghost, suicide, twists and turns, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, haunted house, tragedy, suspense, children, guilt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia, south korea, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 1.0M
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: ghost, twists and turns, supernatural, afterlife, suspense, psychology, death, psychiatrist, life & death, plot twist, child, boy ...
Time: 90s, future, 20th century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.0
 68K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, twists and turns, haunted house, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, suspense, murder, mental patient, ghost, nervous breakdown, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 43K
The Ward (2010)
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, tense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, ghost, supernatural, split personality, dissociative identity disorder, murder, doctors and patients, twists and turns, brutality, confined, suspense ...
Time: 80s, 60s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 139K
The Visit (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: suspense, murder, elderly, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, family relations, farm, sibling relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, parents and children, basement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.8
 279K
1408 (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, confusing, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, suspense, hotel, haunted house, supernatural, isolation, fear, survival, evil, insanity, trapped, writers ...
Time: 15th century, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 115K
Gothika (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
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: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mental institution, mind game, hospital, crazy, suspense ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.4
 158K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style: scary, twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, fear, macabre, missing child, death, tragic event, twists and turns, afterlife, orphanage, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, gothic, mysterious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, plot twist, occult, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural horror, twists and turns, suspense, ritual, black magic, macabre, supernatural ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 34K
Marrowbone (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style: scary, surprise ending, tense, slasher, clever ...
Plot: ghost, suspense, mental illness, twists and turns, sibling relationship, plot twist, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, schizophrenic, split personality, attic ...
Time: 60s, year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 25K
Jessabelle (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Style: scary, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, voodoo, psychology, macabre, nightmare, disability, insanity, uncover truth, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1988, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 133K
Lights Out (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When Rebecca left home, she thought she left her childhood fears behind. Growing up, she was never really sure of what was and wasn’t real when the lights went out…and now her little brother, Martin, is experiencing the same unexplained and ...
Style: scary, dark, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, mental illness, macabre, supernatural, monster, darkness, paranormal, child in peril, mental institution, haunted house, depression, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 6.5
 12K
Enter Nowhere (2011)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious ...
Style: psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: time paradox, time travel, group of strangers, cabin in the woods, alternate reality, survival, confined, forest, lost, teleportation, isolation, stranger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 231K
The Babadook (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: monster, supernatural, ghost, macabre, nightmare, fear, single mother, suspense, insanity, dysfunctional family, mental illness, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 35K
6 Souls (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: supernatural, twists and turns, psychiatrist, split personality, murder, doctors and patients, supernatural horror, female psychiatrist, macabre, mental illness, demon, suspense ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place: usa, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 511K
Split (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, intense, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental illness, kidnapping, suspense, murder, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, insanity, psychopath, serial killer, psycho, schizophrenia, paranoia ...
Time: 2010s
Place: pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
House on Haunted Hill (1999)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A remake of the 1959 film of the same name. A millionaire offers a group of diverse people $1,000,000 to spend the night in a haunted house with a horrifying past.
Style: scary, suspenseful, frightening, slasher, rough ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, evil spirit, survival, mental institution, murder, haunted by the past, isolation, serial murder, confined, rescue ...
Time: 90s, 1930s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 5.3
 40K
The Messengers (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When the Solomons trade in the craziness of big-city life for the quiet of a North Dakota farm, little do they expect the nightmare that follows. Soon after arriving, teenage Jess (Kristen Stewart) and her younger brother see terrifying apparitions ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, murder, suspense, death threat, uncover truth, family in danger, haunted by the past, family problems, psychopath, teenage life ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: north dakota, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 5.5
 6K
The Echo (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bobby Reynolds is released on probation from Rikers and moves to the old apartment in East Village, New York, where his lonely mother lived and passed away. He finds a job as mechanic at the Houston Auto Repair shop owned by the supportive Hector ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, ex convict, riddles and clues, domestic disturbance, family problems, parents and children, curses spells and rituals, grudge, suspense, freak, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 272K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, witchcraft, religion, paranoia, isolation, wilderness, suspense, family bonds, black magic, curses spells and rituals, insanity ...
Time: 17th century, 19th century
Place: new england, canada, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
 89K
Case 39 (2009)
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, gloomy, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, evil child, supernatural horror, social worker, mysterious character, demon, child abuse, uncover truth, twists and turns, murder, mental institution, evil force ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
15%
 6.4
 60K
Session 9 (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style: psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychology, supernatural, mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, lobotomy, ghost, haunted house, suspense, insanity, transformation, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Style: scary, suspenseful, frightening, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, paranormal activity, demon, nightmare comes true, child in peril, suspense, serial killer, boy, afterlife ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
 147K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, murder, macabre, suspense, suicide, paranormal activity, vengeance, death, demon ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%