Movies like The Black Cat

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The Black Cat (1968)
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The Black Cat (1968)
Original name: 藪の中の黒猫
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, serious, gothic, black and white, mind bending, psychedelic, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: samurai, ghost, murder, supernatural, vengeance, japanese mythology, folk horror, rape, revenge, black cat, rape and revenge, afterlife, curse, danger, love, vampire, battles, seduction, trap, deception, legend, husband wife relationship, moral dilemma, pagan, monster ...
Time: year 1968, 12th century, middle ages
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: feminist film, avant-garde

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Most similar movies to The Black Cat

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and serious films with plots about supernatural, murder, blood, danger, ghost, deadly and death mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Black Cat: Devil Woman (1964), The Hunger (1983), Rosemary's Baby (1968), Viy (1967), Mother of Tears (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Devil Woman (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.
Style: black and white, surreal, scary, art house, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: samurai, folk horror, murder, swamp, witch, sexuality, sex, survival, danger, vengeance, medieval, japanese history ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, 14th century
Place: japan, asia
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95%
 6.6
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The Hunger (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Miriam and John are an elegant couple with a dark secret: they are vampires. Feeding on human blood, Miriam has lived for over 2000 years. She gave her lover the gift of eternal life and together they hunt. But John begins aging rapidly, he seeks ...
Style: gothic, dark, erotic, scary, queer horror ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: vampire, goth, femme fatale, lesbian sex, lesbian, bloodsucker, lesbian vampire, sexy female vampire, lgbt, erotica, vampire sex, lgbtq ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
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Rosemary's Baby (1968)
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, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: satanic cult, paranoia, devil, satanism, murder, pregnancy, supernatural, witchcraft, coven, supernatural horror, secret society, demonic possession ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1966, year 1965
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 9K
Viy (1967)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Style: suspenseful, scary, dark fantasy, serious, stylized ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, witchcraft, church, supernatural, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, danger, escapades, evil dead, good versus evil, medieval ...
Time: medieval times, year 1967, middle ages
Place: ukraine, soviet union, kiev ukraine, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mother of Tears (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
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, rough, stylized, suspense ...
Plot: black magic, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, occult, dark secret, good versus evil, torture, witchcraft, chaos, vengeance, witch, danger ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Amityville Horror (1979)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: George Lutz and his wife Kathleen, move into their Long Island dream house with their children only for their lives to be turned into a hellish nightmare. The legacy of a murder committed in the house gradually affects the family and a priest is ...
Style: scary, demonic, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, haunted, paranormal, murder, fear, possession, supernatural horror, macabre, indian burial ground, demon ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1974, year 1975
Place: long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Temple (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
Style: demonic, bleak, disturbing, scary, suspense ...
Plot: travel, temple, tourist, evil spirit, curse, terror, violence, murder, able to see the dead, friendship, book, jungle adventure ...
Place: japan, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kwaidan (1964)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story: Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his ...
Style: anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: samurai, ghost, supernatural, macabre, snow, spirit, naval battle, japanese mythology, surrealism, folk horror, betrayal, visceral ...
Time: 19th century, 17th century, 11th century, 13th century, 1900s ...
Place: japan, asia, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Masque of the Red Death (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style: gothic, surreal, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, murder, medieval, macabre, revenge, plague, life & death, good versus evil, brutality, tragic villain, transformation, sacrifice ...
Time: middle ages, victorian era, medieval times
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: England is torn in civil strife as the Royalists battle the Parliamentary Party for control. This conflict distracts people from rational thought and allows unscrupulous men to gain local power by exploiting village superstitions. One of these men ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, disturbing, gothic, rough ...
Plot: witch, folk horror, inquisition, torture, rape, murder, witch hunt, vengeance, burned alive, violence, exploitation, macabre ...
Time: 17th century, year 1968
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Entity (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style: scary, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: rape, supernatural, sexual abuse, female nudity, demon rape, paranormal phenomena, ghost, haunted, sexual assault, invisibility, torment, sex crime ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style: gothic, bleak, enigmatic, dark, scary ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, blood, loneliness, death, insanity, castle, surrealism, obsession, transformation, life & death ...
Time: 19th century, year 1979, 1800s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: romania, bulgaria, europe, germany, black sea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Kaidan (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the ...
Style: serious, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: samurai, supernatural, ghost, murder, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, reincarnation, medieval, dealing with death, heroes, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)
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, disturbing, creepy, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, afterlife, social worker, panic, haunted by the past, family problems, woman in danger, investigation, haunted, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2002, year 2000, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Count Dracula (1970)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, grindhouse, classic horror, cult classic ...
Plot: dracula, vampire, supernatural, female vampire, monster, occult, living dead, frankenstein, paranormal, goth, sexy female vampire, 666 ...
Time: 19th century
Place: europe, transylvania, romania, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Human (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate as food and water run out.
Style: tension
Plot: sea, stranded, boat, yacht, guilt, food, rain, suicide, murder, shipwreck, captain, water ...
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26%
 8.0
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Demons (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe ...
Style: avant garde, black and white, art house, creepy
Plot: samurai, geisha, revenge, time travel, extreme, clan, treasure hunt, terror, macabre, exile, feudal japan, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Big Monster War (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min.
Story: When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, bizarre
Plot: ghost, supernatural, vampire, monster, demon, folk horror, pagan, underdog, folklore, creature, sexploitation, samurai ...
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Olalla (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Bolivia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Based in the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Olalla" tells the story of a gothic and decadent family of genetic vampires who need human blood to survive, and where incest is the only way to maintain the family line.
Style: tense, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic, bleak ...
Plot: vampire, incest rape, murder, bondage, death, fear, supernatural, supernatural ability, society, violence, killings, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Heks (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister ...
Style: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, fear, murder, chase, death, violence, paranormal, evil, deadly creature, peril, supernatural power, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa
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24%
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The Maid (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, plot twist, revenge, ghost story, danger, master and servant, woman in danger, mysterious past, vengeful ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.0
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Black Sabbath (1963)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 92 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, atmospheric, disturbing, anthology, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, vengeance, murder, macabre, afterlife, ghost, lesbian subtext, family in danger, visceral, supernatural horror, death, revenge ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 1800s, 60s, 19th century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.1
 9K
Spiral (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. ...
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, obsession, small town, surrealism, transformation, insanity, cosmic horror, body horror, curse, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural horror ...
Place: japan
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23%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Style: gothic, scary, dark, psychological horror, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
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Time: 1920s, year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 20th century
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Empire of Passion (1978)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well. To ...
Style: erotic, psychological, atmospheric, sexual, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, murder, sex, love, village, perfect crime, affair, sensuality, wedding, women, older woman younger man relationship, rape ...
Time: 1890s, 19th century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.1
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The Heirloom (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house; when he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen.
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, vengeance, inheritance, haunted by the past, supernatural, family problems, family relations, danger, curses spells and rituals, estate, domestic disturbance, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an extended working holiday. Alex finds a house for them in Kyoto, Japan, and the Fletchers move in, laughing off rumors that the place ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, love affair, murder, samurai, haunting, adultery, family in danger, family problems, infidelity, afterlife, female nudity ...
Time: year 1982, 19th century, 1840s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo, kyoto japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.3
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Violation (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A traumatic betrayal drives a woman towards a vengeful extremity.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense ...
Plot: rape and revenge, murder, revenge, male nudity, female protagonist, death, rape victim, male pubic hair, troubled marriage, betrayal, erection, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
El Regreso de La Llorona (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country:
Duration: 73 min.
Story: La Llorona, a supernatural being who seeks revenge for the death of her daughters, attacks a group of young people on vacation at the beach after they accidentally kill a young girl.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing, mystical
Plot: folklore, vengeful ghost, legend, supernatural horror, supernatural, supernatural being, mysticism, creature, vengeance, paranormal activity, murderer, supernatural power ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Snake Woman's Curse (1968)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the ...
Style: psychedelic, mind bending, suspense, surreal, gothic ...
Plot: snake, vengeance, fiancee, virgin, rape, revenge, wedding, trippy, snake people, pagan, ghost, supernatural power ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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