Movies like The Melancholy Fantastic
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The Melancholy Fantastic (2011)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Suffering from her mother's recent suicide, a delusional young girl falls for an alluring Goth, against the objections of a life-size talking muslin doll. The Melancholy Fantastic is a psychological thriller set during the holidays.
Style:
christmas horror, suspenseful, surreal, gothic, fairy tale, scary, dark, controversial, stylized, psychological ...
Plot:
christmas, mental illness, holiday horror, loneliness, grief, fall in love, losing-it hero, imaginary character, imaginary, objects come to life, puppet, love, split personality, doll, imagination, self discovery, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, magic realism, insanity, delusion, christ allegory, xmas, illness, toys ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Melancholy Fantastic
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, serious and psychological films with plots about danger, supernatural, christmas, deadly, murder, blood and macabre mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Melancholy Fantastic: They Look Like People (2015), The Broken (2008), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Love Object (2003), Before I Wake (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, demon, insanity, supernatural, twists and turns, mental disorder, obsession, paranoia, friendship, illness, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and ...
Style:
mind bending, surreal, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nightmare, doppelganger, dream, broken mirror, fear, murder of a nude woman, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, danger, sex, embassy ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sad, surreal, touching ...
Audience:
date night, teens, kids, chick flick, family outing ...
Plot:
loneliness, goth, love, surrealism, christmas, love story, freak, love and romance, social misfits, teenage girl, garden, inventor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, year 1990, 50s
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, afterlife, fall in love, parallel world, losing-it hero, imaginary, trapped, survival, chases and races, love and romance, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, perverse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex doll, obsession, stalking, murder, loner, doll, mentally unstable, abduction, couples, objects come to life, love affair, love and romance ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.
Style:
psychological, scary, spooky, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural horror, insomnia, subconscious, nightmare, dream, orphan, danger, child, supernatural power, monster, haunted, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 2016, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A big family moves into a dusty old house in the snowy woods of Washington with hopes of it being a nice holiday escape. But the kids soon discover a stash of old toys that just so happen to belong to a creepy ghost boy. As stranger and stranger ...
Style:
christmas horror, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric, weird ...
Plot:
christmas, evil doll, child in peril, mental institution, holiday horror, toys, christmas present, christmas eve, parents and children, objects come to life, mansion, supernatural ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, mind bending, suspense ...
Plot:
obsessive love, supernatural power, coma, haunted by the past, love triangle, love and romance, tragic love, small town life, obsession, male female relationship, loss, loneliness ...
Place:
connecticut, new england
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.
Style:
christmas horror, scary, psychological, satanic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
devil, holiday horror, supernatural, blood, deal with the devil, profanity, mental disorder, basement, fear, evil, family in danger, suspicion ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. ...
Style:
surreal, depressing, dark comedy, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
loner, disability, paranoia, surrealism, drunken sex, psychiatry, workplace, creativity, obsession, insanity, self discovery, suicide ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, christmas horror, creepy, psychological ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, evil child, found footage, psychopath, killer child, twins, valentine's day, disturbed child, family problems, danger, family life, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style:
dark, surreal, creepy, biting, art house ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, cat, prostitute, loneliness, murder, father son relationship, drug addict, following someone, drug use, women, feminist ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place:
middle east, iran, persia, maghreb, california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Style:
slasher, christmas horror, spooky, crime thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
christmas, murder, xmas, holiday horror, masked killer, rainstorm, estranged father, hagsploitation, hysteria, darkness, new year's eve, woods ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
49%
15K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A ventriloquist is at the mercy of his vicious dummy while he tries to renew a romance with his high school sweetheart.
Style:
scary, psychological, slasher, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
evil doll, ventriloquist, alter ego, ventriloquist dummy, magic, doll, slow burn, split personality, rise and fall, puppet, objects come to life, toys ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of toymakers seek to use Andre Toulon's formula, now in the hands of Toulon's great-nephew Robert, to give life to a line of killer toys that they plan to unleash on Christmas Eve.
Style:
sexy, christmas horror, suspenseful, suspense, demonic ...
Plot:
christmas, killer doll, evil corporation, puppet, sex, supernatural, doll, experiment gone awry, good versus evil, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, factory ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Soon after moving in with her aging aunt Dora, Adele meets Beth, seductive and mysterious, who tests the limits of Adele's moral ground and sends her spiraling down a psychologically unstable and phantasmagoric path.
Style:
gothic, queer horror, suspense, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, girlfriend, evil, loneliness, swimming pool, supernatural, lesbian teen, women, lgbtq, mental disorder, swimming ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, gothic, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, mental patient, insanity, plot twist, psychiatrist, edgar allan poe, madhouse, doctors and patients, doctor, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1800s, year 1900
Place:
england, britain, usa, oxford university, tuscany ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Style:
christmas horror, slasher, bloody, scary, grindhouse ...
Plot:
holiday horror, killer santa claus, christmas, serial killer as protagonist, serial killer, xmas, killer, holiday, exploitation, winter, blood, christmas season ...
Time:
year 1980, 1940s, 80s, year 1947, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Described as "Angela Carter rewriting La Belle et la Bête as an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer", the story follows, through a tapestry of dreamlike images, a girl (Sarah Livingston Evans) and her three friends—the characters' ...
Style:
suspenseful, gothic, fairy tale, serious, surreal ...
Plot:
obsession, impossible love, deadly creature, danger, love and romance, supernatural, tragic love, dangerous attraction, stalking, lesbian, beauty and the beast, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman, who is dying of a brain disorder, begins a surreal journey which descends into violence.
Style:
surreal, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
female nudity, mental illness, sex addict, obsession, family relations, siblings relations, gory, losing-it hero, murder, schizophrenia, hallucination, alternate reality ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
48%
36K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, imagination, heroin, mental illness, drug addiction, surrealism, addiction, abandoned house, imaginary friend, mentally challenged, death by overdose, talking doll ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, austin texas, texas, usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A lonely young woman's desperate need for emotional and sexual companionship draws her into a surreal and ultimately destructive relationship with a shifting and whispering tattoo she has willed to life on her skin.
Style:
serious, scary, surreal, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
body horror, supernatural, losing-it hero, love and romance, starting over, sexual relations, nightlife, physical appearance, couples, mental illness, illness, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, male nudity, psychiatric patient, alone, murder, psychopath, friendship, hospital, woman in danger, mental institution, drug dealing, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
48%
Movie in collections
10K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.
Style:
christmas horror, suspense, psychological, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
patient, holiday horror, psychiatrist, murder, police officer, house, pills, car accident, self mutilation, father daughter relationship, mental illness, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A metropolitan city is in the grip of fear when rolling blackouts bring out a serial killer dubbed The Picasso Killer. One night, in the middle of a blackout, seven strangers become trapped in an office building as the killer hunts for Christie ...
Style:
christmas horror, suspenseful, bleak, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
serial killer, stalking, violence, danger, psychopath, suburbs, christmas, murder witness, xmas, isolation, murder, trapped ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
133K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, gothic, creepy, biting ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, loneliness, childhood, first love, blood, gory, friendship, coming of age, supernatural, friends, mysterious character, children ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, italy, europe, stockholm sweden ...
Similarity:
48%
36K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, creepy, scary, cult classic ...
Plot:
immortality, vampire, addiction, death, goth, invention, aging, blood, danger, haunted by the past, race against time, body horror ...
Time:
16th century, 90s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place:
south america, mexico, los angeles, usa, latin america ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn...
Style:
christmas horror, surreal, horrifying, rough, frightening ...
Plot:
surrealism, psychopath, gory, extreme, holiday horror, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, rape, gay rape, backwoods, redneck ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When Jeff and his friend rescue a young beautiful woman (Kelly Preston) from an apparently abusive boyfriend, the trouble starts. Jeff unknowing becomes involved with Miranda (Kelly) and the web of intrigue that follows her. Miranda is on the run ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, christmas horror, demonic ...
Plot:
witch, human sacrifice, satanism, occult, dangerous attraction, lawyer, betrayal, rescue, witchcraft, supernatural ability, fall in love, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A family gathers for a happy reunion and marriage announcement on Christmas Day at an isolated mansion in the Philippine mountains only to encounter a series of bizarre, demonic, and tragic events.
Style:
gothic horror, scary, suspenseful, christmas horror, psychological ...
Plot:
found footage, religious cult, black magic, christmas, survival, family in danger, estate, danger, ghost, terrorism, supernatural, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia
Similarity:
47%
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