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The Canal (2014)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, surreal, spooky, tense, light, thought provoking ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, murder, investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, cheating, husband wife relationship, tragedy, depression, adultery, infidelity, violence, sex, time, twists and turns, demon, psychology, dark humor, macabre, death, paranormal, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
ireland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, dark, atmospheric and scary films with plots about supernatural, suspense, macabre, storytelling, twists and turns, ghost and catastrophe mostly in Mystery, Horror and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Canal: Sinister (2012), The Orphanage (2007), It Follows (2014), The Sixth Sense (1999), Housebound (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, fear, murder, supernatural horror, investigation, evil force, writer's life, paranormal activity, children ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, year 1966, year 1979, year 1998 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, st. louis missouri
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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
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, evil, macabre, suspense, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, death, coming of age, sex, supernatural being ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
michigan, detroit, california, usa, plymouth
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100%
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%
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, funny ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
haunted house, house arrest, supernatural, twists and turns, female protagonist, suspense, ghost, plot twist, parents and children, police investigation, dark humor, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new zealand
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, macabre, cult, hotel, paranormal investigation, paranormal, fear, paranormal activity, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa
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33%
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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
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33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, disturbing, intense, harsh ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, redemption, guilt, russian, village, haunted by the past, medieval, curses spells and rituals, suspense, macabre, dark secret ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages
Place:
finland, europe, russia
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32%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Style:
scary, enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suicide, suspense, twists and turns, forest, haunted house, missing person, destiny, sisters, hallucination, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
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50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, dark, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
dinner party, suicide, obsession, conspiracy, suspense, suspicion, cult, deception, old friend, insanity, vengeance, survival ...
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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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, supernatural, demon, paranoia, secrets, insanity, obsession, twists and turns, monster, mental disorder, nude ...
Time:
80s, 70s
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31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
atmospheric, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, suspense, hallucination, drowning, serial killer, haunted by the past, twists and turns, grief, sex scene, blindness, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, venice, europe
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31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, nightmare, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, macabre, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, asia
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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
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31%
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:
disturbing, atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
twins, suspense, evil child, twists and turns, coming of age, psychology, supernatural, macabre, murder, evil twin, child, creepy child ...
Time:
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Place:
california, new jersey, holland, usa, connecticut ...
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Films like The Sixth Sense
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
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30%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small ...
Style:
scary, psychological, sinister, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, occult, possession, ghost, demon, ouija board, spiritualism, survival, suspense, teenager, haunted house ...
Time:
70s, 60s, year 1967
Place:
los angeles
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30%
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
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30%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style:
gothic horror, gothic, scary, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
spanish inquisition, suspense, insanity, investigation, vengeance, castle, monster, conspiracy, religions or cults, hidden identity, dishonesty, haunted by the past ...
Time:
middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, 14th century
Place:
spain, europe
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30%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, ghost, supernatural, split personality, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, twists and turns, mental illness, a vision, curses spells and rituals, death ...
Time:
1920s, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, human nature, supernatural ability, hidden truth, investigation, twists and turns, nobody believes, mysterious character, nightmare comes true, abduction, society, surrealism ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ireland will never be the same after Rawhead Rex, a particularly nasty demon, is released from his underground prison by an unwitting farmer. The film follows Rex's cross country rampage, while a man struggles to stop it.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric, humorous ...
Plot:
monster, supernatural, curse, demon, village, family relations, legend, loss of son, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, parents and children, small town ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Sweden, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
sea, expedition, biologist, sea monster, ship, beast, crew, suspense, rescue from drowning, forces of nature, victim, collision ...
Place:
ireland
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100%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very ...
Style:
scary, intense, tense, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, demon, haunted house, twists and turns, found footage, suspense, curses spells and rituals, murder, investigation, religions or cults, paranormal ...
Time:
year 2012, 80s, 21st century
Place:
california, tokyo, usa
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100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Style:
exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, art house, spooky ...
Plot:
occult, ritual, black magic, suspense, occult ritual, angel, supernatural, female protagonist, magic, isolated house, desperation, demon ...
Place:
ireland, wales
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
nightmare, dog, mysterious character, dishonesty, family relations, good versus evil, manipulation, hidden identity, life turned upside down, supernatural, family problems, terrorizing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
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29%
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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
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29%
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
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29%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton (Mia Farrow), recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, investigation, disability, insanity, death sentence, ghost, life philosophy, cult, revenge, psychiatry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
boston
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29%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, internet, afterlife, suicide, depression, missing person, college student, suspense, technology, apocalypse, lifestyle ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, latin america, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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