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Nightmare Detective 2 (2008)
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Nightmare Detective 2 (2008)
Original name: 悪夢探偵2
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: AKUMA TANTEI 2 is all about unexplainable things that inflict sheer terror on human beings and how they leave victims psychologically devastated. It is as much a true horror film as it is a psychological drama.
Style: mind bending, suspense, dark fantasy
Plot: macabre, mythical creature, dream, dog, ghost, suicide, mind reading, mirror, funeral, drawing, nightmare, magazine, drowning, hanging, hamburger, toilet, urination, crying man, crying baby, glass of water, man crying

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Most similar movies to Nightmare Detective 2

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, disturbing and scary films with plots about ghost, supernatural, suicide, nightmare, danger, macabre and death mostly in Horror, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Nightmare Detective 2: The Heirloom (2005), Kotoko (2011), Martyrs Lane (2021), Karaoke Terror (2003), Suicide Forest Village (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nightmare Detective (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three people in Tokyo take a surreal voyage of self-discovery through memory and nightmares. "O" intends suicide while talking on a cell-phone with a stranger he meets on line who plans a simultaneous suicide. Events take a horrifying ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, rough, slasher ...
Plot: nightmare, serial killer, police investigation, supernatural, rivalry, supernatural ability, danger, murder, psychopath, gory, surrealism, stranger ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 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
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80%
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Kotoko (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Suffering from double vision, a single mother (Cocco) tries to take care of her baby in the grip of terrifying hallucinations. Experiencing a nervous breakdown, she is deemed unfit to take care of her child and has it taken away from her. The only ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, slasher ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: depression, mental illness, single mother, child custody, nightmare, hallucination, mental breakdown, violence, rivalry, danger, asian prostitute, psychology ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 5.5
 2K
Martyrs Lane (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leah, 10, has terrible nightmares. Her mother seems distant somehow, lost in her thoughts. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon Leah will realize that her little visitor offers knowledge that might be very, very dangerous.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, mystical, disturbing, atmospheric
Plot: ghost, nightmare, supernatural horror, supernatural, ghost story, mysterious girl, mysticism, ghost child, cemetery, haunted house, terror, haunted ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Karaoke Terror (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: One of a gang of karaoke loving middle aged women is murdered by a young man. Her friends track him down and kill him. His friends track them down and kill the killer ..... and it escalates!
Plot: asian, sudden ending, hair salon, friend, killer, spying, voice over narration, singer, bicycle, murder, love, school ...
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53%
Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: curse, suicide, forest, supernatural, danger, death, cursed object, supernatural power, murder, society, cursed, violence ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Wishing Stairs (2003)
Genre: Horror, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, dark drama, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, paranormal, friendship, curses spells and rituals, obsession, boarding school, extreme, rivalry, forbidden love, asian girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Black Cat (1968)
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, scary, gothic ...
Plot: samurai, ghost, murder, supernatural, vengeance, japanese mythology, folk horror, rape, revenge, black cat, rape and revenge, curse ...
Time: year 1968, 12th century, middle ages
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Suicide Manual (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
Style: bleak, tense, suspense, rough, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, suicide, suicide by hanging, suicide by poison, extreme, scoop, group, double suicide, failed suicide, teen suicide, euthanasia, suicide by gunshot ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Dumplings (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A rich woman, Mrs. Li, is losing her attractiveness and longs for passion with her husband, who is having an affair with his younger and more attractive masseuse. In order to boost her image, she seeks out the help of Aunt Mei, a local chef. Mei ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, dark, surreal, bloody ...
Plot: cannibalism, obsession, macabre, violent, abortion, food, starlet, aging, extreme, career change, torture, cannibal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.8
 2K
Dorm (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable -- until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.
Style: serious, touching, bleak, scary, suspense
Plot: coming of age, friendship, boarding school, nightmare, rescue, little boy, drowning, guilt, supernatural, haunted by the past, social misfits, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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GhostWatcher 2 (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a young girl begins hearing voices, she hires the "GhostWatcher," Laura Kove, to investigate who the voices belong to and what they want.
Style: suspense, neo noir, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: supernatural power, ghost, serial killer, heroine, paranormal phenomena, psychic, psychic power, secret, fear, psychiatrist, a vision, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Horse, Woman, Dog (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 58 min.
Story: Typically urban pinku-eiga filmmaker Hisayasu Sato switched to a rural local for this graphic descent into softcore sleaze and bestiality. At heart, the film is an extremely perverse rural Gothic reminiscent of Western '70s films like Pets and ...
Style: erotic, controversial, surreal, pink cinema, sexploitation film
Plot: bestiality, dog sex, zoophilia, taboo sex, interspecies sex, pink film, animal sex, erotica, sex scene, making love, kinky sex, sexual assault ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Scissors Massacre (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three sisters grow up on a chicken farm in a small town in Gifu. The oldest sister, Yukie Sawada, is engaged to be married, the middle sister, Sachiko works at a beauty salon and the youngest, Mayu, is on the track team in high school. Their happy, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, terrifying ...
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, spirit, supernatural, ghost, japanese girl, japanese schoolgirl, life is a bitch, demon, revenge, murder, massacre ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Visit (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: For the sake of her son, Paolo, Stella is re-married to another man, Anton, in the hopes of a having a whole and peaceful family life. However, after the wedding, she experiences major haunting that endangers her life and the people around her. All ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, semi serious, suspense, rough ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, pregnancy, riddles and clues, woman in danger, dangerous attraction, couples, couple relations, wedding, revenge, exorcism, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Noriko's Dinner Table (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 159 min.
Story: A teenager named Noriko Shimabara runs away from her family in Toyokawa, to meet Kumiko, the leader of an Internet BBS, Haikyo.com. She becomes involved with Kumiko's "family circle", which grows darker after the mass suicide of 54 ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, scary, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: mass suicide, dysfunctional family, family relations, internet, suicide, nihilism, woman in danger, teenage life, youth, on the run, leaving home, investigation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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38%
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The Broken (2008)
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, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: dream, broken mirror, nightmare, fear, murder, doppelganger, investigation, danger, haunted by the past, girlfriend, embassy, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.8
 2K
Siberia (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, Germany, Mexico, Greece, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, surreal
Plot: dream, social isolation, life is a bitch, travel, confronting the past, showdown, isolation, macabre, nudity, violence, male nudity, mountain ...
Place: siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Shining (1980)
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, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, psychopath, supernatural, stephen king, ghost, snow, winter, macabre, imaginary friend, evil ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 1920s, 80s, 70s
Place: colorado, persia, denver colorado, usa, miami ...
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Der Todesking: The Death King (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.
Style: anthology, disturbing, splatter, crying, controversial ...
Plot: suicide, cruelty, torture, extreme, depression, mutilation, solitude, castration, skeleton, revelation, brutality, sadism ...
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37%
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The Eclipse (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Michael Farr (Hinds) is a widower living in a misty Irish seaside town who is struggling to adjust to his new role as the sole caretaker of his two children. Still reeling from the death of his wife, he has been plagued by terrifying apparitions. ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, spooky ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, love and romance, family relations, love affair, father daughter relationship, love triangle, spirit, haunting, apparition, phantom, art ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Curse of Hobbes House (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After the death of her Grandmother, Jane Dormant travels to the family’s remote, ancestral home hoping to receive a large inheritance. When Jane’s estranged, half-sister Jennifer arrives at Hobbes House to claim her part of the estate, the ...
Style: scary, suspense, bleak, atmospheric, apocalyptic ...
Plot: inheritance, old mansion, curse, undead, fight, violence, blood, macabre, danger, supernatural, zombie attack, survival ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 37K
Ghost Stories (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an ...
Style: anthology, spooky, suspense, scary, enigmatic ...
Plot: ghost, twists and turns, supernatural horror, dishonesty, religion, supernatural, professor, car accident, storytelling, journalist, mental disorder, character study ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Face (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung ...
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, ghost, murder, psychopath, supernatural, police investigation, danger, transplant, race against time, prostitute, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.2
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Ghost Lab (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 117 min.
Story: After witnessing a haunting in their hospital, two doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, dark fantasy ...
Plot: paranormal investigation, ghost, laboratory, afterlife, experiment, paranormal investigator, belief in the afterlife, supernatural power, paranormal, supernatural, death, doctor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Ouija (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Philippines
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Half-sisters Aileen and Romina, along with first cousins Ruth and Sandra, reunite in Camiguin to bury their grandmother. Accompanied by Sandra's friend, Lucy, the five girls dare to call on the spirits of the dead when they find their old Ouija ...
Style: serious, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
Plot: ouija board, mysterious death, nightmare, haunted house, curse, premonition, ghost, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sister sister relationship, good versus evil, corpse, supernatural being ...
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Bleeding Through (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Months after the brutal car accident that killed her parents, sensitive college student Lindsey still struggles with overwhelming grief. Pressure from her brother to sell the family home, financial stressors and failing grades send Lindsey spiraling ...
Style: serious, dark, bleak, suspense, queer horror ...
Plot: suicide, vengeance, bullying, life is a bitch, betrayal, rivalry, gay, woman with a gun, revenge, friend, parents, slow burn ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.7
 868
Cookers (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After stealing a huge stash of drugs, speed freaks Hector and Dorena plan to cook up an enormous batch of crystal meth and get rich quick. Hector's old buddy Merle has the perfect hideout/meth lab: an old, abandoned farmhouse in the woods where ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: hallucination, old dark house, addiction, drug abuse, supernatural, ghost, couples, life is a bitch, drug dealing, woods, experiment, evil ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Crowhaven Farm (1970)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young couple inherit a farm and hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by supernatural forces.
Style: suspense, satanic, spooky, psychotronic
Plot: witch, witchcraft, folk horror, coven, macabre, darkness, paranormal, torture, small town, sacrifice, reincarnation, troubled marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 4K
Blind Beast (1969)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A blind sculptor and his mother kidnap a young woman and use her as a model. In the darkness of an abandoned warehouse, she suffers at the hands of the artist, eventually losing both her sight and her mind as whips give way to knives and knives give ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, erotic, surreal, controversial ...
Plot: kidnapping, model, rape, sex, sexploitation, fashion, bondage, blind man, fashion model, surrealism, blindness, pink film ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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