Movies like The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch
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The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch (1968)
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Original name: 蛇娘と白髪魔
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Up until this point, young Sayuri Nanjo has had to live most of her life in a nun-run boarding school for orphans and away from her parents. That's all about to change when her real father mysteriously comes to get her and finally bring her home.
Plot:
monster, witchcraft, suspense, nightmare, creepy kid, foster child, housekeeper, catholic orphanage, sister sister relationship, snake woman, live action, stabbed in the chest
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, disturbing and bleak films with plots about suspense, nightmare, supernatural, murder, monster, danger and ghost mostly in Horror, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like The Snake Girl and the Silver-Haired Witch: Blood Craft (2019), Feral (2006), Ring Around the Rosie (2006), Apt (2006), Abomination: The Evilmaker II (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two sisters who suffered abuse as children at the hands of their sadistic father decide, after his death, to use witchcraft to bring his spirit back to get revenge.
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exciting, rough, suspenseful, bleak
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witchcraft, revenge, curse, ghost, sadist, haunted by the past, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, spirit, monster, suspense, murder ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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In this terrifying tale, a young couple goes on a desperate search for their daughter who's disappeared without a trace into the nearby woods -- the same woods that have recently claimed and released the mutilated bodies of several animals. ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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While spending time at her grandparent's secluded summerhouse to clean up the place after her grandmother's death, a young woman is plagued by horrible visions and dreams of tragic past events.
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scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Se-jin, a lonely department store employee, moves into a high-rise apartment building. One day she notices that the lights in the windows of the building opposite all start to mysteriously flicker at exactly 9:56pm. She begins to suspect that these ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, enigmatic
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voyeurism, murder mystery, ghost, murder, terror, suspense, nightmare, riddles and clues, serial killer, mysterious woman, elevator, voyeur ...
Place:
seoul
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Action-packed sequel to THE EVILMAKER. A family member of the victim in part 1 tries to figure out what happened at that cabin in the woods not long ago. Before you know it, the body count begins and a supernatural being makes its presence known...
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suspense, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, seduction, female nudity, sister sister relationship, good versus evil, nightmare, psychic, bare breasts, axe
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
Style:
neo noir, psychotronic, scary, bleak, retro
Plot:
supernatural, monster, father daughter relationship, hallucination, supernatural power, occult, private detective, suspense, mythical creature, nightmare, book of magic, h.p. lovecraft
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
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The thing that waits under your bed, hides in the closet, stalks your dreams… is waiting for you. At least Emma Wright knew that at the age of 7 when she was wrongly accused of murdering her sister. Emma knew it was the Stickman. After years of ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
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atmospheric, slasher, gothic, psychotronic
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spider, arachnophobia, occult, macabre, suspense, nightmare, ritual murder, catacomb, hanging, monster, underground, cult ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Female protagonist’s brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients, they are induced into a «collective lucid ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, emotional, psychedelic
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ever since Margaret was six years old, she has been haunted by the memory of watching her sister drown during an explosive fight between her parents. As a young woman, she slides further into her twisted inner life, ultimately finding herself on the ...
Style:
psychological, tense, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
death, sister sister relationship, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, characters in danger, suspense, violence, paranormal investigation, evil, supernatural ability, deadly creature, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
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usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man, whose girl friend was killed during an illegal abortion.
Style:
serious, suspenseful
Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A knife-wielding sexual deviant targets two beautiful sisters.He begins frantic night of abuse and humiliation with the older one after she getting back home.The innocent older sister doesn't know that he had broken into their apartment and had ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Six misfit schoolgirls at an all-girl Catholic high school, left alone at the school for Easter week, get mixed up with the occult and witchcraft after an old Satanic temple is found underneath the church where they attend as well as an old book of ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Morten is a young medical student who's Japanese girlfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. When strange things begin to happen around him, he tries to find out who she really was. He discovers that her family is haunted by a curse, a ...
Style:
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
From the moment she and her fellow students arrive in the mountain village of Yasaka, Mikoto knows that there is something very wrong with this tiny town. Can it really be true that, for 50 years, not a single girl has been born in this isolated ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, Iran
Duration: 104 min.
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Live-action adaptation of the hit manga. Golgo 13, also known by the pseudonym Duke Togo, is a professional assassin. His age and birthplace are unknown and there is no consensus in the worldwide intelligence community as to his true identity. Most ...
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Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
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Avery Malone, a wannabe writer and lonely librarian, gets her big break when she's hand-selected to assist her hero, reclusive author, Caleb Conrad. Whisked away to Caleb's remote estate, Avery is given her one and only task; to ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A country family of five takes in cousin Julia, whose parents recently perished in a car crash. Julia extends her influence over the family and those around them, fooling all except for Rachel, the teenaged girl who knows her cousin is up to no ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The film takes place during the rule of the eighth shogun Yoshimune, placing the film’s setting somewhere between 1716 and 1745, and focuses on a noble Lord Nabeshima Tango-no-kami (note the name). He rides out one day and sees a parasol on the ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Angry and upset after a sudden breakup with her fiancé, Grace Crawford seeks sanctuary at the remote home of her sister, Catherine. It becomes clear that Catherine is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, much like their late mother, who had taken ...
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Audience:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
What should have been a tourist trip to remember, quickly turns into a living nightmare when five passengers on a seaplane become stranded, miles away from shore. What follows is a desperate bid for survival as the group try to make it to land ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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A party turns bizarre when a malevolent book makes its way into the hands of the attendees who reveal its tales of monsters, madmen and the supernatural.
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
In Tokyo, Japan, several grotesque murders take place on rainy days. Detective Sawamura, who is in charge of the case, soon discovers that his own family is connected to the crimes.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
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Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. After a traumatic experience during a holiday trip, she develops a sleep disorder and starts suffering from very vivid nightmares. At work, the studio microphones pick up strange ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
What's scary is being a human being, and what's scary is being myself. Truly horrifying things reside inside oneself. The work asks if you can stand the inescapable terror.
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Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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