Movies like Haze
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Haze (2005)
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Original name: ヘイズ
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he’s there, or why he’s bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally ‘zones out’ of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
Style:
scary, bleak, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, clever, dark, surreal ...
Plot:
survival, confined, isolation, imprisonment, escape, surrealism, twists and turns, nature, suspense, struggle for survival, trapped, asian prostitute, confined space, prison, escapades, rivalry, claustrophobia, maze, danger, deadly, gore, gory, japanese shocker
Place:
japan
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and psychological films with plots about danger, deadly, survival, gory, suspense, isolation and confined mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Haze: Antarctic Journal (2005), Marebito (2004), A Snake of June (2002), Vile (2011), Incubus (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During their journey the expedition led by Captain Choi Do-hyung discovers a journal that was left behind by a British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the ...
Style:
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Plot:
isolation, escapades, confined, delusion, snow, paranoia, winter, survival, disaster, asian prostitute, mental disorder, nature ...
Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of attractive young people (of course) awaken to find themselves prisoners in a mysterious house with no means of escape. They are each outfitted with new accouterments--electronic devices attached to the base of their skulls--and a ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, scary ...
Plot:
torture, trapped, sadism, brutality, survival, captivity, psychopath, murder, isolation, escapades, abduction, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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41%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Stranded after a car accident, a medical school student and her friends try to find shelter - only to cross paths with a deranged killer.
Style:
slasher, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, suspense, experiment gone awry, survival, confined, supernatural, psychopath, demonic possession, escapades, isolation, murder, laboratory ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Following up the successful "P.O.E.: Poetry of Eerie", some of the original filmmakers regrouped for this newest experiment which aims to bring the tales of Edgar Allen Poe to life through the distinct lens of Italian horror with spoken ...
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A maximum-security prison goes into serious lockdown mode when a shape-shifting demon with an insatiable taste for human flesh unleashes its fury on the inmates and guards. Jennifer Lee Wiggins, Ocean, Vaz Andreas, Thomas Downey, Chris Facey, Marat ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Psychic Heather Burton and a team of TV ghost hunters travel to investigate a haunted house surrounded by rumors of paranormal activity.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
How low would you go to win a million dollars? Just how desperate are you for the cash? Desperate enough to enter the Red Room? In this latest and most vicious game show to emerge from the Japanese underground, four contestants (a husband and wife ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Style:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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