Movies like The Turn of the Screw 1992

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The Turn of the Screw (1992)
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The Turn of the Screw (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds that the two children are not quite what they seem to be--in fact, they are possessed by the spirits of the evil Quint and his lover.
Style: independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: ghost, youth, obsession, macabre, evil child, haunted house, governess, possession, haunting, pedophile, supernatural, gory, family relations, isolation, danger, estate, curses spells and rituals, incest, children, cat, magic trick, female nudity, blonde, boy, exile ...
Time: year 1992, victorian era, 19th century, 60s, victorian, 1960s

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Most similar movies to The Turn of the Screw

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and suspense films with plots about ghost, supernatural, danger, haunted house, deadly, gory and haunted mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Turn of the Screw: The Innocents (1961), Presence of Mind (1999), In a Dark Place (2006), The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995), Cubbyhouse (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Innocents (1961)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Style: gothic, black and white, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, haunting, macabre, children, haunted, old mansion, ghost story, hide and seek, schizophrenia, insanity, paranoid ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1961, 1890s
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Presence of Mind (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Henry James' classic tale of terror The Turn of the Screw receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella ...
Style: gothic, scary, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, haunted by the past, supernatural, ghost, master and servant, family relations, family problems, death in the family, family in danger, woman in danger, evil child, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Turn Of The Screw (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
Style: creepy, gothic, psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, possession, creepy child, evil child, haunted, sex scene, youth, haunting, occult, governess, evil, macabre ...
Time: victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
In a Dark Place (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The disturbed arts teacher, Anna Veigh, is hired by Mr. Laing as a governess to raise Flora and her brother Miles. Anna believes that the ghosts of the former governess, Miss Jessel, and housekeeper, Peter Quint, are in the property haunting the ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, atmospheric, dark drama ...
Plot: ghost, sexual abuse, governess, estate, mentally unstable, supernatural, life is a bitch, family in danger, family problems, school, curses spells and rituals, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, haunted, haunting, ghost, evil child, governess, supernatural power, dead child, brother sister relationship, supernatural, children, possession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Turn of the Screw (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, gothic ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, children, mentally unstable, estate, repression, sibling relationship, youth, female nudity, haunting, possession, power relations ...
Time: victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Turn of the Screw (1985)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Spanish version of Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw".
Style: gothic, serious, mind bending, sexual, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, mansion, religion, supernatural, gays and lesbians, haunted house, homoeroticism, dead child, beach, boy, children, religious education ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 3.5
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Cubbyhouse (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Following a messy divorce, Lynn Graham moves back home to Australia with her three American-born children in tow. Buying an old house on the same street as her sister seems like a good idea, but its low price reflects a unpleasant history of murder ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot: curse, family in danger, supernatural, ghost, satanic ritual, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, parents and children, vengeance, murder, isolation, mischievous children ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Nine Lives (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nine friends seclude themselves in an old, isolated Scottish mansion for a birthday weekend bash. Cut off from the outside world by a snowstorm, strange behavior soon invades the group and one by one they disappear.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, ghost, danger, confined, supernatural, gory, murder, survival, isolation, haunted house, campus, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.0
 442
London Voodoo (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to London, his wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) discovers a new disturbing power and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. As Mathers notices that the family ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, couples, family relations, curses spells and rituals, ghost, couple relations, danger, mysterious character, family problems, parents and children, gory, intrigue ...
Place: london, europe, england, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.6
 2K
Acacia (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, obsession, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, parents and children, adoption, adopted son, extreme ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.7
 1K
Dark Places (1974)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, hidden treasure, murder, supernatural, danger, estate, curses spells and rituals, hospital, mentally unstable, mental illness, love affair ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Nightcomers (1971)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Prequel to the Henry James classic "Turn of the Screw" about the events leading up to the deaths of Peter Quint and Ms. Jessel, and the the slow corruption of the children in their care.
Style: gothic, sexual, gothic horror, offbeat, grindhouse ...
Plot: teenage girl, female nudity, sex scene, youth, mansion, sexual abuse, obsession, orphan, evil child, sex, sexuality, eye ...
Time: year 1971, victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.0
 769
The Cradle (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
Plot: ghost child, riddles and clues, supernatural, ghost, curse, curses spells and rituals, gory, isolation, family life, captivity, danger, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Haunting of Hell House (1999)
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: suspense, independent film, serious, suspenseful, christian film
Plot: haunted house, ghost, haunted, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, haunting, danger, supernatural ability, afterlife, family in danger, abortion ...
Time: 90s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.0
 1K
Ouija House (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A graduate student, who is trying to finish the last of her research on a book project that she hopes will help her down-on-her-luck mother, brings friends to a house with a dark past, where they soon unwittingly summon an evil entity who makes the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, melancholic, psychotronic ...
Plot: ouija board, supernatural, ouija, macabre, ghost, spiritualism, fear, paranormal activity, supernatural power, seance, evil, board game ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 3.3
 750
Bad Karma (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mental Patient terrorizes her Psychiatrist who she believes is the reincarnation of Jack the Ripper.
Style: psychological, sexy, slasher, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, reincarnation, murder, supernatural, femme fatale, danger, psychopath, power relations, stalking, gory, jack the ripper, tough heroes ...
Time: 19th century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.4
 2K
Spirit Trap (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set into motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each student's dark secrets, the boundary between ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, ghost, uncover truth, mysterious character, family in danger, captivity, isolation, teenage life, youth, confined, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 4.7
 2K
Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 4.3
 2K
The Wisher (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mary is a horror-movie junkie whose obsession is out of control, leading her over-protective father to ban her from seeing scary flicks. But when she and her friends sneak out to see a film called The Wisher, its creepy antagonist seems to escape ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, vengeance, gory, obsession, youth, danger, ghost, voyeur, wish fulfillment, female nudity, serial killer, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.4
 3K
The Presence (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. ...
Style: scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: ghost, female protagonist, confined, danger, woman in danger, isolation, island, supernatural, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, haunted, gory, spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.8
 2K
Dark House (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, supernatural being, trapped in a building ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.1
 597
House of Usher (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that ...
Style: gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: gay, estate, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, ghost, haunted house, murder, secret, edgar allan poe, gay sex, picture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Compound Fracture (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Michael Wolffsen (Tyler Mane) receives an urgent phone call and takes his nephew and fiancee and makes the journey home to his only other living relative: his estranged, eccentric (and extremely paranoid) father, Gary (Muse Watson), who is obsessed ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: estrangement, supernatural, family in danger, ghost, mental illness, couple relations, danger, father son relationship, supernatural power, dementia, stalking, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Haunting at Silver Falls (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is only to find the killer is very close to her.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, scenic
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, serial killer, psychological torture, youth, twins, nightmare, supernatural, justice, orphan, danger, murder, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.8
 446
Purgatory (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A woman must survive the night after she welcomes a neighbor's child into her home.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted by the past, haunted house, danger, isolation, loneliness, supernatural, woman in danger, neighbor, paranormal activity, evil force, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Tooth Fairy (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter (Nicole Muñoz) encounter a deadly legend at a bed-and-breakfast.
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, parents and children, gory, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, danger, serial killer, legends and myths, family relations, single mother, haunted ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.1
 283
Blood Relic (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious, enigmatic ...
Plot: ghost, museum, obsession, supernatural, danger, race against time, survival, idealism, mentally unstable, mental institution, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.4
 4K
Still/Born (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child - a supernatural entity that has chosen her ...
Style: suspense, scary, melancholic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: macabre, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, tragedy, children, afterlife, dream, nightmare, parenthood, couples, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.6
 2K
Conjurer (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After moving to the country to start life anew after their child's death, photographer Shawn Burnett and his wife, Helen, begin to suspect that a ramshackle cabin on their property is haunted by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead witch who ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, mind bending
Plot: ghost, supernatural, curse, danger, family problems, gory, curses spells and rituals, wizards and magicians, orphan, murder, spirit, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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