Movies like The Maid 2005

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The Maid (2005)
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The Maid (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Singapore
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits to walk the earth for 30 days. Unknown to Rosa, she arrives on the eve and her hell is about to begin.
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, dark, slasher, surprise ending, gothic, gothic horror, sinister ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, revenge, ghost story, plot twist, danger, woman in danger, master and servant, husband wife relationship, vengeful ghost, mysterious past, haunting, folk horror, post apocalypse, pagan, eye, folklore, asian school, spirit, curse, mirror, ghost child, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: singapore, asia
Keyword: chinese, compilation, liquid

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and serious films with plots about ghost, supernatural, danger, haunting, death, haunted house and supernatural horror mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Maid: The Faith of Anna Waters (2016), Chain Mail (2015), The Healing (2012), Voices (2007), Feng Shui 2 (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Faith of Anna Waters (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Singapore, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister's and must join forces with her ...
Style: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, bleak, spooky ...
Plot: exorcism, reporter, investigation, possessed girl, death, hallucination, possessed human, exorcist, loss of wife, evil, death of sister, paranormal ...
Time: year 2014
Place: singapore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 52
Chain Mail (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A usual chain mail is forwarded to a group of people. Some pass it while others ignore. One dies and is followed by series of sudden and unexplainable deaths of others. Soon after, a revelation begins to unfold, the chain mail is cursed and so she ...
Style: suspense, gothic, slasher, psychotronic, surprise ending ...
Plot: death, supernatural power, dark past, macabre, group of friends, haunted by the past, dark secret, characters killed one by one, evil, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, revenge, murder ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.8
 657
The Healing (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A community rushes to a faith healer after learning that one of them was miraculously healed from a deadly disease by the same person. They are torn apart afterwards as the healing brings them a terrible curse that wreaks harm and death.
Style: gothic, suspense, bleak, religious horror, slasher ...
Plot: occult, evil spirit, mystery woman, macabre, curse, paranormal, supernatural power, survival, dark past, characters killed one by one, cure, mysterious event ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 5.5
 1K
Voices (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman tries to escape what seems to be a curse that is killing members of her family one by one.
Style: suspense, rough, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, manipulation, curse, murder, investigation, survival, danger, dishonesty, social misfits, curses spells and rituals, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, asia, korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 5.2
 218
Feng Shui 2 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: It focuses on Lester who, upon getting the cursed bagua, starts to get all the luck and prosperity he could get in his life, but with deadly consequences.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, sinister
Plot: murder, female ghost, mystery woman, murder of friend, suicide, revenge, ghost, blood, death, friendship, massacre, family relations ...
Place: the philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Whole Truth (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents’ house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.
Style: suspense, gothic, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, murder, supernatural horror, voyeurism, family relations, creepy child, deliberate cruelty, mysterious death, death of sister, revenge, red herring, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 7.4
 163K
The Orphanage (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
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, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.0
 49K
Shutter (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young photographer and his girlfriend discover mysterious shadows in their photographs after a tragic accident. They soon learn that you can not escape your past.
Style: scary, twist ending, dark, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, photograph, photographer, car accident, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, spirit, macabre, secret lover ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
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, suspense, psychological, dark, demonic ...
Plot: macabre, supernatural, possession, occult, ghost, demon, supernatural horror, ouija board, spiritualism, teenager, witchcraft, survival ...
Time: year 2016, 60s, year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.4
 69K
The Awakening (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style: scary, gothic, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, afterlife, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, ghost child, supernatural power, twists and turns, investigation ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2000, post world war one
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Ju-On: The Grudge 2 (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: While driving, the pregnant horror-movie actress Kyôko Harase and her fiancé are in a car crash caused by the Toshio's friend. Kyôko loses her baby and her fiancé winds up in a coma. Kyôko was cursed together with a television crew when ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: vengeful ghost, haunted house, ghost, afterlife, ghost story, revenge, curse, supernatural, danger, abandoned house, curses spells and rituals, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.1
 101K
Dead Silence (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style: scary, twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: ghost, doll, supernatural, macabre, murder, ventriloquist, small town, clown, investigation, urban legend, danger, uncover truth ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.6
 4K
Phobia (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 240 min.
Story: 4bia or Phobia (Thai: สี่แพร่ง or See Prang) is a Horror Anthology. The first segment, "Happiness" is about a lonely girl who corresponded with a stranger over hand phone text messaging and soon discovered something strange ...
Style: anthology, suspense, scary, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: curse, ghost, black magic, drowning, bullying, vengeance, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.3
 17K
The Deep House (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While diving in a remote French lake, a couple of YouTubers who specialize in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in the deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that the ...
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, diver, scuba diving, satanic ritual, paranormal, lake, underwater, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, paranormal phenomena, found footage ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
What Lies Beneath (2000)
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: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, couple relations, adultery, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, spiritualism ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: vermont, persia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.5
 365
The Matrimony (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman finds the key to a room in the attic that her husband forbids her from entering. When she opens the door, she is confronted with the haunting existence of the woman her husband refuses to forget.
Style: gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot: ghost, true love, afterlife, murder, love triangle, supernatural, couples, woman in danger, love affair, family in danger, reincarnation, love and romance ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: plot twist, occult, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, macabre, supernatural horror, ritual, rite, black magic ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Style: scary, gothic, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, world war two, supernatural horror, child in peril, haunting, afterlife, death of child, death, haunted, ghost story ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1941, year 1940
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.7
 1K
The Maid (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is now haunting and terrorizing the family. Joy works to uncover the reason behind the former maid’s disappearance.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, teenager, murder, victim, who done it, fear, murder investigation, chase, vengeance, violence, paranormal investigation, uncover truth ...
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.7
 5K
The Eye 2 (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pregnant Joey (Shu Qi) teeters on the brink of madness after several fruitless suicide attempts. She's the unwilling recipient of an influx of shadowy images that haunt her pervasively. In an attempt to quell this disturbing phenomenon, she ...
Style: scary, suspense, art house, saga, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, reincarnation, pregnancy, spirit, suicide, babies and infants, suicide attempt, paranormal, hospital, medical ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.5
 551K
The Conjuring (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Style: scary, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, frightening ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, witch, paranormal investigation, fear, possession, psychic, paranormal, haunting, supernatural horror ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 70s, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.0
 51K
The Grudge 2 (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In Tokyo, a young woman is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister. The supernatural force, which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim, brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, good versus evil, demon, serial killer, investigation, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: chicago, japan, asia, usa, pasadena california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 4.2
 873
Evil Eyes (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: On a day of solar eclipse, five year old, Naina, loses her eyesight and her parents in a road accident in London. Twenty years later, she is bestowed with the gift of sight thanks to the marvels of modern science. Her period of darkness is over; or ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, woman in danger, haunted by the past, survival, disability, destiny, curses spells and rituals, transplant, solar eclipse, psychic power ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, hong kong, europe, england, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Book of Blood (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of ...
Style: psychological, demonic, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, supernatural, professor, sex scene, paranormal investigator, murder, blood, death, older woman younger man relationship, lust ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.6
 20K
The Grudge 3 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jake, the sole survivor of The Grudge 2 massacre, is tortured by chilling visions of Kayako and Toshio that have led to his hospitalization. Jake's caretaker, Dr. Sullivan is determined to investigate his horrifying tales. She explores his ...
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, intense, stylized ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, curse, demonic possession, haunted house, murder, runaway, serial killer, investigation, profanity, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, chicago, asia, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.6
 30K
The Eye (2002)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A blind girl gets a cornea transplant so that she would be able to see again. However, she got more than what she bargained for when she realised she could even see ghosts. And some of these ghosts are down right unfriendly. So she embarks on a ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, disturbing, frightening ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, supernatural, able to see the dead, blindness, hospital, eye, fear, transplant, woman in danger, supernatural ability, transformation ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: china, asia, hong kong, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Woman in Black (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: ghost, haunted house, estate, isolation, supernatural, afterlife, curses spells and rituals, haunting, vengeance, blood, haunted, tragic event ...
Time: victorian era, 1910s, year 2012, edwardian era, 1900s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
An American Haunting (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted by the past, rape, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, curse, sexual abuse, death, chase, redemption, supernatural horror, witch ...
Time: 19th century, year 2006, year 2005, ancient times, year 2000 ...
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.4
 4K
They Wait (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, serious, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, death in the family, murder, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, supernatural ability, danger, haunted by the past, gory, parents and children ...
Place: vancouver, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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