Movies like Persecution

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Persecution (1974)
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Persecution (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
Style: christmas horror, suspense, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: christmas, xmas, cat, white cat, revenge, psychopath, female nudity, murder, maze, seduction, birthday, doctor, cemetery, baby, photograph, hallucination, woman, death of child, death of wife, skeleton, son, staircase, nurse, flashback, suffocation ...
Keyword: british horror

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and christmas horror films with plots about murder, christmas, psychopath, xmas, blood, female nudity and violence mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Persecution: Tales from the Crypt (1972), Fear in the Night (1972), The Toybox (2005), Home for the Holidays (1972), The Man in the Trunk (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nutcracker: An American Nightmare (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: suspense, christmas horror, psychological, suspenseful, rough
Plot: christmas, psychopath, doctor, nightmare, insanity, mental institution, religion, xmas, therapy, haunted, insane asylum, psychiatric hospital ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Silent Night, Bloody Night 2: Revival (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a death in the family, siblings Angelica and James Zacherly travel to the small town of East Willard on Christmas Eve to pay their respects. They stay at a homely bed and breakfast where they learn the legend of Black Peter, Santa Claus' ...
Style: christmas horror, slasher, psychotronic, scary, suspense ...
Plot: christmas, axe murderer, small town, holiday horror, psychopath, xmas, maniac, serial murder, homicidal maniac, serial killer, killing spree, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Style: anthology, christmas horror, surprise ending, scary, psychological ...
Plot: zombie, murder, supernatural, valentine's day, blindness, christmas, revenge, crypt, killer santa claus, comic book, vengeance, afterlife ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, future
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Fear in the Night (1972)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: It took Penny Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the ...
Style: slasher, psychotronic, pastoral, noir, psychological ...
Plot: murder, mental disorder, woman with a gun, feminist, nervous breakdown, hanging, boarding school, newlywed, violent content, family problems, couples, mind game ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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The Toybox (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: It all began so innocently for two children growing up in the deepest countryside, their imaginations set ablaze by a book on local myths and legends. Berenice convinces her younger brother Brian that she is the reincarnation of a witch with the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, christmas horror, slasher, brutal ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, danger, siblings relations, supernatural, legends and myths, christmas, insanity, murder, dysfunctional family, xmas, serial killer, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Home for the Holidays (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
Style: slasher, christmas horror, bloody, spooky, crime thriller ...
Plot: christmas, murder, xmas, holiday horror, snow, darkness, woods, hagsploitation, new year's eve, christmas spirit, old dark house, haunted ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
The Man in the Trunk (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with ...
Style: suspense, christmas horror, psychological thriller, art house, dark
Plot: holiday, chase, friendship, fear, best friend, murder, love, blood, christmas, xmas, woods, hunting ...
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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She Will (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: witch, vengeance, female protagonist, fire, revenge, witchcraft, supernatural power, witch burning, mysterious past, supernatural ability, murder, dark past ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Living and the Dead (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental illness, isolation, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, parents and children, doctors and patients, schizophrenia, domestic violence, family relations, dysfunctional family, terminal illness, anxiety ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 3.7
 2K
Lake Alice (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: The Thomas family goes out to their forest cabin to celebrate Christmas together with their daughter and her boyfriend. But their first festive period together may be their last…
Style: christmas horror, scary, slasher, psychotronic, suspense ...
Plot: lake, fear, christmas, murder, cabin in the woods, supernatural, supernatural power, xmas, creature, loss, violence, supernatural ability ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
To All a Goodnight (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples ...
Style: slasher, christmas horror, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, holiday horror, killer santa claus, teenager, revenge, murder, santa claus, school, maniac, xmas, police detective, murder mystery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Tied in Blood (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: George, convinced a ghost killed his family, hires Robert, a talented Medium frustrated by his job. As the dead return to tell of ghostly seduction, demonic rage, and brutal murder, Robert discovers a horror more real than any ghost story.
Style: serious, suspense, bleak, enigmatic, suspenseful
Plot: dysfunctional family, ghost, demon, murder, investigation, incest, murder of family, seance, seduction, uncover truth, pursuit, haunting ...
Place: yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Haunting of Rebecca Verlaine (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A woman whose family was brutally murdered when she was little is instructed by her family's ghosts to bring the killers to them so their souls can rest in peace.
Style: suspense, bloody, christmas horror, rough, scary ...
Plot: nightmare, murder, haunted house, violent death, violence, sole survivor, psychopath, hallucination, memory loss, xmas, supernatural horror, haunted ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Binge & Purge (2002)
Genre: Horror, Action, Thriller, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Three private detectives are sent by a corrupt police chief to investigate a series of murders that show evidence of cannibalism, leading them to a fashion designer and his troupe of models.
Style: christmas horror, suspense, independent film, detective
Plot: zombie, fashion model, cannibal, christmas, virus, xmas, cannibalism, fashion, modeling, female nudity, gore, vomiting ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
A Woman Possessed (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 83 min.
Story: An evil princess who kills her lovers is condemned by the Inquisition. Four centuries later she returns with the help of a vampire and tries to live forever in the body of an identical woman.
Style: christmas horror, psychotronic
Plot: xmas, vampire, evil, bare chested male, christmas, female demon, princess, undead, back from the dead, resurrection, inquisition, christmas tree ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Forgotten Evil (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman with amnesia tries to restart her life until the past comes back to haunt her.
Style: bleak, scary, rough, suspense
Plot: stalker, psychopath, murder, amnesia, flashback sequence, danger, boat, hospital, nurse, deadly
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 3.6
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The Rake (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Ben and Ashley come together 20 years after the murder of their parents to determine the cause of their parents' death. Ashley is troubled by the idea that the thing that took her parents' lives may not be finished with her family.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: creature, murder, hallucination, parents, siblings, myth, basement, uncover truth, xmas, danger, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Lodge (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stepmother, winter, suicide, cult leader, snow, murder, mass suicide, nudity, religious cult, vacation gone wrong, female nudity, destiny ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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 5.5
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The Hand (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, vengeance, comic book, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, cartoonist, christmas ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.0
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Visitors (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of Georgia Perry, the first woman to sail around the world solo.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: ocean, supernatural, insanity, hallucination, ghost, danger, isolation, sailing, cat, sea voyage, fire, race ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Cauldron of Blood (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse
Plot: serial killer, murder, disabled, blind man, acid, sculptor, nightmare, injection, costume party, skeleton, blindness, mute ...
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82%
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Eden Lodge (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young couple arrive at a retreat in the English countryside in the hope of saving their failing marriage. But when the people around them start to be picked off by a vicious killer, the weekend becomes a matter of saving their lives.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot: parent child relationship, family relations, violence, murder, homicidal maniac, serial murder, brutality, death, maniac, revenge, psychopath, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Black Christmas (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hawthorne College is winding down for the holidays, yet one by one, sorority girls are being picked off. Riley Stone, a girl dealing with her own trauma, begins to notice and tries to save her friends before they too are picked off.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, suspense, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: chick flick, teens
Plot: holiday horror, stalker, rape victim, christmas, college, murder, violence, teenage girl, home invasion, serial killer, winter, terror ...
Place: oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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The Feast (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A wealthy family hosts a sumptuous dinner, only for a mysterious young server to chillingly unravel their lives with terrifying consequences they could never see coming.
Style: suspense, psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, violent, murder, blood, woman in danger, violence, psychopath, danger, brutality, chase, disguise ...
Time: 2020s
Place: usa, wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Lung (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A nameless man wanders the city, littered with necrotic artifacts and a trail of corpses. Are his grotesque hallucinations clues to a violent past?
Style: bloody, bleak, suspenseful, scary, slasher ...
Plot: killer, death, exile, dismemberment, patient, suffering, wounded, extreme, violence, brutality, violent, revenge ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Death Water (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Newspaper correspondent Kyoko Togakure (Haruka Igawa) visits a nursing home in the outskirts of Tokyo. She finds the dead body of a resident. It was an apparent suicide. He's holding a piece of paper with the mystifying word "Death ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: pagan, supernatural, self harm, voice over narration, hallucination, flashback, rain, delusion, self mutilation, professor, dog, death ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Secret Santa (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: “The holidays are a time for backstabbing and silent, annihilating judgment, but for the Pope family, the time-honored tradition of passive aggressive snark is always masked with a smile. But not this year. April Pope, the family’s golden child, ...
Style: christmas horror, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, suspense ...
Plot: christmas, murder, wealthy family, family dinner, christmas party, family reunited, dysfunctional family, psychopath, revenge, xmas, new year's eve, cabin in the woods ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 7.7
 10
Return (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
Story: A tale of terror. Cathy Reed has been institutionalized most of her life because of Schizophrenia, as a child her parents thought she was possessed by demons and had her exercised by priests. Medical science saw different. Now decades later Cathy is ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, bleak, scary, disturbing
Plot: supernatural power, supernatural, ghost, death, paranormal investigation, chase, murder, revenge, exorcism, victim, violence, hunting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Berlin Syndrome (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A passionate holiday romance leads to an obsessive relationship when an Australian photojournalist wakes one morning in a Berlin apartment and is unable to leave.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, atmospheric, exciting ...
Plot: trapped, psychopath, captive, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped, kidnapping, obsession, attempted escape, missing person, held captive, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, man hits a woman ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: berlin germany, oceania, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 4.6
 711
Evil Nanny (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A couple hires a live-in nanny to watch the offspring while they work. At first, everything goes perfectly, but when an unsafe incident means the parents no longer want the nanny around, they find out this nanny is savvy at not being evicted from ...
Style: suspense, rough, scary, captivating, psychotronic
Plot: manipulation, psychopath, murder, drug dealer, house, police, stalker, cop, treehouse, teenage girl, blood, cell phone ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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