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The Heirloom (2005)
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The Heirloom (2005)
Original name: 宅變
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house; when he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen.
Style: suspense, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, offbeat, detective
Plot: ghost, vengeance, inheritance, supernatural, haunted by the past, family relations, danger, family problems, estate, domestic disturbance, curses spells and rituals, family secret, nightmare, unconsciousness, haunted house, haunted, haunting, extreme, babies and infants, train, pregnancy, twins, suicide, architect, fiancee ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: taipei
Keyword: compilation

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about supernatural, ghost, danger, deadly, haunted house, haunted and curses spells and rituals mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Heirloom: Sorum (2001), Haunted (1995), Apartment 1303 (2007), The Chair (2007), Dark Mirror (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sorum (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, domestic disturbance, murder, family problems, danger, estrangement, asian, extreme, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.2
 7K
Haunted (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its ...
Style: gothic, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, murder, haunting, supernatural, betrayal, nanny, uncover truth, family relations, haunted by the past, siblings relations, mentally unstable ...
Time: 90s, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Apartment 1303 (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her ...
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, suicide, uncover truth, losing-it hero, investigation, danger, grudge, curses spells and rituals, urban legend, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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The Chair (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Psychology student Danielle inadvertently wakes a evil spirit while renting a century old Victorian house. In setting out to prove his existence, Danielle inadvertently frees and becomes a puppet of the spirit of serial killer Edgar Crowe. ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious
Plot: serial killer, good versus evil, supernatural, ghost, psychopath, supernatural ability, danger, woman in danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, curses spells and rituals, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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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 ⇓
87%
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Deadline (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Style: scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, mental breakdown, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, haunted by the past, woman in danger, mind game, confined, writer's life, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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The Complex (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, ghost, danger, riddles and clues, supernatural, death, extreme, haunted, scoop, hunted, family problems, retirement home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 4.8
 1K
Dark Remains (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, obsession, ghost, losing-it hero, family in danger, isolation, family problems, haunted by the past, murder, death in the family, haunted house, haunted ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Scary Hair (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Chi-Hyon takes home her young sister, Su Hyon, a terminal cancer patient, so that she can help her enjoy her remaining time on earth, she buys her a wig to mask the effects of chemotherapy -- not realizing that the wig is, in fact, demonic. ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, curse, danger, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, family problems, terminal illness, teenage life, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Haunted Forest (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The Indian descendent Sean comes to a forest with his friends Josh and Flipp trying to find the track to a mysterious cursed tree and a secret burial ground.
Style: atmospheric, scary, serious, slasher, tense ...
Plot: ghost, curse, vengeance, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals, missing person, danger, escapades, legends and myths, haunted by the past, evil spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Inheritance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inheritance tells the tale of sinister old lady Lillian Baker (Marjorie Nelson) & her kind hearted, good natured carer Abigail Nielsen (Jen Taylor). Abigail feels sorry for Lillian & does her best to keep her happy, however one ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted by the past, supernatural, uncover truth, mental illness, supernatural ability, danger, mentally unstable, curses spells and rituals, schizophrenia, spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Grindstone Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, danger, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Urban Ghost Story (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After a car accident, Lizzie lies dead on the roadside - slowly she is taken into the light - but is pulled back to earth when she is revived by the doctors. Lizzie feels sure that during the 184 seconds that she lay dead, something latched on to ...
Style: independent film, serious, mind bending, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, haunted, supernatural horror, haunting, poltergeist, road accident, family problems, family relations, supernatural, journalism, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Under the Bed (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mystical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nightmare comes true, family in danger, supernatural, suburbs, creature, youth, brother brother relationship, supernatural horror, dark past, nightmare, recurring nightmare, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Sightings: Heartland Ghost (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending
Plot: haunted house, ghost, investigation, haunted by the past, afterlife, supernatural, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, filmmaking, psychic, poltergeist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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 ⇓
83%
An American Ghost Story (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Paul, an unemployed writer, decides to rent and live in a house that's rumored to be haunted, he puts his life and his relationships in grave danger as he obsessively attempts to get the story that will finally make his career.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, danger, uncover truth, curses spells and rituals, writer's life, supernatural, haunted, fear, afterlife, violence, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Skeptic (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: haunted house, afterlife, lawyer, ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, doll, supernatural, danger, haunted, family problems, domestic disturbance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Pop Skull (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This ...
Style: suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, addiction, ghost, drug abuse, supernatural, crumbling marriage, danger, couples, teenage life, breakup, gory, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Secrets in the Walls (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A single mom and her two daughters move from their cramped Detroit apartment to the suburbs but scratching, cries and shadows haunt their new home.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, exciting ...
Plot: ghost, starting over, supernatural, family in danger, fall in love, mentally unstable, single parent, danger, family relations, family problems, psychopath, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Grave Halloween (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After inadvertently unleashing an ancient curse, a documentary crew of American exchange students is haunted by angry spirits in Japan's infamous Suicide Forest.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: forest, suicide, uncover truth, curse, vengeance, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, gory, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 6.5
 2K
Blood Curse (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, scary, suspense
Plot: ghost, supernatural, family problems, danger, family in crisis, clergy, curses spells and rituals, village, haunted house, husband wife relationship, hallucination, haunting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 3.7
 2K
Heks (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister ...
Style: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, fear, murder, chase, death, violence, paranormal, evil, deadly creature, peril, supernatural power, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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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 ⇓
81%
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 ⇓
80%
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Face (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung ...
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, ghost, murder, psychopath, supernatural, police investigation, danger, transplant, race against time, prostitute, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 4.5
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Dead Souls (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: On his 18th birthday, Johnny finds out that he's come into an inheritance - and his family were a lot stranger than he ever knew...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, farm, life turned upside down, mysterious character, uncover truth, teenage life, supernatural, starting over, orphan, family problems, danger, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The Disappointments Room (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.
Style: scary, tense, serious, mysterious, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, child in peril, family in danger, parents and children, estate, parent child relationship, isolation, family problems, danger, mind game, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
They're Watching Us (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who ...
Style: mind bending, scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: ghost, missing person, police investigation, family relations, police detective, uncover truth, supernatural, law enforcement, danger, mental institution, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The House of Seven Corpses (1974)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A director is filming on location in a house where seven murders were committed. The caretaker warns them not to mess with things they do not understand (the murders were occult related), but the director wants to be as authentic as possible and has ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: supernatural, filmmaking, haunted house, ghost, estate, danger, curses spells and rituals, house, supernatural power, actor, trapped in a building, zombie ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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