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The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
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The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
Style: satanic, psychotronic, psychological, slasher, grim, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: boy, voodoo, male nudity, supernatural, occult, possession, psychopath, religion, hippie, mental illness, spiritualism, class differences, exorcist, murder, striptease, death, torture, lsd, homosexuality, voyeur, possessed human, uncle nephew relationship, child in peril, nudity, socialite ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, tangier morocco, usa, morocco, manhattan, new york city

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and psychological films with plots about danger, deadly, murder, supernatural, blood, psychopath and ghost mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Possession of Joel Delaney: Megan Is Missing (2011), Lost Souls (2000), Home Movie (2008), The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005), The Echo Game (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Megan Is Missing (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Fictional drama based on actual events, about two teenage girls who encounter an Internet predator.
Style: mockumentary, disturbing, suspenseful, twisted, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, internet, rape, teenage girl, psychopath, teenage life, danger, missing person, best friend, murder, deathtrap, rape of a girl ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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Lost Souls (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers. They ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, satanic ...
Plot: devil, supernatural, antichrist, serial killer, curses spells and rituals, religion, satanism, devil worship, religions or cults, supernatural ability, exorcism, reincarnation ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
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Home Movie (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot: killer child, husband wife relationship, twins, evil child, psychopath, family problems, found footage, danger, family life, siblings relations, thanksgiving, halloween ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Witch Who Came from the Sea (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Anger stemming from being abused as a child drives an alcoholic's daughter to kill as an adult.
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, obsession, danger, ocean, haunted by the past, witch, dangerous attraction, supernatural, vengeance, serial killer, rape and revenge, dark secret ...
Time: 70s
Place: malibu california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing ...
Style: scary, demonic, satanic, suspense, dark ...
Audience: teens, date night, family friendly, adult
Plot: supernatural, devil, demon, religion, courtroom, priest, supernatural horror, investigation, demonic possession, exorcism, legal, courtroom drama ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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The Echo Game (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young mother must protect her daughter from a rogue scientist on a murderous rampage to steal the girl's psychic powers for herself.
Style: serious, scary, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, mad scientist, family relations, supernatural ability, parents and children, chase, danger, sexual content, profanity, psychic power, psychic, murder ...
Time: 21st century
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36%
A Resurrection (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A down to earth school psychologist tries to help a mentally ill student who actually believes his brother is coming back from the grave for revenge on the students who killed him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, danger, supernatural, social relations, ghost, teenage boy, death of brother, fear, psychiatrist, investigation, cemetery, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
My Sweet Killer (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot: mental illness, alone, murder, male nudity, psychiatric patient, psychopath, misfit, mysterious character, doctors and patients, split personality, femme fatale, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Dead of Winter (1987)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A fledgling actress is lured to a remote mansion for a screen-test, soon discovering she is actually a prisoner in the middle of a blackmail plot.
Style: suspense, psychological, slasher, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: danger, snow, insanity, winter, isolation, woman in danger, audition, psychopath, missing person, survival, blood, imprisonment ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.0
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6 Souls (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, psychiatrist, murder, supernatural horror, doctors and patients, split personality, female psychiatrist, twists and turns, mental illness, witch doctor, voodoo, demon ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 1910s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on a short story by Stephen King, a man and his family return to his home town, but he is then harassed by teenagers that died when he was a kid.
Style: slasher, suspense, atmospheric, satanic, serious ...
Plot: stephen king, ghost, supernatural, high school, monster, murder, haunted by the past, family in danger, childhood, investigation, stalking, supernatural ability ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
29%
Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Six years ago, Michael Myers terrorized the town of Haddonfield, Illinois. He and his niece, Jamie Lloyd, have disappeared. Jamie was kidnapped by a bunch of evil druids who protect Michael Myers. And now, six years later, Jamie has escaped after ...
Style: slasher, scary, bloody, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: halloween, serial killer, masked killer, psychopath, murder, supernatural, gory, torture, blood, holiday horror, monster, death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Strait-Jacket (1964)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a 20 year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behaviour.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, psychological, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, farm, psychiatrist, insanity, decapitation, mental breakdown, doctor, murder, mental illness, hagsploitation, mother daughter relationship, mother daughter estrangement ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, investigation, master criminal, gory ...
Place: usa
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Deadly Blessing (1981)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After her husband dies of mysterious circumstances, a widow becomes increasingly paranoid of the neighboring religious community that may have diabolical plans for her.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: tractor, murder, psychopath, voyeur, occult, woman in danger, supernatural ability, danger, mind game, religion, supernatural horror, supernatural ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: pennsylvania
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27%
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Roman (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, independent film ...
Plot: isolation, murder, factory, psychopath, dangerous attraction, serial killer, obsession, destructive relationship, investigation, mentally unstable, stalking, danger ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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You'll Like My Mother (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pregnant Los Angeles widow journeys to her late husband's Minnesota hometown to finally meet his mother and family, but she quickly discovers they're a very strange--and homicidal--lot. Director Lamont Johnson's 1972 thriller stars ...
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, tense, mind bending ...
Plot: snow, sexploitation, wedding, macabre, family relations, mind game, pregnancy, mansion, psychopath, family problems, estate, danger ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Haunting of Molly Hartley (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When teenage Molly Hartley moves to a new town, she's haunted by terrifying visions that may have to do with dark secrets from her past. Something evil lurks just beneath the lush surfaces of her private-school world, and it holds the rights to ...
Style: realistic, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, supernatural, high school life, curses spells and rituals, teenage life, dealing with death, danger, haunted by the past, twists and turns, parents and children, teenager, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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27%
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Hipnos (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dr SĂ¡nchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, scary ...
Plot: doctor, hospital, supernatural, mental illness, losing-it hero, isolation, mind game, eye, health, psychology, nightmare, psychiatric ward ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe, brussels
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27%
Alone in the Dark (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: maniac, home invasion, murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, blackout, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
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26%
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 ⇓
26%
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Danika (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The story follows Danika, a woman whose fears for her children are manifested in premonitions of death and disaster. Bierko plays Tomei's husband, while Hall is her psychiatrist and confidant.
Style: serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
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Found (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Marty is the ideal fifth grader. He gets good grades, listens to his teachers, and doesn't start trouble in class. But a darkness is beginning to fall over Marty's life. The kids at school won't stop picking on him, his parents just ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, scary, slasher ...
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Believers (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, bloody ...
Plot: ritual, voodoo, supernatural, child in peril, religion, murder, investigation, gory, brutality, torture, ritual murder, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, minneapolis minnesota, brooklyn new york city
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25%
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Joshua (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The arrival of a newborn girl causes the gradual disintegration of the Cairn family; particularly for 9-year-old Joshua, an eccentric boy whose proper upbringing and refined tastes both take a sinister turn.
Style: scary, psychological, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: child as adult, creepy child, boy, psychopath, baby, family relations, family problems, parents and children, manipulation, evil child, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.9
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Gut (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around ...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, voyeurism, haunted by the past, best friend, losing-it hero, danger, serial killer, violence, killer, violent content, disorder, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
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The Hearse (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.
Style: cult classic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: ghost, killer car, supernatural, haunted house, woman in danger, small town, car, cemetery, living dead, exploitation, machine, macabre ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: san francisco
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25%
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