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The Magus (1968)
2K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A teacher on a Greek island becomes involved in bizarre mind-games with the island's magus (magician) and a beautiful young woman.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, retro, captivating, melancholic, independent film, crying, freeze frame, mind bending
Plot:
mind game, greek island, tarot card, magician, female nudity, redemption, teachers and students, mental illness, danger, riddles and clues, chase, doctor patient relationship, school, teacher, schizophrenic, manipulation, magic, magic realism, schizophrenia, suicide, rural setting, erotica, rivalry, airplane, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, year 1941, year 1914, year 1943, 1910s
Place:
greece
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Most similar movies to The Magus
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, suspenseful and crying films with plots about photograph, murder, death, bare chested male, blood, cigarette smoking and flashback mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Magus: Night Train to Terror (1985), Jamie Marks Is Dead (2014), One Deadly Summer (1983), Photographing Fairies (1997), Storm (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
God and Satan are on a train discussing the fate of three individuals. The stories of the people in question are told in a trio of very strange vignettes. One involves an insane anylum with some very interesting treatment plans. Another involves a ...
Style:
anthology, claymation, classic horror, cult horror, slasher ...
Plot:
train, devil, railway, rock and roll, satan, exploitation, supernatural horror, rock band, monster, demon, surrealism, rape ...
Time:
year 1979, 80s, 1940s, 70s, year 1944
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.
Style:
emotional, serious, captivating, offbeat, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, coming of age, afterlife, closeted homosexual, high school, youth, hopes, closeted gay, homoerotic friendship, lgbt, gay, lgbt teen ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder ...
Style:
sexy, erotic drama, erotic, sexual, neurotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, sexual manipulation, rape, rape victim, small town, erotica, breast feeding, exhibitionism, bare breasts, mother daughter relationship, traumatic childhood, revenge motive ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 70s, year 1976, 1950s ...
Place:
france, europe, south of france, provence
Similarity:
91%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of ...
Style:
psychological, spiritual, grindhouse, esoteric, mystic ...
Plot:
photograph, photography, world war one, photographer, back from the dead, woman on top, sex scene, cryptozoology, fae, occult, pagan, creature ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
london, europe, england, alps, switzerland
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
DD is a smug fellow, almost 30 years of age, who can manage all by himself. At least that's what he thinks. However, a strange woman - Lova - enters his life, hunted by evil men who want to hurt her. Against his will, DD is forced into a series ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, freeze frame ...
Plot:
on the run, good versus evil, rivalry, heroes, escapades, danger, journalism, investigation, delusion, obsession, love affair, time travel ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, homoerotic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
homoerotic friendship, homosexual subtext, closeted homosexual, mental illness, neighbor, dark humor, serial killer, loneliness, closeted gay, murder, twists and turns, lgbt ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america, california
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
Style:
slasher, psychosexual thriller, grindhouse, erotic, psycho sexual ...
Plot:
nightmare, lesbian lover, erotic dream, disembowelment, lesbian, murder, gay rape, female nudity, glamour, serial killer, female psychopath, plot twist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Compilation of three short horror films: "That's The Way To Do It", "Dreamhouse" and "Do You Believe In Fairies?" plus some new linking material.
Style:
anthology, slasher, dark fairy tale, independent film, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, puppeteer, paranormal, psychopath, ghost, haunted house, violent content, danger, couple relations, supernatural, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, touching, erotic ...
Plot:
mermaid, teenager, coming of age, puberty, transformation, parent child relationship, body horror, group sex, life is a bitch, underage sex, drunken girl, depression ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
male nudity, brother brother relationship, teacher, high school, haunted by the past, teachers and students, self discovery, power relations, couples, couple relations, introspection, sex on a train ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 70s, year 1992, 1920s ...
Place:
england, pittsburgh, london, europe, germany
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, gothic, psychological ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental breakdown, country house, husband wife relationship, adultery, hallucination, countryside, surrealism, loneliness, delusion, housewife, unicorn ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
female friendship, life turned upside down, self discovery, amnesia, losing-it hero, house fire, mountain, unrequited love, sexual attraction, homoerotic friendship, murder, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south of france, london
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to disintegrate.
Style:
suspense, gothic, phantasmagoric, grindhouse, neorealism ...
Plot:
nudity, belief in ghosts, ghost, painting, painter, artist, haunted house, obsession, supernatural, art, sadism, man hits a woman ...
Time:
year 1944, 60s, 1940s
Place:
venice, milan italy, italy
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Style:
gothic, creepy, slasher, crying, surprise ending
Plot:
insomnia, sexual attraction, psychiatry, psychotic, children, female nudity, nude model, teenage boy, engineer, drawing, trauma, manor ...
Time:
70s
Place:
venice, italy
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the ...
Style:
slasher, crying, surprise ending, independent film, freeze frame ...
Plot:
island, secret, guesthouse, rural setting, brother sister kiss, surrealism, murder, deception, family secret, jacket, fisherman, escape ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young hippie kills a man, and seeks refuge at the lakeside house of three beautiful sisters, who seem to be hiding a dark secret.
Style:
grindhouse, dark fantasy, psychotronic, dark, pretentious ...
Plot:
sex, folk horror, three sisters, hippie, outdoor sex, nudity, erotica, sex talk, sensuality, folklore, motorcyclist, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
53%
80K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the ...
Style:
suspenseful, twist ending, sexy, scary, dark ...
Plot:
psychic, mental illness, clairvoyant, psychic power, tarot card, extrasensory perception, small town, murder, supernatural horror, fortune teller, murder mystery, investigation ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place:
southern usa, usa, georgia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
Style:
neo noir, poliziottesco, freeze frame, detective, period drama
Plot:
christmas, police investigation, masked killer, winter, serial murder, dance lesson, punishment, mute, vigilante, death of son, death of protagonist, gay subtext ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s
Place:
poland, europe, central europe
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, freeze frame, british noir
Plot:
heist, love triangle, caper, gay, affair, romantic triangle, illicit affair, mansion, burglar, jewel thief, diamond theft, partner ...
Time:
60s
Place:
madrid
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychology, investigation, power relations, uncover truth, domestic violence, memory, psychiatrist, life turned upside down, amnesiac ...
Time:
90s, year 2014, year 2007, year 2000, 2010s ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
47%
260
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human.
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
loneliness, collector, tragic romance, priest in love, unrequited love, secret, fish out of water, love triangle, supernatural power, mythology, murder, hiding place ...
Time:
1830s, 19th century
Place:
central europe, europe
Similarity:
46%
1.6M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, clever, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, plot twist, secret, magic, magician, rivalry, illusionist, stage magic, uninhibited rivalry, deception, secrets ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, edwardian era, turn of the century ...
Place:
london, peru, colorado, los angeles, britain ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style:
independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, angst, heartache, memory, world war two, obsession, investigation, solitude, dinner party, school teacher, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
england, yorkshire
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
Style:
sexy, psychological, serious, atmospheric, sexual ...
Plot:
lost in the woods, psychopath, sexual attraction, masturbation, sexual tension, obsession, love triangle, woods, self discovery, isolation, countryside, erotica ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, ...
Style:
surprise ending, clever, enigmatic, twist ending, mysterious ...
Plot:
psychic, supernatural, mind game, supernatural ability, nightmare, uncover truth, surveillance, paranormal, clairvoyance, levitation, obsession, partner ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, 70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, columbus ohio, seattle
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.
Style:
realistic, sexy, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, love triangle, investigation, who done it, false accusation, death row, sexual fantasy, killer, plot twist, female nudity, doppelganger, sexual obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
italy, paris france, san francisco
Similarity:
41%
34K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
Style:
psychological, intellectual, talky, witty, suspenseful ...
Plot:
manipulation, riddles and clues, brutality, divorce, greed, dialogue, twists and turns, verbal byplay, infidelity, dishonesty, mistaken identity, fear ...
Place:
united kingdom, england, britain
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
José Sirgado, filmmaker in his thirties, has completed his second film and is deeply unsatisfied for various reasons. One may be that his relationship with the film has nothing to do with what he had imagined, another may be that the heroine of his ...
Style:
experimental, surreal, crying, cult classic, slasher ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, filmmaking, hallucination, drug addict, mental disorder, nudity, gay, found footage, female nudity, surrealism, drug addiction, visitor ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain, europe, madrid
Similarity:
40%
50K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
Style:
suspense, gothic, psychological, romantic drama, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
estate, second wife, investigation, housekeeper, obsession, mysterious death, manipulation, haunted by the past, widower, incest, family secret, secret relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 2020s, victorian era
Place:
england, french riviera, cornwall, monte carlo
Similarity:
40%
42K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, Hong Kong, South Korea, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, perverse, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, trapped, stalker, trap, female villain, stalking, nightmare, obsessive love, obsession, held captive, roommate, female stalker ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, france
Similarity:
39%
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