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Ju-on: The Curse (2000)
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Original name: 呪怨
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A teacher visits the house of one of his students after the boy goes missing, only to have a horrifying excuse for his absence from school.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, disturbing, dark, psychological, suspenseful, tense, light, clever, brutal ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
curse, haunted house, supernatural, suspense, murder, afterlife, brutality, fear, grudge, investigation, missing child, ghost, curses spells and rituals, teacher, monster, survival, superhero, serial killer, revenge, violence, macabre, hitman, stalker, death, technology ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, psychological, suspenseful and disturbing films with plots about ghost, supernatural, suspense, macabre, death, brutality and danger mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ju-on: The Curse: The Ring (2002), Dark Water (2002), Grave Encounters (2011), The Orphanage (2007), The Grudge (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, death, vengeance, afterlife, cult, social worker, panic, haunted by the past, family problems, woman in danger ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, twists and turns, race against time, death, urban legend, investigation, life is a bitch, macabre, female protagonist, uncover truth ...
Time:
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Place:
seattle, fictional island
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On his request, the sensitive sister of a real estate agent visits a house he intends to put on sell, only to cross paths with its resident curse.
Style:
scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, curses spells and rituals, monster, suspense, grudge, curse, family relations, family problems, rivalry, supernatural, supernatural ability ...
Time:
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japan
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100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, nightmare, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, macabre, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, intense, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal investigation, claustrophobia, mental institution, suspense, abandoned hospital, monster, maze ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
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, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, murder, macabre, suspense, suicide, paranormal activity, vengeance, death, demon ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
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100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
People mysteriously start receiving voicemail messages from their future selves, in the form of the sound of them reacting to their own violent deaths, along with the exact date and time of their future death, listed on the message log. The plot ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
macabre, hospital, death, urban legend, supernatural, child abuse, spirit, good versus evil, mysterious death, ghost, vengeance, haunted by the past ...
Time:
future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, surprise ending, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
ghost, revenge, supernatural, nightmare, car accident, secret lover, photographer, macabre, suspense, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide, dark past ...
Place:
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large in the small town of Mill Valley for generations. It's in a mansion that young Sarah Bellows turns her tortured life and horrible secrets into a series of scary stories. These terrifying tales ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, kids, adult
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, intense, stylized ...
Audience:
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ghost, supernatural, haunted house, demonic possession, curse, suspense, murder, macabre, runaway, investigation, serial killer, family in danger ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
ghost, supernatural, investigation, suspense, urban legend, macabre, cult, journalist, curse, woman in danger, vengeance, violent ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
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scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, ghost, supernatural, split personality, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, twists and turns, mental illness, a vision, curses spells and rituals, death ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
While investigating the horrifying death of her boyfriend, Mai Takano (Miki Nakatani) learns about a videotape haunted by the spirit of a disturbing girl named Sadako, which kills anyone who watches it exactly one week later. When her boyfriend’s ...
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Plot:
curse, ghost, supernatural power, psychic, revenge, supernatural, vengeance, good versus evil, multiple storylines, redemption, police investigation, runaway ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
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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 ...
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Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, curse, murder, suspense, demon, twists and turns, macabre, good versus evil, supernatural horror, serial killer ...
Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her ...
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Audience:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rookie cop's world is turned upside down when she comes face to face with Paymon - King Of Hell. Officer Jessica Loren has the last shift at a transitioning police station, assigned to wait for a crew picking up bio-hazard waste from the ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
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supernatural, police station, ghost, cult, brutality, female protagonist, haunted house, twists and turns, demon, isolation, serial killer, workplace ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 92 min.
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Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Country: USA, Japan, Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Several people start receiving voice-mails from their future selves -- messages which include the date, time, and some of the details of their deaths.
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In 1988, evil begins to terrorize young sisters Katie and Kristi for the first time when an invisible entity resides in their home.
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, stylized, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, macabre, ghost, suspense, nightmare, evil child, investigation, mental institution, family problems, supernatural ability, small town, supernatural horror ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Just as Dan and Kristi welcome a newborn baby into their home, a demonic presence begins terrorizing them, tearing apart their perfect world and turning it into an inescapable nightmare. Security cameras capture the torment, making every minute ...
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