Movies like Angel Dust

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Angel Dust (1994)
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Angel Dust (1994)
Original name: エンジェル・ダスト
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Psychiatrist Setsuko Suma is called in to help the police solve an ongoing case of female-centric serial murder in the local subway system. Her investigation leads to her former mentor and lover, who becomes the prime suspect in the case.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, retro, dark, cult classic, neo noir, detective, psychological horror, scary, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, brainwashing, sex crime, murder, rivalry, manipulation, urban legend, curse, rottweiler, psychopath, investigation, who done it, mind game, amateur detective, mentally unstable, unlikely criminals, curses spells and rituals, religions or cults, sex, dog, bank robbery, heist, demon, revenge ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
Keyword: scuba

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Most similar movies to Angel Dust

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, psychological and scary films with plots about murder, deadly, blood, serial killer, danger, corpse and investigation mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Angel Dust: The Cure (1997), Parasite Eve (1997), Black Kiss (2004), Voices (2007), The Ugly (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cure (1997)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist ...
Style: psychological, scary, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, investigation, amnesia, hypnosis, monkey, hallucination, interrogation, murder mystery, mind control, stranger, psychosis ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, okinawa japan
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Parasite Eve (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Toshiaki Nagashima is a biologist who is doing major research on mitochondria. When his beautiful young wife is tragically involved in a car accident which leaves her brain dead, in desperation he steals her liver from her body in order to recieve ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: interspecies sex, mad scientist, experiment gone awry, danger, criminal's revenge, supernatural, police investigation, mutant, wedding, murder, zombie, alien ...
Time: 90s
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28%
 5.9
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Black Kiss (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work ...
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, psychopath, police detective, who done it, law enforcement, danger, rivalry, gory, stalking, actor's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.5
 1K
Voices (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young woman tries to escape what seems to be a curse that is killing members of her family one by one.
Style: suspense, rough, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, manipulation, curse, murder, investigation, survival, danger, dishonesty, social misfits, curses spells and rituals, wedding ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul, asia, korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Ugly (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, suspense, creepy ...
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, psychopath, mind game, investigation, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, killer, surrealism ...
Time: 90s
Place: new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.4
 11K
The Broken (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and ...
Style: mind bending, surreal, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: dream, broken mirror, nightmare, fear, murder, doppelganger, investigation, danger, haunted by the past, girlfriend, embassy, woman in danger ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Mother of Tears (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, stylized, suspense ...
Plot: black magic, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, occult, dark secret, good versus evil, torture, witchcraft, chaos, vengeance, witch, danger ...
Time: year 2007, year 2000, 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 38K
The Empty Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style: psychological, suspense, lovecraft, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, supernatural, suicide, investigation, cosmic horror, danger, teenager, death, riddles and clues, legend, experiment, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2020s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 2019 ...
Place: missouri, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Craig (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: CRAIG is a lonely, somewhat awkward, young man trying to recover from losing his parents in a big fire. Besides a friend from childhood, in one go he looses everyone he cares about. The friend, Cliff, isn't of much use either. He has his own ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, vengeance, danger, mental illness, gory, split personality, obsession, rivalry, suburban life, suburbs ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Legend holds that 30 years ago, a suburban town was terrorized by the spirit of a woman whose horrid face had been grotesquely disfigured. Roaming the streets wearing a long coat and carrying large scissors, the spirit would approach her young ...
Style: slasher, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, ghost, child in peril, danger, gory, suburbs, brutality, missing child, investigation, urban legend, extreme, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
 21K
Nightwatch (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, police detective, danger, riddles and clues, dead prostitute, slow burn, student, scared, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 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 ⇓
21%
 7.0
 27K
Shadow (1982)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Style: slasher, scary, psychological, dark, grindhouse ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, lesbian, dog attack, female nudity, obsession, investigation, blood, writers, plot twist, murderer, misogynist ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: rome italy, europe, italy, new york, rhode island ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.3
 546K
Split (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant ...
Style: suspense, psychological, twist ending, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, mental illness, murder, psychopath, psycho, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, insanity, paranoia, serial killer, schizophrenia, violence ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
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Relative Fear (1994)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Linda and Peter Pratman's son Adam is autistic, but they still love him and hope that he'll at least start talking some day. However he's teased and abused by the kids of the neighborhood and his grandpa . When several people around ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense ...
Plot: murder, killer child, suspicion, psychopath, therapist, boy, mischievous children, social misfits, danger, family life, investigation, serial killer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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
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20%
 6.5
 22K
Suicide Club (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the ...
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, creepy, bloody ...
Plot: suicide, conspiracy, police investigation, gory, violent, surrealism, high school, brutality, hacker, student, website, extreme ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.6
 2K
Mad Cowgirl (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman, who is dying of a brain disorder, begins a surreal journey which descends into violence.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot: mental illness, sex addict, obsession, family relations, siblings relations, gory, losing-it hero, schizophrenia, hallucination, murder, alternate reality, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Neighbour No. 13 (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Jûzô Murasaki is a boy miscast in his classroom, being frequently abused, tortured, beaten and humiliated by the bully Tôru Akai and his gang of juvenile punks. After years of repression, rejection and fear without facing Akai, he develops a ...
Style: surreal, psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, split personality, bullying, revenge, mental illness, psychopath, vengeance, youth, life is a bitch, rivalry, teenage life, destiny ...
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.3
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The Final (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, rough, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revenge, torture, kidnapping, high school, deathtrap, bullying, social misfits, confined, misfit, society, murder, sadism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
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20%
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Dark Corners (2006)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A troubled young woman (Birch) wakes up one day as a different person - someone who is stalked by creatures.
Style: psychological, disturbing, rough, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: stalking, serial killer, murder, fear, pregnancy, mysterious character, mind game, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, destiny, psychopath, danger ...
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19%
Don't Say a Word (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Switzerland, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..
Style: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: psychiatrist, kidnapping, mental illness, haunted by the past, murder, bank robbery, police investigation, torture, manipulation, mind game, spy, danger ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, year 1991, year 2001
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 733
The Hypnotist (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three apparently unrelated suicides occur on the same day in Tokyo. One involves a young athlete, one a groom at his wedding reception, and the third an elderly man celebrating his wife's birthday. A middle aged detective investigating one of ...
Style: detective, bloody, action thriller, saga, scary ...
Plot: wedding, hypnosis, police detective, violent content, environmentalism, afterlife, memory loss, curses spells and rituals, murder, who done it, mental illness, danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 5.9
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Inugami (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the ...
Style: psychedelic, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, suspense ...
Plot: incestuous sex, fall in love, ghost, danger, curse, haunted by the past, supernatural ability, supernatural, social relations, curses spells and rituals, small town, witch ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.2
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Color of Night (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into Rose and begins a torrid affair.
Style: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, mental illness, erotica, psychiatrist, murder, voyeurism, fatal attraction, investigation, femme fatale, serial killer, uncover truth, nymphomania ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
19%
 6.1
 1K
Kaidan (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the ...
Style: serious, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: samurai, supernatural, ghost, murder, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, reincarnation, medieval, dealing with death, heroes, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.3
 259
Enbalming (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should ...
Style: grindhouse, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, surprise ending ...
Plot: home invasion, zombie, suicide, dead body, insanity, father figure, drug, tattoo, decapitation, cocaine, bondage, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.5
 23K
Santa Sangre (1989)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, dark, psychedelic, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, psychology, clown, extreme, art, magic realism, schizophrenia, macabre, funeral ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.2
 77K
The Dead Zone (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, dark hero, serial killer, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, destiny, macabre, investigation, premonition, murder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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