Movies like Angel Dust
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Angel Dust (1994)
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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, dark, neo noir, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, brainwashing, sex crime, murder, rivalry, manipulation, urban legend, curse, 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, fight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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Most similar movies to Angel Dust
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and psychological films with plots about murder, blood, deadly, serial killer, suspense, violence and danger mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Angel Dust: Parasite Eve (1997), The Ugly (1997), Strait-Jacket (1964), The Empty Man (2020), Craig (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, bleak, suspenseful, natural horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mad scientist, experiment gone awry, police investigation, criminal's revenge, supernatural, mutant, track down, suspense, wedding, murder, zombie, invasion ...
Time:
90s
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95%
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, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, suspense, psychopath, investigation, mind game, mysterious character, haunted by the past, doctors and patients, macabre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new zealand, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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, surprise ending, scary, psychological, surreal ...
Plot:
serial killer, mother daughter relationship, farm, psychiatrist, insanity, decapitation, mental breakdown, mental illness, murder, hagsploitation, suspense, adulterous husband ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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, tense, suspenseful, slasher, scary ...
Plot:
occult, suspense, supernatural, suicide, sacrifice, cult, investigation, teenager, death, riddles and clues, legend, cosmic horror ...
Time:
year 1995, 2010s, year 2019, 90s
Place:
missouri, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, cult, psychopath, vengeance, mental illness, split personality, obsession, suspense, rivalry, suburban life, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
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, stylized, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
black magic, supernatural, evil witch, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, torture, chaos, vengeance, curse, supernatural ability, witch, dark secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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:
rough, scary, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, suspense, manipulation, curse, murder, investigation, survival, social misfits, dishonesty, curses spells and rituals, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seoul, korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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:
psychological, surreal, scary, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
doppelganger, dream, broken mirror, nightmare, fear, murder, investigation, haunted by the past, embassy, girlfriend, woman in danger, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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, tv show, losing-it hero, murder, schizophrenia, hallucination, alternate reality, surrealism ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In medieval times, on a remote plain, a widow and her mother-in-law kill wandering samurai, put their bodies in a hole in the ground and sell their armour and valuables, until the daughter-in-law falls in love with one of their intended victims.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, surreal, art house, psychological ...
Plot:
samurai, murder, swamp, macabre, demon, sex, witch, vengeance, survival, suspense, tokugawa shogunate, pagan ...
Time:
14th century, middle ages
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Movies like The Machinist
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, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, suspense, mind game, frame up, police detective, dishonesty, riddles and clues, friend, student ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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:
psychological, twist ending, intense, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, kidnapping, suspense, murder, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, insanity, psychopath, serial killer, psycho, schizophrenia, paranoia ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, 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:
slasher, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, police investigation, police detective, psychopath, rivalry, law enforcement, who done it, stalking, actor's life, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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, suburbs, human monster, brutality, missing child, investigation, serial killer, child abuse, domestic violence, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, obsession, vengeance, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, christmas, psychology ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Films like Gothika
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, psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, cult, psychology, art, magic realism, insanity, macabre, funeral, clown ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico city, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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, atmospheric, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suicide, cult, conspiracy, death, police investigation, violent, surrealism, high school, brutality, macabre, hacker, student ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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, sexual ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, erotica, psychiatrist, murder, voyeurism, suspense, investigation, femme fatale, mysterious character, secret identity, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Movie in collections
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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, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, erotic ...
Plot:
incestuous sex, fall in love, ghost, curse, haunted by the past, supernatural, mysterious character, supernatural ability, social relations, curses spells and rituals, small town, family curse ...
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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, psychological, suspenseful, satanic, gothic ...
Plot:
supernatural, suspense, serial killer, apocalypse, antichrist, curses spells and rituals, religion, devil, satanism, devil worship, religions or cults, supernatural ability ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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:
torture, revenge, kidnapping, high school, deathtrap, confined, social misfits, misfit, society, sadism, murder, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, twist ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, suicide, medical student, near death experience, experiment gone awry, obsession, medical experiment, memory, manipulation, hallucination, nightmare ...
Time:
80s, future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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, controversial ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, ocean, haunted by the past, dangerous attraction, vengeance, supernatural, serial killer, rape and revenge, dark secret, exploitation, curse ...
Time:
70s
Place:
california, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mental institution, mind game, hospital, crazy, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style:
scary, slasher, suspenseful, gothic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, urban legend, ghost, supernatural, monster, belief, macabre, cult, investigation, urban decay, revenge, bee ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, obsession, identical twins, twins, drug addiction, mental illness, love triangle, addiction, mistaken identity, drugs, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
scary, disturbing, tense, bloody, surreal ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, macabre, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, sadism, revenge, suspense, serial killer, obsession, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Erotic drama set in an underground Tokyo club called The Bedroom, where the female clientele are drugged into a trance-like state and are subjected to different styles of bizarre, fetishistic sex by the male clientele.
Style:
controversial, experimental, surreal, sexy, realistic ...
Plot:
voyeurism, murder, fetish, exploitation, dysfunctional marriage, gas mask, surveillance, female nudity, rape, male nudity, drugs, masturbation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
tokyo, japan, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalking, psychopath, revenge, suspense, lawyer, obsession, serial killer, family in danger, justice, psychology, villain, chase ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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:
disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, rough, surreal ...
Plot:
serial killer, stalking, murder, fear, pregnancy, mysterious character, mind game, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, destiny, psychopath, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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