Movies like Tomie

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Tomie (1998)
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Tomie (1998)
Original name: 富江
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she knows it from. Meanwhile, a police detective is investigating a string of brutal murders, where he also runs across the name "Tomie." How are the two connected?
Style: manga, detective, scary, tense, rough, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, weird
Audience: teens
Plot: hypnosis, serial killer, extreme, virus, drug addiction, strip club, monster, amnesia, club, evil child, back from the dead, guts, sexploitation, scoop, asian school, bad kids, reincarnation, female nudity, love triangle, dismemberment, supernatural being, ghost, supernatural, youth, gory ...
Time: 19th century, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: reboot

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Most similar movies to Tomie

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and suspense films with plots about murder, deadly, gore, danger, supernatural, blood and corpse mostly in Horror, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Tomie: Suicide Club (2001), Tomie: Beginning (2005), Tomie: Rebirth (2001), Tomie: Replay (2000), Tomie: Revenge (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
Tomie: Beginning (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Within days after the mysterious new student Kawagami Tomie joins a high school classroom, all hell literally breaks loose. Simple in-fighting between boys and girls over Tomie's oppressive shadow soon gives way to mind-breaking violence, ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, supernatural, supernatural ability, danger, youth, teenage life, mutant, gory, female killer, mysterious girl, brutality, school class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.4
 688
Tomie: Rebirth (2001)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Young art student Hideo paints an unnerving portrait of Tomie, who whispers that she loves him. Inexplicably, he reacts by stabbing her to death with a painting trowel. Two friends, Takumi and Shunichi, arrive on the scene and help him dispose of ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: murder, afterlife, supernatural, ghost, investigation, vengeance, law enforcement, danger, mind game, gory, reincarnation, insanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.3
 757
Tomie: Replay (2000)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl is hospitalized. When an ultrasound examination reveals that something is moving inside her, a surgeon operates. The surprised surgical staff find themselves face-to-face with--not a baby--the disembodied head of a beautiful girl. Her ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, rough, suspense ...
Plot: disappearance, supernatural, investigation, danger, ghost, bodily dismemberment, mysterious death, mysterious girl, reincarnation, mental institution, body horror, hospital ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Tomie vs Tomie (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Partially based on "The Gathering" in the Tomie manga. A young man with a past begins work in a factory, where he attracts the amorous attention of a mysterious woman who lurks behind the scenes. He is a relatively unique young man, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, corny
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mystery woman, supernatural, rivalry, danger, gory, revenge, split personality, murder, human monster, mysterious villain, death, factory worker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 3.8
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Tomie: Revenge (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story: A young woman named Kazue runs over a naked girl on a mountain road. When she stops to help, the girl runs off into an old abandoned house in the middle of the woods.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, captivating, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, danger, doctor, forest, unrequited love, mountain, supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, rivalry, violence, extreme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.2
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Shiver (2003)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sammi (Athena Chu) and her husband Chan (Francis Ng) try to find ways to salvage their dying marriage after Sammi is injured during a robbery. The second chance at resolving their marital issues is embraced, but it also creates a dangerous situation ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot: heist, police investigation, murder, supernatural ability, family problems, rescue, danger, supernatural, crumbling marriage, able to see the dead, male female relationship, hallucination ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.5
 22K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film that brings back horror icon Freddy Krueger as a darker and more sinister character than ever before. While Freddy is on the prowl a group of teenagers being stalked soon learn they all have a common factor making them targets for this ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: monster, dream, murder, nightmare comes true, gory, serial killer, terror, torture, danger, serial murder, youth, surrealism ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (1995)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Misa Kuroi is an adorable high-school girl who arrives at her new school when it is falling under an evil supernatural force. Trying to figure out who's behind the supernatural attack, Misa also has to deal with assumptions by her fellow ...
Style: scary, tense, suspense, bleak, manga ...
Audience: teens
Plot: japanese schoolgirl, lesbian, murder, school, youth, survival, supernatural, rivalry, danger, good versus evil, teenage life, high school life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
 6.1
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Resurrection (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.
Style: scary, detective, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, violence, race against time, brutality, religion, death of son, killer, police partner, easter, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 869
Another Heaven (2000)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A pair of hard-boiled Tokyo cops are investigating a gruesome murder: after killing the victim, the murderer cut his skull open and cooked his brain in a stew. As they try to track down the killer, they discover that, quite literally, everybody is a ...
Style: serious, slasher, rough, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, police detective, psychopath, violence spree, danger, riddles and clues, who done it, supernatural ability, electrocution, conspiracy ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.1
 89K
Audition (1999)
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: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark ...
Plot: torture, femme fatale, psychopath, murder, sadism, macabre, revenge, serial killer, twists and turns, unsettling, violence, obsession ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.4
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Body (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Chon is suffering from having bad times while sleeping. He tries not to sleep because he's scared of a girl in his nightmares. In the dreams, the girl screams for help before she is cruelly killed. Ae, Chon's sister is worried about the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, bloody ...
Plot: ghost, murder, danger, hypnosis, husband wife relationship, imaginary friend, mental illness, hallucination, investigation, haunted house, haunted, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
One Missed Call 2 (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Japan, the daycare teacher Kyoko Okudera is convinced by her colleague and friend Madoka to visit her boyfriend Naoto Sakurai in the restaurant where he works instead of studying as planned. When the owner Mr. Wang answers his daughter's ...
Style: psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, afterlife, curse, investigation, vengeance, journalism, danger, supernatural, teenage life, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, cell phone ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Detective Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, private detective, twists and turns, danger, partner, friendship, painting, insanity, disappearance, neighbor, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 968
The Unseeable (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualjin who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky rural mansion of a widow, Runjuan.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, mind bending, surprise ending
Plot: ghost, haunted house, pregnancy, mysterious character, woman in danger, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, estate, twists and turns, disappearance, mysterious man, nightmare ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Reincarnation (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A Japanese actress begins having strange visions and experiences after landing a role in a horror film about a real-life murder spree that took place over forty years ago.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, scary, spooky ...
Audience: kids
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, ghost, mental institution, reincarnation, small town, haunted by the past, danger, vengeance, gory, grudge, twists and turns ...
Time: year 1970
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
 108K
Malignant (2021)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When cancer patient Alan Gates discovers that his tumor is actually a mysterious parasite that gives him otherworldly powers, he begins a battle against an army buried beneath society's skin. The movie is based on james wans comic of the same ...
Style: scary, slasher, suspense, dark, tense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, one against many, body horror, monster, murder, violence, woman in jeopardy, imaginary friend, kidnapping, supernatural power, sister sister relationship, supernatural ...
Time: year 1993, year 1985, year 1994, 2020s, year 1992 ...
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
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21%
 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 ⇓
21%
Princess Aurora (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A woman gets killed in a department store. No one imagines this could lead to serial murders, but two days after the first murder, another homicide occurs. A woman is suffocated to death and the only evidence left at the crime scene is a sticker of ...
Style: serious, emotional, rough, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot: serial killer, femme fatale, police detective, police investigation, rivalry, law enforcement, violence spree, gory, mystery woman, murder, suspicion, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Inferno of Torture (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their "production". Europeans pay more for tattooed beauties. Against this background, and considering the gorgeous tattooed women develop the ...
Style: disturbing, cult classic, queer horror, suspense, controversial ...
Plot: sadomasochism, sexual sadism, samurai, sexploitation, torture, tattoo, chastity belt, tattoo artist, exploitation, lesbian sex, martial arts, violent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Exorcist III (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, religious horror, splatter ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, demon, possession, supernatural, demonic possession, macabre, exorcist, priest, investigation, murder, violence, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa, india, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Sick Nurses (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: Thailand
Duration: 82 min.
Story: At a Thai hospital, a doctor and his seven nubile nurses engage in the sale of dead bodies. Jealousy causes one of the nurses to threaten to blow the whistle on the practice, so the others murder her. Soon the spirit of the slain nurse seeks ...
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, hospital, brother sister relationship, supernatural, mental illness, medical, vengeance, doctors and patients, danger, cons and scams, siblings relations, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Last Supper (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret in THE LAST SUPPER. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, cannibalism, restaurant, obsession, supernatural, gory, cooking and food, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chef, wedding day, food, cannibal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy. Perhaps driven by insanity from a former abortion she goes on a killing spree, gutting women and removing their stomaches. Her relationship with her attractive and successful friend ...
Style: slasher, controversial, bloody, frightening, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, macabre, big city, prostitute, pregnancy, psychopath, couples, danger, supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, journalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
20%
 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 ⇓
20%
 6.9
 13K
Gozu (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, surrealism, obsession, murder, nightmare, extreme, hitman, mission of murder, mental illness, danger, lactation ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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