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Secrets in the Walls (2010)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A single mom and her two daughters move from their cramped Detroit apartment to the suburbs but scratching, cries and shadows haunt their new home.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, scary, serious, slasher, exciting, thought provoking, touching, suspense, gothic ...
Plot:
missing child, ghost, supernatural, starting over, family in danger, psychopath, family relations, parents and children, fall in love, danger, family problems, single parent, mentally unstable, ghost girl, paranormal activity, haunted, paranormal, captivity, love and romance, suburbs, mute or deaf, domestic disturbance, exorcism, ballerina, hospital ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
detroit
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Most similar movies to Secrets in the Walls
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about danger, ghost, supernatural, deadly, parents and children, haunted house and family relations mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Secrets in the Walls: Dark Mirror (2007), The Echo (2008), The Disappointments Room (2016), Isabelle (2018), The Haunting of Helena (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, zombie, stalking, family problems, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bobby Reynolds is released on probation from Rikers and moves to the old apartment in East Village, New York, where his lonely mother lived and passed away. He finds a job as mechanic at the Houston Auto Repair shop owned by the supportive Hector ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological horror, demonic ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, ex convict, riddles and clues, family problems, parents and children, domestic disturbance, danger, gory, grudge, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.
Style:
scary, mysterious, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, child in peril, family in danger, parents and children, estate, parent child relationship, isolation, family problems, danger, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
supernatural, evil spirit, ghost, parents and children, danger, demon, family in danger, nightmare, evil force, curses spells and rituals, fear, paranormal activity ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
haunted, supernatural horror, ghost, supernatural, child in peril, parents and children, paranormal activity, survival horror, danger, family relations, spirit, paranormal phenomena ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A screenwriter who travels to an abandoned house to finish a script on time, but a series of strange events lead her to a psychological breakdown.
Style:
satanic, scary, bleak, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, videotaping, mental breakdown, danger, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, isolation, woman in danger, confined, writer's life, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Style:
rough, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, supernatural, danger, frame up, captivity, amateur detective, haunting, psychic, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sequel to the 2009 mezzo-mezzo supernatural horror purporting to be based on a true story in which a cancer-afflicted teen starts seeing things in the new Victorian house he and his family moved into.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, serious, demonic, spooky ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, murderer, new house, parents and children, dead man, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, danger, doll, haunted ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of Dulce, a mother who has encounters with apparitions inside her old house. She must decipher a mystery that could trigger a prophecy: the death of her family.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, frightening, mind bending ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted by the past, haunted house, twists and turns, murder, time travel, danger, family in danger, elderly, missing child, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venezuela
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Karen, Sarah, and Emma Tunney are all moving to a small town in Pennsylvania where, unknown to them, in 1913, a horrid mine accident trapped dozens of children alive, underground. But there's a problem. They're still alive.
Style:
scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
creepy kid, nightmare, abandoned house, undead, zombie, danger, small town life, small town, missing person, parents and children, ghost, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, psychopath, family in danger, couples, twists and turns, suburbs, parents and children, male nudity, cabin in the woods, kidnapping, writers, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Psychology student Danielle inadvertently wakes a evil spirit while renting a century old Victorian house. In setting out to prove his existence, Danielle inadvertently frees and becomes a puppet of the spirit of serial killer Edgar Crowe. ...
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, ghost, supernatural, good versus evil, psychopath, danger, supernatural ability, woman in danger, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, family in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A couple and their six-year-old son move into an old Connecticut house where the boy soon becomes distraught with thoughts of monsters dwelling in the attic. When their friends and guests abruptly go missing or die mysteriously, it becomes a race ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
missing person, ghost, family in danger, race against time, suburbs, domestic disturbance, supernatural, youth, neighbor, uncover truth, relocation, bad kids ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A fugitive, an empty house, a rotting corpse. The journey begins. Cameron Matthews, a petty criminal and fugitive from the law, hides from police by taking shelter in an old dilapidated house in the middle of the city. There he discovers the rotting ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, serious, thrilling ...
Plot:
house, corpse, fugitive, problem, religions or cults, family problems, murder mystery, wizards and magicians, 18 year old, faith, supernatural, adoption ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Style:
serious, psychological, mysterious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
missing person, disappearance, haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, religions or cults, teenage life, destiny, emo, brother, ghost, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Michael Wolffsen (Tyler Mane) receives an urgent phone call and takes his nephew and fiancee and makes the journey home to his only other living relative: his estranged, eccentric (and extremely paranoid) father, Gary (Muse Watson), who is obsessed ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
estrangement, supernatural, family in danger, ghost, mental illness, couple relations, danger, father son relationship, supernatural power, dementia, stalking, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, danger, family relations, haunted by the past, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After a car accident, Lizzie lies dead on the roadside - slowly she is taken into the light - but is pulled back to earth when she is revived by the doctors. Lizzie feels sure that during the 184 seconds that she lay dead, something latched on to ...
Style:
independent film, serious, scary, mind bending, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunted, supernatural horror, haunting, poltergeist, road accident, family relations, family problems, journalism, danger, supernatural ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
family in danger, mentally unstable, pregnancy, danger, parents and children, nanny, family problems, suburbs, isolation, obsession, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability ...
Similarity:
33%
142
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Eugene, a man dealing with the tragedy of his family's death by living at the vacation cabin that they last stayed, discovers he's completely snowbound. During Eugene's desperate attempts to dig himself out, he discovers he's not ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, twisted ...
Plot:
supernatural, danger, woods, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, fear, catholic priest, evil force, monster, terrorizing, creepy kid, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
781
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie ...
Style:
serious, tense, scary, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot:
danger, child illness, zombie, parents and children, family problems, virus, violence, murder, feral man, evil child, killer child, possession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman and her daughter (Nicole Muñoz) encounter a deadly legend at a bed-and-breakfast.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, gory, parents and children, curses spells and rituals, serial killer, imaginary, danger, family relations, legends and myths, single mother, female villain ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the ...
Style:
serious, scary, bleak, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot:
haunted house, haunted, afterlife, lawyer, ghost, doll, uncover truth, haunted by the past, danger, supernatural, family problems, supernatural ability ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
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481
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A divorced policeman loses custody of his young son, only to kidnap his boy and retreat to a remote cottage, where his plan soon turns into a nightmare.
Style:
scary, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
missing child, family problems, danger, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, single parent, ghost, mentally unstable, parents and children, kidnapping, countryside ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Henry James' classic tale of terror The Turn of the Screw receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella ...
Style:
gothic, scary, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted by the past, supernatural, master and servant, family relations, family problems, death in the family, family in danger, woman in danger, haunted house, ghost story, evil child ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 90s, 20th century
Place:
england, spain
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, possession, murder, survival, supernatural, danger, haunted, haunting, female nudity, meme, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Based on a story by the master of outrageous horror, H.P. Lovecraft, this bloodcurdling film introduces the "Puppetmaster." Imprisoning a group of people in a living hell of darkness and death the Puppetmaster controls the fate of each ...
Style:
lovecraft, serious, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, rivalry, danger, supernatural, ancient mystery, confined, escapades, cons and scams, woman in danger, gory, destiny ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
40%
496
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, addiction, drug abuse, crumbling marriage, supernatural, danger, life is a bitch, breakup, couples, teenage life, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When teenage Molly Hartley moves to a new town, she's haunted by terrifying visions that may have to do with dark secrets from her past. Something evil lurks just beneath the lush surfaces of her private-school world, and it holds the rights to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, supernatural, teenage life, curses spells and rituals, high school life, danger, dealing with death, parents and children, haunted by the past, twists and turns, teenager, haunting ...
Time:
year 2008, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
40%
1K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
Style:
slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
family relations, unemployment, psychopath, family in danger, confined, rivalry, isolation, countryside, parents and children, profanity, murder, crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
40%
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