Movies like The Ugly

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The Ugly (1997)
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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, disturbing, creepy, psychological horror, slasher, controversial, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, murder, psychologist, psychopath, investigation, mind game, haunted by the past, mysterious character, doctors and patients, killer, macabre, surrealism, bullying, split personality, hallucination, revenge, blood, psycho killer, mental disorder, misfit, freak, destruction, eye, supernatural horror ...
Time: 90s
Place: new zealand, oceania
Keyword: doctors, dreams

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Most similar movies to The Ugly

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, scary and psychological films with plots about murder, deadly, psychopath, serial killer, killer, mind game and blood mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Ugly: Dr. Giggles (1992), Memory (2006), The Broken (2008), Communion (1989), My Sweet Killer (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dr. Giggles (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1957, Evan Rendell flees after his father is lynched for killing multiple patients in his effort to find a replacement heart for his ailing wife. After 35 years, Evan escapes from a mental institution and returns to town for revenge, killing off ...
Style: slasher, scary, rough, suspenseful, medical horror ...
Plot: medical, psychopath, sadistic psychopath, serial killer, escaped mental patient, small town, mental institution, doctor, brutality, murder, insanity, violence ...
Time: 90s
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 2K
Memory (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, exciting ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, uncover truth, investigation, gory, who done it, police detective, mind game, mysterious character, experiment gone awry, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2006
Place: brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 5.5
 7K
Communion (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.
Style: atmospheric, psychological, scary, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: alien, alien abduction, ufo, alien contact, psychiatrist, hypnosis, alien invasion, writers, halloween, supernatural, paranoia, creature ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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My Sweet Killer (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot: mental illness, alone, murder, male nudity, psychiatric patient, psychopath, misfit, mysterious character, doctors and patients, split personality, femme fatale, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies he misses her, so a year later he digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, necrophilia, psychopath, exploitation, true crime, murder, redneck, killer, gory, obsession, freak, violent ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: wisconsin, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.4
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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 ⇓
36%
 6.3
 72K
The Collector (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style: slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, torture, psychopath, home invasion, trap, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, homicidal maniac, mystery killer ...
Time: year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Madhouse (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Style: scary, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, ghost, intern, murder, investigation, supernatural, ghost child, danger, doctors and patients, psychopath, who done it ...
Time: year 2004
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Last Horror Movie (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A serial killer uses a horror video rental to lure his next victim. What begins as a teen slasher transforms into a disturbing journey through the mind of Max Parry, a mild mannered wedding photographer with a taste for human flesh.
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, found footage, psychopath, dark humor, murder, obsession, insanity, woman in danger, split personality, vengeance, investigation, brutality ...
Time: year 2003
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Dark Asylum (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, ...
Style: slasher, psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mental institution, survival, danger, mental illness, murder, mentally unstable, law enforcement, investigation, master criminal, gory ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.2
 4K
Tony (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, loneliness, isolation, police, violence, killer, social realism, murderer, killing, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Escapee (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: While on a class observation trip at a local mental hospital, young psychology major, Abby Jones has a chilling encounter with high-risk patient, Harmon. She returns home for an evening of normal study with her two roommates unaware of the darkness ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, scary, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mental institution, psychopath, obsession, woman in danger, isolation, violence spree, serial killer, murder, night, escape, danger, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Henry II: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1996)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Henry has wandered into a small town looking for work and a place to stay. He gets a job delivering and cleaning porto-potties and moves in with a co-worker until he gets his feet off of the ground. Henry and his new friend soon start to kill.
Style: slasher, disturbing, scary, psychological, terrifying ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, police investigation, killer, brutality, violence, misfit, freak, exploitation, psychopath, psycho, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 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 ⇓
29%
Alone in the Dark (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: maniac, home invasion, murder, serial killer, family in danger, mental institution, psychopath, mental illness, insanity, escaped mental patient, blackout, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.9
 3K
Mister Frost (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be, but he is ...
Style: psychological, satanic, independent film, scary, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, psychopath, murder, psychiatrist, unsettling, hell, occult, satanism, milf, puzzle, satan ...
Time: 90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.5
 7K
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 ⇓
28%
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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 ⇓
27%
 4.6
 7K
Dark Ride (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ten years after he brutally murdered two girls, a killer escapes from a mental institution and returns to his turf, the theme park attraction called Dark Ride. About to crash his path are a group of college kids on a road trip who stumble across the ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: psychopath, mental institution, homicidal maniac, amusement park, murder, masked killer, serial killer, youth, gory, blood, violence, on the road ...
Time: year 2003, year 1989, year 1990
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.1
 14K
The Ordeal (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A few days before Christmas, traveling entertainer Marc Stevens is stuck at nightfall in a remote wood in the swampy Hautes Fagnes region of Liège, his van conked out. An odd chap who's looking for a lost dog leads Marc to a shuttered inn...
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychological, christmas horror, atmospheric ...
Plot: rape, psychopath, surrealism, gory, village, extreme, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, backwoods, redneck, christmas ...
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.8
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Gothika (2003)
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: adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mind game, hospital, haunted house, wrongfully committed ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Horrible Way to Die (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An escaped murderer is in pursuit of his ex-girlfriend, who has fled to start a new life in a small town.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, danger, kidnapping, woman in danger, revenge, violence spree, small town, haunted by the past, remorse, fanatic, female psychopath ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Disturbed (1990)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 10 years ago the perverse Dr. Russell couldn't resist the beauty of a young patient in his mental clinic and raped her one night. When she plunged herself from the roof shortly after, he described it as consequence of her heavy depressions. Now ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot: murder, exodus, patient, suicide, rape, injection, caucasian, nurse, mental patient, african american, couples, psychopath ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.6
 12K
Dahmer (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, slasher, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, biopic, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, blood, killer, serial murder ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 2002, 90s
Place: ohio, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Poor Albert and Little Annie (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, sadistic, splatter ...
Plot: exploitation, serial killer, mother, mental disorder, wealth, killing, nudity, psychiatric hospital, disturbed person, insane, rage, traumatic childhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Cannibal Man (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, dark drama ...
Plot: cannibal, serial killer, exploitation, murder, gay, taxi, macabre, killer, freak, misfit, 666, extreme ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 4K
Anguish (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
Style: slasher, psychological thriller, surreal, mind twisting, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, two killers, hypnosis, terror, surrealism, eye, blood, psycho killer, spirituality, survival, teenager, mental disorder ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, america, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
 100K
Candyman (1992)
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, gothic, bloody, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: urban legend, serial killer, supernatural, ghost, gory, macabre, belief, urban decay, investigation, blood, revenge, mirror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 20K
Maniac (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Style: slasher, grindhouse, disturbing, splatter, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, gory, maniac, violent, torture, murder, extreme violence, exploitation, macabre, extreme, violence, blood ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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