Movies like The Other 1972
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The Other (1972)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic gifts, Niles starts to suspect that his twin may be involved in recent fatal accidents.
Style:
creepy, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, scary, psychological, tense, suspenseful, terrifying, pastoral ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
macabre, evil child, creepy child, twins, coming of age, child, evil twin, psychology, supernatural, murder, creepy kid, children, twists and turns, danger, occult, bad kids, death, mental illness, rat, accident, brother brother relationship, pregnant wife, harmonica, child's point of view, paralysis ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1935, year 1972, 30s
Place:
connecticut, usa, europe, holland, california, new jersey, russian ...
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Most similar movies to The Other
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, psychological and suspense films with plots about danger, macabre, evil child, supernatural, death, murder and children mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Other: Alice, Sweet Alice (1976), Children of the Damned (1964), Goodnight Mommy (2014), Burnt Offerings (1976), The Innocents (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. But when Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to ...
Style:
creepy, slasher, frightening, bloody, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
masked killer, serial killer, psychopath, murder, female villain, killing spree, holy communion, evil child, blood, child, female serial killer, child molester ...
Time:
year 1961, year 2016, 60s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, sexy, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killer child, teenage girl, murder, orphan, friendship, poisoning, father, pedophile, evil child, underage sex, creepy kid, child murders an adult ...
Time:
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Place:
maine, new england, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, black and white ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
evil child, creepy child, children, supernatural, church, killer child, supernatural ability, social misfits, prodigy, danger, moral dilemma, ufo ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe, united kingdom, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, twist ending, surreal ...
Plot:
twins, mental illness, brother brother relationship, torture, divorce, dead child, boy, animal mask, children, isolation, single parent, supernatural ...
Time:
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Place:
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80%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.
Style:
gothic, scary, sexy, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, old dark house, macabre, haunted, psychosis, losing-it hero, obsession, mansion, old woman, haunted house, cemetery, possession ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Style:
gothic, dark, creepy, scary, gothic horror ...
Plot:
haunted, supernatural, haunting, old mansion, macabre, children, hide and seek, ghost story, haunted house, schizophrenia, insanity, paranoid ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1961, 1860s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological, gothic ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, macabre, fear, haunted, death, missing child, tragic event, haunted by the past, imaginary friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
45K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow ...
Style:
twist ending, medical horror, suspense, demonic, scary ...
Plot:
antichrist, evil wins, child protagonist, allergy, evil child, surgery, deception, exorcism, ghost, loneliness, quarantine, treatment ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
Style:
independent film, cult classic, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
blind woman, coming of age, evil child, blindness, voyeur, wedding, voyeurism, youth, macabre, spider man, husband wife relationship, fear ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Reverend David Poe and his psychiatrist wife trade hectic New York life for an idyllic rural farmhouse; the perfect place for 10 year old twins Jack & Emily to run, play and imagine. Documenting this lifestyle change, David decides to film ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, frightening ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A couple of English tourists arrive on an island where all the children have gone crazy and are murdering the adults.
Style:
disturbing, scary, suspenseful, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
evil child, killer child, island, children, pregnancy, isolation, manhunt, creepy kid, terror, murder, tourism, teenager ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
iberian peninsula, mediterranean sea, spain, angola, fictional island
Similarity:
26%
313K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
Style:
scary, creepy, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, evil force, writer's life, surprising revelation, family in danger ...
Time:
2010s, year 2000, year 1966, year 1986, year 1979 ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, california, missouri ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, adult, horror for children
Plot:
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Time:
year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place:
persia, america, europe, english channel, england
Similarity:
25%
276K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' resistance, the therapist soon suspects that ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
creepy child, supernatural, psychiatrist, mental disorder, social relations, teenage life, danger, supernatural ability, babies and infants, clergy, multiple personality disorder, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, demon, insanity, supernatural, twists and turns, mental disorder, obsession, paranoia, friendship, illness, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
25%
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157K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, psychological, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, ghost, murder, gory, curse, imaginary, macabre, scared, vengeance, death, medical ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological horror, dark, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental institution, macabre, psychology, twists and turns, haunted, mental illness, hospital, ghost, insanity, transformation, murder, obsession ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
massachusetts
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
children, psychopath, death, evil child, manipulation, murder, problem child, killer child, deception, disbelieving adult, parents and children, brutality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, asia, japan, new england ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small ...
Style:
scary, dark, demonic, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural horror, demon, supernatural, ghost, occult, spiritualism, ouija board, ghost child, possession, exorcism, macabre, haunted house ...
Time:
year 2016, 60s, 20th century, year 1967, 70s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
24%
364K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, twist ending, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, demon, fear, afterlife, nightmare, paranormal activity, boy, psychic, danger, evil spirit, supernatural horror ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, year 2000, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place:
america, usa
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents
Style:
slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
killer child, christmas, evil child, creepy child, creepy kid, epidemic, death of mother, child murders an adult, winter, family in danger, deadly virus, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
24%
2K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
rescue, ghost, supernatural, desert, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, eye, murder, uncover truth, dark secret, american horror, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa, canada
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Citadel tells the story of widower and single father Tommy Cowley, a man inflicted with chronic agoraphobia since the day his wife was attacked. He was unable to protect her. He lives in Edenstown, the council estate from hell. Here he finds himself ...
Style:
scary, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
agoraphobia, baby, child in peril, single father, killer child, fear, murder, survival, danger, haunted by the past, parents and children, gang ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
britain, ireland, seattle
Similarity:
24%
133K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, gothic, creepy, biting ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, loneliness, childhood, first love, blood, gory, friendship, coming of age, supernatural, friends, mysterious character, children ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place:
new mexico, usa, italy, europe, stockholm sweden ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy preacher named Isaac goes to a town in Nebraska called Gatlin and gets all the children to murder every adult in town.
Style:
creepy, slasher, demonic, cult horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids, teens, adult
Plot:
violence, folk horror, killer child, small town, religion, creepy child, stephen king, children, blood, murder, devil, isolation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
nebraska, usa, iowa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
Style:
mumblecore, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
killer child, child protagonist, boy, murder, boy in peril, son murders father, father son relationship, boyhood, bad kids, drifter, motel, desert ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time:
70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
23%
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