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The Ninth Configuration (1980)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Col. Vincent Kane is a military psychiatrist who takes charge of an army mental hospital situated in a secluded castle. Among Kane's many eccentric patients is Capt. Billy Cutshaw, a troubled astronaut in the midst of an existential crisis. Although Kane's own grasp on sanity is questionable, he manages to engage Cutshaw in a series of thoughtful conversations about science and faith that deeply affect the lives of both men.
Style:
psychological, surreal, funny, thought provoking, atmospheric, scary, light, philosophical, clever, intellectual ...
Plot:
mental illness, astronaut, vietnam war, psychology, supernatural, religion, god, existentialism, surrealism, catastrophe, superhero, gangsters, twists and turns, demon, distopia, time travel, devil, exorcism, army, military, macabre, mental disorder, art, dolphins, politics ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
vietnam, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out weird, cult film, psychological and thought provoking films with plots about storytelling, dialogue, suspense, brutality, mentor, psychology and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Ninth Configuration: The Exorcist III (1990), In the Mouth of Madness (1994), Pi (1998), Session 9 (2001), They Look Like People (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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teens, adult
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serial killer, supernatural, demon, possession, hospital, violence, priest, investigation, macabre, suspense, demonic possession, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
washington d.c., virginia, usa, india, copenhagen
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
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psychological, gothic, surreal, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
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insanity, investigation, hallucination, suspense, monster, paranoia, supernatural, small town, disappearance, mental illness, writers, fear ...
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Place:
new england, new hampshire, europe, england, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Haunted by terrible acts the Nazis forced him to participate in, the disenchanted Father Lankester Merrin focuses his energies on helping with an archaeological dig in the northern part of Kenya. There, the crew uncovers a church that predates ...
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scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, rough ...
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supernatural, good versus evil, suspense, demon, redemption, transformation, life philosophy, mentor, priest, church, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1947, year 1944
Place:
africa, kenya
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
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surreal, psychological, mind bending, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Plot:
mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, paranoia, obsession, computer, surrealism, cyberpunk, rabbi, torah, psychology, mental illness ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Style:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychology, supernatural, mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, lobotomy, ghost, haunted house, suspense, insanity, transformation, hospital ...
Time:
21st century
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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, supernatural, demon, paranoia, secrets, insanity, obsession, twists and turns, monster, mental disorder, nude ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
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surreal, scary, bleak, twist ending, psychological ...
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paranoia, nightmare, hallucination, twists and turns, delusion, mind game, psychology, dealing with death, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, memory ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
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psychological, mind bending, bleak, atmospheric, twist ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, life & death, suspense, mysterious character, psychology, twists and turns, able to see the dead, supernatural, dealing with death, nude, mentor, adaptation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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19%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place; Based on a true ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, psychopath, obsession, crazy, paranoia, memory, family relations, family problems, law enforcement, delusion, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new orleans, peru, usa, san diego california
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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.
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psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
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serial killer, murder, suspense, obsession, vengeance, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, christmas, psychology ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
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psychological, intellectual, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating ...
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Time:
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Place:
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19%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
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dark, psychological, tense, enigmatic, disturbing ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in ...
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atmospheric, scary, disturbing, intense, harsh ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, redemption, guilt, russian, village, haunted by the past, medieval, curses spells and rituals, suspense, macabre, dark secret ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a martini-induced rampage, a fantasy-prone young woman is placed under house arrest.
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obsession, twists and turns, loneliness, creativity, house arrest, life philosophy, eccentricity, isolation, police investigation, false accusation, dishonesty, stalker ...
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Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mysterious global blackout yields countless populations to simply vanish, leaving only their clothes and possessions behind. A small handful of survivors band together in a dimly-lit tavern on 7th Street, struggling to combat the apocalyptic ...
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atmospheric, harsh, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
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teens
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Place:
usa, detroit
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The mad and evil scientist, Dr. Clayton Forrester, has created an evil little scheme that is bound to give him world global domination but first things first. He plans to torment Mike Nelson and the robots by sending them a real stinker of a film to ...
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funny, humorous, talky, light, absurd ...
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teens, kids
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mad scientist, space and aliens, space, robot, scientist, space travel, stupidity, teleportation, irreverent, time, satellite, androids and robots ...
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, ...
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supernatural, clergy, exorcism, church, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, supernatural ability, teachers and students, supernatural horror, suspense, demonic possession, catholic ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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