Movies like Emelie

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Emelie (2015)
 5.4
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Emelie (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: After their regular babysitter Maggie can’t make it, the Thompson family turns to her friend Anna to supervise their children while the parents go out to celebrate their anniversary. At first Anna seems like a dream come true to the kids, allowing them to eat extra cookies and play with things that are usually off-limits, but as her behavior becomes increasingly odd, the kids soon find out that her intentions are dark and twisted, and she is not who she seems to be.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, scary, slasher, disturbing, crying, creepy
Audience: date night
Plot: babysitter, babysitting, kidnapping, family in danger, female psychopath, fake identity, husband wife relationship, trophy, family home, incest, children, psychopath, nanny, girl, danger, trapped, teenager, survival, porn, supernatural, mental disorder, youth, stalker, tribe, governess ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa
Keyword: challenge

Most similar movies to Emelie

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about supernatural, danger, fear, murder, terror, psychopath and serial killer mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Emelie: Nanny Cam (2014), Keep Watching (2017), Ma (2019), The Boy Behind the Door (2020), Treehouse (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nanny Cam (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Linda has a seemingly perfect marriage with her rugged and handsome husband Mark and an adorable 8 year old daughter, Chloe. But when Chloe is injured by an elderly babysitter who has slipped into dementia, Linda wants to ensure that her child is ...
Style: disturbing, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, sexy
Plot: kidnapping, obsession, manipulation, husband wife relationship, female psychopath, bad girl, babysitting, age difference, woman seduces a man, stalker, babysitter, teenage sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Keep Watching (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, mind game, serial killer, hidden camera, murder, family in danger, danger, isolation, psychopath, manipulation, family secret, strangulation ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 59K
Ma (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her ...
Style: suspense, slasher, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: underage drinking, basement, revenge, mental health, psychopath, teenager, torture, twists and turns, teenage girl, female psychopath, teen drinking, social network ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Boy Behind the Door (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After Bobby and his best friend Kevin are kidnapped and taken to a strange house in the middle of nowhere, Bobby manages to escape. But as he starts to make a break for it, he hears Kevin’s screams for help and realizes he can’t leave his friend ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: child murderess, friendship, kidnapping, danger, friends, pursuit, vengeance, teenage life, death, violence, youth, violent ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Treehouse (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A teenage boy discovers the perpetrators of several brutal kidnappings in his home town.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: kidnapping, survival, danger, woods, violent content, teenager, psychopath, graphic violence, death, found footage, serial killer, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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32%
 4.9
 5K
Jackals (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Style: slasher, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: isolated house, home invasion, family in danger, brother brother relationship, baby, kidnapping, father son relationship, family home, night, terror, siege, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
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50%
When a Stranger Calls (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, slasher, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, babysitter, psychopath, stalking, murder, babysitting, husband wife relationship, maniac, danger, survival, high school student ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
When a Stranger Calls (1979)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A psychopathic killer terrorizes a babysitter, then returns seven years later to menace her again.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban legend, psychopath, obsession, stalking, stalker, home invasion, serial killer, babysitter, private detective, murder, threatening telephone call, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Penny Dreadful (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.
Style: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: phobia, isolation, danger, kidnapping, on the road, psychopath, family relations, doctors and patients, survival, trapped, redneck, hitchhiker ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman is being watched in her apartment by a stranger, who also calls and torments her. A cat-and-mouse game begins.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: stalking, obsession, woman in danger, danger, psychopath, family in danger, mentally unstable, who done it, mind game, dangerous attraction, serial killer, telephone call ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
In Their Skin (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A couple and their young son retreat to their woodland vacation home, only to face sinister neighbors who intend to kill them and steal their identities.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, serious, slasher ...
Plot: home invasion, survival, family in danger, family relations, psychopath, violence, family problems, husband wife relationship, little boy, coming of age, dishonesty, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.0
 250K
Orphan (2009)
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: scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, estonia
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30%
 6.1
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The Strangers (2008)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple ...
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: home invasion, survival, serial killer, murder, hostage, masked killer, blood, fear, violence, masked villain, brutality, night ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.8
 20K
The Wretched (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A rebellious teenage boy embarks on a gutsy crusade to stop the terrifying evil he suspects has possessed his neighbor in this bone-chilling occult thriller.
Style: dark, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: witch, neighbor, teenage boy, supernatural, creature, witchcraft, terror, supernatural power, possession, teenage protagonist, missing child, teenager ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As the countdown to graduation begins, students at Osborne High are being stalked by a maniac intent on exposing their darkest secrets to the entire town, terrorizing victims while wearing a life-like mask of their own face. With a mysterious past ...
Style: slasher, suspense, spooky, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, high school, female protagonist, murder, twists and turns, blood, girl, home invasion, small town, killing spree, psychopath, maniac ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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30%
 3.2
 38K
Slender Man (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a small town in Massachusetts, four high school girls perform a ritual in an attempt to debunk the lore of Slender Man. When one of the girls goes mysteriously missing, they begin to suspect that she is, in fact, his latest victim.
Style: bad ending, suspense, scary, psychological, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, urban legend, evil spirit, kidnapping, teenager, friendship, teenage protagonist, small town, woods, teenage girl, evil, monster ...
Time: 2010s
Place: massachusetts
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30%
 6.8
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Sinister (2012)
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, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, ghost, fear, supernatural horror, murder, danger, occult, investigation, evil force, paranormal activity, writer's life ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 60s, year 1966 ...
Place: pennsylvania, usa, sacramento california, missouri, st. louis missouri
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30%
When a Stranger Calls Back (1993)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Julia is babysitting two young kids while a doctor and his wife are out. During the evening, a stranger knocks on the door asking Julia if she can call the auto club so he can get a tow. The phone line is dead though. This is all part of the act as ...
Style: spooky, dark, psychological, scary, realistic ...
Plot: babysitter, stalker, home invasion, danger, psychopath, stranger, urban legend, telephone call, pandemic, teen social issues, trap, maniac ...
Time: 90s
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30%
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Stir of Echoes (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, hypnosis, supernatural, psychic, supernatural horror, murder, clairvoyance, paranoia, able to see the dead, psychic power ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, chicago
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30%
He's Out There (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On vacation at a remote lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath.
Style: slasher, suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: home invasion, psychopath, mother daughter relationship, murder, family in danger, woods, daughter, mother, survival, woman in danger, brutality, forest ...
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30%
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Barbarian (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style: scary, suspense, slasher, spooky, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: basement, fear, psychopath, locked in a room, kidnapping, secret passageway, plot twist, inbreeding, locked in, serial killer, female protagonist, house ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: detroit, brooklyn new york city
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30%
 6.8
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I See You (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: home invasion, kidnapping, infidelity, serial killer, murder, dysfunctional family, search party, disappearance, investigation, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, small town ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.0
 101K
The Boy (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doll, haunted house, supernatural, plot twist, violence, nanny, macabre, murder, mansion, governess, brutality, boy ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: england, america, usa
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30%
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The Nursery (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When college freshman Ranae agrees to babysit for a family with a tragic past, her run-of-the-mill Saturday night quickly turns into a confrontation with unspeakable horror. Stalked by a sinister presence and haunted by ghosts from her own past, ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, babysitting, paranormal activity, evil spirit, exorcism, evil force, danger, showdown, paranormal investigation, fear, haunted by the past, vengeful ghost ...
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Barricade (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A father's quiet retreat to the woods with his two children turns into a fight for survival.
Style: serious, suspenseful, christmas horror, tense, suspense ...
Plot: winter, supernatural, survival, ghost, snow, isolation, parents and children, family in danger, forces of nature, woods, xmas, redneck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
 6.8
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It Follows (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, macabre, evil, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, sex, supernatural being, supernatural horror, peeping tom ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.3
 60K
Sinister 2 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Style: scary, suspenseful, brutal, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, murder, evil child, burned alive, nightmare, investigation, deputy, ghost child, abusive husband, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2016, 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.4
 1K
Child Eater (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A simple night of babysitting takes a horrifying turn when Helen realizes the boogeyman really is in little Lucas' closet.
Style: psychotronic, spooky, bleak, scary, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, monster, boogeyman, fear, supernatural power, murder, rescue, creature, loss, chase, characters in danger, hunting ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A twisted new tale of terror begins for a teenage girl and her family, predating the haunting of the Lambert family in the earlier movies and revealing more mysteries of the otherworldly realm The Further.
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, demonic, intense ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, supernatural horror, ghost, demon, psychic, curses spells and rituals, family in danger, family problems, haunted, supernatural power, evil spirit ...
Time: year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.9
 189K
The Black Phone (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Finney Shaw, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices ...
Style: suspense, captivating, slasher horror, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, kidnapping, child abduction, struggle for survival, basement, serial child killer, victim, phone terror, locked in a basement, homicidal maniac, kidnapped, masked killer ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 2020s, 20th century
Place: colorado, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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