Movies like They Look Like People
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They Look Like People (2015)
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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, stylized, disturbing, mind bending, thought provoking, feel good ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, supernatural, demon, paranoia, secrets, twists and turns, obsession, insanity, monster, mental disorder, catastrophe, gangsters, drugs, doctors, relationships, spider, loneliness, friendship, macabre, depression, cancer, hotel, hospital, hip hop ...
Time:
80s, 70s
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Most similar movies to They Look Like People
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, weird, psychological and atmospheric films with plots about suspense, macabre, brutality, twists and turns, storytelling, catastrophe and psychology mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like They Look Like People: Creep (2014), The Invitation (2015), The Canal (2014), Session 9 (2001), Stonehearst Asylum (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets ...
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disturbing, scary, suspenseful, slasher, intense ...
Plot:
found footage, psychopath, murder, stalker, obsession, serial killer, stalking, hugging, suspense, mental illness, torture, insanity ...
Time:
year 2012
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, dark, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
dinner party, suicide, obsession, conspiracy, suspense, suspicion, cult, deception, old friend, insanity, vengeance, survival ...
Place:
los angeles, california
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, suspense, murder, investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, cheating, husband wife relationship, tragedy, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
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56%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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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.
Style:
twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, insanity, mental patient, psychiatrist, doctors, plot twist, suspense, doctors and patients, conspiracy, mad scientist ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1900
Place:
england, usa, tuscany, london
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53%
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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:
scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suspense, macabre, cult, hotel, paranormal investigation, paranormal, fear, paranormal activity, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, connecticut, usa
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52%
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 ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
twins, suspense, evil child, twists and turns, coming of age, psychology, supernatural, macabre, murder, evil twin, child, creepy child ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
california, new jersey, holland, usa, connecticut ...
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51%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twists and turns, haunted house, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, suspense, murder, mental patient, ghost, nervous breakdown, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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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 ...
Style:
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 ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages
Place:
finland, europe, russia
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51%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
paranoia, insanity, conspiracy theory, mental illness, psychology, psychosis, obsession, macabre, addiction, suspense, couples, losing-it hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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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.
Style:
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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50%
Genre: Horror, 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, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, stalker, serial killer, suspense, stalking, psychopath, urban legend, murder, private detective, vengeance, home invasion, police investigation ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
twists and turns, urban legend, conspiracy, suspense, death of wife, reporter, supernatural, investigation, hallucination, warning, psychic, ghost ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
west virginia, washington d.c., usa, ohio, ecuador ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly, vengeful spirit.
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, ghost, supernatural, split personality, curse, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, twists and turns, mental illness, a vision, curses spells and rituals, death ...
Time:
1920s, 50s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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50%
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:
psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, obsession, vengeance, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, christmas, psychology ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Elliot, a successful gynecologist, works at the same practice as his identical twin, Beverly. Elliot is attracted to many of his patients and has affairs with them. When he inevitably loses interest, he will give the woman over to Beverly, the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot:
insanity, body horror, obsession, identical twins, twins, drug addiction, mental illness, love triangle, addiction, mistaken identity, drugs, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1988, 80s, 50s ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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50%
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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 ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, psychedelic ...
Plot:
yakuza, gangsters, surrealism, obsession, murder, nightmare, hitman, mission of murder, mental illness, twists and turns, cult, violent ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, surreal, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental illness, ghost, suicide, twists and turns, nightmare, losing-it hero, death, haunted house, tragedy, suspense, children, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, south korea, japan
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49%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..
Style:
scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, nightmare, demon, suicide, haunted by the past, mind game, supernatural ability, fear, psychology, suspense, child in peril ...
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49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.
Style:
scary, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, voodoo, psychology, macabre, nightmare, disability, insanity, uncover truth, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals ...
Time:
year 1988, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies like It Follows
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychology, insanity, twists and turns, suspense, split personality, losing-it hero, isolation, nervous breakdown, murder, macabre, writer's life, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
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49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton (Mia Farrow), recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, suspense, investigation, disability, insanity, death sentence, ghost, life philosophy, cult, revenge, psychiatry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
boston
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49%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A rookie cop's world is turned upside down when she comes face to face with Paymon - King Of Hell. Officer Jessica Loren has the last shift at a transitioning police station, assigned to wait for a crew picking up bio-hazard waste from the ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
supernatural, police station, ghost, cult, brutality, female protagonist, haunted house, twists and turns, demon, isolation, serial killer, workplace ...
Place:
california
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49%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Style:
scary, enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, suicide, suspense, twists and turns, forest, haunted house, missing person, destiny, sisters, hallucination, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, mount fuji, tokyo
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49%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
nightmare, dog, mysterious character, dishonesty, family relations, good versus evil, manipulation, hidden identity, life turned upside down, supernatural, family problems, terrorizing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, twins, police, neighbor, suspense, hallucination, model, bakery, birthday, restaurant, twin sister, macabre ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
tokyo, new york, usa, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Every culture has one – the horrible monster fueling young children's nightmares. But for Tim, the Boogeyman still lives in his memories as a creature that devoured his father 16 years earlier. Is the Boogeyman real? Or did Tim make him up to ...
Style:
scary, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, frightening ...
Plot:
supernatural, childhood, ghost, haunted by the past, destiny, death, suspense, nightmare, hallucination, haunted house, hometown, mentally unstable ...
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49%
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.
Style:
humorous, talky, ironic, lyrical, semi serious ...
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, loneliness, creativity, house arrest, life philosophy, eccentricity, isolation, police investigation, false accusation, dishonesty, stalker ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco
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49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot:
radio, suspense, gay, listener, adaptation, mental illness, aids, amateur detective, mysterious character, twists and turns, lgbt, winter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.
Style:
gothic, dark, atmospheric, scary, stylized ...
Plot:
jekyll and hyde, servant, suspense, mad scientist, laboratory, prostitute, human nature, dual identity, master and servant, power relations, dangerous attraction, insanity ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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