Movies like Sacrifice
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Sacrifice (2016)
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sacrifice is the story of consultant surgeon, Tora Hamilton, who moves with her husband, Duncan, to the remote Shetland Islands, 100 miles off the north-east coast of Scotland. Deep in the peat soil around her new home, Tora discovers the body of a young woman with rune marks carved into her skin and a gaping hole where her heart once beat. Ignoring warnings to leave well alone, Tora uncovers terrifying links to a legend that might never have been confined to the pages of the story-books.
Style:
scary, enigmatic, dark, demonic
Plot:
secret society, suspense, pregnancy, amateur sleuth, investigation, murder, husband wife relationship, island, police, legend, secret, miscarriage, wanting a baby, sacrifice, serial killer, babies and infants, hospital, cult, supernatural, mythical creature, paranormal, medical, occult, farm, murder mystery ...
Place:
scotland
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Most similar movies to Sacrifice
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, psychological and serious films with plots about murder, suspense, serial killer, supernatural, blood, corpse and investigation mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sacrifice: Malignant (2021), The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018), The Wicker Man (1973), The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), False Positive (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When cancer patient Alan Gates discovers that his tumor is actually a mysterious parasite that gives him otherworldly powers, he begins a battle against an army buried beneath society's skin. The movie is based on james wans comic of the same ...
Style:
scary, slasher, dark, tense, neo noir ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, monster, one against many, murder, violence, suspense, body horror, imaginary friend, kidnapping, supernatural power, sister sister relationship, supernatural ...
Time:
year 1994, year 1985, year 1993, year 1992, 2020s ...
Place:
seattle, usa, washington state
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95%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Style:
scary, mystical, bleak, rough, enigmatic ...
Plot:
morgue, corpse, demonic possession, demon, supernatural, hospital, exorcism, suspense, fear, police officer, delusion, paranormal ...
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89%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, twist ending, scary, controversial ...
Plot:
cult, religion, ritual, disappearance, paganism, investigation, sacrifice, female nudity, secret society, human sacrifice, temptation, police ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
scotland, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands, fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, disturbing, slasher, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
supernatural, found footage, suspense, hospital, investigation, insanity, demon, kidnapping, mental illness, snake, surveillance, transformation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia
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84%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
suspense, nurse, pregnancy, secret, evidence, fertility, doctor, pregnant woman, medicine, unwanted pregnancy, dark secret, evil doctor ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, scary, tense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, amnesia, hallucination, hypnosis, interrogation, murder mystery, mind control, stranger, psychosis, police detective ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia, okinawa japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The Seamstress was brought into being by the desperate curse of an innocent woman being tortured to death by a vigilante mob. Voracious for blood, the hideously-mutilated specter hunts a small group of friends who become trapped on the island where ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
curse, afterlife, serial killer, seamstress, ghost, vigilantism, family problems, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, vengeance, island, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
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82%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying ...
Style:
scary, dark, bad ending, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, witch, suspense, supernatural horror, morgue, autopsy, witchcraft, corpse, demon, mutilation, dead woman, twists and turns ...
Place:
london, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways. All investigations begin to point the finger at deceased killer John Kramer.
Style:
slasher, psychological, scary, psychotronic, rough ...
Plot:
torture, game of death, survival horror, gory violence, serial killer, survival, suspense, revenge, abduction, psychopath, death, panic ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, slasher, scary ...
Plot:
occult, suspense, supernatural, suicide, sacrifice, cult, investigation, teenager, death, riddles and clues, legend, cosmic horror ...
Time:
year 1995, 2010s, year 2019, 90s
Place:
missouri, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, police investigation, demon, police detective, genetics, twists and turns, suspense, police officer, murder mystery, ritual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, psychopath, investigation, law enforcement, murder, suspense, police station, life is a bitch, uncover truth, supernatural, protagonist as suspect ...
Place:
usa, new york
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79%
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, atmospheric, twist ending, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, afterlife, supernatural, psychic, paranoia, hypnosis, murder, clairvoyance, suspense, supernatural horror, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a ...
Style:
dark, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot:
nightmare, vengeance, memory, sheriff, parent child relationship, banker, murder, secret, corpse, ghost, serial killer, supernatural ...
Place:
florida
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78%
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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:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mental institution, mind game, hospital, crazy, suspense ...
Time:
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Place:
connecticut, new hampshire
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77%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Singapore, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rookie Sergeant Lee is injured in a shoot-out and is assigned to the dubious-sounding Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD). There, he is paired up with Inspector Wong, a jaded and alcoholic veteran who explains that MAD’s role is to answer ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
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ghost, police detective, supernatural, murder, revenge, investigation, supernatural being, haunted, partners, partners against crime, law enforcement, drunkenness ...
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singapore, hong kong, asia
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77%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, fbi, suspense, murder mystery, profiler, obsession, mind game, violence, brutality, psychology ...
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canada, alabama, maryland, washington d.c., florida ...
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77%
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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77%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison (Martin Sheen) is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two ...
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
cult, ritual, supernatural, voodoo, child in peril, religion, murder, macabre, investigation, brutality, torture, ritual murder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, minneapolis minnesota
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77%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
After being run out of Las Vegas, Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a ...
Style:
scary, slasher, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, supernatural, reporter, occult, politics, investigative reporter, stalking, who done it, woman in danger, mind game, amateur detective ...
Time:
70s
Place:
seattle, las vegas, usa, washington state, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.
Style:
scary, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, mind game, investigation, murder, race against time, easter, violence, brutality, religion, police partner, killer, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago illinois, usa
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75%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Emily Johnson, her boyfriend Bobby and their friends Clare and Jude are recent college grads driving cross-country, taking a last vacation together before they face the "real" world. An accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely ...
Style:
scary, rough, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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75%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A shady police detective becomes embroiled in a strange world of murder, sadism and madness after being assigned a murder investigation against a madman known only as "The Engineer".
Style:
psychological, scary, slasher, tense, serious ...
Plot:
nightmare, murder, supernatural, serial killer, torture, police detective, chase, psychopath, mind game, rivalry, race against time, escapades ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, sexy, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
investigation, religions or cults, suspense, isolation, island, missing child, twists and turns, matriarchy, secret place, bee, graphic violence, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
california, fictional island
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75%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Jigsaw and his apprentice Amanda are dead. Now, upon the news of Detective Kerry's murder, two seasoned FBI profilers, Agent Strahm and Agent Perez, arrive in the terrified community to assist the veteran Detective Hoffman in sifting through ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, twist ending, brutal, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
torture, deathtrap, trap, game of death, suspense, violence, violent, game, serial killer, rescue, race against time, vigilantism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Maggie's sister Jenna saddles her with an autistic newborn named Cody she touches Maggie's heart and becomes the daughter she has always longed for. But six years later Jenna suddenly re-enters her life and, with her mysterious new ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, intense, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
supernatural, demon, good versus evil, murder, suspense, kidnapping, chase, satanism, religions or cults, save the world, apocalypse, custody ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, vermont
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74%
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, tense, suspenseful, scary, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, high school, female protagonist, murder, suspense, girl, small town, killing spree, psychopath, maniac, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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74%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
surprise ending, suspenseful, bleak, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, home invasion, infidelity, serial killer, disappearance, dysfunctional family, murder, suspense, search party, investigation, husband wife relationship, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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74%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."
Style:
scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
police investigation, cult, murder, alien, occult, macabre, life & death, mysterious character, introspection, supernatural, psychopath, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric ...
Style:
scary, dark, surreal, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, monster, demon, survival, insanity, macabre, torture, mysterious place, supernatural horror, ghost, evil, ghost town ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
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74%
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