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Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait (2007)
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Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait (2007)
Original name: 므이
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Vietnam
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, creepy, spooky, surprise ending
Plot: ghost, curse, painting, portrait, investigation, murder, ritual, novelist, betrayal, deception, evil, insanity, isolation, surrealism, monster, good guys win, evil spirit, village, rape, friendship, macabre, writers, death, monk, fire ...
Place: vietnam, south korea
Keyword: korean, vietnamese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological and scary films with plots about ghost, murder, danger, blood, supernatural, flashback and nightmare mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait: Body (2007), Don't Click (2012), Book of Blood (2009), Shrill Cries of Summer (2008), Yoga (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Body (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Chon is suffering from having bad times while sleeping. He tries not to sleep because he's scared of a girl in his nightmares. In the dreams, the girl screams for help before she is cruelly killed. Ae, Chon's sister is worried about the ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, bloody ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
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Don't Click (2012)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A horror movie about the mysterious happenings that happen to a pair of sisters after watching an unidentified video. Directed by Kim Tae-kyeong, Park Bo-yeong plays Se-hee who tries to save her sister Jeong-mi, her boyfriend Joo Won and Kang Byeol ...
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Plot: terror, curse, ghost, surrealism, paranormal phenomena, mysterious death, death, fear, murder, evil, survival, danger ...
Place: south korea
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Book of Blood (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of ...
Style: psychological, demonic, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, afterlife, supernatural, professor, sex scene, paranormal investigator, murder, blood, death, older woman younger man relationship, lust ...
Time: 21st century
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Shrill Cries of Summer (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: curse, village, summer, obsession, murder, dark past, uncover truth, twists and turns, teenager, disappearance, danger, insanity ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: japan
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Yoga (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, tension ...
Plot: yoga, dark secret, curse, ghost, evil spirit, ritual, mystery woman, rivalry, surrealism, murder, fear, demonic possession ...
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Place: south korea
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, talking to the dead, serial killer, death, new neighbor, fugitive, flashback, train, sex ...
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The Maid (2005)
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
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Duration: 104 min.
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Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: plot twist, occult, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, macabre, supernatural horror, ritual, rite, black magic ...
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Possum (2018)
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Duration: 85 min.
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Style: suspense, phantasmagoric, psychological, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
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Ghastly (2011)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
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The Empty Man (2020)
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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, suspense, lovecraft, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, gothic ...
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Place: ireland
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Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 156 min.
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Style: art house, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller ...
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The Queen of Black Magic (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Families were terrorized at the orphanage. Someone wants them dead, apparently with black magic that is very deadly. She has a grudge and she was also born because of the sins of the orphans who formed her into the queen of black magic.
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A Blood Pledge (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Strange rumors start to spread at the catholic girls’ high school after Unjoo committed suicide one night. Unjoo’s younger sister Jung-un who attends the same school gets suspicious about Unjoo’s death. After persistent investigation, Jung-un ...
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Blur (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Artist Adrian Jonas toils in preparation for the biggest gallery opening of his career. The creative process takes Adrian deep into the depths of his mind, where he begins to experience premonitions of a terrible fate that awaits his beloved Iliana. ...
Style: serious, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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