Movies like The Wall Man

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The Wall Man (2006)
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The Wall Man (2006)
Original name: 壁男
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The wall man is a strange wall-dwelling creature that is neither human nor ghost.
Style: psychological thriller, surprise ending
Plot: octopus, whodunit, winter, police, investigation, friendship, depression, snow, photographer, dream, taxi, orphan, neighbor, office worker, television, disappearance, tunnel, insanity, blood, little girl, drunkenness, crab, nightmare, urban legend, corpse ...
Place: kyoto japan
Keyword: wall

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful and serious films with plots about murder, blood, corpse, flashback, death, blood splatter and gore mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Wall Man: Detective Story (2007), Shadow of the Wraith (2001), Id (2005), Possessed (1983), The Snowman (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Detective Story (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A detective and a businessman search for a serial killer who removes people's organs.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, private detective, twists and turns, danger, partner, friendship, painting, insanity, disappearance, neighbor, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Shadow of the Wraith (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two brothers are plunged into the realm of psychic horror, one tormented by a stalker, and the other involved with a girl whose home is the site of eerie occurrences.
Style: suspense, surprise ending
Plot: bare chested male, science class, blond boy, art exhibition, trap, repeated event, levitation, disappearance, supermarket, cheating boyfriend, forest, truth ...
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91%
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Id (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man known as the "Murderer" wanders through the woods. The sound of water flowing deep underground fills his head...
Style: suspense, surprise ending
Plot: extreme, nightmare, experiment, police detective, harmonica, homosexual, slaughterhouse, river, perversion, romantic rivalry, forest, omen ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.9
 122
Possessed (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An insane man is shot dead by two cops, Kung and Hsiao, after he refused to listen to them and stabbed a woman dead. After the encounter, the two cops always strange things and Hsiaos girlfriend is also haunted. To reduce the fear of hiring police a ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: broken mirror, broken down car, trick, revelation, brother sister relationship, possession, forest, bell, pickpocket, insanity, nightmare, trap ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 5.2
 71K
The Snowman (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
Style: serious, surprise ending, detective, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, snowman, snow, clue, investigation, police investigation, winter, police detective, missing woman, kidnapping, missing person ...
Time: year 2017, 80s, 2010s, year 2006, year 1945 ...
Place: oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
The Vampire Who Admires Me (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Macy, BiBi and Chelsea, are young fashion models who have signed on to shoot a commercial. To meet with the theme “Youth and Death”, the director suggests shooting the commercial at their boss, Mr King’s ancestral home on the East Dragon ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, bleak, freeze frame
Plot: murder, friendship, blood, suicide, self mutilation, model, tomb, burned alive, fire, jail, police station, corpse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Brutal Insanity of Love (1993)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The third entry in the unrelated series which began with Shiryo No Wana (1988), Toshiharu Ikeda's bloody horror film deals with a policewoman (Megumi Yokoyama) investigating the apparent suicide of a college coed. The prime suspects include the ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: serial killer, killing spree, murderer, unfaithfulness, nudity, lesbian, college, heartbreak, female police officer, serial murder, ambush, posing as husband and wife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
13: Game of Death (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Pusit is having the worst day of his life. He just lost his job and is in serious debt. That is all about to change when he receives a mysterious phone call with a tempting offer. If he could complete 13 tasks, he will win 100 million Baht. Pusit ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary ...
Plot: debt, manipulation, rivalry, dishonesty, down on your luck, fictional game show, deception, greed, loss of job, torture, extreme, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Suicide Club (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the beginning of a string of suicides around the country. Does the new all-girl group Desert have anything to do with it? Detective Kuroda tries to find the ...
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, creepy, bloody ...
Plot: suicide, conspiracy, police investigation, gory, violent, surrealism, high school, brutality, hacker, student, website, extreme ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Last Supper (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A plastic surgeon who excels at his job hides a dark secret in THE LAST SUPPER. After finally succumbing to his desire to taste human flesh, the surgeon soon finds himself addicted to the taste of his patients' skin, which leads him to discover ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, cannibalism, restaurant, obsession, supernatural, gory, cooking and food, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chef, wedding day, food, cannibal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Girl on the Train (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes ...
Style: suspense, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: train, infidelity, murder mystery, obsession, police investigation, adultery, psychopath, whodunit, alcoholic, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, female protagonist ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Weekend Away (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When her best friend vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia, Beth races to figure out what happened. But each clue yields another unsettling deception.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense ...
Plot: murder, murder mystery, weekend, mysterious disappearance, disappearance, murder investigation, victim, girlfriend, accused of murder, woman, investigation, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: 2020s
Place: croatia, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Death Water (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Newspaper correspondent Kyoko Togakure (Haruka Igawa) visits a nursing home in the outskirts of Tokyo. She finds the dead body of a resident. It was an apparent suicide. He's holding a piece of paper with the mystifying word "Death ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: pagan, supernatural, self harm, voice over narration, hallucination, flashback, rain, delusion, self mutilation, professor, dog, death ...
Place: tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.3
 259
Enbalming (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embalming process she finds herself pricks by a needle buried deep in the boy’s flesh where it should ...
Style: grindhouse, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, surprise ending ...
Plot: home invasion, zombie, suicide, dead body, insanity, father figure, drug, tattoo, decapitation, cocaine, bondage, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.2
 2K
Tomie (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Following some trauma in her past that has since been repressed, a young woman is trying to recover her memories with the help of a psychiatrist. During her hypnosis sessions, she repeats the name "Tomie" but is unable to recall where she ...
Style: manga, detective, scary, tense, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hypnosis, serial killer, extreme, drug addiction, strip club, virus, amnesia, back from the dead, asian school, sexploitation, monster, club ...
Time: 20th century, 19th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Bone Collector (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, policewoman, mind game, murder, twists and turns, master criminal, crime scene, forensics, race against time ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, persia, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.4
 1K
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 ...
Plot: ghost, murder, danger, hypnosis, husband wife relationship, imaginary friend, mental illness, hallucination, investigation, haunted house, haunted, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Rule Number One (2008)
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, detective ...
Plot: ghost, police detective, danger, supernatural, murder, revenge, investigation, haunted, haunted house, supernatural being, haunting, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.4
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13 Gantry Row (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When newlyweds Peter and Julie purchase an old house with plans to renovate it, they begin to discover the strangest things. First, they find one of the living room walls covered with iron plates that reveal an expanding sepia stain. Afterwards, ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological thriller, ambiguous ending, independent film
Plot: haunted house, haunted, ghost, supernatural, old woman, troubled marriage, blonde, recluse, banker, old lady, flashback, mirror ...
Place: sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.2
 38K
The Empty Man (2020)
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, suspense, lovecraft, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, supernatural, suicide, investigation, cosmic horror, danger, teenager, death, riddles and clues, legend, experiment, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2020s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 2019 ...
Place: missouri, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 18K
Surveillance (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, stylized, rough, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, surveillance, investigation, murder, twists and turns, police corruption, sadism, hidden identity, mass murder, dishonesty, police, dirty cop ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: nebraska, new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Smile Before Death (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Teenaged Nancy Thompson arrives unexpectedly at her mothers county villa. She discovers that her mom has died a violent death.The police investigate and believe the she killed herself by cutting her throat with a piece of broken of glass.Nancy meets ...
Style: slasher, suspense, psychological thriller, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: sleaze, photograph, lesbian, lgbt, love triangle, whodunit, fashion photographer, inheritance, girl, female pubic hair, family relations, nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Muoi: The Legend of a Portrait (2007)
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 ...
Plot: ghost, curse, painting, portrait, murder, investigation, ritual, novelist, deception, surrealism, betrayal, insanity ...
Place: vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Style: southern gothic, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: insanity, haunted by the past, murder, hagsploitation, plot twist, mental disorder, deep south, female villain, aging, woman in danger, psychotic woman, bullying ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1964, 1920s
Place: louisiana, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Evil Dead Trap 2 (1992)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A female projectionist is haunted by the image of a small boy. Perhaps driven by insanity from a former abortion she goes on a killing spree, gutting women and removing their stomaches. Her relationship with her attractive and successful friend ...
Style: slasher, controversial, bloody, frightening, surreal ...
Plot: serial killer, macabre, big city, prostitute, pregnancy, psychopath, couples, danger, supernatural, ghost, supernatural ability, journalism ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.5
 22K
The Cure (1997)
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, scary, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, investigation, amnesia, hypnosis, monkey, hallucination, interrogation, murder mystery, mind control, stranger, psychosis ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, okinawa japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.8
 21K
Suspect Zero (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, detective, tricky ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, police investigation, profiler, justice, mental illness, obsession, brutality, fbi, plot twist, murder mystery ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, arizona, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
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, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Man in the Trunk (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with ...
Style: suspense, christmas horror, psychological thriller, art house, dark
Plot: holiday, chase, friendship, fear, best friend, murder, love, blood, christmas, xmas, woods, hunting ...
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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