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In a Thicket (1996)
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In a Thicket (1996)
Original name: 藪の中
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sato's re-imagining of In a Grove, on which Rashomon was based. In this version, instead of a web of lies and agendas, we get a web of desires, perversions like incest, and occult phenomenon like an oracle-demon, hallucinations, and human sacrifice. Once again, the story starts with a detective trying to unravel the story of a man and a woman encountering a bandit-rapist in the woods, but the real story keeps turning out to be unfathomable as layer upon layer of strange motives and events keep turning up.
Plot: incest, rape turns to consensual sex, bandit, ghost, rape, forest, desert, female nudity, water, death, murder, moon, criminal, summer, seduction, sword fight, male nudity, suicide, deception, wife, duel, cuckold, brother sister incest, autumn, brother sister relationship ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and psychotronic films with plots about murder, death, female nudity, blood, violence, ghost and supernatural mostly in Horror, Mystery and Romance genres. Some movies like In a Thicket: Celluloid Nightmares (1988), Hellish Love (1972), Black Kiss (2004), Dagon (2001), Kaidan (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Celluloid Nightmares (1988)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min.
Story: A gruesome snuff video is found in a sex booth. It shows a young woman who is tortured, killed, and dismembered by an unknown sadist.The deadly blade is hidden inside the camera itself. Hisayasu Sato's regular Kiyomi Ito begins to investigate ...
Style: extreme horror, pink cinema
Plot: serial killer, extreme, black, lesbianism, videotaping, crime investigation, past, coca cola, sex shop, rescue, japanese woman, incest ...
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Hellish Love (1972)
Genre: Romance, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min.
Story: Based on a traditional Japanese ghost story, the movie follows a man who falls deeply in love with a mysterious woman, only to find she belongs to the world of the dead.
Plot: ghost, sex, wedding, folklore, unfaithfulness, nudity, sword fight, hiding place, scientist, female nudity, blood, extramarital affair ...
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Black Kiss (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Asuka is an aspiring model who moves to Tokyo to pursue her career. She moves into a small apartment with a friend of a friend, Kasumi. A bizarre murder occurs in the hotel across the street. The body was mutilated and repositioned into a lurid work ...
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, psychopath, police detective, who done it, law enforcement, danger, rivalry, gory, stalking, actor's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.2
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Dagon (2001)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style: lovecraft, scary, suspense, surprise ending, satanic ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, cthulhu, chase, monster, supernatural, small town, body horror, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gory, nightmare, ritual, human sacrifice ...
Place: spain, galicia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Kaidan (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Japan, 250 years ago. Soetsu is a moneylender who is killed by the cruel samurai Shinzaemon. His body is dumped in the Kasenega-Fuchi river. According to legend, all who drown in the river will never surface again. 20 Years later, Shinkichi, the ...
Style: serious, scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: samurai, supernatural, ghost, murder, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, reincarnation, medieval, dealing with death, heroes, rivalry ...
Time: 18th century, 21st century
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Murder Obsession (1981)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film ...
Style: slasher, erotic, suspense, gothic, gothic horror
Plot: occult, serial killer, black mass, murder, paranormal, black magic, housekeeper, incest, darkroom, actor, film set, spider ...
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Farewell to the Ark (1984)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A remote village has its own norms, rites and traditions. Sue and Sutechiki are a couple and cousins. Their sex life had been better: Sutechiki is impotent and Sue have a magical chastity belt. Themes such as time, memory, modernization and social ...
Plot: surrealism, magic realism, chastity belt, cockfight, chastity, insanity, love, nudity, madness, rural setting, murder, death ...
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85%
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The Cursed (2021)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the late nineteenth century, brutal land baron Seamus Laurent slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, Seamus’s son Edward goes missing, and a boy ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, creature, gypsy, monster, folk horror, paranormal phenomena, revenge, violence, fear, death, supernatural power ...
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Place: france, rome italy
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Scarlet Samurai: Incarnation (2013)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: There's something strange happening inside Buffalo Central Terminal. A group of urban explorers find more than they bargained for.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, scary, psychotronic, bleak ...
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Summer Vacation 1999 (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenage friends spending the summer at boarding school become entangled in love triangles after one commits suicide.
Style: sad, crying
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Place: japan
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Inugami (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the ...
Style: psychedelic, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, suspense ...
Plot: incestuous sex, fall in love, ghost, danger, curse, haunted by the past, supernatural ability, supernatural, social relations, curses spells and rituals, small town, witch ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Zoom In: Rape Apartments (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Saeko, a woman with a mysterious past, is hit with a rock and brutally raped by a man wearing a dark mask and black gloves. Her life is spared, but soon brutal murders befall the residents of the Kibougahara Apartment building. The victims are ...
Style: controversial, slasher
Plot: rape, serial killer, nudity, adultery, schoolgirl, pregnancy, sexual assault, housewife, sexual fantasy, rapist, female masturbation, lesbian sex ...
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Somebody's Darling (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A fraternity president becomes obsessed with a young coed but his hopeful courtship decays into sinister pursuit as unnatural secrets surface about his brotherhood.
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: fraternity, college, vampire, addiction, stalking, rescue, supernatural ability, supernatural power, creature, society, killings, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
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83%
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The Covenant (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After the tragic deaths of her husband and daughter, Sarah Doyle moves back to her childhood home with her estranged brother, Richard. It's not long before Sarah begins to experience supernatural phenomena of a violent and hostile nature.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
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Darkness Wakes (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Charlotte - a beautiful, broke student - is offered a job cat-sitting in a vast Georgian manor house over a long weekend, at £200 per night, she can't believe her luck, but her employers are far from being the harmless eccentrics that ...
Style: rough, suspense, serious, bleak
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Nobody Sleeps In The Woods Tonight (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
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Duration: 102 min.
Story: The movie begins innocently enough - a group of technology addicted teenagers finds themselves in an off-line camp. However hiking in the woods with no smartphone in sight will not go as planned. They will have to fight for their lives against ...
Style: slasher, suspense, splatter, tense, disturbing ...
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Mature Woman: Wife-Hunting (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
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Story: Danger lurks around every corner. A psychopathic serial killer is tying up, raping and murdering Tokyo's sexy young women! Kathy is trying to divorce her husband, all the while conducting a hot affair with her divorce attorney, Sean. As she ...
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Survey Map of a Paradise Lost (1988)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Style: sexy, erotic
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Muse (2017)
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Duration: 107 min.
Story: Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak, suspense ...
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Olga O's Strange Story (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style: gothic, dark, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
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Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era, year 1999 ...
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The Amazing Transplant (1970)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Exploitation auteur Doris Wishman (Bad Girls Go to Hell) provides the most over-the-top entertainment of her career with this film about a nice guy who turns murderous after undergoing a penis transplant. As it turns out, the well-endowed donor was ...
Style: grindhouse, detective, independent film, erotic, slasher ...
Plot: rape, exploitation, fetish, erotica, transplant, sexploitation, murder, handsome man, rough sex, violent content, sexual content, moon ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
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81%
Illusion of Blood (1965)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
Style: jidai geki
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Duration: 84 min.
Story: A local news crew become horribly involved with a doomsday cult.
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Haunt (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens
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Rowing with the Wind (1988)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the summer of 1816, Percy Shelley, his mistress Mary, and her stepsister Claire visit Lord Byron at Lake Geneva. Byron challenges each to write a horror story, and Mary begins her novel, Frankenstein. She imagines the monster becoming real, and ...
Style: manga, costume drama, dark, independent film, contemplative ...
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Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, venice, geneva switzerland
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Rows (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: gothic, scary, fairy tale, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: witch, curse, abduction, supernatural power, surrealism, supernatural, supernatural ability, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, obsessive quest, killings, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Wild Flowers (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Seven seemingly unconnected fairy tales - glued together only by folklore, mood, color and light - make up this Czech collection of visual poetry. The original piece of literature, written by Karel Jaromír Erben in 1853, contained twelve tales.
Style: serious, dark, fairy tale, atmospheric, gothic horror ...
Plot: folklore, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, surrealism, religions or cults, magic, ghost, romanticism, danger, folk horror, mythology, church ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Screams of a Winter Night (1979)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ten college students go camping, when they get there, they tell scary stories to each other.
Style: anthology, psychotronic, dark fairy tale, independent film
Plot: supernatural, ghost, hanged man, forest, demon, monster, bigfoot, creature, sasquatch, creature feature, woods, deep south ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Macumba sexual (1983)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Princess Obongo, the Goddess of Unspeakable Lust, uses dark powers to ensnare a hapless couple of yuppies, so that she can imbue them with evil and conquer the world.
Style: sexy, erotic, queer horror, sensual, psychotronic ...
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Place: canary islands
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