Movies like Borgman
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Borgman (2013)
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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 unleashes a crowing gallery of distortion around the careful façade constructed by an arrogant, comfortable couple, their three children and nanny.
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, bleak, dark, art house, tense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Plot:
nightmare, dog, mysterious character, family relations, dishonesty, good versus evil, manipulation, hidden identity, life turned upside down, supernatural, family problems, terrorizing, female nudity, family crisis, crumbling marriage, homeless, surrealism, nude, children, home invasion, dark humor, suburbs, witch, suspense, bus ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, holland
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Most similar movies to Borgman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, psychological, weird and stylized films with plots about psychology, insanity, suspense, storytelling, macabre, obsession and nude mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Borgman: Hidden (2005), Mulholland Drive (2001), 3 Women (1977), Alexandra's Project (2003), Enemy (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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82K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, art house, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, guilt, childhood, dysfunctional family, videotaping, family in crisis, haunted by the past, suspense, voyeurism, psychology, lie, nightmare ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
psychological, surreal, neo noir, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, hallucination, hollywood, alternate reality, obsession, nightmare, doppelganger, lesbian sex, filmmaking ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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100%
16K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An awkward young teen working at a spa becomes overly attached to her fellow worker, a lonely outcast. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. Amid emotional crises, the three woman steal and trade ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, art house, thought provoking, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
surrealism, insanity, psychology, women, loneliness, paranoia, suicide attempt, identity, feminist, artist, female psychopath, twins ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, texas
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Steve is a man who has it all, a successful career, wonderful children, beautiful home and a loving wife. However, returning to his home after work on his birthday, he finds his house deserted and darkened with almost all the lightbulbs missing, all ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, enigmatic ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, female masturbation, mental illness, family relations, birthday, mind game, family problems, family in crisis, unhappy wife, dishonesty, male nudity ...
Place:
australia
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100%
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199K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style:
surreal, psychological, twist ending, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, nightmare, suspense, surrealism, obsession, spider, disturbed individual, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Donnie Darko similar movies
111K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspenseful, gothic, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
antisocial behavior, mysterious character, under the surface, psychopath, parents and children, family problems, estate, family relations, lolita, masturbation, youth, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
14K
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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51%
12K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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40K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
psychological, bleak, surreal, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot:
mental illness, childhood trauma, murder, haunted by the past, paranoia, psychology, insanity, twists and turns, psychopath, misfit, mental patient, suspense ...
Time:
50s, 21st century
Place:
london, canada, europe, east end london, united kingdom ...
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50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, psychedelic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, investigation, serial killer, murder, small town life, small town, incest, mental illness, hallucination, supernatural, rape, double life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1988, 80s, year 1989
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Movies like Orphan
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the ...
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, atmospheric, psychological ...
Plot:
surrealism, circus, serial killer, revenge, cult, psychology, art, magic realism, insanity, macabre, funeral, clown ...
Time:
80s
Place:
mexico city, latin america
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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%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One day, on a whim, Marc decides to shave off the moustache he's worn all of his adult life. He waits patiently for his wife's reaction, but neither she nor his friends seem to notice. Stranger still, when he finally tells them, they all ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, meditative, serious ...
Plot:
existentialism, loneliness, imagination, riddles and clues, hotel, insanity, husband wife relationship, dark humor, life, human nature, escape, brutality ...
Time:
70s
Place:
paris france, france, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
10K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
Style:
dark, psychological, tense, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
brainwashing, kidnapping, cult, mind control, manipulation, redemption, cult leader, life is a bitch, parents and children, religions or cults, sexual innuendo, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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47%
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 ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, supernatural, demon, paranoia, secrets, insanity, obsession, twists and turns, monster, mental disorder, nude ...
Time:
80s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Others related movies
19K
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 ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, psychological, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, monster, obsession, insanity, macabre, occult, hysteria, demon, supernatural, serial killer, existentialism, infidelity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany, west berlin west germany, poland, east germany ...
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47%
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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46%
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22K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Style:
surreal, psychological, disturbing, cerebral, visually appealing ...
Plot:
distopia, paranoia, surrealism, courtroom, courtroom drama, insanity, existentialism, art, corruption, justice, lawyer, legal ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 60s, 18th century
Place:
russia
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46%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful ...
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, bleak, disturbing, gothic ...
Plot:
surrealism, insanity, artist, isolation, suspense, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, island, diary, nightmare, macabre ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
scandinavia, sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Films like The Sixth Sense
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, bleak, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cult, paranoia, hippie, sexual abuse, religion, female protagonist, mind control, psychology, brainwashing, suspense, manipulation, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, california, new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style:
surreal, scary, bleak, twist ending, psychological ...
Plot:
paranoia, nightmare, hallucination, twists and turns, delusion, mind game, psychology, dealing with death, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, memory ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, psychological, splatter, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunted house, nightmare, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, family problems, custody, parents and children, single parent, macabre, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Movie in collections
36K
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 ⇓
45%
130K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, atmospheric, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, guilt, violence, fear, masturbation, death, explicit sex, torture, male nudity, lust ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Films like Midsommar
272K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, dark ...
Plot:
witch, supernatural, witchcraft, religion, paranoia, isolation, wilderness, suspense, family bonds, black magic, curses spells and rituals, insanity ...
Time:
17th century, 19th century
Place:
new england, canada, new hampshire, usa
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45%
84K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.
Style:
scary, disturbing, tense, bloody, surreal ...
Plot:
torture, femme fatale, macabre, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, sadism, revenge, suspense, serial killer, obsession, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place; Based on a true ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, psychopath, obsession, crazy, paranoia, memory, family relations, family problems, law enforcement, delusion, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, new orleans, peru, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
181K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Plot:
mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, paranoia, obsession, computer, surrealism, cyberpunk, rabbi, torah, psychology, mental illness ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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