Movies like Life After Life 1981

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Life After Life (1981)
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Life After Life (1981)
Original name: 再生人
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a man is hired to enhance a fashion show, he decides to go to a puppeteer and use Chinese puppets as accents to the models and the clothes. His interest in the show becomes a personal one when he meets one of the models and romance blossoms. An old woman loans him her antique puppets on the condition that he not keep them in the house with him, or grave misfortunes will result. As one might expect, he ignores the warning and then starts to experience a few accidents and unusual occurrences - including being knocked out by what he thought was a puppet, and seeing flashes of a murder while he was unconscious.
Plot: doll, puppet, life, reincarnation, love triangle, death, model, murder, curse, fashion show, astrologer, puppeteer, deja vu

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, psychotronic and suspenseful films with plots about murder, doll, supernatural, death, puppet, supernatural power and evil doll mostly in Horror genres. Some movies like Life After Life: Robert Reborn (2019), The Revenge of Robert (2018), Nightmare Zone (1998), Heidi (2014), DevilDolls (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Robert Reborn (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In 1951 USSR, as the Cold War intensifies, infamous dictator Joseph Stalin is suffering with illness and his death is imminent. Meanwhile, KGB agent Stoichkov discovers a mysterious stage show in the Baltic region featuring three creepy dolls - ...
Style: bleak, suspense, psychotronic, captivating, scary
Plot: doll, evil doll, violent death, murder, killer doll, russophobia, airplane, supernatural, toy maker, cold war, propaganda, reincarnation ...
Time: year 1951, 20th century, 1950s
Place: moscow russia, soviet union, ussr
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The Revenge of Robert (2018)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Germany, 1941. Two secret agents, one working for British intelligence and the other working for the Nazis, board a train. Their mission is to find a Toymaker who is in possession of a mystical book which gives life to the inanimate. As the two ...
Style: bloody, bleak, scary, suspenseful, independent film
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Time: 1940s, 1930s, year 1939
Place: germany
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Nightmare Zone (1998)
Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Horror anthology consisting of three stories: a bored young woman phones a friend, and is terrified when she hears her own voice pick up on the other end, a woman's noisy electric carving knife angers one of her neighbors, and a man who has had ...
Style: anthology
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Heidi (2014)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After discovering a mysterious doll in an attic, two high school friends are increasingly plagued by a series of disturbing and unexplained events.
Style: bleak, psychotronic, suspense, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: doll, found footage, evil doll, superpower, high school friends, puppet, killer doll, supernatural power, murder, supernatural, youth, vengeance ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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DevilDolls (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A true trilogy of terror! Welcome to the haunted dollhouse where 3 devilish tales of twisted horror take place. From a re-animated rag doll that seeks revenge to a child's doll graveyard where angry playthings come back to life - enter the ...
Style: scary, psychotronic, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: doll, toys, monster, demon, evil doll, violence, killings, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, death, victim ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Puppet Show (2008)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Ringmaster Rick rose to success with his children's show, Circus Town, by making a deal with a demon to bring his marionette, Charlie Chowderhead, to life!
Style: suspense
Plot: puppet, killer clown, clown, woman peeing, tiny, toys, mannequin, doll, evil clown, ventriloquist, auction, deal with the devil ...
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The Jack in the Box (2019)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When a vintage Jack-in-the-box is un-earthed and opened, it's new owners soon have reason to believe the creepy clown doll within has a life of it's own.
Style: bleak, scary, suspense, rough
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A struggling children's book author and his rebellious teenage daughter move into a house they've inherited and find mysterious dolls in the attic. The father and daughter soon learn that the dolls have a sinister - and deadly - past.
Style: scary, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, psychotronic
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Curse of Robert the Doll (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
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Style: bloody, suspenseful, scary, suspense
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The Curse of Humpty Dumpty (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An old doll seemingly returns to life to wreak havoc.
Style: psychotronic, stylized, bleak, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: doll, supernatural, killer doll, evil doll, characters in danger, paranormal phenomena, loss, good versus evil, violence, exorcism, paranormal investigation, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
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Tiny Terrors (2018)
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Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A terrible storm at sea turns an ocean liner's luxury voyage into a nightmare! Those lucky enough to survive the sinking ship soon find themselves stranded on an uncharted island. A living hell breaks loose when the survivors encounter ...
Style: independent film, psychotronic, weird
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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54%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A man comes into possession of an ancient Aztec doll. However, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, which takes over his body.
Style: independent film, psychotronic, surprise ending, twist ending, eighties
Plot: monster, occult, supernatural, possession, doll, puppet, demonic possession, professor, disfigured face, psychokinesis, possessed woman, unrequited love ...
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52%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Genre: Horror
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Duration: 120 min.
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The Toymaker (2017)
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Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: In Germany, 1941, the Nazis pursue a Toymaker who has acquired a mystical book which gives life to inanimate objects.
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: evil doll, toy maker, torture, puppet, toy comes to life, old man, murder, violence, peril, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, killings ...
Time: 1940s
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45%
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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44%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
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Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 56 min.
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41%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Genre: Horror
Country: Hong Kong
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Style: scary, anthology, bleak, suspenseful, suspense ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
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Duration: 83 min.
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33%
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