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The Inugami Family (1976)
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The Inugami Family (1976)
Original name: 犬神家の一族
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story: When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, creepy, twisted
Plot: yakuza, body swapping, murder, inheritance, family relations, private detective, war veteran, frog, greed, last will and testament, stolen identity, tobacco, flashback, poison, axe murder, family feud, inn, hotel, mask, legs, axe, severed head, axe in the head, leg
Time: 1940s, year 1947
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out gothic, gothic horror, suspenseful and psychotronic films with plots about murder, macabre, ghost, death, supernatural, danger and folk horror mostly in Mystery, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like The Inugami Family: Village of 8 Gravestones (1977), The Devil's Ballad (1977), The House of Hanging (1979), The Book of Stone (1969), The Doll of Satan (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Inugami Family (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A remake of the 1976 award winning film. When tycoon Inugami Sahei passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marry one of the Inugami grandsons - Sukekiyo, Suketake, or Suketomo - pitting ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: sex, stolen identity, private detective, frog, tobacco, greed, last will and testament, axe murder, inheritance, body swapping, murder, poison ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Village of 8 Gravestones (1977)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 151 min.
Story: The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo
Style: gothic horror, twisted, gothic
Plot: family relations, twins, poison, airport, murder, warrior, inheritance, twin sister, private detective, samurai, waterfall, cave ...
Time: 16th century, year 1977, 70s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Devil's Ballad (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A serial killer responsible for 7 minors' deaths thus far seems to kill to a particular rhythm, which the authorities must identify to catch him.
Style: twisted
Plot: waterfall, mirror, convention, grape, private detective, bicycle, murder, poison, wine, sparrow, ball
Time: year 1952, 1950s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The House of Hanging (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story: This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.
Plot: daughter, threat, multiple murder, photographer, suicide, rape, revenge, hospital, severed head, garage, actress playing multiple roles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Book of Stone (1969)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This classic film tells the story about a little girl Silvya (Lucy Buj) that because of her behaviour is required to be nursed by a special teacher Julia (Marga López) at home. This teacher is experienced in the field and starts looking after the ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, slasher, creepy, weird ...
Plot: folk horror, ritual, death, haunting, haunted house, governess, lizard, shadow, stepmother, black magic, ruins, book ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Doll of Satan (1969)
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Elizabeth travels to the family castle to hear her uncle's will. Once there, she encounters a crazy woman in a wheelchair, a murderer and has nightmares about the legendary ghost who is said to be in the castle. As if that were not bad enough, ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror
Plot: folk horror, erotica, inheritance, castle, murder, bare breasts, erotic dream, woman in a wheelchair, last will and testament, italian gothic, will, drugged drink
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, scary, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: castle, spanish inquisition, insanity, vengeance, investigation, macabre, monster, gory, edgar allan poe, conspiracy, religions or cults, hidden identity ...
Time: middle ages, 15th century, 16th century, year 1961, medieval times ...
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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It Comes (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: To protect his family from a mysterious being, a man joins forces with a journalist and an exorcist - but they come to learn what they are dealing with is beyond their imagination.
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, scary, contemplative ...
Plot: exorcist, supernatural power, ghost, little girl, japanese woman, japanese girl, ghost hunter, paranormal investigation, mission, family relations, paranormal, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Woman in Black (1989)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, scary, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, afterlife, haunted house, mysterious character, uncover truth, murder, haunted by the past, who done it, danger, haunted, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, edwardian era
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Haunting in Venice (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Celebrated sleuth Hercule Poirot, now retired and living in self-imposed exile in Venice, reluctantly attends a Halloween séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of ...
Style: detective, witty, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, murder, murder investigation, medium, ghost, seance, victim, children, secret, murderer, investigation ...
Time: post world war two, 20th century, 1940s, year 1947
Place: venice, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This Mexican horror film concerns about a group of college students, led by Claudia (Alicia Bonet) who decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. The dream also consists ...
Style: gothic, suspense, slasher, gothic horror, creepy ...
Plot: ghost, boarding school, terror, religion, death, macabre, haunted house, murder, revenge, suicide, fear, boss ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Burmese Harp (1985)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.
Style: odd
Plot: world war two, bird, prisoner, british army, buddhism, japanese army, soldier, pow
Time: 1940s
Place: burma, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Audition (1999)
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: psychological thriller, scary, disturbing, tense, dark ...
Plot: torture, femme fatale, psychopath, murder, sadism, macabre, revenge, serial killer, twists and turns, unsettling, violence, obsession ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Whisper in the Dark (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, classic horror, psychological, serious ...
Plot: imaginary friend, evil child, folk horror, bad kids, supernatural horror, family relations, obsession, ghost, couples, mischievous children, supernatural, pregnancy ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Phantom of the Opera (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Made for TV Version of the classic story
Style: gothic, psychotronic, gothic horror
Plot: phantom of the opera, opera, insanity, madness, opera singer, singer, fire, ghost, suicide, revenge, orchestra conductor, disfigurement ...
Time: 1910s
Place: budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: curse, suicide, forest, supernatural, danger, death, cursed object, supernatural power, murder, society, cursed, violence ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Black Cat (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, scary, gothic ...
Plot: samurai, ghost, murder, supernatural, vengeance, japanese mythology, folk horror, rape, revenge, black cat, rape and revenge, curse ...
Time: year 1968, 12th century, middle ages
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A search for a winning lottery ticket in his dead father's grave causes Sardonicus' face to freeze in a horrible grimace, until he forces a doctor to treat his affliction--with even more grotesque results! The audience gets an opportunity ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, slasher, grindhouse, suspense ...
Plot: disfigured, castle, disfigured face, leech, monster, torture, baron, disfigurement, macabre, doctor, lottery ticket, masked man ...
Time: year 1961, 19th century, 20th century
Place: europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Morgiana (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jealous of her vapidly "good" sister's popularity, poisonous Viktoria doses pretty Klara's tea with a slow-acting fatal substance. As the latter grows hysterically weak, the former finds success increasingly compromised by guilt, ...
Style: surreal, retro, gothic, gothic horror, phantasmagoric ...
Plot: sister, terror, folk horror, renaissance, sisters, macabre, folklore, inheritance, poison, jealousy, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship ...
Place: czech republic, czechoslovakia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.2
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Ring (1998)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, splatter, creepy ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, investigation, macabre, curse, supernatural horror, urban legend, journalist, woman in danger, telephone call, danger, haunting ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century, 1950s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Keeper (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Keeper of Underwood Asylum has the mental patients of the wealthiest families in British Columbia. The rest of the family members have been dying under mysterious circumstances, so Biggs hires private investigator Richard Driver, who puts his ...
Style: psychotronic, spoof, detective
Plot: twins, canuxploitation, loot, evil twin, psychiatric hospital, hypnosis, fortune, private detective, greed, heir, police inspector, murder investigation ...
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Witch (1966)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
Style: gothic, suspense, gothic horror, psychotronic
Plot: witch, witchcraft, folk horror, love triangle, selfish woman, narcissistic woman, boy meets girl, fencing, mansion, woman, witch burning, potion ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 446
Aunt Alejandra (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Old aunt Alejandra goes to live with a Mexican middle-class family; she's bitter and the children tease her and make her life miserable, but the old woman is truly a witch, and takes revenge.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, psychological thriller
Plot: witch, revenge, aunt, witchcraft, children, religion, bully, occult, puberty, mother daughter relationship, secret, mistreatment ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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School Killer (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Six teenagers decide to spend the night at an old abandoned school where 27 years ago a horrible massacre occurred. The kids run afoul of the vicious crazed security guard who committed the brutal killings.
Style: slasher, thrilling, tense, suspenseful
Plot: abandoned building, murder, axe murder, teenager, threat, serial killer, blood, flashback, female nudity, sex, decapitation, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Dark Waters (1993)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A girl travels to an island, after the death of her father, to find out why the father funded a monestary on the island.
Style: gothic, lovecraft, atmospheric, bleak, surreal ...
Plot: nun, supernatural, convent, beast, amateur detective, island, isolation, woman in danger, unlikely criminals, friendship, religions or cults, good versus evil ...
Time: 90s
Place: ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Premature Burial (1962)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Style: gothic horror, psychological, bleak, gothic, slasher ...
Plot: obsession, tomb, fear, edgar allan poe, eccentric family, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, buried alive, cemetery, mental illness, wedding, mental disorder ...
Time: year 1962, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An isolated family, having already lost four members to poisoning, uses rituals and talismans to keep itself away from hostile townspeople.
Style: gothic, tense, spooky, surreal, psychological ...
Plot: cousin, dysfunctional family, incestuous relationship, incest, cousin cousin relationship, teenage girl, murder, isolation, family relations, sexual abuse, mental illness, psychological abuse ...
Time: 60s, 1940s, 1950s, year 1962
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 35K
Dark Water (2002)
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: psychological, splatter, suspenseful, disturbing, scary ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, haunted, nightmare, haunted by the past, danger, losing-it hero, custody, parents and children, family problems, single parent ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.3
 320
64: Part 2 (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, enigmatic
Plot: cop, kidnapping, japanese police, secret, puzzle, crime investigation, investigation, abduction, police investigation, public relations, murder, japanese girl ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 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, gothic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, insanity, artist, isolation, island, existentialism, obsession, mental illness, macabre, diary, nightmare, art ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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