Movies like Arcana

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Arcana (1972)
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Arcana (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.
Style: surreal, controversial
Plot: rape, lgbt, death, oedipus complex, clairvoyant, supernatural horror, folk horror, supernatural, sorcerer, mother, violence, female nudity, subway, telekinesis, male nudity, occult, spirituality, abortion, fortune teller, tarot card, insanity, card playing, blood, voodoo doll, widow ...
Place: milan italy
Keyword: italian horror

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Most similar movies to Arcana

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, disturbing and scary films with plots about supernatural, death, murder, blood, danger, violence and ghost mostly in Horror, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Arcana: Dark Waters (1993), She-Shaman (1996), Damned in Venice (1978), Mother! (2017), Delusion (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
 5.9
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She-Shaman (1996)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Poland, France, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of an anthropology professor Michal's who as the movie progresses develops two overwhelming obsessions. The first one is a mummified, 3,000 year-old, perfectly preserved body of a Shaman he and his colleagues have recently dragged out ...
Style: controversial, sexy, emotional, mysterious, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot: obsession, college student, danger, couples, surrealism, professor, nymphomaniac, sex, young girl, archeological dig, female nudity, violence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, prehistoric times
Place: poland, europe
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100%
Damned in Venice (1978)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A blind boy receives a vision that warn him of the birth of the anti-christ.
Style: controversial, disturbing
Plot: hotel, satanic cult, priest, supernatural horror, motel, female psychopath, folk horror, exorcist, female nudity, nudity, premonition, blond boy ...
Place: italy, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Mother! (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, twisted, mysterious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, vandalism, symbolism, uninvited guest, cannibalism, pregnant woman, riot, brutality, husband wife relationship, nightmare, death of son, house ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Delusion (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three years after the death of Frank's wife a mysterious woman appears. As their attraction grows Frank struggles with reality and his loss. He tries to start over not knowing his choices could lead him to his own downfall.
Style: spiritual, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: mystery woman, death, starting over, tragedy, downfall, attraction, supernatural, psychic, husband wife relationship, delusion, supernatural power, murder ...
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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
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22%
Fear Street: Part Two - 1978 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, murder, monster, woman in danger, homicidal maniac, witch, lesbian, snake, brutality, psychopath, violence ...
Time: 2020s, 70s, year 1994, year 1978, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Spirits of the Dead (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Three directors each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" ...
Style: anthology, surreal, gothic, scary, visual ...
Plot: surrealism, obsession, edgar allan poe, macabre, ghost, doppelganger, supernatural, redemption, twins, omnibus, revenge, scared ...
Time: middle ages
Place: rome italy, italy, europe, england, britain
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22%
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Bulbbul (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.
Style: suspense, bleak, scary, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: village, tragedy, murder, rape, folklore, supernatural horror, revenge, witch, patriarchy, curses spells and rituals, characters in danger, paranormal phenomena ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: india
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21%
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Demonia (1990)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Canadian archaeological team in Sicily accidentally unleashes vengeful ghosts of five demonic nuns whom were murdered 500 years earlier and the ghosts now set out to kill the group and townspeople alike.
Style: suspense, dark, erotic, surreal, scary ...
Plot: serial killer, supernatural, church, demon, sex scene, nunsploitation, folk horror, exploitation, monastery, convent, anti hero, religions or cults ...
Time: 16th century
Place: sicily, canada, europe, italy, toronto ontario canada
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21%
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The Gift (2000)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, twist ending, scary, psychological ...
Plot: psychic, mental illness, investigation, clairvoyant, small town, extrasensory perception, psychic power, murder, tarot card, fortune teller, violence, macabre ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: georgia, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Field in England (2013)
Genre: Drama, History, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he ...
Style: surreal, black and white, stylized, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: folk horror, hallucination, psychedelia, wilderness, group of strangers, surrealism, captivity, danger, trippy, on the run, poisoning, military ...
Time: 17th century, year 2016, 2010s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Exorcist III (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style: demonic, scary, suspenseful, religious horror, splatter ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, demon, possession, supernatural, demonic possession, macabre, exorcist, priest, investigation, murder, violence, hospital ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1998
Place: washington d.c., virginia, usa, india, copenhagen
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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
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The Nude Princess (1976)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of ...
Style: erotic
Plot: erotica, female nudity, past, diplomat, female pubic hair, group, male full rear nudity, gay interest, trap, bare breasts, male nudity, princess ...
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Satan's Slaves 2: Communion (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural horror, supernatural, ghost, house, terror, old dark house, life is a bitch, halloween, fear, demon, evil, ritual ...
Time: 2020s, year 1984, year 1955, 80s, 1950s
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
Style: surreal, mind bending, suspense, mind twisting, gothic ...
Plot: secret society, cannibalism, hallucination, murder, seance, female psychopath, psychotic, witch, black magic, mental disorder, exploitation, folk horror ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
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19%
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Gothic (1986)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord ...
Style: gothic, surreal, scary, disturbing, gothic horror ...
Plot: insanity, demon, surrealism, mad scientist, seance, mind game, brutality, obsession, goth, drug, writers, hallucination ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period
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19%
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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
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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
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19%
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Neverlake (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, father daughter relationship, hidden truth, lake, obsession, danger, death, family problems, life is a bitch, uncover truth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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19%
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Borgman (2013)
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 ...
Style: surreal, psychological, disturbing, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot: nightmare, dog, home invasion, family crisis, surrealism, good versus evil, manipulation, hidden identity, life turned upside down, supernatural, family problems, terrorizing ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, holland
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19%
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Possum (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
Style: suspense, phantasmagoric, psychological, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: surrealism, hallucination, supernatural, abuse, spider, madness, haunted house, evil, danger, curses spells and rituals, violence, graphic violence ...
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19%
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Fear Street: Part One - 1994 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1994, a group of teenagers discovers that the terrifying events which have haunted their town for generations ​are all connected — and that they may be the next targets.
Style: slasher, suspense, queer horror, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, supernatural, witch, lesbian, serial killer, lgbt, lgbtq, serial murder, terror, brutality, supernatural horror, maniac ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 2020s, 20th century
Place: usa
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19%
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Jacob's Ladder (1990)
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, twist ending, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot: nightmare, paranoia, hallucination, memory, delusion, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, psychology, dealing with death, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
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19%
Night of the Sorcerers (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of researchers gathering material for a magazine article on endangered wildlife encounter vampiric leopard women in the heart of the African jungle.
Style: suspense, psychotronic
Plot: zombie, interracial rape, supernatural, supernatural horror, vampire, jungle, sex scene, supernatural power, female vampire, skinny dipping, massacre, blood ...
Place: africa
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19%
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Amulet (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: paranormal phenomena, demon, violence, mysticism, parenthood, post traumatic stress disorder, mystery woman, occult, homeless man, motherhood, supernatural, abused woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sleep Has Her House (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The shadows of screams climb beyond the hills. It has happened before. But this will be the last time. The last few sense it, withdrawing deep into the forest. They cry out into the black, as the shadows pass away, into the ground.
Style: experimental, slow cinema, enigmatic, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: darkness, poem, nature, forces of nature, spirit, supernatural, mysticism, night, stoner, macabre, romanticism, death ...
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18%
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Bilocation (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Shinobu Takamura is an aspiring painter. One day, she is accused of using counterfeit money. Shinobu is confused by the allegation, because she never did such a thing and was at home when the crime occurred. Police Officer Kanou then appears and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, clever, surreal ...
Plot: supernatural, doppelganger, alter ego, split personality, male female relationship, moral dilemma, secret identity, tragic love, duplicity, love affair, problem, supernatural horror
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18%
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The Rite (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Hungary, Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Seminary student Michael Kovak (Colin O'Donoghue) reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest, Father Lucas (Anthony Hopkins), who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, ...
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, demonic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, exorcism, church, supernatural horror, clergy, demonic possession, good versus evil, vatican, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, teachers and students, catholic ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, xian
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18%
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