Movies like The 4th Life

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The 4th Life (2006)
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The 4th Life (2006)
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In this surreal thriller, mysterious blond Marie March takes a journey to the town of Darckeville to scam a priceless set of antiques from an eccentric collector, but also to get away from the clutches of her overbearing older husband. On the freight train to Darckeville, fevered sensual dreams and dark childhood memories crowd her troubled mind - portentous omens of an unresolved past hurrying to catch up with her. Set against a backdrop of fading dreams, broken aspirations, and the crumbling ruins of a decaying town coloured with strange characters, their separate paths collide with explosive results.
Style: psychotronic, psychedelic, gothic, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, surreal, contemplative, neo noir, independent film
Plot: revenge, murder, surrealism, chase, lesbian, death, unrequited love, insanity, hallucination, blood, innocence, social problems, relationship problems, scheming, haunted by the past, confronting the past, troubled past, memory, female nudity, underground, occult, girl, motel, nightmare, delusion ...

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Most similar movies to The 4th Life

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic and scary films with plots about murder, violence, death, revenge, chase, blood and supernatural mostly in Thriller, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like The 4th Life: Home Invasion (2012), Disposable (2017), Fear X (2003), Hideaway (1995), Fedz (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Home Invasion (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a woman kills a home invasion robber in self-defense, his vengeful girlfriend befriends her at a crime victim support group and sets about trying to destroy her life.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure
Plot: revenge, robbery, female protagonist, home invasion, violence, woman in danger, brutality, murder, psychopath, fear, disguise, pursuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.9
 104
Disposable (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: What if a man with a mental condition, living in a fantasy world and detached from all emotional responsibility, is in real life the prime suspect for a series of murders targeting young women? Bill Thompson awakens to reality when forced to ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, contemplative, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder of a woman, uncover truth, falsely accused, false accusation, heroes, death, revenge, murder investigation, chase, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 6.0
 8K
Fear X (2003)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark, Canada, UK, Brazil
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When his wife is killed in a seemingly random incident Harry, prompted by mysterious visions, journeys to discover the true circumstances surrounding her murder.
Style: psychological, neo noir, atmospheric, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: murder, loss of wife, hotel, haunted by the past, obsession, amateur detective, investigation, self discovery, mysterious man, crime investigation, surrealism, shopping mall ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: wisconsin, montana, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 5.3
 7K
Hideaway (1995)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Hatch Harrison, his wife, Lindsey, and their daughter, Regina, are enjoying a pleasant drive when a car crash leaves wife and daughter unharmed but kills Hatch. However, an ingenious doctor, Jonas Nyebern, manages to revive Hatch after two lifeless ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, afterlife, psychopath, psychic, suicide, satanism, secrets, supernatural ability, car accident, psychic link, demon, supernatural ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: washington d.c., los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 6.4
 113
Fedz (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In London, just a few years from now, the government have enforced a curfew - no civilians on the streets after dark. A terrorist group have threatened to release a killer virus. Time is running out for the FEDZ.
Style: captivating, suspense, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense
Plot: revenge, father daughter relationship, tough guy, ex husband ex wife relationship, murder, agent, deception, violence, car chase, chase, ex cia agent, black ...
Place: los angeles, london, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Orgy of the Damned (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Orgy of Blood is an erotic vampire tale set in a surreal world of pleasure and betrayal. Fosco, a 300 year old vampire, lives in a beautiful mansion with his wife Sabina and their son Dimitri. Their lives are a non-stop lust orgy where anything goes ...
Style: erotic, gothic, sexy, tense, suspense ...
Plot: vampire sex, vampire, sex scene, betrayal, sexual pleasure, revenge, murder, rivalry, chaos, danger, violence, porn ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
13 Weird Stories (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In this anthology of horror episodes, 13 bizarre stories are told by independent film directors of Southern Brazil. Between ghosts, serial killers and demons, they conduct their strange, very strange stories.
Style: anthology, lovecraft, psychotronic, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: creature, satanism, satanic ritual, death, revenge, violence, murder, surrealism, suicide, serial killer, mutation, deformity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
 4.9
 486
Achoura (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Morocco, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Four childhood friends are reunited when one of them surfaces after twenty years, forcing them to confront a creature straight out of a spine-chilling Moroccan legend.
Style: suspense, contemplative, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: creature, supernatural power, supernatural, monster, evil, victim, rescue, society, revenge, good versus evil, legend, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Doctor Mabuse: Etiopomar (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Dr. Mabuse, criminal mastermind - returns in this epic steam punk thriller, in which six interwoven tales document the downfall of Dr. Mabuse and his city "Etiopomar".
Style: gothic, apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, mystic ...
Plot: power struggle, revenge, scientist, good versus evil, fight, race against time, megalomaniac, politics, murder, conspiracy, escape, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Night Before Halloween (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a Halloween prank goes wrong, it unleashes a creature that will hunt each of the participants down and kill them, unless they can figure out how to transfer the curse to someone else.
Style: scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot: curse, supernatural, murder, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, good versus evil, revenge, paranormal, characters in danger, supernatural ability, deadly creature, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Tony Watt's Frankenpimp (2009)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 194 min.
Story: Romeo Montague is the alias of (the re-animated) Patient Zero, a skilled, mutated android hit-man/pimp/ancient relics collector, that lives in Verona City, N.Y.; a dystopic metropolis filled with extreme horror & sexual deviancy; featuring: ...
Style: horror comedy, psychedelic, independent film, neo noir
Plot: zombie, androids, hallucinogenic drug, demon hunter, conundrum, male female relationship, violence, surrealism, blood, lesbian, death, lesbian sex ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.7
 2K
The Samurai (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a ...
Style: psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot: forest, male nudity, police officer, samurai, blood, lgbt, gay, escapades, transformation, samurai sword, death, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.0
 108
Coyote (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: An insomniac writer's sleep-deprived hallucinations distort reality as paranoia drives him to extreme violence.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak, humorous ...
Plot: paranoia, writers, insanity, murder, death, crime spree, murder mystery, brutality, torture, maniac, murder victim, manhunt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 2.9
 338
Simon (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An investigative Journalist thinks she's found a killer, and breaks into his place to find the evidence. Only when he come's back it becomes a game of cat and mouse with deadly consequences.
Style: slasher, scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, british, kidnapping, violence, blood, investigation, who done it, murder investigation, revenge, death, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 3.6
 613
Evangeline (2013)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Evangeline (Kat de Lieva) has left her sheltered upbringing to reinvent herself in college. As she begins to break out of her shell, she attracts the attention of a sociopathic fraternity leader (Richard Harmon) and his two cohorts. “Beaten and ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, bleak, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: teenage girl, college, ghost, demon, evil spirit, paranormal, rescue, death, supernatural ability, supernatural power, fear, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 4.7
 528
Anomalous (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young schizophrenic who felt threatened by a presence he was unable to define turns up gruesomely dead in his bathtub
Style: suspense, psychotronic, bleak, scary, thrilling
Plot: death, supernatural power, supernatural, ghost, vengeance, rescue, curses spells and rituals, chase, evil, characters in danger, heroes, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.4
 4K
Muse (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Ireland, Belgium, France
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 ...
Plot: literature, good versus evil, death, supernatural, muse, brutality, husband wife relationship, murder, investigation, blood, professor, police investigation ...
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54%
 5.9
 13K
Backtrack (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he ...
Style: suspense, bleak, suspenseful, touching, tense ...
Plot: ghost, memory, nightmare, therapist, hallucination, murder, death, death of daughter, female police officer, repressed memory, train crash, haunted ...
Time: year 2015
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 4.4
 200
The Echo Game (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A young mother must protect her daughter from a rogue scientist on a murderous rampage to steal the girl's psychic powers for herself.
Style: serious, scary, mind bending, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, mad scientist, family relations, supernatural ability, parents and children, chase, danger, sexual content, profanity, psychic power, psychic, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Be Careful What You Wish For (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pamela is an eight-year-old girl who loves horror movies and fairy tales. When his uncle gives her away a doll named "Hellequin" as a birthday gift, a tale of betrayal begins to unfold before her eyes.
Style: psychotronic, captivating, unusual plot structure, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, birthday party, uncle, puppet, love triangle, danger, romantic triangle, relationship problems, wish come true, family relations, family problems, little girl ...
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51%
 2.3
 671
The Doll (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When Chris and Andy order a model from an escort service, they find that something is unnaturally wrong with Natasha, something deadly wrong.
Style: slasher, scary, psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: doll, demon, doctor, victim, murder, possession, death, blood, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, supernatural, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.4
 290
Deadly Lessons (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Romanced by a charismatic professor, a college girl quits school to run away with and marry him. While her mother tries to convince her to come home, she slowly learns that he is a controlling husband with a shady past... and soon realizes that if ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: age difference, professor, murder, affair, confronting the past, relationship problems, troubled past, problem, tragic past, murder mystery, murderer, ethics ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Outrage: Born in Terror (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Christine takes her best friend with another couple for a final vacation when she goes to close up and sell her family's hunting lodge in the remote woods of Northern Georgia...but it's also the scene of her worst childhood trauma. Things ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: psychopath, danger, haunted by the past, sniper, childhood trauma, confined, stalking, woods, survival, murder, manhunt, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 4.7
 226
The Flaying (2012)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Four teenage friends go on a road trip through Argentina. On their way, they find a castle left abandoned in the middle of a forest. They decide to investigate further, only to discover it's gruesome secrets and former residents.
Style: slasher, psychedelic, psychotronic, bleak, scary ...
Plot: monster, forest, castle, road trip, violence, chase, death, fear, murder, friendship, revenge, supernatural power ...
Time: 70s
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.0
 638
Apparition (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When his beautiful fiancée, Lori, is killed in a car accident, Doug retreats in solitude to the isolated farmhouse that should have been his new family's home. As he grieves and further isolates himself from his friends and society, he learns ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychotronic
Plot: curse, car accident, murder, urban legend, ghost, supernatural power, heroes, curses spells and rituals, family relations, deadly creature, characters in danger, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.0
 568
Caged (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Style: psychological, scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: dead wife, isolation, african american, murder, insanity, racial discrimination, innocence, racism, evil woman, husband wife relationship, wife, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.1
 468
Litan (1982)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Nora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, surreal, art house, dark fantasy ...
Plot: folk horror, surrealism, festival, magic realism, occult, ritual, river, cave, couples, macabre, escape, death ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Profile for Murder (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Psychological thriller. A police profiler who quit after a horrific case is terrorised by the escaped serial killer she sent to prison.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, slasher, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, policewoman, brutality, murder, violence, psychopath, homicide detective, homicidal maniac, danger, female detective, private detective, killing spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Library Suicides (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Twin sister librarians Nan and Ana plan revenge when their author mother commits suicide, with her final words suggesting her biographer murdered her.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing
Plot: library, twins, secret, murder, female protagonist, twin sister, criminal's revenge, revenge, women, lesbian, female nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 2.3
 151
The Ideal (2011)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's a high school summer job for Julia and Alexander - the chance to earn money and work with eccentric, charismatic social studies teacher, Mr. Zenidro. But something else awaits them in the empty, yet mysterious school building. As the past ...
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: paranormal, teacher, high school, violence, betrayal, teenager, paranormal phenomena, demon, supernatural, vengeance, peril, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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