Movies like The Girl from Nowhere

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The Girl from Nowhere (2012)
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The Girl from Nowhere (2012)
Original name: La Fille de nulle part
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Michel, a retired math teacher, has lived alone since his wife’s death and occupies his time writing an essay about the beliefs that shape daily life. One day he comes across Dora, a young homeless woman, who shows up injured on his doorstep, and puts her up until she recovers. Her presence brings something new to Michel’s life, but gradually the apartment becomes the site of mysterious happenings.
Style: surreal, erotic, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, sexy, art house, eros, horror comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paranormal phenomena, ghost, mysterious girl, loneliness, older man younger woman relationship, reincarnation, hallucination, self discovery, introspection, apparition, hopes, supernatural power, religion, death, erotica, writers, darkness, female nudity, orphan, girl, retirement, nudity, bible, spiritualism, blood ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: paris france, france

Most similar movies to The Girl from Nowhere

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about ghost, supernatural, female nudity, danger, deadly, death and murder mostly in Drama, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Girl from Nowhere: 1001 Grams (2014), Celine (1992), The Wind of Fear (2007), Behind the Walls 3D (2011), Images (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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1001 Grams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Norwegian scientist Marie attends a seminar in Paris on the actual weight of a kilo, it is her own measurement of disappointment, grief and, not least, love, that ends up on the scale. Finally Marie is forced to come to terms with how much a ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, unfulfillment, dull life, frustration, scientist, estrangement, love, women, father daughter relationship, love and romance, love affair, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, scandinavia, europe, france
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Celine (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized and comes to the attention of ...
Style: art house, eros, erotic
Plot: girl, supernatural, oral sex, a vision, sex scene, female nudity, suicide, death, countryside, yoga, supernatural power, spirituality ...
Place: france
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The Wind of Fear (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Claudia is a troubled teen confined in a very particular support center ruled with roughness by renowned psychiatrist Bernarda Alquicira. Coexisting with girls who have experienced similar trances, Claudia confronts horrible visions of Andrea, a ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, mentally unstable, isolation, confined, mental institution, supernatural, vengeance, uncover truth, danger, murder, death, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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Behind the Walls 3D (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1922, a young novelist goes to the countryside to write her latest book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious
Plot: countryside, supernatural, ghost, mentally unstable, writer's life, losing-it hero, lifestyle, heroes, confined, hallucination, writers, nightmare ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: france, europe
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33%
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Images (1972)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Schizophrenic housewife, engulfed by terrorizing apparitions, kills off each, unknowing if these demons are merely figments of her hallucinatory imagination or part of reality.
Style: surreal, mind bending, psychological thriller, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental breakdown, mental illness, surrealism, hallucination, adultery, countryside, husband wife relationship, loneliness, delusion, country house, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland
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Whispering Corridors: The Humming (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Eun-hee is hired as a vice principal at her old high school, where strange things take place in the closed down washroom. High school student Ha-young and So-yeon, who used the washroom as their hideout hear humming in the empty washroom, and ...
Style: suspense, mystical, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, paranormal phenomena, mysticism, hallucination, supernatural, supernatural horror, haunted, paranormal activity, high school life, school, paranormal, schoolgirl ...
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One of Us (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: journalist, media, danger, investigative journalism, sect, self discovery, character study, female friendship, riddles and clues, disappearance, amateur detective, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The orphan plus minus an arm (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The orphan plus minus an arm
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense, scary
Plot: voyeurism, orphan, under the surface, disability, dishonesty, love affair, young girl, judge, female nudity, nudity, sexual content, parents ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Don't Look Back (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken over by another woman.
Style: psychological, suspense, serious, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot: memory loss, haunted by the past, loss of daughter, family crisis, unfulfillment, obsession, self discovery, supernatural, identity crisis, women, dual identity, photography ...
Place: italy, france, europe
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31%
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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31%
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Blur (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Artist Adrian Jonas toils in preparation for the biggest gallery opening of his career. The creative process takes Adrian deep into the depths of his mind, where he begins to experience premonitions of a terrible fate that awaits his beloved Iliana. ...
Style: serious, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: premonition, twists and turns, danger, unfulfillment, changing the past or future, losing-it hero, paranormal phenomena, murder, party, neighbor, surrealism, paranoia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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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30%
A Near Death Experience (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, talking to the dead, serial killer, death, new neighbor, fugitive, flashback, train, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Don't Look Now (1973)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, drowning, serial killer, blindness, psychic, haunted by the past, grief, sex scene, hallucination, twists and turns, death of daughter, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, near future, 20th century
Place: italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Whispers (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young couple grieving the recent death of their daughter move to the countryside where they are haunted by their tragedy and a sinister darkness.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: ghost, tragedy, countryside, paranormal phenomena, death, danger, relocation, fear, isolation, pursuit, couples, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Grindstone Road (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, danger, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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29%
Something Wicked (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young couple embark upon their honeymoon against the chilling landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. But when tragedy strikes, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, scary, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, stalking, couples, wedding, haunted by the past, danger, couple relations, mind game, violence, family relations, death, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
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29%
Children's Play (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot: good versus evil, children, ghost, family in danger, dealing with death, danger, mentally unstable, family problems, siblings relations, supernatural power, possession, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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House of Voices (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan , Judith, left behind because of her mental ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, female nudity, pregnancy, haunted house, haunted by the past, breast feeding, mentally unstable, isolation, uncover truth, losing-it hero, housekeeper, mirror ...
Time: 1940s, year 2004, 1950s, year 1958, year 1946 ...
Place: france, alps, europe
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29%
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Laddaland (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A family moves into a new house where they gradually begin to encounter paranormal and horror events.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, dark, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, family in danger, family relations, supernatural, parents and children, death, black cat, haunted, paranormal activity, evil force, fear, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, thailand
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29%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Unquiet (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Do you believe in ghosts? Well, whether you do or not, you'll want to tune in for this superspooky flick that takes you inside an abandoned -- and possibly haunted! -- women's prison. A skeptic and her ex-husband, a documentary filmmaker, ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic
Plot: women's prison, ghost, supernatural power, evil spirit, paranormal phenomena, murder, afterlife, skeptic, ghost hunter, supernatural, abandoned hospital
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29%
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The Long Walk (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Laos
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An old Laotian hermit discovers that the ghost of a road accident victim can transport him back in time fifty years to the moment of his mother's painful death.
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, ghost, murder, curses spells and rituals, family relations, time jump, time traveler, death of mother, supernatural, death, loss of mother, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: laos
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29%
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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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The Haunting of Margam Castle (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A team of American parapsychologists travel to Wales to conduct a study of Margam Castle, one of the UK's most haunted buildings.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, paranormal, travel, ghost, haunted house, supernatural power, investigation, haunted by the past, fear, reluctant partners, uncover truth ...
Place: wales
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The Innkeepers (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, spooky, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, paranormal investigation, macabre, hotel, paranormal, ghost story, fear, paranormal activity, haunted, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, connecticut, usa
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29%
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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
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29%
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The Babadook (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style: psychological, scary, dark, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, macabre, monster, nightmare, ghost, danger, single mother, fear, book, trauma, insanity, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, adelaide south australia
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28%
A Snake of June (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Set in an anonymous Japanese metropolis, the film tells the tale of shy career woman, Rinko and Shigehiko, her hygiene-obsessed, workaholic husband. The couple explore their sexuality in a number of ways, causing their lives to be disrupted.
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, erotic, black and white ...
Plot: dysfunctional marriage, blackmail, power relations, couple relations, stalking, sexual relations, surrealism, erotica, sexual blackmail, pink film, porn, sex ...
Place: japan, europe, italy, asia, tokyo ...
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28%
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Sorum (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, domestic disturbance, murder, family problems, danger, estrangement, asian, extreme, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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28%
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