Movies like Flatliners 2017
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Flatliners (2017)
54K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the investigation becomes more and more perilous, they are forced to confront the sins of their pasts, as well as contend with the paranormal consequences of trespassing to the other side.
Style:
disturbing, medical horror, serious, surprise ending, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspense, teen horror, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, haunted by the past, medical experiment, friendship, redemption, guilt, death, near death experience, afterlife, medical student, medical, supernatural, obsession, paranoia, morgue, water, flashback, paranormal, fear, hallucination, yacht, elevator, rave, hedonism, hearing voices ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 2000s
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Most similar movies to Flatliners
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological and surprise ending films with plots about death, supernatural, blood, chase, fear, supernatural horror and ghost mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Flatliners: The Lazarus Effect (2015), The Uninvited (2009), The Unborn (2009), The Eye (2008), The Invisible Man (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, cult classic, medical horror ...
Plot:
afterlife, near death experience, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, medical student, medical school, memory, suicide, paranoia, childhood memory, childhood trauma ...
Time:
80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century, 70s ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, death, laboratory, macabre, catholic, experiment, demon, gory, science, danger, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns ...
Style:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, mental illness, ghost, family problems, supernatural horror, woman in danger, parents and children, uncover truth, family in danger, secret relationship, siblings relations, mistrust ...
Time:
2000s, year 2009, year 2000, year 1986, 80s ...
Place:
maine, new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style:
scary, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, twins, afterlife, possession, demonic possession, supernatural horror, brutality, insect, death, masked killer, ghost, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
100%
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59K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
afterlife, ghost, supernatural horror, blindness, demon, death, eye, danger, supernatural, seeing dead people, cheating death, haunting ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008
Place:
los angeles, new york, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Currently unknown.
Style:
scary, surprise ending, disturbing, gothic, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, stalking, stalker, home invasion, homicidal maniac, death, invisibility, psychological abuse, murder, husband hits wife, sociopath, domestic violence ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, future
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An architect's desire to speak with his wife from beyond the grave using EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomenon), becomes an obsession with supernatural repercussions.
Style:
twist ending, scary, suspenseful, clever, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
spirit, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, dealing with death, ghost, death of wife, supernatural horror, loss, disappearance, contact, grief, remote control ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Style:
suspense, lovecraft, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, drug, ambulance, best friend, paramedic, brain tumor, time, swamp, racism, chemotherapy, investigation, alligator ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A group of friends stumble upon a mirror that serves as a portal to a "multiverse", but soon discover that importing knowledge from the other side in order to better their lives brings increasingly dangerous consequences.
Style:
thought provoking, surreal, intellectual, independent film, dutch angle ...
Plot:
alternate reality, mirror, existentialism, nerd, time, time travel, evil, multiverse, society, real world, computer cracker, transformation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
100%
170K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological, gothic ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, macabre, fear, haunted, death, missing child, tragic event, haunted by the past, imaginary friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man's recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate befalls him.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, supernatural, obsessive quest, vengeance, couples, haunted by the past, parents and children, couple relations, escapades, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, rhode island
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sammy fights to survive.
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
alien, cat, alien invasion, survival, disaster, monster, silence, extraterrestrial, parents, eaten alive, pizza, survival horror ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new york, harlem, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
39K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, twisted, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, bird, university, teenage girl, faith, lesbian attraction, healing power, hysteria, disappearance, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, indiana, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
182K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Style:
mysterious, psychedelic, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
aging, vacation, time, island, rapid aging, island prison, ocean, family vacation, mortality, corpse, race against time, disease ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A female collage co-ed freshman who was involved in a fatal car crash discovers she may not have survived the tragedy after all when she becomes caught between the world of the living and the dead A sort of limbo state of being between both the real ...
Style:
psychological, scary, slasher, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
afterlife, supernatural, twists and turns, ghost, alternate reality, life & death, hallucination, multiple storylines, psychology, college, danger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
15%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Similarity:
15%
41K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, death, hospital, supernatural ability, medical, lovers apart, destiny, supernatural, doctor, contact, dealing with death, ghost ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, colombia, south america, venezuela ...
Similarity:
15%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, lovecraft ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
occult, investigation, suicide, cosmic horror, supernatural, supernatural horror, death, hospital, grief, danger, demonic possession, evil spirit ...
Time:
2020s, 90s, 2010s, year 2019, 20th century ...
Place:
missouri, himalaya
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, memory, police detective, vengeance, justice, police investigation, race against time, false accusation, conspiracy theory, danger, haunted by the past, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
seattle
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, medical horror, stylized, light ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
mad scientist, monster, frankenstein, hunchback, frankenstein's monster, scientist, escapades, friendship, experiment gone awry, experiment, steampunk, doctor frankenstein ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, 1930s, 21st century
Place:
scotland yard, scotland, england, usa, big ben london ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, couple relations, supernatural horror, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, infidelity, supernatural, couples, adultery, psychology ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, persia, usa, boston
Similarity:
27%
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, death, paranormal investigator, sex scene, supernatural horror, blood, psychic, dragonfly ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
243K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off people like them in order to remain immortal.
Style:
disturbing, dark fantasy, twist ending, psychological, enigmatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, stephen king, psychic power, psychic, supernatural, disappearance, haunted house, supernatural power, nightmare, doctor, death, haunted hotel ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, year 1980, 80s, 2010s ...
Place:
ohio, new jersey, colorado, iowa, florida ...
Similarity:
26%
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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:
twist ending, disturbing, surreal, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
nightmare, paranoia, delusion, memory, hallucination, twists and turns, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, dealing with death, soldier, macabre ...
Time:
year 1990, 90s, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A harmless game of "Truth or Dare" among friends turns deadly when someone—or something—begins to punish those who tell a lie—or refuse the dare.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, slasher, scary, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
truth or dare, game, group of friends, supernatural horror, danger, survival, demon, murder, characters killed one by one, college, supernatural, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, tijuana mexico, big ben london, london, tokyo ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror and unthinkable chaos when fate draws him to a sleepy West Virginia town whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous nightmares and fevered visions.
Style:
scary, mind bending, atmospheric, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
urban legend, hallucination, warning, psychic, death of wife, twists and turns, nightmare, supernatural power, telephone call, fantasy world, destiny, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2002, 20th century, 70s
Place:
west virginia, washington d.c., pittsburgh, ecuador, virginia ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, suspense, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
plot twist, occult, ghost, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, supernatural, supernatural horror, macabre, rite, ritual, black magic ...
Time:
2000s, year 2000, year 2005, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, southern usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A usual chain mail is forwarded to a group of people. Some pass it while others ignore. One dies and is followed by series of sudden and unexplainable deaths of others. Soon after, a revelation begins to unfold, the chain mail is cursed and so she ...
Style:
suspense, gothic, slasher, tension, psychological horror ...
Plot:
death, dark past, supernatural power, paranoia, friendship, revenge, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, survival, murder, characters killed one by one, evil, group of friends ...
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The school teacher Amy has been proposed by her boyfriend Nick early in the morning and she promises her answer later in the afternoon...
Style:
medical horror, suspenseful, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
afterlife, hospital, ghost, medical, amateur detective, doctors and patients, supernatural ability, mysterious character, hallucination, haunted by the past, arson, guilt ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable acts occurred, but the owner's ...
Style:
scary, gothic, creepy, demonic, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, haunting, haunted, paranormal phenomena, occult, seance, evil force, curses spells and rituals, cancer patient, ouija, funeral home ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 80s, year 1987, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa
Similarity:
25%
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