Movies like Tuftland
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Tuftland (2017)
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Original name: Kyrsyä
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Headstrong textile student Irina tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer from an isolated and offbeat village of Kyrsyä. As Irina begins to get a grip of herself, the harmless and offbeat hillbillies begin to reveal their true nature.
Style:
gothic, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, independent film, psychological horror, cult film
Plot:
folk horror, village, forest, female protagonist, summer job, countryside, dark secret, small village, skinny dipping, hillbilly, nature, hunting, mental disorder, female nudity, swing, inheritance, occult, blind man, mushroom, bus, isolation, labor, mentally challenged, tradition, redneck ...
Place:
finland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, captivating and tense films with plots about female protagonist, folk horror, supernatural, isolation, forest, occult and supernatural horror mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Tuftland: Valley of Shadows (2017), So Cold the River (2022), Tethered (2022), Nightsiren (2022), Demigod (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A documentary filmmaker's research on a town's mysterious benefactor unearths an unexplained evil while staying at a local resort.
Style:
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Plot:
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75%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
forest, supernatural horror, supernatural, isolated house, blind man, isolation, remote location, paranormal phenomena, creature feature, survival horror, survival, blindness ...
Place:
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71%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A mysterious woman returns to her mountain village home to confront her painful past. As she tries to uncover the long-buried truth, the local villagers accuse her of witchcraft and murder.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Upon the death of her grandfather, a woman and her husband return to her birthplace in Germany's Black Forest, only to find a terrifying secret awaits them.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
family secret, ritual, cabin in the woods, inheritance, confronting the past, dark secret, folk horror, demi god, supernatural, macabre, folklore, mythology ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits a small island in New York and discovers it has a dangerous history.
Style:
tense, disturbing, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A land surveyor working in an unnamed woodland area is disturbed and beguiled by a strange silhouette that moves amongst the trees.
Style:
suspense, captivating, mystical, suspenseful, creepy ...
Plot:
forest, mental disorder, magic mushroom, folk horror, supernatural horror, supernatural power, supernatural, recklessness, mysticism, psycho, mentally unstable, going crazy ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Kumari is married off to Dhruvan of Kanjirangattu Tharavadu, a cursed land beyond Illmayi, in the west. As Kumari finds her comfort zone in her new family which is heavy with mystery, myths and superstitions, she also realizes that the people over ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, serious, dread, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA, Denmark, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A haunting and nightmarish tale that tells the story of Selah, a young girl born into a repressive cult known as the Flock. The members of the Flock – all women and female children– live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
religious cult, religious leader, female protagonist, community, forest, cult leader, brutality, teenage sexuality, polygamy, woman, menstruation, coming of age ...
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, scary, demonic, post-horror ...
Plot:
occult, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, witch, black magic, ritual, curse, folk horror, murder, woods, supernatural, mental disorder ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in ...
Style:
atmospheric, scary, disturbing, intense, harsh ...
Plot:
redemption, medieval, ghost, supernatural, brother brother relationship, gay, guilt, folk horror, haunted by the past, rural setting, swamp, remorse ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, year 2008
Place:
finland, europe, russia
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A family move into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their new home has a disturbing history and that they aren't alone…
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, scary, dramatic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
66%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
The close-knit community of Brackenmore is harboring a secret. After the untimely death of an uncle she never knew she had, Kate (Sophie Hopkins) is forced to return to her ancestral home, a tiny rural village in the South of Ireland. Soon after her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
folk horror, remote village, religions or cults, problem, countryside, female protagonist, undercover, secret, occult, getting home, family secret, paranormal ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young and promising Russian figure skater is found beaten and frostbitten in a lay-by of a motorway in Finland. In the hospital, the officials find a letter from her belongings and are able to reconnect her with her Finnish grandmother, whom she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five carpoolers travel in a motorhome to reach a common destination. Night falls, and to avoid a dead animal carcass, they crash into a tree. When they come to their senses, they find themselves in the middle of nowhere. The road they were traveling ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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525
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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295K
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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476K
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Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, frightening, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
balkan
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, rough
Plot:
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Place:
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