Movies like Byzantium

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Byzantium (2012)
 6.5
 46K
Byzantium (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.
Style: gothic, dark, dark fantasy, serious, bleak, splatter, atmospheric, scary, stylized, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vampire, prostitution, supernatural, fall in love, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, immortality, dangerous attraction, supernatural romance, female vampire, murder, love and romance, deadly creature, family secret, goth, fantasy world, vengeance, transformation, brutality, adaptation, leukemia, decapitation, family relations, small town, creature ...
Time: 2010s, 18th century, 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, ireland, europe
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Most similar movies to Byzantium

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out gothic, serious, scary and suspenseful films with plots about supernatural, blood, murder, vampire, danger, deadly and death mostly in Drama, Horror and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Byzantium: Only Lovers Left Alive (2013), Interview with the Vampire (1994), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Let Me In (2010), Let the Right One In (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Greece, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.
Style: atmospheric, artsy, melancholic, stylized, philosophical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, goth, love, supernatural, eternal life, immortality, blood, vampirism, family relations, musician, fate of humanity, vampire bite ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 90s, year 1975, year 1968 ...
Place: tangier morocco, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Interview with the Vampire (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, visually appealing, scary, melancholic ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, vampirism, dark hero, bonding, child vampire, life & death, vampire human love, monster as victim ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, georgian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, san francisco, paris france, louisiana, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.
Style: gothic, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric, gothic horror ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, monster, dangerous attraction, dracula, goth, legends and myths, gory, bloodsucker, vampire bite, love triangle, vampire human love ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, 90s, 1800s ...
Place: london, transylvania, england, ottoman empire, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 127K
Let Me In (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style: suspense, gothic, atmospheric, melancholic, biting ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: vampire, loneliness, first love, gory, blood, childhood, supernatural, friendship, adolescence, children, boy, coming of age ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Let the Right One In (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, dark, dark fantasy, creepy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, bullying, loneliness, coming of age, goth, snow, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship, murder, boy, child ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, year 2008, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place: united kingdom, persia, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 130K
Penny Dreadful (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, dark fantasy, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, witch, vampire, werewolf, deadly creature, psychotherapy, lycanthropy, fear, imaginary, supernatural ability, frankenstein's monster, black magic ...
Time: victorian era, 1890s, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.0
 284K
Underworld (2003)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Hungary
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But all bets are off when a female vampire warrior named Selene, who's famous for her strength and werewolf-hunting prowess, becomes smitten with a ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, dark, scary, futuristic ...
Audience: teens, manly, kids, boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, werewolf, creature, goth, female vampire, monster, supernatural romance, immortality, transformation, vampire bite, supernatural ability ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 15th century, 21st century
Place: budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
We Are the Night (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the ...
Style: gothic, exciting, stylized, captivating, queer horror ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: vampire, female vampire, nightlife, supernatural ability, impossible love, supernatural, dangerous attraction, voyeurism, imaginary, immortality, lgbt, voyeur ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style: dark, surreal, stylized, black and white, art house ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, loneliness, cat, prostitute, murder, father son relationship, drug addict, women, following someone, drug use, feminist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place: middle east, iran, persia, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Crucible of the Vampire (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young museum curator Isabelle (Katie Goldfinch) is sent to look at an ancient artefact, discovered in the basement of a stately home in Shropshire. Welcomed into the sprawling manor house by a seemingly hospitable family; Karl (Larry Rew), his ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, female vampire, vampirism, murder, curse, female protagonist, revenge, fear, violence, deadly creature, exorcism, supernatural ...
Time: 17th century, 1800s, 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and his search for love amidst the horror.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, classic horror, grindhouse ...
Plot: vampire, female vampire, supernatural, occult, lost love, doctor, reincarnation, cure, music box, costume party, dracula, 666 ...
Time: 70s
Place: maine, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Thompsons (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, suspense ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, survival, family in danger, manhunt, dysfunctional family, on the run, family life, coming of age, incest, murder, rivalry ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, europe, mojave desert
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 207K
Dracula Untold (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, scary, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: vampire, supernatural, dracula, medieval, legends and myths, immortality, monster, mythology, immortal, vampirism, transformation, demon ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, medieval times, 15th century, year 2000 ...
Place: transylvania, romania, london, ottoman empire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.
Style: gothic, suspenseful, suspense, dark, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, child in peril, creature, supernatural horror, monster, deadly creature, parents and children, danger, little girl, old dark house, teeth ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blood and Chocolate (2007)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Romania
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young teenage werewolf is torn between honoring her family's secret and her love for a man.
Style: romantic, exciting, gothic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, unlikely couple, forbidden love, lycanthropy, fall in love, vampire human love, interspecies romance, transformation, adaptation, supernatural ability, love and romance ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, bucharest, romania, paris france, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Queen of the Damned (2002)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal ...
Style: gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, light ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: vampire, goth, rock star, vampire human love, fatal attraction, supernatural, immortality, vampirism, brutality, vengeance, female vampire, blood ...
Time: 2000s, y2k, year 2002, 1780s, 18th century
Place: new orleans, america, california, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
 115K
Red Riding Hood (2011)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man – who is wealthy. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when they learn that Valerie's older ...
Style: fairy tale, gothic, dark fantasy, gothic horror, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, dangerous attraction, legends and myths, danger, animal attack, curse, village life, hunt down, goth, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time: middle ages, year 2011, year 2000, 2010s, medieval times
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 18K
Franklyn (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set between the parallel worlds of contemporary London and the futuristic faith dominated metropolis of Meanwhile City, Franklyn weaves a tale of four souls, whose lives are intertwined by fate, romance and tragedy. As these worlds collide, a single ...
Style: psychological, bleak, surreal, philosophical, mind twisting ...
Plot: mental illness, goth, steampunk, dystopia, vigilantism, imaginary friend, depression, suicide, dystopian future, masked vigilante, imaginary, religions or cults ...
Time: future, year 2008, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
 7.9
 259K
True Blood (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: True Blood is an American television drama series created and produced by Alan Ball. It is based on The Southern Vampire Mysteries series of novels by Charlaine Harris, detailing the co-existence of vampires and humans in Bon Temps, a fictional, ...
Style: sexy, tense, stylized, serious, erotic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: vampire, supernatural, couples, couple relations, dangerous attraction, vampire human love, danger, undead, sex scene, sex, supernatural ability, forbidden love ...
Time: y2k, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Kiss of the Damned (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new ...
Style: sexy, gothic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, sister sister relationship, lust, vampire sex, killed during sex, female vampire, vampire romance, threesome, vampire human love, erotica, blood ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 3.6
 5K
Dracula 3D (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the count has sinister designs on his wife, Mina, Harker seeks help from vampire slayer Van Helsing.
Style: gothic horror, serious, scary, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: vampire, dracula, supernatural, evil, danger, bloodsucker, woman in danger, supernatural horror, good versus evil, blood, female friendship, female vampire ...
Time: 19th century, 2010s
Place: romania, transylvania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 111K
The Wolfman (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
Style: gothic, suspense, dark, period piece, gothic horror ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: werewolf, deadly creature, supernatural, transformation, beast, gory, blood, monster, mythology, alternate reality, death, macabre ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 2010s, year 2000, year 2010 ...
Place: europe, london, tower bridge london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 35K
Tideland (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychedelic, bleak, dark fantasy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: heroin, isolation, imagination, mental illness, surrealism, child neglect, mentally challenged, imaginary friend, addiction, insanity, drug addiction, girl ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: austin texas, denmark, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 135 min.
Story: After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.
Style: emotional, dark, suspense, psychological, surreal ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, family drama, murderer, rape, loss of daughter, murder mystery, pedophile, teenage girl, missing child, death in the family, investigation ...
Time: 70s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1973, 2000s
Place: usa, pennsylvania, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.2
 2K
Vampire (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A vampire, who works as a teacher, searches for suicidal female students and seduces them prior to sucking their blood.
Style: scary, atmospheric, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot: vampire, murder, suicide, murder of a nude woman, danger, dangerous attraction, criminal heroes, fall in love, obsession, supernatural, violent content, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.6
 29K
The Hunger (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Miriam and John are an elegant couple with a dark secret: they are vampires. Feeding on human blood, Miriam has lived for over 2000 years. She gave her lover the gift of eternal life and together they hunt. But John begins aging rapidly, he seeks ...
Style: gothic, dark, erotic, scary, queer horror ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: vampire, goth, femme fatale, lesbian sex, lesbian, bloodsucker, lesbian vampire, sexy female vampire, lgbt, erotica, vampire sex, lgbtq ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.2
 68K
Dorian Gray (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben ...
Style: gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, sexy, stylized ...
Plot: supernatural, eternal youth, beefcake, aristocracy, painting, deal with the devil, male nudity, society, fall in love, artist, destiny, physical appearance ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, year 2009, 1900s ...
Place: england, europe, britain, ireland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.7
 33K
Chronos (1992)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable ...
Style: gothic, surreal, scary, suspenseful, creepy ...
Plot: immortality, vampire, addiction, invention, supernatural, aging, blood, death, danger, haunted by the past, race against time, goth ...
Time: 90s, 1930s, 20th century, 16th century, year 1996 ...
Place: rome italy, mexico, latin america, los angeles, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Woman in Black (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps, who is ordered to travel to a remote village and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in the client’s isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover tragic secrets, his unease ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, atmospheric, scary, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: ghost, haunted house, estate, isolation, supernatural, afterlife, curses spells and rituals, haunting, vengeance, blood, haunted, tragic event ...
Time: victorian era, 1910s, year 2012, edwardian era, 1900s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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