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The Cradle (2007)
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The Cradle (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to stop this curse on his family.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
Plot: ghost child, ghost, supernatural, riddles and clues, curse, gory, captivity, family life, isolation, danger, curses spells and rituals, nightmare, supernatural ability, babies and infants, supernatural being, zombie, family relations, mental illness, starting over, girl, child, deadly, power outage
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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Most similar movies to The Cradle

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, scary, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about danger, supernatural, deadly, ghost, curses spells and rituals, gory and supernatural ability mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Cradle: Night Fangs (2005), Dark Mirror (2007), Inheritance (2004), Pray for Morning (2006), Hell's Gate 11:11 (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Night Fangs (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two Art Teachers are obsessed with eternal youth. Somehow they manage to get Elizabeth Bathory's diary. Soon, they start to practice bloody rituals that end up unleashing hell on earth. Two lesbian art teachers obsessed with eternal youth have ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, serious, scary, sexual
Plot: vampire, obsession, supernatural ability, danger, imaginary, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals, teacher, zombie, dangerous attraction, gays and lesbians ...
Place: chicago
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100%
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Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
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Inheritance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inheritance tells the tale of sinister old lady Lillian Baker (Marjorie Nelson) & her kind hearted, good natured carer Abigail Nielsen (Jen Taylor). Abigail feels sorry for Lillian & does her best to keep her happy, however one ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted by the past, supernatural, uncover truth, mental illness, supernatural ability, danger, mentally unstable, curses spells and rituals, schizophrenia, spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Pray for Morning (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When they discover a severed hand, they conjure up a evil spirit and unleash its bloody wrath. To ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hotel, supernatural, ghost, survival, captivity, danger, gory, riddles and clues, murder, isolation, buddies, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Hell's Gate 11:11 (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eighteen years after the murder of her parents, Sara Tobias searches for the meaning of the numbers '11:11' that was scratched in blood beside her mother's body. Following three sudden murders, supernatural events are unleashed as she ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense
Plot: danger, serial killer, investigation, murder, gory, uncover truth, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, small town life, death in the family, small town, family problems ...
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30%
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Animus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hoping to find proof of the paranormal, five film students set out to document the legendary Copper Queen Hospital. But as the sun goes down, they experience something far worse than they ever could have imagined and they find themselves pursued by ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious
Plot: riddles and clues, ghost, gory, danger, psychopath, supernatural, found footage, hospital, deadly, gore
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Child's Eye (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bangkok, November 2008. Six young holidaymakers from Hong Kong are stranded in Bangkok when the airport is occupied by demonstrators demanding the prime minister's resignation: Rainie (Rainie Yang) and Lok (Shawn Yue), who are on the verge of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, missing person, isolation, danger, curse, supernatural, amateur detective, paranormal investigation, survival, uncover truth, children, eye ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Killing Ariel (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One night, a female demon attacks Rick, a contentedly married man. Under the spell of the demon, he takes a beautiful young woman, Ariel, off to an isolated house for a weekend fling. There, bizarre and frightening things happen, and accidentally ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: femme fatale, supernatural, dangerous attraction, demon, murder, couples, dishonesty, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, psychiatric ward, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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London Voodoo (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to London, his wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) discovers a new disturbing power and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. As Mathers notices that the family ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, couples, family relations, curses spells and rituals, ghost, couple relations, danger, mysterious character, family problems, parents and children, gory, intrigue ...
Place: london, europe, england, usa, new york
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26%
Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: prison, ghost, rivalry, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, frame up, captivity, found footage, haunting, afterlife, psychic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Isabelle (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, evil spirit, parents and children, danger, nightmare, demon, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, evil force, fear ...
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26%
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Dark House (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A troupe of actors hired for a haunted house attraction soon find that they are working in a true house of horror.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, serious, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, danger, gory, ghost, isolation, fear, murder, psychotherapy, supernatural being, trapped in a building ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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26%
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Spirit Trap (2005)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When five young students move into an old unoccupied mansion an inexplicable chain of events is set into motion as a mysterious spirit clock begins to tick again. As the story unfolds, revealing each student's dark secrets, the boundary between ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, ghost, uncover truth, mysterious character, family in danger, captivity, isolation, teenage life, youth, confined, danger ...
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25%
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The Chosen (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, curses spells and rituals, danger, supernatural, demon, saving a life, violence, death, meme, child in peril, girl, race against time ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Compound Fracture (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Michael Wolffsen (Tyler Mane) receives an urgent phone call and takes his nephew and fiancee and makes the journey home to his only other living relative: his estranged, eccentric (and extremely paranoid) father, Gary (Muse Watson), who is obsessed ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: estrangement, supernatural, family in danger, ghost, mental illness, couple relations, danger, father son relationship, supernatural power, dementia, stalking, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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13 Curses (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending ...
Plot: missing person, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, supernatural, friendship, family problems, homecoming, mental illness, danger, death in the family, captivity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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666: The Beast (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Donald Lawson, the devil child from "666: The Child", is now an adult and is determined to fulfill his destiny as the Antichrist.
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, independent film, serious
Plot: supernatural ability, supernatural, danger, destiny, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, messiah, 666, violent content, disorder, gory, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
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They Wait (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, serious, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, death in the family, murder, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, supernatural ability, danger, haunted by the past, gory, parents and children ...
Place: vancouver, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Cubbyhouse (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Following a messy divorce, Lynn Graham moves back home to Australia with her three American-born children in tow. Buying an old house on the same street as her sister seems like a good idea, but its low price reflects a unpleasant history of murder ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot: curse, family in danger, supernatural, ghost, satanic ritual, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, parents and children, vengeance, murder, isolation, mischievous children ...
Place: australia
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23%
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Lizzie (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: ghost, vengeance, uncover truth, danger, nightmare, memory loss, haunted by the past, murder, haunted house, childhood trauma, unfulfillment, losing-it hero ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 2K
Acacia (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, obsession, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, parents and children, adoption, adopted son, extreme ...
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23%
Island of the Dead (2000)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stranded on a deserted island, a group of people struggle to survive against a swarm of supernatural flies.
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, natural horror ...
Plot: confined, supernatural, survival, isolation, deadly creature, danger, island, killer animal, zombie, rapper, siege, dangerous animal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Dark Harvest II: The Maize (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A father's psychic abilities are put to the test when his two daughters are trapped inside of a corn maze haunted by the spirits of two young girls who disappeared a year earlier.
Style: scary, serious, suspense, independent film
Plot: ghost child, zombie, halloween, ghost, maze, supernatural, isolation, danger, confined, child in peril, siblings relations, profanity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Necrosis (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 2009, six friends arrive at an isolated cabin to enjoy a long weekend in the snow. An epic snowstorm interrupts their vacation, trapping them on the mountain and resurrecting the haunting ghosts of the Donner Party. But, are they true ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, epic
Plot: snow, ghost, survival, supernatural, dealing with death, rehabilitation, zombie, danger, forces of nature, family in danger, escapades, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Haunting of Helena (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted, parents and children, child in peril, danger, family relations, supernatural horror, survival horror, evil spirit, supernatural being, paranormal ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Trespassers (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Tyler is a surfer who constantly searches for good surfing spots. When he's traveling through Mexico, he finds one of the best places he has ever seen. He invites his brother Colin to join him and his friends in surfing the wild Mexican waves. ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher ...
Plot: survival, ghost, supernatural, wilderness, curses spells and rituals, teenage life, isolation, escapades, leadership, danger, vengeance, buddies ...
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Nine friends take a holiday at a Victorian home on a private island and uncover a game that when played brings out the worst in each of them. Jealously, greed, hatred, lust, all of the things they keep buried deep inside themselves rise to the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, friendship, isolation, danger, gory, curses spells and rituals, island, graphic violence, redneck, youth, violent content, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.7
 307
The Unleashed (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Madison Kennard, a troubled woman dealing with her dark past, must venture home after an 8 year absence following her mothers death. Almost instantly after her return, Madison must cope with the haunting memories of a childhood best forgotten. ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, haunted house, curses spells and rituals, ouija, terror, witch, imaginary, dream ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Slaughter Night (2006)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eighteen-year-old Kristel survived a car accident in which her father dies. Tormented by nocturnal visions she begins to care for her father's investigation of serial killers - especially Andries Martíns, a killer of children.
Style: suspense, slasher, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, serial killer, psychopath, survival, isolation, murder, gory, captivity, race against time, vengeance, ghost, rivalry ...
Time: victorian era, 1850s, 19th century, 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.1
 642
GhostWatcher (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Laura Kove is an agoraphobic young woman whose world turns upside down when she discovers that the apartment she's locked herself into is haunted. Turning to the internet for help, she enlists the aid of Elizabeth Dean, a scam artist who passes ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, mind bending
Plot: uncover truth, supernatural, woman in danger, serial killer, impossible love, danger, ghost, isolation, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, haunted, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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