Movies like Hierro 2009

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Hierro (2009)
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Hierro (2009)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Traveling on a ferry heading to the island of Hierro where they will spend their holidays, Mary loses her son Diego, and no one can explain what happened. Six months later, Maria struggles to overcome the pain of loss and continue his life. Then, you receive an unexpected phone call: they found the body of a child, so it must return to the island. There, in the suggestive and disturbing landscape, surrounded by disturbing and sinister characters, Mary is forced to confront their worst nightmares. And as he travels this road, he discovers that some mysteries should not be disclosed ...
Style: psychological, bleak, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, gothic, slasher, gothic horror, disturbing, powerful ...
Plot: missing child, uncover truth, supernatural, obsession, woman in danger, parents and children, danger, obsessive quest, ghost, mental disorder, death, supernatural horror, european, haunting, female nudity, life is a bitch, chases and races, escapades, child in peril, dog, morgue, mother, hospital, single mother, disappearance ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canary islands, spain
Keyword: trailer trash

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Most similar movies to Hierro

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, psychological and scary films with plots about danger, supernatural, ghost, deadly, haunted house, life is a bitch and supernatural horror mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like Hierro: The Orphanage (2007), Fragile (2005), The Chalk Line (2022), Julia's Eyes (2010), Run (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Orphanage (2007)
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: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, macabre, fear, missing child, death, afterlife, haunted by the past, tragic event, life is a bitch, orphan ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 17K
Fragile (2005)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that prowls the floors and will not allow anyone to leave. Amy tries to protect them and convince ...
Style: psychological, demonic, bleak, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, hospital, afterlife, haunted, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, orphan, danger, rescue, little girl, imaginary friend ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 10K
The Chalk Line (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a couple finds a traumatized child of unknown origins, wife Paula must decipher the girl's strange behaviors to unlock her identity and dark past.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot: mental disorder, married couple, kidnapped child, husband wife relationship, hidden room, couples, secret, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, mentally unstable, mental illness, threat ...
Time: 2020s
Place: spain, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 37K
Julia's Eyes (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.
Style: psychological, scary, slasher, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: blindness, woman in danger, twin sister, disability, suicide, who done it, murder, mysterious villain, uncover truth, delusion, blind character, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 95K
Run (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: overprotective parent, mother daughter relationship, bad mother, kidnapping, revenge, teenage girl, single mother, disability, lie, teenage life, woman in a wheelchair, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2020s
Place: seattle, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Baby's Room (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In Spain, the sports journalist Juan has a perfect life with his wife Sonia: they have just had a baby and moved to an old house that needs to be repaired in a fancy neighborhood. When Juan's sister and her husband visit the couple, they give ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, gothic ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, family in danger, old dark house, family problems, obsession, supernatural horror, parallel world, missing child, mind game, haunted ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Do You Like Hitchcock? (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1990, as a boy, Giulio was chased through the woods by two women after spying on them practicing witchcraft. Now a young film student in Turin, he watches his neighbors in the flats across from his third floor apartment, especially Sasha when ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, psychological, serious, slasher ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, uncover truth, investigation, woman in danger, psychopath, obsession, danger, supernatural ability, attempted murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicide ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.7
 4K
Trauma (2004)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, obsession, investigation, haunted by the past, psychopath, ghost, mysterious character, mind game, danger, starting over, supernatural ability, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Ghost Son (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, South Africa, Spain, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: "Ghost Son" takes place in South Africa. A married couple Stacey and Mark live on the farm with their black teenage maid. Mark and Stacey love each other deeply. Unfortunately Mark dies in a tragic truck accident.Stacey returns to the farm ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, suspense, mystic ...
Plot: pregnancy, ghost, supernatural, family in danger, uncover truth, parents and children, family problems, missing child, supernatural ability, life is a bitch, babies and infants, death in the family ...
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 3K
Retribution (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A detective investigates a series of murders. A possible serial killer might be on a rampage, since they all are in the same vicinity and by the same method, but as the evidence points toward the detective as the prime suspect, a ghost in red ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, crime drama ...
Plot: ghost, serial killer, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, supernatural power, supernatural, mysterious character, psychopath, who done it, rivalry, danger ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.8
 730
Forgotten (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During their childhood, Hanna and Clarissa were best friends. They spent every vacation together in an old summer house on a small island. Shortly after Hanna’s 9th birthday, they suddenly lost touch and only meet again unexpectedly 25 years ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, tense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, ghost, friendship, supernatural, uncover truth, little girl, island, promise, danger, life is a bitch, friends, impostor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Deadly Encounter (2004)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: woman in danger, stalking, danger, chases and races, stalker, violence, ex husband ex wife relationship, police detective, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, threatening telephone call, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.7
 875
Driftwood (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Riddled with guilt over the loss of his rock star older brother, 16 year old David Forrester (Ricky Ullman) becomes obsessed with death, leading his misguided parents to send him to Driftwood, an "Attitude Adjustment Camp for Troubled ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, rough, suspense ...
Plot: survival, supernatural, obsession, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, ghost, uncover truth, haunted house, dealing with death, wrestler, superhero ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Two Eyes Staring (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Nine-year-old Lisa discovers her sinister new friend is the ghost of the dead twin of Lisa's mother. Lisa's father also begins to suspect his wife of hiding a terrible secret, resulting in deadly consequences
Style: scary, suspenseful, tense, dark, bleak ...
Plot: family relations, haunted house, supernatural, haunted by the past, parents and children, countryside, secret past, little girl, husband wife relationship, loneliness, disorder, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.2
 93K
Case 39 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, evil child, demon, social worker, supernatural horror, twists and turns, child abuse, creepy child, uncover truth, mental institution, mysterious character, murder ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Il nascondiglio (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, mentally unstable, investigation, hopes, uncover truth, haunted by the past, haunted house, woman in danger, starting over, murder, losing-it hero, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.6
 2K
Lost Voyage (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Twenty five years ago, the SS Corona Queen disappeared in the region known as, "The Bermuda Triangle". Now, it has returned. Seven people go on board to learn the truth behind her disappearance but the ship did not return alone...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: bermuda triangle, ghost, afterlife, cruise ship, ghost ship, survival, investigation, supernatural ability, danger, obsession, ocean, journalism ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Terrible Angels (2012)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, danger, law enforcement, abduction, police detective, investigation, violent content, confined, isolation, woman in danger, life is a bitch, captivity
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 4K
Murk (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night.
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, destructive relationship, uncover truth, amateur detective, woman in danger, couples, disability, obsession, family relations, siblings relations, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Out of the Dark (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
Style: scary, suspenseful, dark, serious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family in danger, family relations, family problems, danger, couples, parents and children, legends and myths, summer, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south america, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.4
 4K
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 ⇓
29%
 6.0
 3K
Shiver (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Santi, a young high-school student with a serious physical reaction to sunlight, is forced by his health to move with his single mother to a shadowy, isolated village in the mountains of Spain where the inhabitants begin to reveal themselves as ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mother son relationship, gory, teenage boy, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, life is a bitch, murder, haunted, high school, european, feral man, good guys win ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.8
 15K
The Canal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, haunted house, protagonist as suspect, husband wife relationship, xmas, tragedy, adultery ...
Time: 2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Penguin (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Rhythm, a pregnant woman, is traumatised by nightmares about the unsolved kidnapping of her first child, Ajay. Soon, she embarks on a harrowing mission to solve the mystery of Ajay's disappearance.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing child, forest, kidnapping, mother, rescue, disappearance, characters in danger, paranormal phenomena, violence, parents and children, family relations, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.3
 1K
Find Me (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Plot: supernatural, danger, haunted by the past, vengeance, ghost, riddles and clues, woman in danger, wedding, macabre, haunting, rivalry, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.9
 10K
Soul Survivors (2001)
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, surprise ending, slasher, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, ghost, alternate reality, twists and turns, life & death, hallucination, multiple storylines, psychology, college, danger, college life ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.7
 43K
The Vanishing (1988)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, twists and turns, missing person, obsession, road trip, macabre, murder, insanity, police investigation, mind game, secrets ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, near future, 80s
Place: france, europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.4
 4K
The Pact II (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The sequel is set just weeks after Annie Barlow's deadly confrontation with the Judas Killer. In this elevated sequel, we meet June, a woman whose carefully constructed life is beginning to unravel due to lucid nightmares so awful they disturb ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, ghost, supernatural, haunted by the past, woman in danger, danger, violence, woman, haunted, haunted house, home invasion, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.8
 337K
Insidious (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style: scary, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, macabre, nightmare, fear, ghost, afterlife, demon, evil spirit, nightmare comes true, paranormal activity, psychic ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 2000s ...
Place: america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.8
 119K
Gothika (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, serial killer, supernatural, investigation, murder, psychiatrist, insanity, mind game, hospital, haunted house, wrongfully committed ...
Time: year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new hampshire, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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