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Welcome the Stranger (2018)
2K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alice arrives unannounced at her estranged brother Ethan's house in an attempt to reconcile, but bizarre visions, the return of his strange girlfriend and Alice's paranoia and suspicion force the siblings to cling onto reality amidst mysterious circumstances.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, art house, mind bending, psychotronic, weird, beautiful
Plot:
brother sister relationship, isolated house, skinny dipping, suspicion, psycho, paranormal, sex scene, female masturbation, incestuous desire, incest overtones, incest, artist, female nudity, love triangle, paranormal phenomena, insect, portal, masturbation, isolation, swimming pool, male masturbation, drawing, sexual fantasy, woman in a bikini, sexual tension ...
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Most similar movies to Welcome the Stranger
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about isolation, psychological drama, female nudity, family relations, character study, murder and brother sister relationship mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Welcome the Stranger: Two (2021), The Sense of an Ending (2017), The Tutor (2016), Solitary (2011), We Don't Belong Here (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
6K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Two people, a man and a woman, wake up naked and with their abdomens attached to each other.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
incest, forbidden sex, stranger, problem, relationships, male female relationship, brother sister kiss, scientific experiment, body horror, jealous husband, yin and yang, family affairs ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him re-think his current situation in life.
Style:
enigmatic, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
father daughter relationship, jealousy, memory, suicide, letter, flashback, ex husband ex wife relationship, childbirth, pregnancy, dream, revenge, mysterious past ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
331
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Mona, a past student in child psychology, is keen to put her knowledge into practice. She attends an interview and is selected to become a full-time private tutor to two orphaned children, in some remote area of Northern Argentina.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
feral child, brother sister relationship, children, child abuse, childhood trauma, boy, orphan, life is a bitch, skinny dipping, nude boy, psychopath, naughty child ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sara (Amber Jaeger) suffers from agoraphobia, an obsessive fear of open spaces that renders her a virtual captive of her own home. When her husband, Mark (Kieron Elliott), disappears unexpectedly, Sara unravels emotionally and begins to panic. ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
agoraphobia, intrigue, estrangement, suburbs, family problems, rivalry, danger, psychiatrist, paranoia, conspiracy theory, suspicion, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A matriarch of a dysfunctional family is pushed to her tipping point by the disappearance of her son.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, bleak
Plot:
dysfunctional family, disappearance, mental illness, family relations, missing child, family drama, tragic event, family tragedy, female protagonist, matriarchy, mysterious disappearance, family problems ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalking, murder mystery, art, female protagonist, paranoia, obsession, photography, voyeurism, privacy invasion, female artist, fantasy becomes reality, secretly observing ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to his father who is dying. Ned also brings his young aspiring actress fiancee who struggles with the isolation. When home he starts having memories ...
Style:
stylized, realistic, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
forbidden love, brother sister incest, brother sister sex, incest, dysfunctional family, taboo sex, siblings relations, sex, hot and sexy, secret, haunted by the past, farm ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, adelaide south australia, south australia, new zealand
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Story:
A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman resolves to confront her husband and discover what happens in the stables at night.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, grim ...
Plot:
infidelity, bestiality, farm, male female relationship, family secret, relationship problems, family problems, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, confrontation, betrayal, investigation ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A non-glamorous portrayal of the lives of people who make their living at a strip club.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sincere, intense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stripper, strip club, pregnancy, incest, adoption, hitman, dancing, striptease, poetry, dancer's life, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, diner, murder, law enforcement, small town life, social relations, murder mystery, sheriff, self discovery, danger, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Brazil
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago on a volcanic and paradisiacal island a 10-year-old boy was separated from his sister. The mother, fearful that an incestuous attraction would develop between the two, sent her son to the mainland with Kaleb, the magician from the ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
incestuous relationship, circus, unfulfilled love, performer's life, unfulfillment, family relations, lgbt, forbidden love, society, rivalry, gay subtext, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
After their father passes away, two siblings return to their old family farm to sell off the land. However, darker forces may be at play that will force them to reanalyze their relation to their ancestor's land.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, mystical, suspense ...
Plot:
paranormal activity, mysticism, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, supernatural horror, brother sister relationship, inheritance, supernatural, witch, addiction, drug use, lgbt ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Loosely inspired by Dostoyevsky’s short story A Gentle Creature about a woman who travels to a prison in a remote region to track down her incarcerated husband.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
prison violence, prison, fighting the system, injustice, prison visit, prison guard, social injustice, fight for justice, social problems, society, violence, female protagonist ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A pair of childhood friends reunite during their summer break from college and deal with a traumatizing experience from their past.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, independent film, crying
Plot:
female nudity, skinny dipping, summer, teacher student sex, friendship, best friend, couple relations, relationship problems, summer vacation, love triangle, love interest, friends ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Tom’s birthday dinner party is turned upside down by the unexpected arrival of Alice, an old flame who changed her identity and vanished without a trace 15 years prior.
Style:
ambiguous ending, suspense, psychological, mysterious, psychotronic ...
Plot:
eternal youth, new identity, addiction, supernatural ability, psychosis, love, new life, lie, hidden identity, doctor, stage magician, identity ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental health, murder, nightmare, actress, drug dealer, ex boyfriend, nightmare comes true, guilt, police detective, classmate, disposing of a dead body, corpse ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Price, a former hitman, is struggling to cope with retirement. He left the assassination business to live the "easy life." However, retirement arrived with its own agenda. It was not the instant peace and calm that Price expected. Rather, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
hitman, moral dilemma, retiring, rivalry, going straight, self discovery, danger, femme fatale, retirement, attempted murder, paranoia, loner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A woman learns her estranged father has died and returns with her brother and new lover to her childhood home of Belize, where she must face her past while fighting for intimacy in the present.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, psycho sexual
Plot:
brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, estranged father, childhood home, family secret, hot and sexy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, rejection, skinny dipping, menage a trois, hand job ...
Similarity:
20%
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197
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Three sisters, Stella, Luce and Aria, live in an isolated house, immersed in the shadows, submitted by a violent and authoritarian father, a religious fanatic obsessed with the end of the world, who keeps them prisoners behind locks and closed ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot:
isolated house, abusive father, father daughter relationship, sibling relationship, family secret, family relations, rebellious daughter, lie, isolation, plot twist, dysfunctional family, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, tense, sinister, suspense ...
Plot:
disappearance, paranoia, dream, obsession, psychiatry, family secret, fate, isolation, investigation, slow burn, neurology, supernatural ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
An Orthodox Jewish mother and her daughters fall prey to the malevolent forces that preside over a rural community.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense, scary
Plot:
supernatural horror, violence, supernatural ability, loss, characters in danger, ghost, supernatural, death, heroine, murder, rescue, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Charlotte, 27, meets her brother Henrik, 35, for the first time as an adult, it becomes an encounter without boundaries, between two people who don't know what a normal family is. How does sibling love manifest itself if you have never ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, incest, stepbrother stepsister relationship, incestuous relationship, female nudity, incestuous sex, sex scene, incestuous desire, forbidden love, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oslo norway
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sasha and Ilya, a bored young couple on a verge of breakup, are spending a New Year's Eve at a secluded beach house in Northern France then a carcass of an unidentified creature is washed ashore nearby. Later that day on his way back from a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
love hate relationship, sea creature, love triangle, betrayal, couples, chance meeting, supernatural, danger, loneliness, young couple, character study, melancholy ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, investigation, suicide, murder mystery, private investigation, sleuth, loss of child, life is a bitch, uncover truth, bereavement, family drama, grief ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A resourceful boy creatively uses poetry to survive when his mother, a disturbed avant garde painter, locks him in a puppet box and builds an art installation around his imprisonment.
Style:
avant garde, neo noir, art film, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
poetry, mother son relationship, art exhibition, captivity, painter, life is a bitch, problem, captive, child protagonist, imagination, symbolism, mental illness ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, depression, crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, guilty conscience, introspection, traumatic past, character study, guilt, redemption ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, brought to the island to protect her, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. She becomes a ...
Style:
enigmatic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychiatric ward, female protagonist, revolution, explorer, mental health, character study, mental illness, isolation, psychiatric hospital, puzzle, problem, silence ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The love-hate relations between a girl and his disabled brother.
Style:
captivating, sincere, independent film, melancholic, social
Plot:
down syndrome, disability, incest, family drama, sibling relationship, brother sister relationship, social problems, care, family problems, brother, family life, problem solving ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, bleak, twist ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, mysterious character, life & death, psychology, twists and turns, danger, dealing with death, supernatural, nudity, mentor, adaptation, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2009, future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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