Movies like Awoken

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Awoken (2019)
 4.9
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Awoken (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Karla, a young medical student, is trying to cure her brother, Blake, from a terminal sleep illness called Fatal Familial Insomnia, where you are unable to sleep until you die. On her quest to treat him, a more sinister reason for his condition is revealed.
Style: medical horror, atmospheric, twisted, psychological
Plot: medical, insomnia, terminal illness, cure, medicine, student, illness, disease, nightmare, mental disorder, sleeping, dream, medical student, waking up, treatment, dreaming, supernatural, exorcism, sleep disorder, death, family relations, sick, parents, sibling relationship, siblings ...
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
Keyword: australian

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Most similar movies to Awoken

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary and psychological films with plots about supernatural, danger, ghost, hospital, death, nightmare and illness mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Awoken: The Rake (2018), Eli (2019), The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014), Still/Born (2017), False Positive (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Rake (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Ben and Ashley come together 20 years after the murder of their parents to determine the cause of their parents' death. Ashley is troubled by the idea that the thing that took her parents' lives may not be finished with her family.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: creature, murder, hallucination, parents, siblings, myth, basement, uncover truth, xmas, danger, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 41K
Eli (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, bleak, rough, scary ...
Plot: antichrist, evil child, allergy, evil wins, child protagonist, macabre, treatment, disease, demon, danger, ghost, quarantine ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, disturbing, mockumentary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, found footage, demon, investigation, mental illness, insanity, kidnapping, serial killer, surveillance, possession, snake, illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.4
 4K
Still/Born (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child - a supernatural entity that has chosen her ...
Style: suspense, scary, melancholic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: macabre, supernatural horror, supernatural, haunted house, tragedy, children, afterlife, dream, nightmare, parenthood, couples, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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False Positive (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: evidence, doctor, fertility, medicine, secret, pregnancy, pregnant woman, unwanted pregnancy, relationship problems, evil doctor, dark secret, mad doctor ...
Time: 2020s
Place: manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Jennifer's Shadow (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Willful young Jennifer Cassi travels to South America to claim the inheritance of her recently deceased twin sister Johanna's house. While there Jennifer must contend with her eccentric grandmother Mary Ellen Cassi, who has damned the family ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: twins, mysterious character, ghost, woman in danger, dangerous attraction, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, gory, secret, pursuit, serial killer, murder ...
Place: argentina, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.8
 14K
They (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, supernatural horror, demon, nightmare, suicide, haunted by the past, mind game, danger, supernatural ability, fear, psychology, child in peril ...
Time: year 2002
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Delivery: The Beast Within (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Delivery tells the story of Kyle and Rachel Massy, a young couple who agree to document their first pregnancy for a family-oriented reality show. The production spirals out-of-control after the cameras capture a series of unexplained events, leading ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, rough, mockumentary ...
Plot: supernatural, found footage, couple relations, danger, pregnancy, babies and infants, body horror, illness, evil spirit, obsession, video surveillance, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 6.7
 46K
Saint Maud (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspense, bleak, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: obsession, supernatural, mental illness, terminal illness, nurse, loneliness, nightmare, occult, religion, narration, terror, possession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.1
 4K
Room 6 (2006)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The school teacher Amy has been proposed by her boyfriend Nick early in the morning and she promises her answer later in the afternoon...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, slasher ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, hospital, medical, doctors and patients, amateur detective, supernatural ability, mysterious character, hallucination, haunted by the past, guilt, arson ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Dead Center (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they ...
Style: psychotronic, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: possessed human, back from the dead, mental patient, reanimated corpse, psychiatrist, possession, ghost, supernatural power, paranormal, demon, supernatural ability, loss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Abandoned (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, haunted, survival, parallel world, exorcism, tough guy, new job, security guard, danger, creature, partner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.9
 150K
The Grudge (2004)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: American nurse, Karen Davis moves to Tokyo and encounters a vengeful supernatural spirit known as The Grudge that often possesses its victims. When a series of horrifying and mysterious deaths occur – with the spirit passing its curse onto each ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, curse, gory, murder, imaginary, paranormal activity, medical, suicide, haunted, vengeance ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.1
 76
Melany Rose (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A dark psychological thriller following Dr. Sullivan as she attempts to expose a government conspiracy surrounding Dr. Freeman and his test subjects made up of former death row inmates. Inspired by MKUltra; the illegal CIA mind control experiment ...
Style: suspense, dark, twisted, emotional, serious ...
Plot: black ops, conspiracy, cia, government, problem, male doctor, character study, self destructing, power relations, troubled, doctors and patients, social anxiety disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Chasing Sleep (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind twisting ...
Plot: nightmare, insomnia, professor, police, uncover truth, obsession, murder, haunted by the past, hallucination, missing person, teacher, philosophy ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.1
 377
The Dreaming (1988)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A place where ancient mysteries survive... and nightmares are real. A burial ground is unearthed. A Girl dies. An ancient curse lives on. And then there are the dreams... Dreams or nightmares?... Nightmares or premonitions? A young doctor becomes ...
Style: independent film, detective
Plot: nightmare, dream, supernatural, australian aboriginal, rain, blonde, flashback, hospital, priest, father daughter relationship, telephone call, falling from height ...
Place: south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
You Shall Not Sleep (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without sleep, they reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the secrets of the place and the ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, rough, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: experiment, insomnia, hallucination, mysterious death, stage play, abandoned building, mental institution, human experiment, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, actress, paranormal investigator ...
Time: year 1975, year 1984
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
You're Not Alone (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After the premature death of her estranged husband, Emma (Winter) regains custody of their young daughter Isla (Jones) and hopes to rebuild their relationship after many years apart. But when an evil entity begins to torment them, mother and ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, captivating
Plot: supernatural, mother daughter relationship, new house, mother, nightmare, waking up from a nightmare, female protagonist, nightmare comes true, haunted house, childhood home, haunted by the past, pursuit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 7.6
 391K
The Others (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, nightmare, twists and turns, mansion, supernatural horror, mysterious character, haunting, spiritualism, macabre ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 2000, year 1945, 20th century ...
Place: persia, america, europe, english channel, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.4
 712
Respire (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The Ancient Romans believed that the soul escaped one's body with the last breath. It was believed that last breath held the power to cure disease and prolong life. In 1930's, Dr. Robert Kaminsky devoted his life to finding out how to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: terminal illness, legends and myths, supernatural, store, cure, rivalry, danger, society, imaginary, life is a bitch, soul, disease ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.5
 3K
The Night (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An Iranian couple living in the US become trapped inside a hotel when insidious events force them to face the secrets that have come between them, in a night that never ends.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: hotel, death, ghost, exorcism, youth, paranormal phenomena, obsessive quest, fight, paranormal investigation, revenge, escapades, hunting ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.8
 2K
Horsehead (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Since her childhood, Jessica has been haunted by recurrent nightmares whose meaning escapes her. This peculiarity has led her to study the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand ...
Style: surreal, psychological, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: mother daughter incest, supernatural, haunted house, obsession, haunted by the past, danger, woman in danger, homecoming, ghost, exorcism, fear, evil force ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 150K
The Visit (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, surprise ending, suspenseful, mockumentary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, elderly, danger, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, sibling relationship, farm, grandmother granddaughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, basement ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 4.7
 53K
The Unborn (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.
Style: scary, suspense, demonic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, supernatural horror, demonic possession, uncover truth, possession, twins, death, insect, woman in danger, brutality ...
Time: year 2000, year 2009
Place: middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Behind the Trees (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While on a romantic getaway in the Indian wilderness, a couple from Los Angeles accidentally witnesses the haunting exorcism of an 11-year old girl. They decide to rescue her.
Style: scary, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot: evil spirit, children, supernatural horror, rescue, exorcism, ritual, travel, struggle for survival, demon, macabre, child in peril, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
35%
 3.7
 745
The Voices (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Angry and upset after a sudden breakup with her fiancé, Grace Crawford seeks sanctuary at the remote home of her sister, Catherine. It becomes clear that Catherine is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, much like their late mother, who had taken ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, psychological, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: schizophrenia, hearing voices, death of mother, sister sister relationship, suicide, mysticism, dream, danger, death, life & death, hallucination, brutality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.5
 45K
The Ward (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, supernatural, ghost, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, murder, doctors and patients, brutality, danger, hospital, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2010, year 2000, 2010s, 60s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.1
 3K
Parasomnia (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Laura Baxter is a young woman, literally a "sleeping beauty," who suffers from a medical condition called "parasomnia." A childhood accident victim, she is actually sleeping her life away, awakening briefly on rare occasions. Art ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, mentally unstable, insomnia, obsession, woman in danger, rehabilitation, fall in love, danger, self mutilation, death, girl, hypnosis ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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