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Donovan's Echo (2011)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A series of uncanny déjà vu events force a man to re-examine his tragic past, memory, instinct, and future.
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, surprise ending, twisted, weird
Audience:
teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, afterlife, obsession, haunted by the past, danger, nobody believes, a vision, loss of daughter, death in the family, mathematician, mental illness, hallucination, atomic bomb, redemption, symbolism, magic realism, paradox, puzzle, parallel universe, imaginary, child in peril, love, past, mathematics, dream ...
Time:
1940s, 90s, 60s, near future, 21st century, 1960s, contemporary ...
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Donovan's Echo
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, psychological and suspense films with plots about haunted by the past, flashback, supernatural, obsession, hallucination, memory and paranoia mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Donovan's Echo: Neverlost (2010), Still Small Voices (2007), Dream House (2011), Flatliners (2017), Bottom of the World (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
376
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After losing his Kate, his high school sweetheart, in a horrific house fire Josh Higgins' life tumbles into a depressing mix of insomnia and poor choices. After taking seemingly harmless sleeping pill, Josh is thrusted from his current banal ...
Style:
serious, suspense, exciting, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
insomnia, losing-it hero, parallel world, dealing with death, death of girlfriend, mental breakdown, grief, rescue, changing the past or future, loss, psychosis, character study ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 911 operator receives a ghostly call from a child murdered thirty years before and becomes obsessed with unraveling the crime. What she discovers shatters her.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, emotional, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, danger, nightmare comes true, murder, uncover truth, grief, murder mystery, haunting, twists and turns, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, twists and turns, supernatural, plot twist, memory loss, nervous breakdown, murder, mental patient, danger, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, insanity ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style:
disturbing, medical horror, serious, surprise ending, psychological horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hospital, haunted by the past, medical experiment, friendship, redemption, guilt, death, near death experience, afterlife, medical student, medical, obsession ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, 2000s
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A mysterious disappearance of a young woman leads her boyfriend on a journey for truth and perhaps his own unknown reality in this dark, hypnotic mystery that transcends the limitations of traditional narrative.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
disappearance, nightmare, redemption, faith, guilt, evil, female nudity, sex scene, character on the edge, supernatural, danger, characters in danger ...
Similarity:
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124K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, enigmatic, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, mental institution, time loop, amnesia, supernatural, hallucination, destiny, memory loss, disorder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
vermont, iraq
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
memory loss, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, uncover truth, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, tragedy, car crash, guilt, fatal accident, trauma, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
59%
579K
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Decorated soldier Captain Colter Stevens wakes up in the body of an unknown man, discovering he's involved in a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train. He learns he's part of a top-secret experimental program that enables ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, clever, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
time loop, time travel, train, alternate reality, parallel universe, twists and turns, memory, save the day, changing the past or future, destiny, terrorism, time ...
Time:
future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, somalia, afghanistan, illinois
Similarity:
56%
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27K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
manipulation, haunted by the past, psychic power, twists and turns, brutality, psychic, plot twist, mind game, teenage girl, false memory, murder, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, spain, new jersey
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When hotel event planner Rachel breaks up with her boyfriend John for cheating on her, she decides to go looking online for a new boyfriend. In the expanse of cyberspace, she meets a charming, wealthy man named Craig, who at first, seems perfect. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, couples, danger, destructive relationship, internet dating, social network, stalking, love, manipulation, woman in danger, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, haunted by the past, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, dealing with death, mental illness, hallucination, grief, mathematics, addiction, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
53%
465K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
plot twist, superhero, father son relationship, invulnerability, security guard, swimming pool, self discovery, twists and turns, train crash, good versus evil, supernatural power, a vision ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, y2k, future, 20th century ...
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
time travel, destiny, death, alternate reality, time loop, memory loss, parallel world, dealing with death, deja vu, couples, family problems, housewife ...
Time:
year 2007, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
"It is said that when left unhealed, the past can destroy our lives. When Billy Reid and his sister Sheila lose loved ones in a horrific accident, they must face the aftermath together. For Billy, that aftermath and the secrets that lie within ...
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, supernatural ability, life is a bitch, supernatural, family problems, memory loss, family in crisis, loss, car accident, destiny, woods ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, ohio
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A depressed young man struggles to move on and escape haunting memories of his girlfriend, killed ten years ago in a train accident.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, mind bending, suspense ...
Plot:
obsessive love, supernatural power, coma, haunted by the past, love triangle, love and romance, tragic love, small town life, obsession, male female relationship, loss, loneliness ...
Place:
connecticut, new england
Similarity:
47%
306K
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
David Aames has it all: wealth, good looks and gorgeous women on his arm. But just as he begins falling for the warmhearted Sofia, his face is horribly disfigured in a car accident. That's just the beginning of his troubles as the lines between ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, philosophical, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
virtual reality, dream, alternate reality, surrealism, lost love, disfigurement, redemption, obsession, tragic love, love, hopes, death ...
Time:
year 2001, future, 22nd century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A soldier returns home from the Iraq war only to be haunted by visions of the dead.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, psychological horror ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, murder, mental illness, supernatural romance, family in danger, uncover truth, supernatural ability, haunted by the past, family problems, life is a bitch, burn victim ...
Place:
middle east, iraq
Similarity:
45%
123K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style:
psychological, clever, feel good, serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, radio, father son relationship, investigation, police detective, parallel universe, altering history, murder mystery, changing the past or future, murder, rescue ...
Time:
future, year 1999, year 1969, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
44%
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905K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
mental illness, imaginary friend, schizophrenia, psychology, time travel, insanity, parallel universe, suburbs, surrealism, time loop, trippy, schizophrenic ...
Time:
80s, year 2001, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, america, usa, virginia, harvard university
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Matt is haunted by the death of a girl from a car accident he caused years ago. Matt was drunk and as he reached for the car radio, he struck the girl as she crossed the road. The guilt that he feels has altered his sense of reality, making ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, colorful ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, hotel, betrayal, vengeance, woods, redneck, motel, hostage, haunted by the past, exploitation, happiness, car ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
43K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, childhood trauma, murder, haunted by the past, paranoia, mental patient, misfit, macabre, psychopath, twists and turns, mental health ...
Time:
2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 50s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, east end london, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Sleepwalkers is an American science fiction series which began airing on NBC in late 1997. It tells the story of a team of researchers who used technology to enter the dreams of psychiatric patients in order to diagnose their problems.
The show was ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
nightmare, dream, subconscious, trauma, a vision, technology, memory, psychoanalysis, identity, virtual reality, medical, dreaming ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspense, philosophical, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, psychology, mind control, alternate reality, changing the past or future, destiny, memory loss, time ...
Time:
year 2004, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
psychopath, kidnapping, obsession, car accident, life is a bitch, danger, confined, family tragedy, woman in danger, psychological trauma, plot twist, violence ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
37%
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, mysterious character, mind game, supernatural ability, ghost, danger, starting over, murder ...
Similarity:
37%
41K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A grieving doctor is being contacted by his late wife through his patients near death experiences.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
afterlife, death, hospital, supernatural ability, medical, lovers apart, destiny, supernatural, doctor, contact, dealing with death, ghost ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago, colombia, south america, venezuela ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A very handsome man finds the love of his life, but he suffers an accident and needs to have his face rebuilt by surgery after it is severely disfigured.
Style:
suspense, psychological, sexy, philosophical, surreal ...
Plot:
disfigurement, dream, surrealism, love triangle, paranoia, nightmare, love, car accident, psychiatrist, erotic scene, memory loss, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain, south america, iberian peninsula, europe, madrid
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller set in the world of underground dubstep, Snap is the story of Jim Whitman, a brilliant but painfully introverted musician who develops a crush on a young social worker.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, obsession, composer, danger, dangerous attraction, stalking, haunted by the past, character study, psychosis, paranoia, isolation, hallucination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, america
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a followup to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer. She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, mindfuck ...
Plot:
hallucination, losing-it hero, danger, delusion, confusion, supernatural, writer's life, supernatural power, writers, haunting, architecture, post apocalypse ...
Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
35%
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