Movies like They Come Back
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They Come Back (2007)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A psychologist's 10-year-old patient claims she's being menaced by unseen forces after her parents were killed in a car accident. What's more bizarre? The psychologist has seen these symptoms before, in a former patient who mysteriously disappeared. And the shrink worries that if she can't unravel the workings of the 10-year-old's psyche (and soon!), this little girl is destined for the same unknown fate.
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, tense, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
able to see the dead, supernatural, ghost, missing person, child in peril, death in the family, orphan, dealing with death, paranormal phenomena, missing girl, psychologist, trauma, grief, loss, therapy, haunting, investigation, macabre, obsession, paranormal, memory, female protagonist, mourning, dissociation, creepy child ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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Most similar movies to They Come Back
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller and creepy films with plots about isolation, slow burn, supernatural, ghost, investigation, haunting and trauma mostly in Thriller, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like They Come Back: Still Small Voices (2007), American Conjuring (2016), Leave (2022), Here Before (2021), Black Mold (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A family move into an abandoned orphanage and they soon learn that their new home has a disturbing history and that they aren't alone…
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, scary, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, paranormal, family relations, orphanage, supernatural, children's home, abandoned house, apparition, curses spells and rituals, house, haunting ...
Similarity:
82%
2K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, female protagonist, supernatural horror, abandoned baby, abandoned, supernatural, satanist, secret, undercover, obsessive quest, identity, occult ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, obsession, grief, motherhood, loss, lifestyle, mentally unstable, new neighbor, tragic past, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Photographers Brooke Konrad and Tanner Behlman travel to rural, abandoned buildings to capture the inherent beauty of long-forgotten locations, but far from forgotten are the traumatic memories that surface in Brooke when they meet The Man Upstairs, ...
Style:
creepy, psychological horror, tense, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
trauma, photography, haunting, female protagonist, memory, suspicion, isolation, confrontation, slow burn, obsession, settler, macabre ...
Similarity:
68%
567
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After visiting her father's grave, Lilly and her mother are involved in a terrible car accident leaving Lilly orphaned and unable to see. In her youth, she struggles with her blindness and begins to hear voices. Unbeknownst to her they ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, second chance, ghost, supernatural ability, female protagonist, paranormal activity, blind woman, supernatural power, spirit, dead child, mysticism, blind man ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
While investigating a child abuse case, Claire discovers that the family is being tormented by a supernatural entity. In order to save the family, she must confront her own fears and use her emerging clairvoyance to stop the malevolent force.
Style:
psychological horror, supernatural thriller, creepy, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, child abuse, haunted house, grief, clairvoyance, female protagonist, trauma, family drama, paranormal investigation, macabre, nightmare, family secret ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a doctor looking for her missing child awakens to find herself in an abandoned school, she must survive the supernatural terror and face her own demons if she is to find the truth about where her son is.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, dark, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, coma, school, alternate reality, missing child, supernatural horror, abandoned building, parents and children, paranormal, survival, isolation ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Laura (Sean Young) and Guy (David Starzyk) are devastated by grief when their 8-year-old daughter, Kimberly, is murdered. Hoping to repair their tattered marriage, they move to a quiet town to remodel an old mansion, but weird things start to happen ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological, psychological horror ...
Plot:
supernatural, afterlife, ghost, dealing with death, death in the family, murder, abduction, family problems, ghost child, haunting, haunted house, ghost story ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young woman revisits her family home desperate to discover her sister Evie's murderer 20 years before. After a series of terrifying encounters with Evie's ghost at 09:09pm, Margot knows she must fight to learn the truth once and for all.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, dread, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, ghost, female protagonist, haunted house, woman, family secret, mysterious past, murderer, female ghost, murder investigation, murder of sister, apparition ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After starting a job at an eerie hardware store, an anxious young man uncovers a shocking mystery that leads to a fight against terrifying forces that lurk just behind the walls.
Style:
bleak, serious, scary, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
coworker, job, undercover, african american man, dark secret, shop owner, african american protagonist, new job, store, workplace, african american, supernatural ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A struggling novelist moves his wife and young son to an old country home, but when a presence begins to communicate with his son, the family must escape an evil that threatens to doom them to the house for eternity.
Style:
suspenseful, creepy, dramatic, scary, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ghost, country house, supernatural, haunted house, writers, evil, novelist, haunting, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, fear, supernatural power ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young couple grieving the recent death of their daughter move to the countryside where they are haunted by their tragedy and a sinister darkness.
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
ghost, countryside, isolation, tragedy, couples, paranormal phenomena, death, danger, mourning, grief, loss of child, family tragedy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
51%
926
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A woman’s search for a missing cryptzoologist leads to her own riveting cosmic quest for identity.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, emotional, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, cryptozoology, monster hunter, paranormal, supernatural, investigation, mythical creature, identity, self discovery, haunting, missing person, obsession ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An army veteran who returns home to the Ozarks finds an abandoned young boy in the woods, and as she searches for clues to the boy's identity, discovers the local folklore about a spirit, which comes in the form of a child.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, superstition, ptsd, folklore, supernatural, love interest, forest, post traumatic stress disorder, abandoned baby, child in peril, danger, isolation ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, tense, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
mental illness, uncover truth, false accusation, missing person, life is a bitch, vengeance, social relations, small town, grief, loss, revenge, family feud ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style:
bleak, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
isolation, survival horror, survival, death of loved one, trauma, female protagonist, loss, grief, death, danger, mind game, trap ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Kevin, an American psychiatrist has just entered the bestseller list books. During the recent book promotion tour he meets a sister of a former patient he committed to a mental institution in Spain. She asks if he will visit her sister, as her ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
supernatural, mental institution, split personality, uncover truth, haunted by the past, confined, doctors and patients, multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, macabre, character study, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Horror, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a composer must finish her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing its music summons deadly consequences.
Style:
thrilling, scary, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, female protagonist, curse, cursed, evil, supernatural being, supernatural power, supernatural horror, monster, curses spells and rituals, macabre, occult ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Vera, Ray, and Sam, a seemingly normal family, are haunted by more than mere ghosts. The lingering horror of their past threatens their ability to function as a loving family until they become enlightened by a mystical encounter. From that moment ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, bleak, rough, psychological horror ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, afterlife, murder, demon, unfaithful husband, trauma, family drama, secrets, fear, haunted house, guilt ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Jasmine returns to her childhood home on her brother's death. Is the house now haunted by spirits or by living beings trapped by emotional bonds?
Style:
atmospheric, tension, creepy, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
haunted house, loss, ghost, supernatural, family drama, mysterious past, female protagonist, trauma, grief, memory, secrets, isolation ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An ailing former scuba diver, who faces extremely tough times, begins experiencing otherworldly incidents.
Style:
mind bending, tense, scary, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
mentally unstable, haunted by the past, dealing with death, losing-it hero, life is a bitch, scuba diver, isolation, haunting, supernatural, grief, trauma, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
16K
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, creepy, suspenseful, surreal, spooky ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, male nudity, hot and sexy, husband wife relationship, xmas ...
Time:
2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Bella sees her parents killed during a home invasion. Afterwards, she keeps waking up in a strange white room and the past keeps playing over and over. Bella must solve the mystery of the White Room and move on, but to where?
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological horror, twist ending, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, room, life & death, confronting the past, tragic past, troubled past, mental disorder, murder witness, murder, life is a bitch, problem, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Mr. and Mrs. Myers move into their highly coveted Beverly Hills home, they wonder why the price tag is too good to be true. Their daughter, Danielle, discovers the truth when a neighbor tells her one of the previous owners was murdered there ...
Style:
scary, serious, creepy, suspenseful, psychological horror ...
Plot:
sexual fantasy, ghost, supernatural, danger, murder, teenage life, hollywood, death, neighbor, haunted house, macabre, paranormal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
beverly hills
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Soon after Kate moves into the house she inherits from her father, she begins to see strange images of young women being murdered. At first it appears as if she's losing her mind, but Kate soon discovers that her visions may be hereditary. As ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, disturbing, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
haunted house, uncover truth, inheritance, murder, haunted by the past, danger, family drama, relocation, female protagonist, fear, supernatural, mother and daughter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Julie is a foster child heading for her 18th birthday when she finds something buried with something unspeakable inside.
Style:
suspense, dark, emotional, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
foster home, adolescence, female protagonist, coming of age, trauma, moral dilemma, grief, childhood memory, unsettling, macabre, young adult, danger ...
Similarity:
39%
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, creepy, serious, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, haunted by the past, woman in danger, vengeance, danger, riddles and clues, macabre, haunted house, rivalry, wedding, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After being released, a reformed serial killer moves into his family's ancestral estate and is haunted by his past -- both the living and the dead.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot:
macabre, psychopath, serial killer, murder, danger, brutality, fear, loneliness, teenage boy, twists and turns, trauma, childhood trauma ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An author tries to investigate a decades old mystery and finds himself stuck in his own ghost story.
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
ghost story, haunted house, supernatural, secret past, investigation, macabre, isolation, paranormal, fear, obsession, literary, slow burn ...
Similarity:
36%
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