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Penumbra (2011)
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Penumbra (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman hesitantly rents an apartment to an eerie man who she soon realizes has a part in the solar eclipse that is taking place.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric, disturbing, captivating, surreal, horror comedy, twisted, serious ...
Plot: solar eclipse, woman in danger, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural, suspicion, confined, mysterious stranger, ghost, isolation, home invasion, bondage, imaginary, once in a lifetime opportunity, snobbism, ritual, woman, craziness, barefoot woman, bound and gagged, tied feet, netflix, cult
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and tense films with plots about danger, supernatural, ghost, deadly, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger and isolation mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Penumbra: Cold Sweat (2010), The Squad (2011), Visible Scars (2012), The Presence (2010), Prisoner (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cold Sweat (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young man searching for his missing girlfriend. An unconditional friend willing to do anything to uncover the truth. An investigation that culminates in an old house. Inside await two brutal murderers, armed with twenty-five boxes of explosives ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: danger, held captive, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, torture, violence, psychopath, maniac, murder, save the day, uncover truth, ghost, body horror ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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The Squad (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The air is thick with tension as a military squad proceeds to the foot of a mountain base, where they're ordered to wait for backup and hold their position. The mountain is shrouded in fog and the men are exhausted. They've been fighting ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, curses spells and rituals, isolation, danger, soldier, survival, swat, murder, violence, witch, supernatural, disintegration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america
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Visible Scars (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, confined, isolation, ghost, law enforcement, danger, woman in danger, youth, violent content, mountain, supernatural, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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83%
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The Presence (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In this darkly romantic ghost story, a woman travels to an isolated cabin where she is stalked by an apparition who inhabits her space as his own. With the unexpected arrival of the woman’s boyfriend, the dark spirit’s haunting grows obsessive. ...
Style: scary, psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: ghost, female protagonist, confined, danger, woman in danger, isolation, island, supernatural, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, haunted, gory, spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Prisoner (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: prison, captivity, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, confined, filmmaking, abduction, kidnapping, hollywood, electric chair, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Purgatory (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A woman must survive the night after she welcomes a neighbor's child into her home.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted by the past, haunted house, danger, isolation, loneliness, supernatural, woman in danger, neighbor, paranormal activity, evil force, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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70%
The Child's Eye (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Bangkok, November 2008. Six young holidaymakers from Hong Kong are stranded in Bangkok when the airport is occupied by demonstrators demanding the prime minister's resignation: Rainie (Rainie Yang) and Lok (Shawn Yue), who are on the verge of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, missing person, isolation, danger, curse, supernatural, amateur detective, paranormal investigation, survival, uncover truth, children, eye ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, thailand
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67%
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Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
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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 ⇓
65%
Here Comes the Devil (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A married couple loses their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation, but it becomes clear that they are not who they used to be, that something terrifying has changed them.
Style: scary, serious, tense, creepy, disturbing ...
Plot: demonic possession, family problems, danger, parents and children, gory, siblings relations, family in crisis, strong sexual content, legends and myths, supernatural, supernatural power, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Claustrofobia (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Eva opens her eyes a young girl finds herself chained terrified for being abused. Her fears become reality in a way no one could ever imagine.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Plot: quest, captive woman, kidnapped woman, held captive, isolation, bondage, danger, woman in danger, schizophrenia, death, kidnapping, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, amsterdam
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After... (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Urban Exploration. The practice of investigating areas not designed for public use. But strange things can happen in the dark, closed-off areas of history beneath the streets of Moscow, and what started as a way for Nate to escape his grief quickly ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: survival, haunted by the past, confined, escapades, danger, adventurer, isolation, tunnel, found footage, extreme sports, violent content, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
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63%
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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
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The Appearing (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, curse, curses spells and rituals, danger, human host, small town, showdown, evil, murder, ghost, paranormal, possession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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62%
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13 Curses (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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Hold Your Breath (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There is an old wives' tale that you should hold your breath when passing by a cemetery lest an evil spirit rejected by both heaven and hell gets inside of you when you inhale. Someone in a carload of college kids on holiday doesn't hold ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
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The Chosen (2015)
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a child-stealing demon attaches itself to a little girl, her family is thrust into a battle against time in order to save the girl and send the demon back to hell.
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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61%
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Blackwood (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally ...
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Time: 21st century
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Stalker (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: When novelist Paula Martin retreats to the seclusion of her family home Crows Hall she hopes to clear her mind and focus on her new book. The arrival of an assistant, Linda, should take the pressure off... but as the bodies pile up, Paula finds ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
Story: After placing his ailing wife Alice in a care home elderly academic James Parkin goes to stay at a wintry out-of-season hotel which they used to visit together. Walking on a deserted beach he finds a ring with a Latin inscription,which translates as ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, christmas horror ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Acacia (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
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The 13th Unit (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Seven strangers find themselves trapped in an underground storage facility, struggling to survive while being hunted by a supernatural beast that resides inside the mysterious 13th unit.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: monster, dangerous animal, curses spells and rituals, danger, survival, murder, supernatural, deathtrap, rivalry, isolation, violence, group of strangers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Shock Labyrinth (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The horror-thriller follows a group of teenagers dealing with the disappearance of one of them, Yuki, at an amusement park s ghost house. On a rainy day 10 years later, Yuki inexplicably returns. However, no sooner is she united with her former ...
Style: suspense, serious, scary, tense, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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I Am ZoZo (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: I Am ZoZo is a psychological thriller about five young people who play with a Ouija board on Halloween and attract the attention of a malevolent demon. The film is based on real experiences with an ancient and malevolent spirit called ZoZo that ...
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: ouija board, halloween, supernatural, ghost, paranormal, spirit, curses spells and rituals, danger, buddies, island, ouija, death ...
Time: 21st century
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Shaapit: The Cursed (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The story of a girl who is trapped in a generational curse, which does not allow her love & marriage and her lover who vows to conquer this curse.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In Louisiana, in the wicked Whateley House, Lavina delivers two babies whose fate is written. Ten years later, three scholars of the occult discover that one page of the “Necronomicon,” the unspeakable book, is missing and the Black Brotherhood ...
Style: lovecraft, suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Seance: The Summoning (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a loudmouth college punk singer accuses an amateur medium of being a fake, four college students break into the city morgue and video themselves holding a seance. When the kids summon a demon by mistake, they have to find a way to drive the ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: ghost, morgue, danger, supernatural, human host, friendship, ouija board, demonic possession, seance, death, ouija, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Isabelle (2018)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: supernatural, afterlife, ghost, evil spirit, parents and children, danger, nightmare, demon, family in danger, curses spells and rituals, evil force, fear ...
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London Voodoo (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to London, his wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) discovers a new disturbing power and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. As Mathers notices that the family ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense, suspense ...
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Place: london, europe, england, usa, new york
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