Movies like Absence

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Absence (2013)
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Absence (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, mockumentary, psychological horror, independent film, fake documentary
Audience: teens
Plot: alien abduction, found footage, pregnancy, missing child, danger, family relations, investigation, uncover truth, witch, alien, babies and infants, abduction, family problems, supportive spouse, woman in danger, losing-it hero, brother, husband, vacation gone wrong, mystery
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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Most similar movies to Absence

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and independent film films with plots about danger, deadly, found footage, supernatural, alien, alien invasion and ufo mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Absence: The Fourth Kind (2009), Lost Time (2014), Alien Abduction (2014), Area 51 (2015), Happy Camp (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fourth Kind (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Bulgaria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, mockumentary ...
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, hypnosis, found footage, alien encounter, space and aliens, paranormal activity, alien invasion, investigation, disappearance, space, alien ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: alaska, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 2.9
 1K
Lost Time (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After leaving a doctor visit with the worst news, Valerie Dreyfuss and her sister Melissa come to a stop on a lonely stretch of road. Their car is engulfed by a blinding light....12 hours later Valerie wakes to the horror that her sister is gone, ...
Style: scary, surreal, serious
Plot: space and aliens, danger, uncover truth, losing-it hero, supernatural ability, alien encounter, rescue, siblings relations, alien, kidnapping, abduction, alien invasion ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Alien Abduction (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A vacationing family encounters an alien threat in this pulse-pounding thriller based on the real-life Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon in North Carolina.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary, tense ...
Plot: alien abduction, ufo, alien, found footage, alien encounter, extraterrestrial, space and aliens, abduction, missing person, escapades, danger, wilderness ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
 15K
Area 51 (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, intense, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien, ufo, alien abduction, military base, conspiracy, found footage, extraterrestrial, secrets, supernatural, secret base, adaptation, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, nevada, las vegas, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Alien Abduction: Incident in Lake County (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
Style: mockumentary, christmas horror, weird, fake documentary
Plot: found footage, alien abduction, ufo, thanksgiving, alien invasion, abduction, holiday horror, terror, evil alien, alcoholism, lake, food ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.6
 362
Happy Camp (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A man returns to the childhood town where his brother was abducted 20 years earlier.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, haunted by the past, danger, small town, woods, investigation, death, violence, bigfoot, food, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.4
 1K
Unaware (2010)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In July 2010, a vacationing couple discovered something disturbing on a ranch in rural Texas. Armed with a home camcorder, they captured their experience on video.
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, mockumentary, futuristic ...
Plot: found footage, alien abduction, farm, alien encounter, alien, ufo, danger, countryside, survival horror, alien invasion, evil alien, survival ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.6
 2K
Hangar 10 (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 33 years after the infamous Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, three metal detector enthusiasts hunting for Saxon gold in the same region, capture incredible footage of UFO's whilst filming their expedition. As night falls and with their ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: ufo, alien encounter, danger, woods, found footage, alien, no survivors, forest, creature, survival, evil alien, space and aliens ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old ...
Style: scary, mockumentary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, danger, police investigation, wilderness, supernatural, survival, death, violence, travel, witch, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.3
 412
Darkening Sky (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When an alien abduction nightmare is revealed to have been much more than a dream, a skeptical grad student studying the "modern mythology" of UFOs and ETs finds himself confronting an impossible reality involving shape-shifting ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: alien abduction, extraterrestrial, missing person, alien encounter, uncover truth, evil alien, space and aliens, nightmare comes true, danger, ufo, alien, alien invasion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Il nascondiglio (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: scary, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: danger, mentally unstable, investigation, hopes, uncover truth, haunted by the past, haunted house, woman in danger, starting over, murder, losing-it hero, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, minnesota, iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.5
 3K
Night Skies (2007)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On March 13th, 1997 one of the largest UFO sightings ever recorded took place across the southwestern United States...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot: ufo, alien abduction, investigation, space travel, alien, memory loss, mistaken identity, alien encounter, danger, supernatural, abduction, alien invasion ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Breaking at the Edge (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A pregnant woman fears for her unborn child's life if she doesn't avenge a supernatural entity.
Style: scary, serious, tense, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: pregnancy, couples, couple relations, mental illness, mentally unstable, losing-it hero, female protagonist, pregnant wife, ghost, babies and infants, brother murders brother, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Paranormal Incident (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills ...
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, mental institution, supernatural, survival, haunted house, danger, isolation, confined, haunted by the past, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.9
 106
Chosen (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film follows Michael Todd, a lonely college student, with no direction in his life; he is assigned a research paper about a local New Orleans legend, the tale of Erica Fisc, a girl who disappeared some twenty years prior. As he looks into the ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: uncover truth, investigation, missing person, on the run, danger, truth
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Greystone Park (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In October 2009, the filmmakers went into an abandoned psychiatric hospital to explore the 'haunted' institution, famous for its radical treatment of patients with mental illness. Electroshock, insulin therapy, and lobotomies were ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, realistic, mockumentary ...
Plot: found footage, ghost, supernatural, mental institution, haunted house, uncover truth, danger, abandoned hospital, mental illness, ghost story, hospital, witch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 2.0
 2K
Alien Origin (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A movie created from "found footage" of a lost military expedition that exposes the origins of life on earth.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: found footage, alien, evil alien, space and aliens, danger, escapades, jungle, military, no survivors, chase, ghost, alien invasion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Skinwalker Ranch (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, mockumentary ...
Plot: ufo, mysterious disappearance, deadly creature, missing person, investigation, danger, farm, paranormal phenomena, found footage, supernatural power, village life, alien invasion ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2010, 21st century
Place: usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 4.3
 1K
Summoned (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, law enforcement, police detective, stalking, woman in danger, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.6
 749
Sick Boy (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie ...
Style: serious, tense, scary, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: child illness, danger, zombie, parents and children, family problems, virus, violence, murder, evil child, feral man, killer child, bad kids ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 4.9
 2K
Progeny (1998)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An unsuspecting woman is impregnated by aliens who are experimenting on the human population.
Style: serious, slasher, grindhouse, mystic, sexy ...
Plot: pregnancy, impregnation, interspecies sex, alien, evil alien, alien invasion, ufo, monster, abduction, alien encounter, alien abduction, body horror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 3.3
 584
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.5
 2K
Entity (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In 1998, thirty four unidentified bodies were found in shallow graves in a remote Siberian forest. After subsequent investigations, no official explanation by the Russian authorities was ever offered about the circumstances of the deaths.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, found footage, investigation, confined, uncover truth, danger, isolation, woods, haunted, afterlife, haunted house ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Not Forgotten (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in a Tex-Mex border town, Not Forgotten is a classic psychological thriller about Jack and Amaya Bishop, a couple who must come to terms with their tortured pasts in order to save their kidnapped daughter. It is a tale taut with intrigue and ...
Style: scary, realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: abduction, parents and children, uncover truth, danger, investigation, missing child, twists and turns, family relations, family problems, secret place, supernatural, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, austin texas, texas, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.6
 4K
Tape 407 (2012)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Survivors of an airplane crash find themselves within the borders of a government testing area and pursued by predators.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, mockumentary, suspense ...
Plot: found footage, creature, survival, dinosaur, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, government facility, creature feature, airplane crash, government, eaten alive ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 2.5
 528
Infection (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mystery surrounds a small town that was attacked on September 9, 2009. Now sixty years later, the last survivor, Sarah, sends a high profile reporter a letter suggesting what really happened on that day. The government calls 9/9/09 the start of ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, danger, social relations, dishonesty, love triangle, creature, infection, government coverup, survival, uncover truth, virus, pandemic ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.0
 834
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.4
 611
Grey Skies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A group of old college friends reunite to relive their glory days by renting a beautiful cabin in the woods. As the sun sets on their first day in the cabin, bright flashes of light announce the arrival of mysterious creatures. These friends will ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, tense, psychological
Plot: alien, alien abduction, alien encounter, survival, isolation, danger, woods, escapades, abduction, ufo, violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Crying Dead (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In 2008 a cast and crew set out to shoot a pilot for a paranormal reality show. During the first night vague apparitions became violent hauntings. One by one they lost their lives. The Whispering Dead is a diary of the final tortured moments of real ...
Style: rough, scary, suspenseful, serious, mockumentary ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, found footage, mental institution, danger, supernatural power, disappearance, hospital, paranormal, paranormal investigation, witch, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Alien Abduction (2005)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After being abducted by extra terrestrials, Jean and her friends are committed to a top secret government run mental institution to undergo tests and be brainwashed.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, independent film, scary
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: alien abduction, mutant, danger, ufo, mental institution, haunted by the past, spacecraft, on the run, life is a bitch, supernatural, race against time, military hospital ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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