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Holy Ghost People (2013)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the trail of her missing sister, Charlotte enlists the help of Wayne, an ex-Marine and alcoholic, to infiltrate the Church of One Accord - a community of snake-handlers who risk their lives seeking salvation in the Holy Ghost.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, independent film
Plot:
religions or cults, missing person, rescue, uncover truth, danger, clergy, woman in danger, religion, mountain, military, death, addiction, faith, revolution, religious fanatic, commune, brainwashing, siblings, religious, religious fanaticism, substance abuse, anti christianity, church, life is a bitch, profanity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Holy Ghost People
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about danger, life is a bitch, society, religions or cults, profanity, woman in danger and deadly mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Holy Ghost People: The Devil's Hand (2014), Into Temptation (2009), Under Still Waters (2008), Mary (2005), Jug Face (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist they be "cleansed" before turning 18.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, realistic, serious, demonic ...
Plot:
supernatural, missing person, possession, uncover truth, life is a bitch, religions or cults, social relations, society, woman in danger, amish, murder, corruption ...
Time:
victorian era, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
woman in danger, prostitute, priest, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, society, clergy, illegal prostitution, sin, catholic priest, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
sex scene, couples, stranger, family problems, mysterious character, danger, drinking, duel, drinking alcohol, romantic triangle, marriage, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Following the shooting of a film on the life of Jesus called This Is My Blood, Marie Palesi (Juliette Binoche), the actress who plays Mary Magdalene takes refuge in Jerusalem in search of the truth behind the myth.
The director of the film, Tony ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic
Plot:
filmmaking, religion, christian, virgin mary, obsession, self discovery, hopes, society, religions or cults, redemption, celebrity culture, showbiz ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, jerusalem, israel, usa, middle east
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brother’s child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
incest, brother sister relationship, human sacrifice, sex with sister, isolated community, arranged marriage, religions or cults, misogyny, folk horror, destiny, forbidden love, grandfather granddaughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain, Panama
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This horrific dramatization of the Guyana tragedy traces the steps of Reverend Jim Jones, a highly charismatic, but profoundly paranoid clergyman, who after years of evangelism and good deeds, begins his own church in the mid-western United States. ...
Style:
controversial, thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
religious sect, religious fanaticism, religion, brainwashing, submission, female nudity, killer, murder, historical figure, psychopath, religions or cults, social relations ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, year 1978
Place:
caribbean, latin america, south america, guyana
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
Style:
psychological, realistic, tense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, missing child, clergy, religions or cults, church, social relations, small town, gay, priest, brainwashing, winter, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, maine
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
danger, rivalry, dishonesty, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, clergy, amateur detective, uncover truth, youth, society, dishonesty, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A teenage dancer in training for the Los Angeles ballet discovers that she is dying of cancer, only to discover that the Devil is real after getting the miracle that she and her father both prayed for. Shortly after discovering that her dream of ...
Style:
serious, touching, suspenseful, suspense, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, good versus evil, youth, imaginary, society, dancer's life, danger, parents and children, family relations, hopes, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
There is no turning back. Whether we trust our friends, others or ourselves our decision determines the fate of the future. Green River's story deals with the agonizing truth of the actions we take in times of crisis.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
missing person, serial killer, missing girl, amateur detective, isolation, torture, paranoia, killer, peace, war veteran, radio, pistol ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
711
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Traumatized and suffering from amnesia after witnessing a terrible accident, a man who calls himself P.J. (Howard Nash) is admitted to a hospital, where psychiatrist Alan Shearson tries to get him on the path to recovery. But Dr. Shearson's ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, hospital, memory loss, doctors and patients, rehabilitation, mental illness, curses spells and rituals, isolation, accident, spirituality, uncover truth, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film, disturbing ...
Plot:
addiction, redemption, small town, hopes, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, danger, drug, desperation, loss, regret, anti hero ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Spies, cops and armed children cross paths on a day of danger, mystery and possible transformation. Five unusual characters are unknowingly connected to an extraordinary smuggling operation, as religious conspiracy collides with urban crime.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
conspiracy, religions or cults, escapades, medicine, multiple storylines, collision, danger, violent content, profanity, obsessive quest, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Set in a post-9/11 America, four Americans come together to build a truck bomb and plan to detonate it on a target in the U.S. Highlighting the days leading up to the event.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, politics, bomb, rebellion, danger, society, vengeance, terrorism, state affairs, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, missing person, mentally unstable, danger, isolation, confined, woods, hostage, car accident, corpse, graphic violence, dead body ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee
Similarity:
26%
780
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, mumblecore ...
Plot:
resurrection, siblings relations, supernatural, family in crisis, death of mother, afterlife, waiting, faith, love, death, sexual content, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, violent content, nudity, sexual content, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teen seductress pulls three other privileged Malibu kids into her devious scheme, and unforeseen consequences force the group to face their own fears and mortality.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual content, best friend, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, danger, disorder, teenage life, boy girl relationship, profanity, teenager, manipulation, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, malibu california
Similarity:
24%
716
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
N-Secure is a no holds-barred thrilling drama mixed with murder, mayhem and manipulation among affluent professionals. This film sheds light on a man's downfall from the pinnacles of success into the depths of his damaged character. His ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, erotic ...
Plot:
betrayal, murder, infidelity, breakup, couples, couple relations, rivalry, obsession, danger, jealousy, sex scene, african american ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
467
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, homecoming, best friend, couples, breakup, missing person, danger, friendship, campus, serial killer, suicide by gun, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
polygamy, murder, false accusation, righting the wronged, society, religions or cults, church, estrangement, uncover truth, arranged marriage, religion, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, utah
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Secrets, murders and lies... all in the name of family. In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café.The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a strange family led a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and a disturbed family ...
Style:
tense, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mind game, psychopath, family problems, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, family relations, missing person, woman in danger, danger, mysterious character, diner, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, murder, psychopath, redemption, mentally unstable, criminal psychologist, woman in danger, crime and punishment, haunted by the past, prison, love, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psycho, snow, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, confined, chases and races, rescue, danger, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, captivity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
125
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, ransom demand, uncover truth, investigation, betrayal, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
sex scene, stalking, obsession, infidelity, dangerous attraction, danger, parents and children, single parent, couples, love triangle, forbidden love, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
23%
214
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Struggling with her grief, Anglican priest Rebecca Ashton tries to replace her deceased daughter with another girl.
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
obsession, friendship, society, immigrant, under the surface, life is a bitch, clergy, female protagonist, dangerous attraction, danger, grief, folklore ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, cornwall
Similarity:
23%
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, realistic, rough, tense ...
Plot:
profanity, against the odds, terrorism, rescue, race against time, danger, bomb, nihilism, found footage, underground, woman in danger, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew, an adored small-town minister, and the brutal and sadistic murder-suicide of Alice and George Hayward, the town’s most beloved ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating
Plot:
murder, small town, murder investigation, pastor, clergy, social relations, under the surface, religions or cults, society, minister, small town life, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont, usa
Similarity:
21%
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