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13 Curses (2002)
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13 Curses (2002)
Original name: Trece campanadas
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 eighteen years ago, begin to persecute to him, since his father died by shot gun, peculiarly, when thirteen peals sounded in the cathedral, fact what obsesses to Jacobo. After watching several times, Mateo convinces his son to make the work for the cathedral that his father couldn't finish in life, but what begins as a simple work becomes a madness spiral when Jacobo discovers the true intentions of the ghost of his father: to kill to his son to usurp his body to finish the statue, and after to return to the life.
Style: scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, offbeat, realistic
Plot: missing person, supernatural, friendship, parents and children, family life, mental illness, danger, family problems, family in crisis, homecoming, captivity, mental institution, death in the family, curses spells and rituals, ghost, hospital, family relations, haunted by the past, woman in danger, unfulfillment, performer's life, dealing with death, couple relations, male nudity, male pubic hair ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: argentina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about danger, supernatural, deadly, ghost, gory, curses spells and rituals and family relations mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like 13 Curses: Dark Mirror (2007), They're Watching Us (2002), The Cradle (2007), Compound Fracture (2014), London Voodoo (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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95%
They're Watching Us (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who ...
Style: mind bending, scary, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot: ghost, missing person, police investigation, family relations, police detective, uncover truth, supernatural, law enforcement, danger, mental institution, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain
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77%
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The Cradle (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Frank and Julie move to a small isolated town with their son Sam, both Julie and Sam become ill. Driven by terrifying nightmares of torture that come true Frank begs a local midwife Helen to care for Sam as he desperately searches for a way to ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, surprise ending
Plot: ghost child, riddles and clues, supernatural, ghost, curse, curses spells and rituals, gory, isolation, family life, captivity, danger, nightmare ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Compound Fracture (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Michael Wolffsen (Tyler Mane) receives an urgent phone call and takes his nephew and fiancee and makes the journey home to his only other living relative: his estranged, eccentric (and extremely paranoid) father, Gary (Muse Watson), who is obsessed ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, tense, exciting ...
Plot: estrangement, supernatural, family in danger, ghost, mental illness, couple relations, danger, father son relationship, supernatural power, dementia, stalking, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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 ...
Plot: supernatural, couples, family relations, curses spells and rituals, ghost, couple relations, danger, mysterious character, family problems, parents and children, gory, intrigue ...
Place: london, europe, england, usa, new york
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58%
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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 ...
Plot: orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, obsession, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, parents and children, adoption, adopted son, extreme ...
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55%
When I Was Alive (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: haunted by the past, family relations, family problems, danger, parents and children, supernatural, losing-it hero, obsession, homecoming, mother, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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55%
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Second Name (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that her ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological ...
Plot: suicide, obsession, life is a bitch, supernatural, danger, life turned upside down, curses spells and rituals, destiny, father daughter relationship, uncover truth, death of father, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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49%
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The Unborn (2003)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on an urban legend that became the talk of the town in the year 2000. The story begins when Por wakes up in hospital, after being brutally beaten by a drug dealer, to find herself going to give birth. Frightened and confused, Por ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, surreal ...
Plot: ghost, afterlife, hospital, supernatural, memory loss, mentally unstable, woman in danger, family problems, supernatural ability, drug dealing, curses spells and rituals, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Hell's Gate 11:11 (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eighteen years after the murder of her parents, Sara Tobias searches for the meaning of the numbers '11:11' that was scratched in blood beside her mother's body. Following three sudden murders, supernatural events are unleashed as she ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense
Plot: danger, serial killer, investigation, murder, gory, uncover truth, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, small town life, death in the family, small town, family problems ...
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42%
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Hidden (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: house, dead mother, mental illness, homecoming, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, death in the family, woods, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ⇓
41%
Childish Games (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When flaky novelist Mario turns up one day at the school where Daniel teaches, the educator is convinced the writer is a spirit from his repressed past, buried deep in his subconscious. As children, the two might almost have been brothers. But the ...
Style: atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: adoption, haunted by the past, disorder, parents and children, losing-it hero, hidden identity, fear, dishonesty, danger, murder, violence, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Left in Darkness (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Celia (Monica Keena, Freddy vs. Jason) has had a rough life, with a mother who died in childbirth and a father who disappeared. Unfortunately for Celia, death is not any easier than life. When she is drugged and raped at a frat party, Celia dies ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: guardian angel, ghost, heaven, supernatural, family problems, good versus evil, dealing with death, woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, haunted by the past, death in the family, demon ...
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40%
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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39%
The Inheritance (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Five ambitious cousins set out on a family reunion during the dead of winter. The purpose of the retreat is to secure their inheritance, a fortune that dates back many generations. Upon their arrival, Uncle Melvin (Keith David) welcomes them with ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, slasher ...
Plot: family gatherings, haunted by the past, family relations, survival, supernatural, escapades, danger, gory, estate, curses spells and rituals, murder, black ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ...
Plot: prison, ghost, rivalry, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, frame up, captivity, found footage, haunting, afterlife, psychic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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36%
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Animus (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Hoping to find proof of the paranormal, five film students set out to document the legendary Copper Queen Hospital. But as the sun goes down, they experience something far worse than they ever could have imagined and they find themselves pursued by ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, scary, serious
Plot: riddles and clues, ghost, gory, danger, psychopath, supernatural, found footage, hospital, deadly, gore
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Presence of Mind (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Henry James' classic tale of terror The Turn of the Screw receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella ...
Style: gothic, scary, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, haunted by the past, supernatural, ghost, master and servant, family relations, family problems, death in the family, family in danger, woman in danger, evil child, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, spain
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35%
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Hipnos (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dr Sánchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, scary ...
Plot: doctor, hospital, supernatural, mental illness, losing-it hero, isolation, mind game, eye, health, psychology, nightmare, psychiatric ward ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe, brussels
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35%
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Bloody Mary (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a group of psychiatric hospital nurses invoke the spirit of Bloody Mary -- a supposed urban myth -- the slaughter begins. The legend is real, her vengeance is fatal, and to free her, all you have to do is say her name.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, serious, slasher ...
Plot: urban legend, violence, curses spells and rituals, missing person, ghost, gory, blood, hospital, revenge, doctors and patients, mental institution, mental illness ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
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They Wait (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jason and his wife, Sarah, leave their adopted home of Shanghai and travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, for his uncle's funeral, staying with his Aunt Mei. Already disoriented, Jason and Sarah are unnerved when their son, Sam, begins seeing ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, captivating, serious, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, death in the family, murder, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, supernatural ability, danger, haunted by the past, gory, parents and children ...
Place: vancouver, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Echo (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A divorced policeman loses custody of his young son, only to kidnap his boy and retreat to a remote cottage, where his plan soon turns into a nightmare.
Style: scary, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: missing child, family problems, danger, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, single parent, ghost, mentally unstable, parents and children, child illness, child as adult ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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
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33%
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Dead Still (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Upon the death of his great grandfather, Brandon Davis a wedding photographer inherits an antique camera famous for taking Victorian death photography. After photographing his subjects they start to die from horrible, bizarre deaths.
Style: bleak, atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, scary ...
Plot: danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, missing person, wedding, photography, gory, supernatural romance, imaginary, recurring nightmare, mute child, homeless man ...
Time: victorian era
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33%
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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
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33%
Pray for Morning (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Looking for a night of thrills, eight friends roam the abandoned Royal Crescent Hotel, where five students were murdered more than 20 years ago. When they discover a severed hand, they conjure up a evil spirit and unleash its bloody wrath. To ...
Style: suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: hotel, supernatural, ghost, survival, captivity, danger, gory, riddles and clues, murder, isolation, buddies, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
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32%
Killer Instinct (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A series of unsolved crimes from the past prove to be the common thread in three stories that intertwine to reveal big problems in a small town.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, slasher
Plot: vengeance, ghost, supernatural, psychopath, danger, gory, haunted by the past, murder, small town life, dark and stormy night, game, sexual murder ...
Time: 21st century
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30%
The Disappeared (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Following the disappearance of his younger brother Tom, Matthew Ryan tries to put his life and sanity back together. However the past keeps coming back to haunt him.
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: missing person, haunted by the past, family relations, parents and children, religions or cults, teenage life, destiny, disappearance, brother, ghost, kidnapping, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Skeptic (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: haunted house, afterlife, lawyer, ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, doll, supernatural, danger, haunted, family problems, domestic disturbance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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