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Epitaph (2007)
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Epitaph (2007)
Original name: 기담
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dr. Jung Nam finds a photo album dating back to his days as an intern at the Ansaeng Hospital. This triggers memories of his life. In 1942, as a young medical intern, Jung-Nam's arranged marriage ended when his fiancée, whom he had never met, committed suicide. Later he was assigned to monitor the morgue late at night. There he fell in love with a corpse, which is later revealed as the body of his deceased fiancée. Soon other mysterious events take place in the hospital, involving a young girl haunted by ghosts and a serial killer targeting Japanese soldiers.
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, mind twisting, mind bending, clever, tense, atmospheric, serious, stylized ...
Plot: hospital, supernatural, ghost, serial killer, twists and turns, love and romance, fall in love, intern, post apocalypse, lgbt, wedding, doctor, japanese occupation of korea, omnibus, mysterious character, country
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 40s
Place: seoul, asia, korea
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about supernatural, ghost, deadly, danger, murder, haunted house and haunting mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Epitaph: Ghost Stories (2017), Face (2004), Sorum (2001), Hipnos (2004), Wishing Stairs (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ghost Stories (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Professor Phillip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases -- disturbing visions in an ...
Style: anthology, spooky, suspense, scary, enigmatic ...
Plot: ghost, twists and turns, supernatural horror, dishonesty, religion, supernatural, professor, car accident, storytelling, journalist, mental disorder, character study ...
Time: year 2017
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100%
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Face (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lee Hyun-min, who works reconstructing faces from skull, quits his work in a institute to stay with his Beta-allergic daughter Jin that was submitted to a transplant of heart by the specialist Dr. Yoon. The newcomer researcher to the institute Jung ...
Style: psychological, scary, mind bending, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, serial killer, ghost, murder, psychopath, supernatural, police investigation, danger, transplant, race against time, prostitute, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.7
 992
Sorum (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, domestic disturbance, murder, family problems, danger, estrangement, asian, extreme, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.4
 1K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Wishing Stairs (2003)
Genre: Horror, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, dark drama, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, curse, supernatural, paranormal, friendship, curses spells and rituals, obsession, boarding school, extreme, rivalry, forbidden love, asian girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.7
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Red Eye (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a new stewardess joins the night shift crew of the train, she find that some mystic events become occur during the train night run. As the film goes we see that the train has more hidden secrets that lead to a suspicion that it might be linked ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, scary, tense ...
Plot: train, ghost, danger, journalism, survival, violence, uncover truth, death, murder, transvestism, stewardess, heroes ...
Time: 80s
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
I Will Follow You Into the Dark (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, touching, independent film ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, afterlife, parallel world, fall in love, imaginary, losing-it hero, trapped, supernatural romance, survival, chases and races, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Haunted (1995)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its ...
Style: gothic, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, murder, haunting, supernatural, betrayal, nanny, uncover truth, family relations, haunted by the past, siblings relations, mentally unstable ...
Time: 90s, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Heirloom (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Taiwanese man returns to the island after years abroad when he inherits a house; when he and his fiancé move in, strange things start to happen.
Style: suspense, serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, vengeance, inheritance, haunted by the past, supernatural, family problems, family relations, danger, curses spells and rituals, estate, domestic disturbance, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.9
 912
Ghost Train (2006)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On her way to school, high school girl Nana sees a train accident. Then Nana and her friend Kanae start to come across various bizarre phenomena, including red fingerprints and a female spirit who 'lives' on the station platform. One day, ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, train, missing person, supernatural, friendship, danger, gory, past, violence, subway, post apocalypse, train wreck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Scary Hair (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When Chi-Hyon takes home her young sister, Su Hyon, a terminal cancer patient, so that she can help her enjoy her remaining time on earth, she buys her a wig to mask the effects of chemotherapy -- not realizing that the wig is, in fact, demonic. ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, bleak, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, curse, danger, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, family problems, terminal illness, teenage life, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Blood Stained Shoes (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: China
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This film is set in the 1930s, and starts with a strange murder in a beautiful Jiangnan river delta. At the scene, all that is left is an exquisite pair of embroidered shoes. An innocent seamstress is suspected and put to death, but the bloody ...
Style: tense, scary, serious, suspenseful
Plot: murder, false accusation, vengeance, social relations, supernatural, life is a bitch, village, strong female presence, sexual dysfunction, village life, ghost, supernatural serial murderer ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.0
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The Ghost (2004)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A teenage girl suffering from amnesia discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people who are being killed off one by one by a vengeful ghost. Min Ji-Won (Kim Ha-Neul) suffers from amnesia caused by an accident almost a year ago. After ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, mind twisting, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, amnesia, haunted by the past, teenage life, destiny, supernatural, grudge, post apocalypse, creepy kid, vengeance, haunting, extreme ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
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Pop Skull (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Addled prescription drug addict Daniel finds himself unraveling further under the stress of a recent breakup. Worse yet, he lives in a house haunted by nightmarish events from the past, images of which torment him in terrifying dreams. This ...
Style: suspense, psychological, mumblecore, tense, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, addiction, ghost, drug abuse, supernatural, crumbling marriage, danger, couples, teenage life, breakup, gory, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Uninvited (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Impaired by amnesia, Jeong-won (Shin-yang Park) can't remember his youth -- until he meets Yeon (Ji-hyun Jun), a psychic who may be able to uncover his past. After witnessing the horrific deaths of children, both share dreamlike visions of ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind twisting ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, ghost, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, danger, society, dealing with death, missing child, family in danger, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
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Voice (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: While training after hours in her high-school, the aspirant singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Kang Sun-min, who broadcast in the lunchtime in ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, brutal, queer horror ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: ghost, friendship, haunted by the past, youth, investigation, danger, supernatural, hearing voices, elevator, macabre, parasite, darkness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.7
 881
How to Save Us (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Brian Everett's younger brother Sam goes missing on the island of Tasmania during the middle of a mysterious quarantine forcing Brian to traverse across enemy lines to save his brother from an army of ghosts.
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, tense, suspense ...
Plot: island, missing person, survival, danger, ghost, isolation, confined, supernatural, apocalypse, rescue, curses spells and rituals, evil spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Laddaland (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A family moves into a new house where they gradually begin to encounter paranormal and horror events.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, dark, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, family in danger, family relations, supernatural, parents and children, death, black cat, haunted, paranormal activity, evil force, fear, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Amityville Asylum (2013)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lisa Templeton begins a new job as a cleaner at High Hopes Hospital, a mental institution in Amityville, Long Island. Initially delighted to get the job, Lisa soon realises that all is not as it seems. Intimidated by staff and the psychotic ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: mental institution, woman in danger, danger, ghost, supernatural, uncover truth, violent content, twists and turns, graphic violence, exorcism, possession, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.5
 836
Hellgate (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense
Plot: ghost, supernatural, seeing dead people, parallel world, imaginary, nightmare, car accident, afterlife, death, son, wife, deja vu ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 1.7
 187
Blood Red Moon (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Megan and Victor are teens in love. Victor is a vampire and he is being blamed for a rash of murders in town. It's up to Megan to help to clear Victor's name and to find the vicious killer who is responsible.
Style: serious, scary, gothic, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: vampire, love and romance, supernatural, youth, deadly creature, zombie, fall in love, teenage love, murder, teenage life, undead, teen romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.3
 2K
Neverlake (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, tense, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, father daughter relationship, hidden truth, lake, obsession, danger, death, family problems, life is a bitch, uncover truth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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An American Ghost Story (2012)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, danger, uncover truth, curses spells and rituals, writer's life, supernatural, haunted, fear, afterlife, violence, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.7
 288
Inheritance (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Inheritance tells the tale of sinister old lady Lillian Baker (Marjorie Nelson) & her kind hearted, good natured carer Abigail Nielsen (Jen Taylor). Abigail feels sorry for Lillian & does her best to keep her happy, however one ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense ...
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20%
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23:59 (2011)
Genre: Horror
Country: Singapore
Duration: 78 min.
Story: An army recruit was found dead during a 24km road march. After the death of the recruit, strange things started to happen, haunting all the soldiers in the barracks (Imdb.com).
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, captivating, tense ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, soldier, uncover truth, danger, jungle, basic training, woods, military, evil, life is a bitch, power relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: singapore, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.3
 1K
The Chair (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Psychology student Danielle inadvertently wakes a evil spirit while renting a century old Victorian house. In setting out to prove his existence, Danielle inadvertently frees and becomes a puppet of the spirit of serial killer Edgar Crowe. ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious
Plot: serial killer, good versus evil, supernatural, ghost, psychopath, supernatural ability, danger, woman in danger, haunted by the past, amateur detective, curses spells and rituals, family in danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Under the Bed (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two brothers team up to battle a creature under the bed, in what is being described as a "suburban nightmare" tale.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, scary, mystical ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nightmare comes true, family in danger, supernatural, suburbs, creature, youth, brother brother relationship, supernatural horror, dark past, nightmare, recurring nightmare, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison in the world
Style: atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: alcatraz, prison, supernatural power, supernatural, ghost, paranormal activity, imaginary, murder, prison life, twists and turns, macabre, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Apartment 1303 (2007)
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While celebrating with her friends in her new cheaply rented apartment (with balcony and view of the sea) on the thirteenth floor of a building, the young Sayaka unexpectedly jumps off the balcony committing suicide. Her mother goes insane and her ...
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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