Movies and TV shows like Shiki
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Shiki (2010)
5K
Original name: 屍鬼
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Sotobamura is a small village with around 1300 residents; so small the village isn't even connected to a single highway. An isolated village in which old customs, such as the burial of the dead, are still practiced. One day, the bodies of three people are found dead. Although Ozaki Toshio, the village's lone doctor, feels uncertain, he treats the deaths as a normal occurrence. However, in the days following, the villagers start to die one after the other.
Style:
anime, dark fantasy, suspenseful, scary, offbeat, suspense, psychological, manga, captivating, psychological horror ...
Plot:
vampire, danger, mysterious death, supernatural, desperation, fear, death, murder, evil, night, mercilessness, insanity, mass murder, hysteria, violence, chaos, corpse, panic, life after death, nightmare, supernatural horror, imaginary, paranormal phenomena, good versus evil, cyberpunk ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Most similar movies to Shiki
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, suspenseful, adult animation and manga films and TV series with plots about danger, supernatural, blood, violence, murder, death and supernatural power mostly in Animation, Horror and Mystery genres. Some movies like Shiki: Another (2012), When They Cry (2006), Higurashi: When They Cry - NEW (2020), When They Cry: Kai (2007), Elfen Lied (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
22K
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
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Story:
When Kouichi Sasakibara transfers to his new school, he can sense something frightening in the atmosphere of his new class, a secret none of them will talk about. At the center is the beautiful girl Mei Misaki. Kouichi is immediately drawn to her ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, offbeat ...
Plot:
death, classmate, mysterious character, supernatural, accidental death, curses spells and rituals, suspicion, encounter, school, twists and turns, curse, paranormal activity ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
After moving into the quiet town of Hinamizawa, Maebara Keiichi spends his days blissfully in school often playing games with his local friends. However, appearances can be deceiving. One fateful day, Keiichi stumbles upon news of a murder that had ...
Style:
anime, psychological, sadistic, adult animation, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, curses spells and rituals, psychopath, mature, folklore, trauma, village, fear, mysterious death, under the surface, mental illness, rage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Story:
New kid Keiichi Maebara is settling into his new home of peaceful Hinamizawa village. Making quick friends with the girls from his school, he's arrived in time for the big festival of the year. But something about this isolated town seems ...
Style:
anime, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, murder, teenage life, small town, schoolboy, teenager, small town life, murderer, secret, uncover truth, murder investigation, investigation ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
In the small village of Hinamizawa, Rika Furude and her friends live together in relative harmony. Beneath this mask of peace, however, lies a hidden darkness, one that Rika understands all too well. In this eternal summer, she has been witness to ...
Style:
anime, psychological horror, adult animation, adult anime, psychotronic ...
Plot:
supernatural, time travel, student, time loop, supernatural horror, harem, conspiracy, revenge, twins, goddess, summer, suicide ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
The Diclonius, a mutated homo sapien that is said to be selected by God and will eventually become the destruction of mankind, possesses two horns in their heads, and has a "sixth sense" which gives it telekinetic abilities. Due to this ...
Style:
anime, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
memory loss, supernatural ability, trauma, split personality, childhood trauma, decapitation, sadism, life is a bitch, supernatural, experiment gone awry, social misfits, danger ...
Time:
near future, future
Place:
japan
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
A collection of animated horror stories based on the works of Japanese artist Junji Ito.
Style:
anime, bleak, psychotronic, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
model, puzzle, blood, transformation, danger, supernatural, supernatural horror, adaptation, fear, superhero, virus, school ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
Hell Girl, also known as Jigoku Shōjo: Girl from Hell, is an anime series produced by Aniplex and Studio Deen. It focuses on the existence of a supernatural system that allows people to take revenge by having other people sent to Hell via the ...
Style:
anime, exciting, scary, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
justice, torment, murder, teenage girl, risk, vengeance, bullying, supernatural, schoolgirl, desperation, evil, threat ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 287 min.
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Story:
Blood-C focuses on Saya Kisaragi, an outwardly normal girl who serves as the shrine maiden to a country town; in reality, she is a skilled swordswoman charged by her father to defeat Elder Bairns, monsters who feed on human blood. As her battles ...
Style:
anime, atmospheric, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
sword, japanese schoolgirl, imaginary, deadly creature, good versus evil, danger, friendship, supernatural, high school, high school life, heroes, violence ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
The infamous Shounen Bat (Lil' Slugger) is terrorizing the residents of Musashino City. Flying around on his rollerblades and beating people down with a golden baseball bat, the assailant seems impossible to catch—much less understand. His ...
Style:
adult animation, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot:
mind game, murder, who done it, stalking, investigation, monster, danger, serial killer, mysterious character, supernatural power, double life, mature ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Tsukasa, a college student, is rescued from an attack by a devil, one of many vampires that can blend in among the human population. Anzai, her savior, is a half-devil who exploits his supernatural gifts as a member of a shadowy police task force ...
Style:
anime, touching, psychological, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love interest, supernatural, vampire, relationships, vampire bite, couple relations, vampirism, murder, interracial relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, school ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
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Story:
Anime television series created, directed and written by Tensai Okamura and animated by Bones.
Style:
anime, manga, rough, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids
Plot:
supernatural ability, dark past, paranormal phenomena, secret agent, investigation, danger, escapades, rivalry, fighting crime, transformation, fate of humanity, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Story:
Kimihiro Watanuki, a high-schooler, is troubled by monsters and spirits who are magically attracted to him. However, nobody else can see them but him. One day, Watanuki stumbles into a shop that grants wishes, and encounters Yuko Ichihara, a ...
Style:
anime, stylized, suspenseful, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
supernatural, mysterious character, supernatural ability, ghost, danger, stranger, encounter, porn, clairvoyant, haunting, murder, bromance ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 29 min.
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Story:
Heavenly Host Elementary School is a legendary elementary school for ghost stories due to its mysterious past. It was torn down following the murders and disappearances of several of its staff and students and now another school called Kisaragi ...
Style:
anime, dark, scary, disturbing, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
ghost, dark past, brutality, death, supernatural, survival, murder, curse, demon, danger, corpse, youth ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Animation, Action, Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
When an odd string of suicides begins to occur at a local high rise building, most of the townsfolk treat it as an unfortunate series of events. One girl, however, senses something more sinister at work - especially when a close friend of hers falls ...
Style:
anime, manga, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
supernatural, investigation, paranormal phenomena, hospital, possessed human, surrealism, suicide, evil, serial killer, danger, saving a life, escapades ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
119K
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.
Style:
adult animation, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, anime ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, twists and turns, stalking, actor's life, actress, violence, stalker, rising to stardom, danger, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
japan, east asia, asia, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
Shiki Tohno is a boy who, after an accident as a child, is able to see strange lines coming from objects and people. He has to wear special glasses to stop seeing them. If he cuts some of these lines, he destroys people connected to them. One day he ...
Style:
anime, gothic, stylized, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot:
supernatural, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, danger, haunted by the past, imaginary, vampire, heroes, rivalry, superpower, immortality, amnesia ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Inuyashiki Ichirou is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world around him and he’s constantly ignored and disrespected by his family despite all that he’s done ...
Style:
anime, suspense, serious, captivating, manga ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gunfight, murder, elderly man, robot vs. robot, heroes, twists and turns, alien contact, hopes, adaptation, androids, cyborgs, superpower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
A shady bus tour of young men and women are headed to an elusive village called Nanakimura. A destination where people can partake in an utopian existence, free of the world's obstacles... or so goes the rumor. Heading deep into the mountains, ...
Style:
anime, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, sociopath, child in peril, supernatural power, imaginary friend, hallucination, father son relationship, haunted by the past, danger, old man, surrealism, dark past ...
Similarity:
67%
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17K
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In a world rife with deadly creatures called "youma", a young silver eyed woman, Clare, works on behalf of an organization that trains female youma halfbreeds into warriors with the ability to destroy these creatures. Considered a rogue ...
Style:
anime, adult anime, suspenseful, exciting, adult animation ...
Audience:
kids, manly
Plot:
good versus evil, supernatural ability, monster, medieval, female warrior, supernatural, heroic mission, imaginary, heroes, beast, suffering, death ...
Time:
medieval times
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Most girls waking up without any memory and meeting a serial killer would panic, but not Rachel. In fact, far from being her biggest problem, killer Zack might just prove a convenient resource when it comes to finding a way out of the building in ...
Style:
anime, psychological, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
murder, brutality, fear, evil, mercilessness, quest, rivalry, violence, supernatural, rescue, bad guy, demon ...
Similarity:
19%
20K
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 23 min.
TV show
Story:
Vampires exist. It is the duty of Hellsing, an organization sponsored by the British government, to hide that frightening fact and protect the blissfully unaware populace. Along with its own personal army, Hellsing also has a few secret weapons. ...
Style:
anime, gothic, suspenseful, dark fantasy, manga ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
vampire, supernatural ability, rivalry, dracula, deadly creature, supernatural, danger, uninhibited rivalry, anti hero, monster, warrior, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, london, england
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Cross Academy is an elite boarding school with two separate, isolated classes: the Day Class and the Night Class. On the surface, Yuuki Cross and Zero Kiryuu are prefects of the academy, and attempt to keep order between the students as classes ...
Style:
anime, shoujo, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, rivalry, love, memory, forbidden love, school, supernatural power, memory loss, friendship, imaginary, night ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
There is a place after death that’s neither heaven nor hell. A bar that serves you one chance to win. You cannot leave until the game is over, and when it is, your life may be too. From Studio Madhouse (Death Note, Black Lagoon) comes a thrilling ...
Style:
anime, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking, exciting ...
Plot:
death, morality, memory loss, regret, gambling, afterlife, game, game of death, desperation, fear, heaven and hell, unhappiness ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Animation, Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A zombie attack brings chaos to Harvardville Airport. Leon Kennedy and Claire Redfield , who fought the sinister Umbrella Corporation during the Raccoon City tragedy 7 years ago, are back. In high-octane Resident Evil style, they're ready to ...
Style:
computer animated, suspenseful, adult animation, anime, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
zombie, infection, monster, apocalypse, chaos, soldier, genetically altered, chases and races, experiment gone awry, danger, resident evil, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2008, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Boogiepop Phantom is a twelve-episode anime television series produced by Madhouse Studios, based on the Boogiepop light novel series by Kouhei Kadono, particularly that of Boogiepop and Others and Boogiepop At Dawn. The series is directed by ...
Style:
anime, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
supernatural, serial killer, mysterious character, evil force, murder, danger, nobody believes, high school, mature, another dimension, memories, alter ego ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
When the world is struck by a deadly pandemic that turns humans into zombies, Takashi Komuro and several of his classmates at Fujimi High School try to survive the apocalypse.
Style:
anime, ecchi, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
zombie, apocalypse, harem, big breasts, dark humor, plague, hot and sexy, survival, supernatural, student, survivor, chaos ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
16%
Genre: Animation, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
In order to help a friend possessed by a spirit, Ozawa Haruka knocks on the door of her university's movie research association. There she meets Saitou Yakumo, a rude, unkempt young man with a red left eye, who is said to have spiritual powers. ...
Style:
anime, serious, stylized, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, college, supernatural ability, investigation, danger, mysterious place, life is a bitch, uncover truth, college life, student life, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Animation, Action, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Hellsing, a secret organization of the British government, have long been battling supernatural threats to keep the people safe from the creatures of the night. The current leader, Integra Wingates Hellsing, controls her own personal army to ...
Style:
anime, gothic, atmospheric, stylized, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, danger, immortality, supernatural, vampire hunter, dark humor, monster, gunfight, superhuman powers, creature, master and servant, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, tokyo
Similarity:
16%
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
It is the Taisho Period in Japan. Tanjiro, a kindhearted boy who sells charcoal for a living, finds his family slaughtered by a demon. To make matters worse, his younger sister Nezuko, the sole survivor, has been transformed into a demon ...
Style:
anime, exciting, captivating, manga, humorous ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
sword, demon, danger, friendship, supernatural, murder, death, mentor, magic, destiny, vengeance, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Follows two friends, daughters of exorcists, who are now members of the government's secret Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division that fights demons when they appear in Japan.
Style:
anime, serious, suspenseful, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
supernatural, good versus evil, evil spirit, imaginary, rivalry, escapades, supernatural ability, deadly creature, danger, government agency, curses spells and rituals, heroes ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
31%
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