Movies like We Have Always Lived in the Castle
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An isolated family, having already lost four members to poisoning, uses rituals and talismans to keep itself away from hostile townspeople.
Style:
gothic, tense, psychological, dark, surreal, spooky, rough, bleak, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, isolation, teenage girl, incestuous relationship, sister, sister sister relationship, incest, cousin, murder, psychological abuse, abuse, cousin cousin relationship, angry mob, sexual abuse, vengeance, mental disorder, death of father, life is a bitch, disorder, dishonesty, home invasion, village, mansion, closeup of eyes, rape ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, year 1962, 60s, 50s, 1960s
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to We Have Always Lived in the Castle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, suspense and psychological thriller films with plots about murder, family relations, macabre, supernatural, mental illness, dysfunctional family and violence mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like We Have Always Lived in the Castle: Dolores Claiborne (1995), Stoker (2013), My Sweet Audrina (2016), Flowers in the Attic (1987), Midsommar (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, detective, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, child abuse, stephen king, abusive husband, maid, domestic violence, investigation, sexual abuse, childhood trauma, mother, small town, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, persia, nova scotia, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style:
psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, mysterious character, under the surface, antisocial behavior, fatal attraction, psychopath, attempted rape, family relations, masturbation, estate, family problems, death ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Living in her family's secluded mansion, Audrina is kept alone and out of sight and is haunted by nightmares of her older sister, First Audrina, who was left for dead in the woods after an attack. As she begins to question her past and her ...
Style:
captivating, romantic, bleak, suspenseful, scenic ...
Plot:
nightmare, haunted by the past, overprotective father, intercourse, mansion, isolation, father daughter relationship, uncover truth, sex scene, house, forbidden love, dream ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, scary, harsh ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
incest, children, confined, siblings relations, survival, old mansion, estate, family life, child abuse, danger, dysfunctional family, family in danger ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, frightening, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, rite, isolated community, pagan, sect, female protagonist, burned alive, human sacrifice ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, new york, eastern europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.
Style:
scary, tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural horror, death, haunted by the past, rape, supernatural, sexual abuse, chase, paranormal phenomena, curses spells and rituals, teenage daughter, flash forward ...
Time:
year 2006, 19th century, ancient times, year 2005, 2000s ...
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
100%
27K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
manipulation, haunted by the past, psychic power, twists and turns, brutality, psychic, plot twist, mind game, teenage girl, false memory, murder, memory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, spain, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
111K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Style:
scary, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
overprotective parent, bad mother, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, woman in a wheelchair, single mother, terror, lie, revenge, female antagonist, disability, teenage life ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
seattle, washington state
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ryan McNamara has been beaten, abused, witnessed slaughter, and been subjected to sexual torture. But that's nothing compared to what Ryan is about to do.
Style:
disturbing, psycho sexual, suspense, intense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
agoraphobia, nightmare, psychological manipulation, revenge, teenager, fear, trauma, mental illness, isolation, abuse, breakdown, mentally unstable ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their ...
Style:
gothic, psychological, psychological horror, black comedy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mental illness, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, beach, sibling rivalry, child star, jealousy, actress, filmmaking, dysfunctional family, murder, rat ...
Time:
year 1935, 20th century, 1930s, year 1917, 1910s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, america, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted.
Style:
gothic, dark, creepy, scary, gothic horror ...
Plot:
haunted, supernatural, haunting, old mansion, macabre, children, hide and seek, ghost story, haunted house, schizophrenia, insanity, paranoid ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1961, 1860s ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a quiet suburban town in the summer of 1958, two recently orphaned sisters are placed in the care of their mentally unstable Aunt Ruth. But Ruth's depraved sense of discipline will soon lead to unspeakable acts of abuse and torture that ...
Style:
scary, disturbing, psychological, frightening, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
torture, child abuse, rape, sexual abuse, violence, victim, physical abuse, cruelty, helplessness, abuse, childhood, unsettling ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 2007, year 1958
Place:
new jersey, new york, america, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, mind bending, surprise ending, twist ending ...
Plot:
mental illness, tragedy, suicide, death, ghost, children, hallucination, stepmother, twists and turns, evil stepmother, guilt, haunted house ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, year 2003, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
south korea, east asia, korea, asia, japan
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, scary, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
home invasion, mind game, serial killer, hidden camera, murder, danger, family in danger, strangulation, psychopath, isolation, manipulation, family secret ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A psychology student attempts to cure her sister's crippling psychosis only to expose them both to its origin: an ancient creature intent on claiming their souls.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, disturbing, mystical, psychological horror ...
Plot:
psychosis, hallucination, mental illness, reincarnation, supernatural horror, sister sister relationship, mentally unstable woman, dark power, parapsychology, psychology, sister, sisters ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
home invasion, sister sister relationship, nightmare, sisters, serial killer, female protagonist, doll, haunted, danger, paranoid schizophrenia, insanity, escape ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man and his friends react to a sudden, unexpected tragedy during their annual all-weekend summer party.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, vengeance, rivalry, prison, tragedy, danger, guilt, grief, youth, moral ambiguity, trauma, secrets ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
rescue, ghost, supernatural, desert, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, eye, murder, uncover truth, dark secret, american horror, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa, canada
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Style:
slasher, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
isolated house, brother brother relationship, terror, family in danger, baby, kidnapping, family home, night, father son relationship, home invasion, siege, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Bella sees her parents killed during a home invasion. Afterwards, she keeps waking up in a strange white room and the past keeps playing over and over. Bella must solve the mystery of the White Room and move on, but to where?
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological horror, twist ending, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, room, life & death, confronting the past, tragic past, troubled past, mental disorder, murder witness, murder, life is a bitch, problem, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
incest, child abuse, surrealism, violence, incest rape, identity crisis, flashback, revenge, father daughter incest, sex, dysfunctional family, prostitute ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An artist grows distant from his new wife as an irrational horror of premature burial consumes him.
Style:
gothic horror, psychological, bleak, gothic, slasher ...
Plot:
fear, edgar allan poe, obsession, tomb, eccentric family, haunted by the past, crumbling marriage, buried alive, wedding, mental illness, sleep disorder, monster ...
Time:
year 1962, 60s
Similarity:
17%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, erotic, gothic, scary ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, survival, family in danger, manhunt, dysfunctional family, on the run, family life, incest, coming of age, illicit affair, murder ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe, mojave desert
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, demon, insanity, supernatural, twists and turns, mental disorder, obsession, paranoia, friendship, illness, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, twist ending, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, female protagonist, teenage life, youth, haunted by the past, murder, voyeur, locked in a room, divorce, bullying, ghost, danger ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, tense, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
mental illness, uncover truth, false accusation, missing person, life is a bitch, vengeance, social relations, small town, grief, loss, revenge, family feud ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, gothic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, secret, murder investigation, death of grandmother, death, dysfunctional family, guilt, confronting the past, female protagonist, family problems, getting home, family relations ...
Similarity:
17%
27K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
Style:
disturbing, horrifying, scary, suspenseful, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, torture, captivity, husband wife relationship, sadism, sexual assault, sexual sadism, sexploitation, rape and revenge, incestuous relationship, eating human flesh, suffering ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
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