Movies like Midsommar

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Midsommar (2019)
 7.1
 396K
Midsommar (2019)
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, enigmatic, psychological, suspense, rough, mind bending, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, nervous breakdown, pagan, rite, isolated community, burned alive, female protagonist, hallucinogenic drug, grief, unsettling, sacrifice, human sacrifice, travel, emotional breakdown, trip, suicide, abused woman, hallucination, murder, death, blood ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: new york, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
Keyword: sweden, feminist film, avant-garde, american, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspense, disturbing and scary films with plots about blood, violence, death, supernatural, terror, macabre and fear mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Midsommar: Hereditary (2018), The Witch (2015), The Wicker Man (1973), Apostle (2018), Suspiria (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.3
 373K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, spooky, disturbing, satanic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fear, supernatural horror, dysfunctional family, ghost, grief, demon, seance, supernatural, evil spirit, possession, secret society, funeral ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.5
 91K
The Wicker Man (1973)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Style: twist ending, creepy, controversial, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: folk horror, religion, paganism, ritual, occult, disappearance, investigation, island, female nudity, human sacrifice, secret society, nudity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: scotland, fictional island, europe, united kingdom, scottish highlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
96%
 6.3
 59K
Apostle (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, splatter, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: folk horror, religion, vampire, murder, father daughter relationship, brother, ransom, evil cult, supernatural horror, occult, religious cult, torture ...
Time: victorian era, 2010s, 1900s
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 91K
Suspiria (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: A young ballet dancer travels to a prestigious dance academy in Europe, only to discover it is a front for something far more sinister and supernatural amidst a series of increasingly grisly murders.
Style: suspense, dark, suspenseful, twisted, scary ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: good versus evil, ritual sacrifice, dead woman, witchcraft, mysterious event, paranormal phenomena, telepathy, curse, occult, spiritualism, abuse of power, corporal punishment ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1943, year 1948, post world war two
Place: berlin germany, italy, west berlin west germany, east berlin, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 118K
The Ritual (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Style: suspense, psychological, spooky, disturbing, demonic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: lost in the woods, supernatural, forest, creature, paganism, ritual, hiking, supernatural horror, folk horror, monster, sole survivor, sacrifice ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.6
 248K
Mother! (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, twisted, mysterious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, vandalism, symbolism, uninvited guest, cannibalism, pregnant woman, riot, brutality, husband wife relationship, nightmare, death of son, house ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Other Lamb (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Belgium, USA, Denmark, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A haunting and nightmarish tale that tells the story of Selah, a young girl born into a repressive cult known as the Flock. The members of the Flock – all women and female children– live in a rural compound, and are led by one man, known only as ...
Style: suspense, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: religious cult, woman, religious leader, female protagonist, community, cult leader, teenage sexuality, polygamy, menstruation, coming of age, social problems, sorority ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 118K
The Invitation (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style: psychological thriller, scary, dark, suspense, twist ending ...
Plot: dinner party, suspicion, conspiracy, suicide, obsession, deception, old friend, insanity, brutality, vengeance, survival, paranoid ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016
Place: america, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.4
 252K
The Lighthouse (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style: suspense, minimal cast, psychological, mysterious, lovecraft ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: isolation, hallucination, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, drunkenness, symbolism, island, nightmare, fight, storm, madness, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: nova scotia, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.5
 136K
Antichrist (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style: disturbing, psychological, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: insanity, depression, cruelty, violence, fear, controversy, woods, masturbation, real sex, witchcraft, nudity, surrealism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 57K
The Lodge (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two siblings spend the night alone with their new stepmother. Stuck in a remote mountain cabin, the trio are terrorised by a supernatural force.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: stepmother, winter, suicide, cult leader, snow, murder, mass suicide, nudity, religious cult, vacation gone wrong, female nudity, destiny ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.9
 79K
Climax (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD.
Style: disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, art house, mind bending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: dancing, lsd, youth, hallucination, paranoia, insanity, brutality, pregnancy, snow, death, lesbian, little boy ...
Time: 90s, 2010s, year 2019, year 1996
Place: usa, new york, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 8.0
 233K
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, surreal, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: satanic cult, paranoia, devil, satanism, murder, pregnancy, supernatural, witchcraft, coven, supernatural horror, secret society, demonic possession ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1966, year 1965
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, persia, eastern europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
 57K
Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Finland, Canada
Duration: 179 min.
Story: An anxious man learns of the death of his mother under mysterious circumstances and upon traveling home makes an alarming discovery about his past. During his journey, he runs into various crazy supernatural threats.
Style: independent film, atmospheric, psychological horror, humorous, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, fear, anxiety, therapist, death of mother, domineering mother, psychosis, shame, guilt, mental illness, entrepreneur ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
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, psychological, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, investigation, incest, surrealism, murder, small town life, small town, mental illness, double life, rape, supernatural, violence ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place: washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 54K
Infinity Pool (2023)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, Croatia, Hungary
Duration: 117 min.
Story: While staying at an isolated island resort, James and Em are enjoying a perfect vacation of pristine beaches, exceptional staff, and soaking up the sun. But guided by the seductive and mysterious Gabi, they venture outside the resort grounds and ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, psychological horror, slasher, underground film ...
Plot: vacation, accident, hedonism, writer's block, clone, orgy, drug trip, fictional country, american horror, distopia, breaking the law, revenge ...
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 267K
It Follows (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, ghost, macabre, evil, being followed, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, sex, supernatural being, supernatural horror, peeping tom ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Movie in collections
 7.4
 81K
The Wailing (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
Style: art house, atmospheric, disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, investigation, zombie, curse, murder, police, shaman, small town, ghost, daughter, suspicion, possession ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Don't Worry Darling (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, ...
Style: psychological, suspense, surreal, thought provoking, psychedelic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: housewife, oral sex, husband wife sex, social satire, suicide, egg, women, male female relationship, post apocalypse, family life, undercover, underground ...
Time: 2020s, 1950s
Place: palm springs california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
A Cure for Wellness (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An ambitious young executive is sent to retrieve his company's CEO from an idyllic but mysterious "wellness center" at a remote location in the Swiss Alps but soon suspects that the spa's miraculous treatments are not what they ...
Style: gothic, suspense, dark, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: cure, therapist, patient, hospital, dark secret, spa, capitalism, macabre, slut, experiment, torture, boobs ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2017, future
Place: swiss alps, switzerland, alps, germany, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.4
 45K
Kill List (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychological, suspenseful, creepy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: folk horror, hitman, ritual sacrifice, brutality, torture, violent, macabre, gory, murder, infection, priest, twists and turns ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: yorkshire, united kingdom, britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 60K
Men (2022)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering ...
Style: suspense, surreal, slasher, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night
Plot: folk horror, body horror, countryside, intruder, loss of husband, domestic violence, pregnancy, rural setting, symbolism, forest, supernatural, pub ...
Time: 2020s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 36K
Speak No Evil (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
Style: creepy, psychological, disturbing, psychological horror, slasher ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vacation gone wrong, psychopath, kidnapping, male nudity, vacation, sex scene, evil wins, guest, travel, children, eccentric family, problem ...
Time: 2020s
Place: denmark, netherlands, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
As Above, So Below (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: found footage, supernatural, catacomb, underground, survival, archaeology, treasure hunt, claustrophobia, ancient mystery, confined, tunnel, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Skeleton Key (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: plot twist, occult, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, voodoo, witchcraft, macabre, supernatural horror, ritual, rite, black magic ...
Time: year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 46K
Saint Maud (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspense, bleak, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: obsession, supernatural, mental illness, terminal illness, nurse, loneliness, nightmare, occult, religion, narration, terror, possession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.4
 117K
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...
Style: surreal, twist ending, disturbing, bleak, scary ...
Plot: nightmare, paranoia, hallucination, memory, delusion, mental illness, haunted by the past, conspiracy, plot twist, psychology, dealing with death, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, vietnam, usa, asia, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
 7K
Evil Rising (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland, Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It is 1595. Brutal wars have just ended in an uneasy peace between Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia. We focus on the spiritual defeats of two conquered Finnish brothers, one a hardened near-psychopathic war hero, the other a gentle scientist in ...
Style: atmospheric, scary, disturbing, intense, harsh ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, redemption, medieval, guilt, village, folk horror, haunted by the past, danger, curses spells and rituals, blood, dark secret ...
Time: 16th century, year 2008, middle ages
Place: finland, europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 55K
Titane (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Following a series of unexplained crimes, a former firefighter is reunited with his son who has been missing for 10 years.
Style: disturbing, tense, surreal, cerebral, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: body horror, serial killer, female serial killer, machismo, psycho killer, car accident, killing spree, pretending to be someone else, party, violence, fireman, cutting one's own hair ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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