Movies like K-12

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K-12 (2019)
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K-12 (2019)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Cry Baby, a strong and sensitive girl, is sent off to a disturbing sleepaway school that’s hidden underneath a grandiose façade. Luckily, she has a sweet and unapologetic best friend who sticks up for her when she gets bullied by the other students whose brains are under control by the Principal and his wicked staff. With the help of the magical friends they meet along the way, as well as an Angelic Spirit Guide, they are able to gain the strength they need to fight off the school’s belligerent patriarchal conditioning.
Style: rough, captivating, dark, disturbing, cult classic, horror musical, dark fantasy, teen horror, gothic horror, bizarre
Audience: teen fantasy
Plot: brainwashing, boarding school, female friendship, feminist, dark heroine, teacher, patriarchy, feminism, coup, social misfits, magic, elementary school, propaganda, cafeteria, girl, boss, body horror, friend, pop music, supernatural horror, school, schoolgirl, music, woman, school principal ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out scary, suspenseful, suspense and serious films with plots about supernatural, danger, supernatural horror, supernatural power, deadly, magic and blood mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Musical genres. Some movies like K-12: The Craft: Legacy (2020), The Craft (1996), Wicked (2024), Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (2016), The Magic Flute (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Craft: Legacy (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 20 years later sequel to The Craft (1996).
Style: mystical, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: witch, teenage witch, witchcraft, magical power, teenager, high school student, supernatural, high school, religion, evil, wizard, female protagonist ...
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The Craft (1996)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
Style: gothic, teen, dark, satanic, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen fantasy, teen drama ...
Plot: witch, supernatural, magic, high school, witchcraft, bullying, goth, black magic, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, friendship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, surreal, visual ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood, tour guide, child protagonist, surrealism, factory, grandfather grandson relationship, inventor ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s
Place: germany, west germany, paraguay, europe, arizona ...
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100%
Wicked (2024)
Genre: Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Story: This is the story of how Elphaba becomes the Wicked Witch of the West, and it involves love, loss, hatred, envy and an unwillingness to accept anything that is different.
Style: fairy tale
Audience: date night
Plot: wizard of oz, magic, wizard, theater, singing, singer, dancing, witch, gravity, female friendship, daughter, professor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Alleluia! The Devil's Carnival (2016)
Genre: Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lucifer incites Heaven’s wrath by dispatching train cars of condemned souls a-crashin’ through the pearly gates. As God plots to put an end to the rebellious deeds, a fable is told, and the midway gets set for a fateful reunion between God’s ...
Style: horror musical, biblical, cult classic, bizarre
Plot: devil, carnival, lucifer, redemption, good versus evil, heroes, immortality, supernatural, murder, fallen angel, rivalry, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Magic Flute (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: 17-year-old Tim Walker travels from London to the Austrian Alps to attend the legendary Mozart boarding school. There, he discovers a centuries-old forgotten passageway into the fantastic world of Mozart's "The Magic Flute."
Style: captivating, thrilling
Plot: boarding school, magic, school, musician, fantasy world, dream world, parallel world, boarding school life, magical, magical object, music, magical power ...
Place: swiss alps
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41%
Dead & Breakfast (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Six friends on a road trip stop for the night at a bed and breakfast in the sleepy town of Lovelock. After a night that leaves both the inn's owner and chef dead, the gang finds themselves under suspicion by the local sheriff. But that's ...
Style: suspense, scary, humorous, horror comedy, suspenseful ...
Plot: gory, zombie, supernatural, murder, fish out of water, investigation, danger, small town, undead, redneck, murder investigation, infected ...
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41%
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Amethyst (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A girl tragically consumes a full vial of LSD and quickly succumbs to a bizarre fantasy world, with strange beings and a magical obelisk that might be her portal home.
Style: disturbing, suspense, surreal, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: lsd, surrealism, drug abuse, drug, recklessness, escape from reality, woman in danger, drug overdose, supernatural being, drug use, teenager, fantasy world ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: During a failed art heist, the Djinn is once again liberated. This time, to complete the 1001 wishes that he needs before the final 3, he lets himself go to prison, where he starts his evil reign twisting the hopes of the prisoners. Meanwhile, the ...
Style: slasher, scary, independent film, psychological, retro ...
Plot: djinn, genie, monster, supernatural, prophecy, freak, body horror, folk horror, magical, american horror, occult, supernatural horror ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a dying Voodoo queen chooses an adopted apprentice as her successor, her true heir is outraged. Seeking revenge, he buys the bones of Blacula the vampire off of a dealer, and uses voodoo to bring the vampire back to do his bidding. In turn, ...
Style: gothic, creepy, cult classic, bloody, slasher ...
Plot: vampire, blaxploitation, dracula, african american, black, exploitation, occult, transformation, black cast, magic, 666, american horror ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
 25K
Wishmaster (1997)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Djinn having been released from his ancient prison seeks to capture the soul of the woman who discovered him, thereby opening a portal and freeing his fellow Djinn to take over the earth.
Style: scary, slasher, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: demon, supernatural, djinn, genie, devil, wish come true, violence, transformation, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil, monster, blood ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.8
 10K
Nightbooks (2021)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.
Style: suspense, dark, exciting, captivating, tense ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, evil wizard, female villain, friendship, library, writers, spell, magical, cat, evil witch, attempted escape, captivity ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Ice from the Sun (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An alternate reality encased in ice, a woman who is turned into a dimension-hopping assassin, and a wizard's apprentice who is so evil he is a common enemy to the angels in heaven and the devils in hell.
Style: controversial, disturbing, dark, art house, independent film ...
Plot: violent, underground, extreme, hitman, chaos, rivalry, heroes, danger, imaginary, supernatural, gory, chaos and mayhem ...
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41%
 5.6
 12K
Begotten (1989)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Style: surreal, avant garde, experimental, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: macabre, surrealism, self mutilation, necrophilia, gory, violence, torture, spirituality, chaos, nihilism, extreme, brutality ...
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Werewolf Castle (2021)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a pack of werewolves attack a medieval village, Thorfinn, whose lover perished in the attack, joins knights Thomas, Osmund, Hamelin, and Hal Skullsplitter as they lead the fight back against the vicious lycanthropes.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: werewolf, knight, battles, supernatural ability, mythical creature, fight, creature, supernatural horror, supernatural being, warrior, supernatural power, castle ...
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The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, UK, Canada, India, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Follows the ill-fated crew aboard the merchant ship Demeter which carried Dracula's coffin from Transylvania to England only to arrive at port with no survivors aboard.
Style: gothic horror, gothic, atmospheric, captivating, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: vampire, ship, supernatural, dracula, ship captain, vampirism, supernatural horror, danger, ocean, sea voyage, sea, supernatural power ...
Time: victorian era, 1890s, 19th century
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Black Friday (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When the holiday season’s hottest new toy, the Tickle-Me Wiggly, hits the shelves, the city of Hatchetfield goes mad for it, literally. That’s when Tom Houston, Lex Foster, Becky Barnes and a few familiar faces, must fight through a sea of ...
Style: tense, satirical, captivating, semi serious, disturbing
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Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (1996)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two creepy "horror" films joined together by Merlin's Shop which is, in turn, introduced by a Grandpa telling the story.
Style: anthology, serious, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: good versus evil, imaginary, escapades, danger, legends and myths, store, curses spells and rituals, magic, evil doll, grandfather grandson relationship, arthurian legend, storytelling ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Head Hunter (2018)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for ...
Style: dark fantasy, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: warrior, monster, medieval, murder, revenge, brutality, violence, danger, viking, death of daughter, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: middle ages
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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While We Sleep (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Ukraine
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After observing a hauntingly familiar abnormal CAT scan of a 13 year old girl, radiologist Nina Evanko battles to find the source of the young girl's sleeping disorder. What she discovers is darker and stranger than she could have imagined.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, gothic horror, suspense
Plot: demonic possession, supernatural horror, undercover, mysticism, jealousy, fire, swimming pool, exhumation, birthday party
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Thinner (1996)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A fat Lawyer finds himself growing "Thinner" when an old gypsy man places a hex on him. Now the lawyer must call upon his friends in organized crime to help him persuade the gypsy to lift the curse. Time is running out for the desperate ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: stephen king, macabre, curse, death, supernatural, guilt, corruption, legal action, body horror, paranoia, revenge, redemption ...
Time: 90s
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The Devil's Carnival (2012)
Genre: Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: Sinners are invited to a theme park where they endure the repetition of their transgressions. What chances do a conniving kleptomaniac, a gullible teenager, and an obsessed father stand when facing their own moral failings? Lucifer and his colorful ...
Style: tense, horror musical, psychological, serious, stylized ...
Plot: supernatural, sin, redemption, demon, punishment, amusement park, jester, deal with the devil, introspection, human nature, supernatural power, killer clown ...
Time: 21st century
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The Witches of Eastwick (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three single women in a picturesque village have their wishes granted - at a cost - when a mysterious and flamboyant man arrives in their lives.
Style: sexy, light, black comedy, offbeat, dark comedy ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: witch, small town, magic, witchcraft, devil, black magic, supernatural, supernatural ability, dark humor, wizards and magicians, twists and turns, deal with the devil ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new england, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Poison for the Fairies (1986)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Fabiola is convinced that she, herself, is a witch by Graciela, who then uses the fear that ...
Style: terrifying, gothic, suspense, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: witchcraft, folk horror, occult, witch, evil child, pagan, teenager, religion, child, demonic possession, darkness, 666 ...
Time: 60s, year 1965, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Don't Go in the Woods (2010)
Genre: Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Don't Go in the Woods is sound advice, especially when there's a killer on the loose. First-time director Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, "Law & Order: Criminal Intent") explores love, greed and ruthlessness in ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, scary, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, musician's life, danger, isolation, woods, confined, stalking, music band, violence, redneck, singer, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with ...
Style: slasher, scary, surreal, suspense, bloody ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, mental institution, murder, supernatural, nightmare, dream, dead teenager, sleep disorder, trapped, serial murder, nightmare on elm street, nightmare comes true ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: los angeles, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.2
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June (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: June is different from all other nine-year old girls. She is an orphan hiding a secret. Bad things happen when she gets upset, supernatural things. June has been in many foster homes usually leaving them destroyed. But this time it will be ...
Style: bleak, rough, suspense, scary
Plot: supernatural, exorcism, little girl, girl, orphan, obsession, danger, demon, psychic power, freak, psychic, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.4
 2K
Dead Night (2017)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.
Style: scary, dark, bleak, enigmatic, psychological ...
Plot: backwoods, supernatural, terror, witchcraft, witch, paranoia, husband wife relationship, killing spree, danger, violence, wilderness, parents and children ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.5
 5K
Subspecies (1991)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The evil vampire villain Radu returns to his hometown of Prejnar, after spending years in exile. He steals the precious blood stone which is said to be bleeding from all saints, from his father and kills him. Meanwhile two American schoolgirls teams ...
Style: gothic, grindhouse, slasher, dark, retro ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, little creatures, vampire human love, exploitation, creature, dracula, tiny, monster, erotica, stop motion, hunter ...
Time: 90s
Place: transylvania, europe, romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 2.4
 4K
Soultaker (1990)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four teenagers are killed in a car accident. Two of the teenagers refuse to go with "The Grim Reaper" and a race between life and death ensues!
Style: grindhouse, dark, independent film, offbeat, semi serious ...
Plot: hospital, on the run, ghost, female voyeur, deal with the devil, limbo, voyeur, teenage life, reincarnation, tragic hero, supernatural, mysterious character ...
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