Movies like Turn of the Screw

If you like "Turn of the Screw" you are looking for gothic, atmospheric and mind bending movies about / with ghost, religion, mansion, supernatural, gays and lesbians, haunted house and children themes of Horror and Thriller genre shot in Spain.
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Turn of the Screw (1985)
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Turn of the Screw (1985)
Original name: Otra vuelta de tuerca
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Spanish version of Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw".
Style: gothic, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, suspenseful, sexual, psychotronic, sexy, suspense, gay cinema
Plot: ghost, religion, mansion, supernatural, gays and lesbians, haunted house, children, beach, boy, governess, gay interest, dead child, homoeroticism, haunting, religious education, lgbt, seminary, male homosexuality, nanny, family relations, society, clergy, estate, master and servant, religions or cults ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: spain

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Most similar movies to Turn of the Screw

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and psychological films with plots about supernatural, ghost, danger, haunted house, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power and haunting mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Turn of the Screw: Presence of Mind (1999), The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995), In a Dark Place (2006), Purgatory (2014), The Turn Of The Screw (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Presence of Mind (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Henry James' classic tale of terror The Turn of the Screw receives yet another screen adaptation in this thriller shot in Spain. A young woman (Sadie Frost) is hired to serve as a governess for two children, Miles and Flora (Nilo Mur and Ella ...
Style: gothic, scary, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, haunted by the past, supernatural, ghost, master and servant, family relations, family problems, death in the family, family in danger, woman in danger, evil child, estate ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Turn of the Screw (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gothic horror, gothic ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, children, mentally unstable, estate, repression, sibling relationship, youth, female nudity, haunting, possession, power relations ...
Time: victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 19th century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Haunting of Helen Walker (1995)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, haunted, haunting, ghost, evil child, governess, supernatural power, dead child, brother sister relationship, supernatural, children, possession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Turn of the Screw (1992)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds that the two children are not quite what they seem to be--in fact, they are possessed by the ...
Style: independent film, scary, mind bending, psychological, serious ...
Plot: ghost, youth, obsession, haunted house, macabre, haunting, evil child, governess, possession, pedophile, estate, family relations ...
Time: year 1992, victorian era, 19th century, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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In a Dark Place (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The disturbed arts teacher, Anna Veigh, is hired by Mr. Laing as a governess to raise Flora and her brother Miles. Anna believes that the ghosts of the former governess, Miss Jessel, and housekeeper, Peter Quint, are in the property haunting the ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, atmospheric, dark drama ...
Plot: ghost, sexual abuse, governess, estate, mentally unstable, supernatural, life is a bitch, family in danger, family problems, school, curses spells and rituals, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Turn of the Screw (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A governess put in charge of two young children begins to see the ghost of her dead predecessor.
Style: gothic, spiritual, costume drama, psychological horror, slasher ...
Plot: nanny, ghost, governess, curses spells and rituals, haunted house, american civil war, spirituality, haunting, possession, couples, family relations, power relations ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
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Purgatory (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A woman must survive the night after she welcomes a neighbor's child into her home.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, haunted by the past, haunted house, danger, isolation, loneliness, supernatural, woman in danger, neighbor, paranormal activity, evil force, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Turn Of The Screw (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An English governess is hired to take care of two adorable orphans, who turn out to be not exactly what they seem to be.
Style: creepy, gothic, psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, possession, creepy child, evil child, haunted, sex scene, youth, haunting, occult, governess, evil, macabre ...
Time: victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
44%
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Second Name (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that her ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological ...
Plot: suicide, obsession, life is a bitch, supernatural, danger, life turned upside down, curses spells and rituals, destiny, father daughter relationship, uncover truth, death of father, religion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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House of Usher (2008)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Victor Reynolds arrives at the notorious House of Usher, whereupon he is greeted by old acquaintances Roderick and Madeline Usher and their servant, Markus. As Victor uncovers more about the history of the house and the disappearances of those that ...
Style: gothic, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: gay, estate, supernatural, danger, curses spells and rituals, ghost, haunted house, murder, secret, edgar allan poe, gay sex, picture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Haunting of Hell House (1999)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mysterious, morbid professor who has suffered a number of horrid events in his life tries to help a young troubled man, whose girl friend was killed during an illegal abortion.
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, suspenseful, christian film
Plot: haunted house, ghost, haunted, supernatural, nightmare, hallucination, haunting, danger, supernatural ability, afterlife, family in danger, abortion ...
Time: 90s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Dark Places (1974)
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, hidden treasure, murder, supernatural, danger, estate, curses spells and rituals, hospital, mentally unstable, mental illness, love affair ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The House Across the Street (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Amy has moved east from Kansas, determined to start a new life. She thinks she has found the perfect small quiet town, a great neighborhood on a quiet street. As she moves into her brand new apartment, eager to start a dream job, happy to befriend ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, serious, scary, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, new neighbor, new house, haunting, apparition, haunted house, ghost house, supernatural power, haunted, supernatural, supernatural horror
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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London Voodoo (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When ambitious analyst Lincoln Mathers (played by Doug Cockle) relocates his family from New York to London, his wife Sarah (Sara Stewart) discovers a new disturbing power and becomes hostage to an ancient spirit. As Mathers notices that the family ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, couples, family relations, curses spells and rituals, ghost, couple relations, danger, mysterious character, family problems, parents and children, gory, intrigue ...
Place: london, europe, england, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 5.0
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Apartment 143 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light ...
Style: scary, serious, bleak, mockumentary, suspense ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, family in danger, found footage, demonic possession, levitation, father daughter relationship, doctor, haunted, psychic, mental illness ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa
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House of Bad (2013)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Yearning to break free from their sordid pasts, three sisters unite for a simple plan: steal enough drugs to set themselves up for a new life. But when the eldest sister Teig decides they're going to hide out in their old, abandoned family ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, family relations, on the run, drug dealing, survival, starting over, supernatural power, murder, haunted house, woman peeing, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
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13 Curses (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jacobo is a young sculptor that returns to native city, Santiago of Compostela, to see his mother, locked up a psychiatric hospital for to kill to her husband, when he believed she dead years ago. To their arrival, visions of Mateo, his dead father ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending ...
Plot: missing person, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, supernatural, friendship, family problems, homecoming, mental illness, danger, death in the family, captivity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Dark Mirror (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The story about a photographer who moves her family into a home filled with mirrors which seem to reflect a different reality.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, serious, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, mental illness, mentally unstable, danger, zombie, family problems, woman in danger, stalking, supernatural, gory, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Blackwood (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home to move into; things finally ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, tense
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, uncover truth, danger, mentally unstable, folk horror, supernatural horror, violence, death, mind game, folklore ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Skeptic (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the mysterious death of his Aunt, a confirmed skeptic lawyer, Bryan Becket, dismisses reports that her house is haunted and moves in. Immediately occurrences begin he cannot explain. And beyond the occurrences there is something about the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: haunted house, afterlife, lawyer, ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, doll, supernatural, danger, haunted, family problems, domestic disturbance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Psalm 21 (2009)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Henrik is a young father who lives in Stockholm, constantly plagued by nightmares with his deceased mother. One day, he receives the news that his father, father, who lives in a remote village, it is drowned and died. The circumstances of drowning ...
Style: serious, psychological, scary, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot: uncover truth, supernatural, losing-it hero, clergy, religions or cults, church, on the road, dealing with death, farm, ghost, murder, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Devil's Hand (2014)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Five young Amish girls accused of being Satan's children must fight for their lives when their devout community elders insist they be "cleansed" before turning 18.
Style: scary, suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, missing person, possession, life is a bitch, woman in danger, religions or cults, social relations, society, murder, amish, scared ...
Time: victorian era, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Brotherhood III: Young Demons (2002)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A group of devil-may-care teenagers discover they've mistakenly called upon the Prince of Darkness in this flashy horror story.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, homoerotic, erotic ...
Plot: supernatural, imaginary, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, legends and myths, good versus evil, supernatural ability, rivalry, escapades, youth, danger, gay ...
Time: middle ages, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.
Style: scary, gothic, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, world war two, supernatural horror, child in peril, haunting, afterlife, death of child, death, haunted, ghost story ...
Time: 1940s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1941, year 1940
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.0
 2K
Moscow Zero (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, stylized, psychological, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: supernatural, ghost, priest, investigation, survival, rescue, danger, escapades, supernatural ability, underground, occult, vampire ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.6
 3K
The Evil (1978)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Style: atmospheric, grindhouse, slasher, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, devil, supernatural, exploitation, haunted, demon, macabre, trapped in a building, erotica, 666, occult ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.6
 2K
Acacia (2003)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Korean horror film about an adopted young boy with a strange link to an old, dead acacia tree. As the boy settles in to his new home, the tree comes to life. When the family who adopted him becomes pregnant, he is to go back to the orphanage, and ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Plot: orphan, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, obsession, ghost, supernatural ability, danger, parents and children, adoption, adopted son, extreme ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
House of the Damned (1996)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Will and Maura, despite their marital problems, decide to come to Ireland and live on Maura's ancestral estate, bringing with them their daughter Aubrey. But soon weird happenings around the house lead a local priest to confess that ...
Style: independent film, mind bending, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, haunted, infidelity, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, american abroad, doll, child in peril, mansion, parent child relationship, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Dream Within a Dream (2011)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Six high school students, WILL, CHARLIE, BARTOK, TODD, STEVIE and LINDA, are handed invitations to a party by the school’s mysterious and enigmatic new student, SADDLER. However, once they enter Saddler’s house, they are each somehow magically ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, homoerotic ...
Plot: supernatural, high school student, witch, black magic, youth, supernatural ability, danger, confined, teenage life, estate, curses spells and rituals, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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