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The House of Dies Drear (1984)
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The House of Dies Drear (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young black man and his family move into a home in rural Ohio, and discover that during the Civil War it was used by a Dutch immigrant to smuggle runaway slaves to freedom. Soon they begin to suspect that the ghosts of slaves who passed through there are haunting the house.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful
Plot: slavery, blaxploitation, ghost, investigation, family relations, haunted house, supernatural, family life, supernatural ability, danger, family problems, on the run, estate, domestic disturbance, horse, treasure, slave, house, inheritance, church, african american, neighbor, father daughter relationship, mansion, moving ...
Place: usa, ohio

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Most similar movies to The House of Dies Drear

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and psychological films with plots about supernatural, danger, ghost, deadly, murder, supernatural ability and haunted house mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like The House of Dies Drear: A Crime of Passion (2003), Restless Souls (2005), The Echo (2008), Find Me (2014), The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Crime of Passion (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, woman in danger, who done it, couples, murder, dishonesty, danger, estate, murder investigation, adultery, inheritance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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95%
 4.7
 536
Restless Souls (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young couple and their daughter move into a rambling old house. Soon, an increasingly alarming string of events and supernatural disturbances connects the house, and them, with a series of unsolved murders committed three years earlier. They are ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, family relations, parent child relationship, research, supernatural power, couples, child murder, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.5
 6K
The Echo (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Bobby Reynolds is released on probation from Rikers and moves to the old apartment in East Village, New York, where his lonely mother lived and passed away. He finds a job as mechanic at the Houston Auto Repair shop owned by the supportive Hector ...
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, twisted ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, ex convict, riddles and clues, family problems, danger, domestic disturbance, parents and children, grudge, curses spells and rituals, gory, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, possession, murder, survival, supernatural, danger, legends and myths, haunted, haunting, haunted house, woman with a gun, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Find Me (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Plot: supernatural, danger, haunted by the past, vengeance, ghost, riddles and clues, woman in danger, wedding, macabre, haunting, rivalry, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Set at the turn of the century, this is the tale of Ellen Rimbauer who just received this mysterious mansion as a wedding gift from her new husband...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: stephen king, haunted house, ghost, afterlife, uncover truth, losing-it hero, woman in danger, infidelity, supernatural, mysterious character, dangerous attraction, supernatural ability ...
Time: 1900s
Place: washington state, usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 3.8
 768
Furnace (2007)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: prison, ghost, murder, danger, rivalry, confined, supernatural, investigation, police detective, violence, paranormal, law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Children's Play (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot: good versus evil, children, ghost, family in danger, dealing with death, danger, mentally unstable, family problems, siblings relations, supernatural power, possession, mother son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Eroded (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: "It is said that when left unhealed, the past can destroy our lives. When Billy Reid and his sister Sheila lose loved ones in a horrific accident, they must face the aftermath together. For Billy, that aftermath and the secrets that lie within ...
Style: psychological, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: haunted by the past, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, supernatural, supernatural ability, memory loss, family in crisis, loss, car accident, destiny, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.7
 3K
Dark House (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young man sets out on a trip that takes him to an abandoned mansion that holds the origins of his dark family legacy.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, demonic, cult horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted house, danger, on the road, escapades, estate, twists and turns, survival, gladiator, demon, freak ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot: serial killer, danger, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, rivalry, murder, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 5.2
 1K
The Glow (2002)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors. Matt (Dean Cain) and Jackie (Portia de Rossi) are living in NYC, brimming with that certain "glow" all newly-weds possess. They ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, tense
Plot: supernatural, domestic disturbance, supernatural ability, murder, couples, pregnancy, young couple, neighbor, old man, neighborhood, aggression, strange person ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to take charge, a family friend calls in Holmes and Watson to get to the heart of the mystery.
Style: detective, gothic, spooky, serious, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: sherlock holmes, curses spells and rituals, folk horror, whodunit, private detective, supernatural, riddles and clues, who done it, estate, deadly creature, danger, mysterious character ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Cold Blood Canyon (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Mr. and Mrs. Myers move into their highly coveted Beverly Hills home, they wonder why the price tag is too good to be true. Their daughter, Danielle, discovers the truth when a neighbor tells her one of the previous owners was murdered there ...
Style: scary, serious
Plot: murder, ghost, sexual fantasy, danger, supernatural, teenage life, hollywood, death, neighbor, haunting, sex, legend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.5
 686
Inhabited (2003)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After Brad and Meg move to a detached house in need of major repairs after a fire and decades of neglect, they're happy that cheerful teenage son Tyler behaves normally, for puberty. Young daughter Gina's stories about sometimes evil ...
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot: goblin, family relations, supernatural, ghost, riddles and clues, danger, family life, monster, psychiatrist, little creatures, psychiatric hospital, magical creature ...
Time: year 1955
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.7
 2K
Seance (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A psychic housewife and her husband become burdened with a kidnapped girl who escaped her assailant. Junko will not let her husband call the hospital or the police for purely selfish reasons. The girl dies while still in their house and her ghost ...
Style: tense, bleak, serious, psychological, scary ...
Plot: ghost, kidnapping, supernatural, supernatural ability, family problems, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, danger, missing child, police investigation, haunting, ouija ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 1.5
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The Raven (2006)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: As a child, Lenore was tormented by nightmares and obsessed with the dark poems and stories of Edgar Allan Poe. As the lead singer in a Los Angeles band, the adult Lenore (Jillian Swanson) finds herself, friends and colleagues haunted by a murderer ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, realistic, psychotronic ...
Plot: danger, serial killer, obsession, haunted by the past, woman in danger, rivalry, supernatural ability, murder, music band, good versus evil, supernatural, gory ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Sequel to the 2009 mezzo-mezzo supernatural horror purporting to be based on a true story in which a cancer-afflicted teen starts seeing things in the new Victorian house he and his family moved into.
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, scary, demonic ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, murderer, dead man, curses spells and rituals, new house, family in danger, danger, parents and children, haunted, doll ...
Time: 90s, year 2000, year 1993, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Haunting (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – ...
Style: gothic, suspense, psychological, demonic, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, evil, psychology, survival, insomnia, danger, domestic disturbance, destiny, vengeance, haunted ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.5
 836
Hellgate (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A western businessman, his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies.
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary, tense
Plot: ghost, supernatural, seeing dead people, parallel world, imaginary, nightmare, car accident, afterlife, death, son, wife, deja vu ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.4
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The Evictors (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the 1940s, a young couple moves into a remote house near a small town in Louisiana. The house has a history of violence that seems to be repeating itself…
Style: grindhouse, psychological, creepy, surprise ending, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, plot twist, macabre, killer, haunted house, village life, plague, afterlife, teenage life, curses spells and rituals, village, legends and myths ...
Time: year 1979, 1940s, 70s, year 1939, year 1934 ...
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
Style: detective, natural horror, serious, tense, scary ...
Plot: sherlock holmes, private detective, swamp, undercover, investigation, ghost, animal attack, estate, mind game, supernatural, supernatural ability, partners against crime ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Haunting of Winchester House (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A family moves in to look after the Winchester mansion for a few months, and soon find themselves terrorized by vengeful spirits. With the help of a paranormal investigator they'll unravel the mystery of the house.
Style: serious, tense, psychological, mockbuster, captivating ...
Plot: haunted house, ghost, danger, curse, estate, supernatural, curses spells and rituals, nightmare comes true, murder, haunted, haunting, phantom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Final (2009)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A family descends into a vortex of denial and paranoia after the death of the oldest son. Though labeled a suicide, the bizarre circumstances lead the mother, Helen, to believe there are darker forces at work
Style: serious, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, offbeat
Plot: losing-it hero, supernatural, religions or cults, chase, danger, family in danger, small town, curses spells and rituals, murder, occult, supernatural ability, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ohio
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48%
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Awakened (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.7
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Lost Boy (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Laura Harris's kidnapped son returns after eleven devastating years, what she thinks will be a dream come true turns out to be a family nightmare.
Style: sentimental, psychological, captivating, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: missing child, family conflict, family relations, mother son relationship, mother son reunion, mother love, uncover truth, danger, investigation, criminality, kidnapped, troubled youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Out of the Dark (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Colombia, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple and their daughter moves to Colombia to take over a family manufacturing plant, only to realize their new home is haunted.
Style: scary, suspenseful, dark, serious, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, family in danger, family relations, family problems, danger, couples, parents and children, legends and myths, summer, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south america, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The House on Pine Street (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A psychological horror about a young woman coping with an unwanted pregnancy after moving into a seemingly haunted house.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, relocation, pregnant woman, exorcism, paranormal activity, danger, demonic possession, evil, fear, neighbor, pregnancy ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Living with the Dead (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a local serial killer. All telling their story of how they died, and how their murderer is still out there. The detective investigating the murders ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary, spiritual ...
Plot: able to see the dead, supernatural, ghost, serial killer, police investigation, uncover truth, mysterious character, life is a bitch, who done it, psychopath, supernatural ability, supernatural power ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
When the Bough Breaks (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
Style: scary, rough, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, missing person, murder, investigation, mentally unstable, witnessing a crime, female police officer, police investigation, woman in danger, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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