Movies and TV shows like The Head
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The Head (2020)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Japan
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Story:
Ten scientists trapped in a mobile science laboratory at the South Pole realize that one among them is a killer.
Style:
suspense, mysterious, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, mystical
Plot:
murder, investigation, survival, danger, research laboratory, fear, snow, mysterious event, apocalypse, religion, cold, ice, forensic, forensics, murder mystery, global warming, climate change, male nudity, isolation, catastrophe, doctor, rescue, deadly, mystery, search
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, south pole, scandinavia
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Most similar movies to The Head
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, disturbing and tense films and TV series with plots about murder, investigation, danger, deadly, death, murder mystery and supernatural mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Head: Harper's Island (2009), Slasher (2016), Rig 45: Murder at Sea (2018), Archive 81 (2022), The Outsider (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
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Story:
A group of family and friends travels to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They've come to laugh... to love... and, though they don't know it... to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets ...
Style:
serious, tense, scary, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, multiple suspects, murder, serial murder, friends, murderer, wedding, island, danger, whodunit, gory, threat ...
Place:
washington state
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
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Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of ...
Style:
anthology, slasher, tense, suspenseful, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, murder, friendship, survival, teenager, serial killer, betrayal, forest, fight, pursuit, blood, gay ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
When Andrea, a damage regulator from Benthos Oil, is sent out to Rig 45 two days before Christmas to investigate a fatal accident, the rig is hit by a hurricane and all communications lost. Soon, the crew realize that the accident is in fact a ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, tension, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
oil rig, murder, investigation, danger, betrayal, survival, isolation, catastrophe, riddles and clues, disorder, adaptation, police investigation ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.
Style:
mysterious, mystical, demonic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, supernatural horror, terror, cosmic horror, found footage, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, apartment building, occult, time travel, uncover truth, director ...
Time:
year 1994, 2020s, future, 90s, 1920s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
75%
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114K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
When an insidious supernatural force edges its way into a seemingly straightforward investigation into the gruesome murder of a young boy, it leads a seasoned cop and an unorthodox investigator to question everything they believe in.
Style:
mysterious, scary, detective, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
stephen king, murder, supernatural, mysticism, police investigation, unsolved crime, cold case, murder mystery, investigation, mysterious event, falsely accused, small town ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa, georgia, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story:
When the decomposed body of Melissa Young is found by a couple in their new flat, Detective Len Harper is determined to discover what happened to her and why nobody noticed she was missing.
Style:
captivating, serious, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, who done it, police investigation, multiple suspects, life is a bitch, loner, uncover truth, danger, one last case, social relations, investigation ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Fermont: A remote mining colony in the endless frozen hell that is Canada's far North. The body of a young exotic dancer is found and the Quebec City police sends one of their toughest, most experienced detectives to investigate. Céline sure ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
murder investigation, female detective, police protagonist, small town, police detective, policewoman, police investigation, female protagonist, police, who done it, uncover truth, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
TV show
Story:
The doomed passengers aboard a spectral bus head toward a gruesome, unknown destination in this deliciously macabre horror anthology series.
Style:
anthology, stylized, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
nightmare, wrong place wrong time, group of strangers, truck, fear, danger, suspicion, murder, ghost, death, driver, blood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: Russia
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Russia, 1959. A KGB major investigates the mysterious deaths of a group of nine student hikers in the Ural Mountains. Troubled by his past as a WWII veteran, he has a sixth sense and death seems to follow him around as he digs deeper into the ...
Style:
bad ending, harsh, suspenseful, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, student, danger, rocky mountains, survival, death, hiking, natural disaster, uncover truth, investigation, escapades, found footage ...
Time:
year 1959, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place:
russia, soviet union, ussr
Similarity:
100%
11K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Driving, lost and tormented in the night, primal fears of the dark and the unknown give way to fear that you have let the evil in, or that it is already there.
Style:
slasher, realistic, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, stranger, serial killer, brutality, paranoia, maniac, survival, forest, scarecrow, stalking, danger, wilderness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, england, somalia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Two detectives are dispatched to investigate the murder of a young girl on the outskirts of Dublin, but as the case of the missing children intensifies, both are forced to confront the darkness that lies in their past.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama, tense ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, investigation, police detective, forest, unsolved crime, mass child killing, forensics, hidden identity, psychological trauma, corpse, murder investigation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
dublin ireland, ireland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of a psychic, a priest, and a detective who fight unusual crimes committed by strange powers.
Style:
gothic, slasher, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
evil spirit, psychic, priest, forensics, religion and supernatural, supernatural, forensic, danger, child abuse, murder, investigation, possession ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
A paranormal researcher searches obsessively for a cursed home where something terrible happened to a mother and her child long ago.
Style:
scary, bleak, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
ghost, paranormal, supernatural, paranormal phenomena, demon, exorcism, murder, death, violence, fear, danger, evil ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
When an unidentified woman is found brutally murdered, Detective Molly McGee teams up with fellow cop, Alex O’Connell—with whom she shares a tragic past—to solve the crime.
Style:
suspense, detective, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot:
supernatural, death, murder, ghost, paranormal, murder investigation, paranormal phenomena, partner, evil, law enforcement, violence, peril ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
A mysterious and mortally contagious virus threatens the population of Annecy, in southeastern France. A desperate race against the clock envelops to find out where the virus came from and keep it from becoming an epidemic.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
Plot:
pandemic, virus, peril, society, dystopian future, camaraderie, violence, plague, murder, death, friends, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, switzerland
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story:
Yosuke Kobayashi, a detective assigned on a homicide unit, saw his wife killed by a serial killer, Shinji Nishizono. From a shock he suffered MPD (multiple personality disorder) and became Kazuhiko Amamiya. Soon after he managed to hunt down and ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, serious, detective ...
Plot:
police detective, investigation, murder, riddles and clues, psychopath, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, obsession, surrealism, body horror, superhero ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
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Story:
A horrific double murder rocks the lives of two families living side-by-side in isolated rural Scotland. But instead of focusing on the investigation, One Of Us explores the fallout for the grieving relatives, and the dark consequences that threaten ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, detective, psychological thriller
Plot:
murder mystery, criminal, family tragedy, cover-up, double murder, murder, killing, murderer, village life, villager, countryside, revenge ...
Similarity:
29%
564
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A mystery evil thriller which finds the truth of a recording tape containing mysterious serial killings and unidentified sounds in a small city.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot:
investigation, guilt, murder mystery, puzzle, secret, small town, dark secret, siblings, missing person, murder, tragic past, trauma ...
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Jake, the young new assistant manager of an ominous decrepit hotel called Ravenwolf Towers, explores his new workplace. Once the Mecca of Hollywood elite, the place is now but a ruin populated by freaks and run by a crazy inbred family.
Style:
unusual plot structure, disturbing, suspenseful, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, hotel owner, disfigured face, hotel manager, freak, mad doctor, violence, danger, male protagonist, youth, hotel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
When a gruesomely staged body is found, propped up on a mountain pass in the Alps close to the German-Austrian border, two detectives are sent to investigate. For German detective Ellie, this is the first real challenge of her career; her Austrian ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, detective, tense, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, danger, violence, police investigation, death, society, abduction, folk horror, murderer, brutality, life philosophy, blood ...
Place:
germany, alps, austria, central europe, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Sex, drugs and a gruesome murder. An edgy one night stand turns into a nightmare for Aditya, when he wakes up with blood on his hands. The evidence is stacked against him, but he doesn't remember the grisly crime. Is he guilty or not ?
Style:
tense, suspenseful, contemplative, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, murder investigation, murder mystery, uncover truth, youth, who done it, violence, evidence, police detective, partner, vengeance, partners against crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the stories of Stephen King, the series intertwines characters and themes from the fictional town of Castle Rock.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, anthology, enigmatic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stephen king, murder, violence, danger, death, investigation, paranormal phenomena, small town, blood, supernatural power, mysticism, interracial adoption ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
A rich heiress, Maria Sorokina, goes missing after a quarrel with her husband. Boris Novinsky, head of the police station, entrusts this case to a young detective, yesterday's intern, Alina Novinskaya, his daughter. It turns out that a maniac ...
Style:
tense, suspense, detective, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, serial killer, maniac, homicidal maniac, murder, police, police investigation, brutality, police officer, death, husband wife relationship, unfaithful husband ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Father Vergara—an exorcist, boxer and ex-convict—lives in a remote village in Spain. Hoping to be lost and forgotten, Vergara’s demons catch up to him.
Style:
dark, scary, disturbing, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
exorcism, vatican, clergy, curses spells and rituals, priest, religion and supernatural, catholicism, female nudity, god or devil, demon, religion, supernatural ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A film unit goes for a shoot deep into a forestThey settle at a place with bare minimal facilities run by a strange and quirky man called Setu.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, danger, deadly creature, characters killed one by one, rivalry, supernatural, filmmaking, fear, murder, isolation, woods, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Faroe Islands, Iceland
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The six-part series follows journalist Hannis Martinsson (Ulrich Thomsen), who unexpectedly receives a message from Sonja, a young Faroese woman who claims she is Hannis' daughter and that her life is in danger. Reluctantly returning home to ...
Style:
tense, detective, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, murder investigation, forensics, journalist, island, investigation, sleuth, investigative journalism, investigative reporter, journalism, family secret, corruption ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A series of murders alarm the police authorities, as strange symbolisms are traced to every crime scene. The eccentric professor of criminology Dimitris Lainis is asked to shed some light on the mystery.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
murder mystery, serial killer, masked killer, police, investigation, police detective, police investigation, murder investigation, partner, dishonesty, law enforcement, police officer ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s
Place:
greece
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Bjørn investigates the killing of his daughter. People around him believe she might have committed suicide, but he doesn't accept that. Both the stakes and the suspense rise relentlessly as Bjørn inches closer to the truth.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, tense, crime thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, murder, death of daughter, police, obsession, vengeance, forensic, danger, life is a bitch, disorder, forensics, police procedural ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Wunderkind author Mike Dolan achieved literary fame at age 21 with a steamy expose on his seemingly idyllic Maine town. Four years later, he hasn't written another word and reluctantly returns home in search of an antidote ... where he is ...
Style:
scary, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric
Plot:
amateur detective, mysterious death, conspiracy, investigation, supernatural, uncover truth, writer's life, creative block, danger, life is a bitch, small town, hometown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
Style:
anthology, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, female killer, killer, killing, attempted murder, murderer, psychological torment, serial murder, psychological trauma, psychology, murder mystery, criminal ...
Similarity:
28%
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