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Synchronic (2019)
 6.2
 40K
Synchronic (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Style: suspense, psychological, lovecraft, tense, captivating, scary, philosophical, atmospheric, enigmatic, surreal ...
Plot: time travel, drug, best friend, brain tumor, paramedic, time, investigation, racism, ambulance, chemotherapy, alligator, swamp, parallel universe, uncover truth, crime investigation, life & death, shark, apocalypse, monster, serial killer, time loop, puzzle, hospital, surrealism, contact ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
Place: new orleans, louisiana
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, psychological thriller and dark films with plots about blood, fear, death, murder, supernatural, paranoia and flashback mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Synchronic: The Endless (2017), Annihilation (2018), Frequency (2000), Old (2021), Take Shelter (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Endless (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
Style: emotional, suspense, psychological thriller, lovecraft, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: time loop, brothers, suicide, ufo, supernatural, brother brother relationship, brother, childhood trauma, camp, cosmic horror, danger, human nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 357K
Annihilation (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style: suspense, psychedelic, psychological, disturbing, lovecraft ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: female protagonist, creature, dna, mutation, scientist, expedition, research, genetic mutation, terror, biologist, transformation, mission ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: chicago, florida, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 115K
Frequency (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style: psychological, feel good, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: time travel, radio, father son relationship, investigation, parallel universe, butterfly effect, time, altering history, murder, serial killer, changing the past or future, rescue ...
Time: future, year 1969, year 1999, year 2000, y2k ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 159K
Old (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
Style: suspense, mysterious, tense, psychological, psychedelic ...
Plot: island, vacation, rapid aging, time, aging, medical experiment, island prison, ocean, race against time, family vacation, held captive, trap ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.3
 107K
Take Shelter (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, ambiguous ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, insanity, nightmare, obsession, paranoia, end of the world, nervous breakdown, dream, twists and turns, fear, delusion ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place: ohio, peru, usa, columbus ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 800K
Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 19K
Resolution (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what ...
Style: scary, surreal, serious, suspenseful, mumblecore ...
Plot: friendship, drug addict, supernatural, cosmic horror, buddies, danger, wilderness, isolation, woods, time, addiction, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 35K
The Limey (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, cult classic, non-linear, stylized ...
Plot: investigation, revenge, vengeance, father daughter relationship, ex convict, hitman, death of daughter, gangster, murder, shootout, englishman abroad, mansion ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, england, usa, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.2
 38K
The Empty Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style: psychological, suspense, lovecraft, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, supernatural, suicide, investigation, cosmic horror, danger, teenager, death, riddles and clues, legend, experiment, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2020s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 2019 ...
Place: missouri, himalaya
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Invisible Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Currently unknown.
Style: scary, suspense, surprise ending, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, stalking, stalker, sadist, home invasion, domestic abuse, invisibility, homicidal maniac, domestic violence, murder, violence against women, suicide ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future
Place: california, san francisco, bay area
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Last Night in Soho (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.
Style: scary, gothic, suspense, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: time travel, murder, female serial killer, rape, brothel, fashion designer, grandmother granddaughter relationship, plot twist, nightmare, nostalgia, ghost, macabre ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1960, year 1969, year 1967
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.8
 30K
Antebellum (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Style: brutal, psychological thriller, slasher, suspense, rough ...
Plot: slavery, racism, plantation, brutality, captivity, freedom, humanity, writers, black, racial slur, african american, female warrior ...
Time: 2020s, future, 19th century, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., north carolina, louisiana, new orleans, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
 13K
Don't Let Go (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
Style: suspense, disturbing, scary, tense, psychological ...
Plot: time travel, evidence, phone terror, black, family in danger, terror, murder mystery, murder, murder investigation, murderer, investigation, evil ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Unforgettable (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, memory, vengeance, justice, false accusation, race against time, conspiracy theory, haunted by the past, police detective, danger ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A stressed-out police officer struggles not to give in to the paranoia that grips his small mountain town as bodies turn up after each full moon.
Style: suspense, scary, horror comedy, dark comedy, dark ...
Plot: werewolf, serial killer, investigation, monster, christmas, small town, murder, snow, killing spree, loss of father, violence, chase ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Jacob's Ladder (2019)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.
Style: psychological, suspense, dark, sexual, terrifying ...
Plot: danger, african american, blood, life & death, getting home, death, brother, war, macabre, twists and turns, home invasion, drinking ...
Time: 2010s
Place: usa, atlanta georgia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
 93K
Flatliners (1990)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Five medical students want to find out if there is life after death. They plan to stop one of their hearts for a few seconds, thus simulating death, and then bring the person back to life. A science fiction thriller from the early 1990's with a ...
Style: scary, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot: afterlife, supernatural, medical student, near death experience, hallucination, suicide, medical experiment, experiment gone awry, obsession, bullying, manipulation, memory ...
Time: 80s, 90s, distant future, 20th century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.2
 95K
Angel Heart (1987)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, detective, satanic, scary ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, private detective, satan, voodoo, devil, amnesia, missing person, incest, supernatural, nudity, plot twist ...
Time: year 1987, year 1955, 50s, 20th century, year 1918 ...
Place: new orleans, southern usa, new york, louisiana, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 8.0
 845K
Donnie Darko (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates him to commit a series of crimes.
Style: psychological, surreal, mind bending, atmospheric, independent film ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, time travel, psychology, imaginary friend, insanity, schizophrenia, parallel universe, surrealism, suburbs, time loop, social misfits, youth ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, 2000s, future, 20th century ...
Place: virginia, america, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
 186K
Pi (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style: surreal, cerebral, black and white, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, obsession, computer, surrealism, paranoia, alienation, cyberpunk, psychology, schizophrenia, philosophy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place: new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
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 ⇓
18%
 6.4
 50K
Unsane (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mental institution, stalking, psychopath, mental illness, maniac, mental patient, murder, stalker, psychiatric ward, sexual assault, fear ...
Time: 2010s
Place: boston, portugal, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Flatliners (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the ...
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological horror, surprise ending, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: medical experiment, hospital, haunted by the past, afterlife, experiment, friendship, hallucination, death, medical student, near death experience, medical, supernatural ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her sceptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through ...
Style: suspense, ambiguous ending, psychological, comedy drama, philosophical ...
Plot: suicidal, dying, female friendship, depression, surrealism, female protagonist, doctor, women, life & death, fear, telephone call, swimming pool ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
It Comes at Night (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Style: suspense, minimal cast, rough, apocalyptic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: infection, pandemic, post apocalypse, interracial couple, fear, paranoia, dog, apocalypse, murder, infected, hopelessness, forest ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.2
 77K
The Dead Zone (1983)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, stephen king, dark hero, serial killer, supernatural ability, coma, car accident, destiny, macabre, investigation, premonition, murder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, 70s
Place: maine, usa, new hampshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 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 ⇓
17%
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 ⇓
17%
 6.8
 66K
I See You (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, suspenseful, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: home invasion, kidnapping, infidelity, serial killer, murder, dysfunctional family, search party, disappearance, investigation, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, small town ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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