Movies like The Mandela Effect

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The Mandela Effect (2019)
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The Mandela Effect (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A man becomes obsessed with facts and events that have been collectively misremembered by thousands of people. Believing the phenomena to be the symptom of something larger, his obsession eventually leads him to question reality itself.
Style: suspense, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, action thriller, twisted, psychotronic, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: trippy, escape from reality, obsession, hallucination, parallel universe, memories, mansion, society, mentally unstable, artificial intelligence, mental disorder, psychological manipulation, name calling, mind meld, deja vu, technology, funeral, little girl, mind control, death of daughter, suicide by hanging, voice over narration, simulated reality, metaphysics, landlord ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: africa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, psychological and disturbing films with plots about danger, death, obsession, deadly, husband wife relationship, murder and hallucination mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like The Mandela Effect: Tilt (2017), Prodigy (2017), Acceptable Risk (2001), Mirage (2018), Cold Storage (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tilt (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: All seems normal with Joseph and Joanne. Joanne is pregnant with their first child. Life in their little urban house is cozy and familiar. But something is off about Joseph. He doesn’t seem excited about the baby. Work on his documentary is ...
Style: suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot: mental disorder, husband wife relationship, pregnancy, pregnant woman, filmmaker, male objectification, creative block, personality change, inspiration, mentally unstable protagonist, mental illness, mentally unstable ...
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100%
 5.9
 7K
Prodigy (2017)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jimmy is a committed child psychologist who uses his own playbook, but when he is brought in to work with Ellie, he is completely unprepared for his subject—a 9-year-old psychopathic genius with nothing to lose. As he begins to understand the ...
Style: suspense, thought provoking, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: telekinesis, child, child psychologist, supernatural ability, psychoanalysis, secret service, twists and turns, danger, supernatural power, brutality, mysticism, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Acceptable Risk (2001)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An ambitious medical researcher discovers a mold that he believes could be the foundation of a miracle cure for degenerative disease
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense, mystical ...
Plot: supernatural, couple relations, experiment gone awry, quarantine, medicine, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, miraculous event, car chase, violence, death, murder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 64K
Mirage (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: On November 9, 1989 (the same day that Wall of Berlin falls), Nico is a 12 years old boy passionate to videotape himself playing guitar, being care lovely by her single mother María. This same night, when starts a 72-hours storm, Nico watches a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: parallel universe, time travel, time paradox, time, uncover truth, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, fantasy world, alternate timeline, investigation, disappearance, alternate universe ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, year 1989, year 2001, 2000s ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Cold Storage (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A backwoods recluse steals the body of a young girl killed in a violent car crash, locking her in the freezer of his isolated shed as her sister and boyfriend search frantically for any clues to her whereabouts. The woman of Clive's dreams may ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, missing person, mentally unstable, confined, danger, isolation, hostage, woods, car accident, graphic violence, corpse, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
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 5.1
 944
Mosquito State (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Isolated in his austere penthouse overlooking Central Park, obsessive Wall Street data analyst Richard Boca sees ominous patterns. His computer models are behaving erratically, as are the swarms of mosquitos breeding in his apartment, an infestation ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: mosquito, mental illness, mental disorder, identity crisis, hallucination, psychopath, surrealism, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, supernatural, animal attack, male pubic hair ...
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27%
 6.2
 6K
Uncanny (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: For ten years, inventor David Kressen has lived in seclusion with his inventions, including Adam, a robot with incredible lifelike human qualities. When reporter Joy Andrews is given access to their unconventional facility, she is alternately ...
Style: cyber, tense, suspenseful, scary, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: artificial intelligence, reporter, scientist, robot, genius, laboratory, escapades, cyberpunk, danger, androids, distopia, androids and robots ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.9
 38K
Altered States (1980)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A research scientist (William Hurt) explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, ...
Style: psychedelic, surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot: surrealism, science, drug, experiment gone awry, obsession, hallucination, transformation, isolation, trippy, university, body horror, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, future, 70s, year 1967, 60s
Place: harvard university, san francisco, california, new york, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Starfish (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A unique, intimate and honest portrayal of a girl grieving for the loss of her best friend. That just happens to take place on the day the world ends as we know it.
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: end of the world, grieving, death, girl, cosmic horror, apocalypse, danger, society, mental disorder, snow, post apocalypse, loner ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 3.6
 726
Empty (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A suspenseful drama about a young couple on a road trip who get caught in the midst of a worldwide gas shortage.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: couple relations, chaos, social differences, on the road, couples, life is a bitch, danger, escapades, global warming, distopia, apocalypse, epidemic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.5
 126K
Gerald's Game (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
Style: psychological, suspense, psychological horror, disturbing, scary ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: stephen king, survival, childhood trauma, hallucination, mind game, perseverance, sex game, split personality, childhood memory, symbolism, child abuse, eclipse ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: america, alabama, new orleans
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25%
 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 ⇓
24%
 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 ⇓
24%
 2.7
 895
Alienate (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A couple on the brink of ending their marriage spend a weekend in different cities. After a cataclysmic event strikes, the husband embarks on a physical and emotional quest to return home as a nation prepares for the worst.
Style: scary, tense, psychological, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot: apocalypse, alien invasion, husband wife relationship, human versus alien, chaos and mayhem, space and aliens, humanity, near death experience, alien contact, rescue, escape attempt, worldwide chaos ...
Place: usa
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24%
 4.8
 11K
Ratter (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Emma is a young and beautiful graduate student just starting a new life in New York City. Like most people her age, she is always connected - her phone and laptop are constant companions, documenting her most intimate moments. What she doesn't ...
Style: cyber, psychological, suspenseful, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot: stalker, found footage, social media, sex maniac, stalking, maniac, hacker, hunted, laptop, life, realism, psychopath ...
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23%
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The Binding (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young woman's faith is put to the ultimate test when she is forced to uncover the truth behind her husband's horrific visions.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, disturbing, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: priest, obsession, self sacrifice, belief in god, family in crisis, family drama, a vision, danger, husband wife relationship, death threat, faith
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23%
 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 ⇓
23%
We're All Going to the World's Fair (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Reality and fantasy begin to blur when a teenager, alone in her attic bedroom, immerses herself in a role-playing horror game online.
Style: suspense, dark, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: teenager, loneliness, role playing, internet, isolation, psychological abuse, escapades, supernatural horror, escape from reality, psychological trauma, psychological manipulation, mysticism ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Roman (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Roman (Lucky McKee) is a lonely young man who yearns to find love, happiness and companionship. Tormented by his ungrateful co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium as a welder in a local factory, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, independent film ...
Plot: isolation, murder, factory, psychopath, dangerous attraction, serial killer, obsession, destructive relationship, investigation, mentally unstable, stalking, danger ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.3
 6K
Demonic (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young woman unleashes terrifying demons when supernatural forces at the root of a decades-old rift between mother and daughter are ruthlessly revealed.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: supernatural, demonic possession, paranormal phenomena, demon, supernatural power, supernatural ability, violence, ghost, danger, creature, evil, rescue ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Midnight Swim (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of ...
Style: mumblecore, psychological, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: found footage, lake, sister sister relationship, sisters, women, family problems, diving, female protagonist, puzzle, mother daughter relationship, underwater, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Scopia Effect (2014)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Reincarnation goes horribly wrong releasing dark forces across time. Basia accesses parts of her mind that should never be tampered with. Past lives merge with present as her reality becomes distorted, she fights for her very existence.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: past life, reincarnation, memories, psychology, haunted by the past, psychological manipulation, moral dilemma, problem, false memory, female protagonist, life is a bitch, psychological torment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Jekyll + Hyde (2006)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Jekyll is a young science student who, along with his friend Mary, experiments with various drugs and compounds in order to create a personality-enhancing drug that he believes will turn him into the successful and popular person he so craves ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher, exciting ...
Plot: split personality, disorder, supernatural, obsession, mental illness, supernatural ability, misfit, addiction, experiment gone awry, suicide, jekyll and hyde, struggle ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 5.8
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Tau (2018)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Held captive in a futuristic smart house, a woman hopes to escape by befriending the A.I. program that controls the house.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, exciting, intelligent ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, escape attempt, kidnapping, experiment, woman in danger, laboratory, murder, security system, kidnapped woman, drone, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1968)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, gothic horror, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: jekyll and hyde, split personality, macabre, monster, twins, evil twin, mad doctor, switching roles, double life, couples, disorder, mad scientist ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.5
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The Hand (1981)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Style: suspense, psychological, scary, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, obsession, vengeance, comic book, brutality, midlife crisis, hallucination, family in danger, rivalry, cartoonist, christmas ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.8
 56
Perversion (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Ryan McNamara has been beaten, abused, witnessed slaughter, and been subjected to sexual torture. But that's nothing compared to what Ryan is about to do.
Style: psycho sexual, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: agoraphobia, psychological manipulation, fear, teenager, dark secret, psychological trauma, nightmare, childhood trauma, mentally unstable, rape, revenge, gang ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.3
 606
The Invitation (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Invitation, a 2003 movie starring Lance Henriksen. When an author invites his friends to his home on a private island, the guests realize they've been poisoned at dinner. The only way to receive the antidote from their twisted host will be ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot: guilt, danger, hallucination, self discovery, secret, island, society, revenge, outcast, antidote, poison, homeless man ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, retro ...
Plot: time loop, false accusation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, violence, afterlife, mental health, time travel, paradox, twists and turns, sexual abuse ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.4
 563
Girl in Woods (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After a tragic accident Grace is lost and alone in the Smoky Mountains. Grace's struggle for survival is made more complicated by her troubled past. Battling the demons in her mind may be the only way to come out alive.
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, grindhouse ...
Plot: forest, split personality, alone, survival, childhood trauma, marriage proposal, suicide, murder, trauma, lost, travel, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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