Movies like La Llorona

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La Llorona (2019)
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La Llorona (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: Guatemala, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A tale of horror and fantasy, ripe with suspense, and an urgent metaphor of Guatemalan recent history and its unhealed political wounds.
Style: suspense, rough, thought provoking, bleak, disturbing, psychotronic, social, psychological horror, mind blowing, period piece
Audience: adult
Plot: protest, trial, war crime, indigenous people, folk horror, death, alzheimer's disease, grandfather, servant, guilty verdict, ghost, teenager, wedding, macabre, freak, resistance, gender, thoughtful, war criminal, water, hospital, maid, photograph, swimming pool, funeral ...
Place: guatemala
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, disturbing, suspenseful and bleak films with plots about death, murder, danger, ghost, fear, supernatural and deadly mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like La Llorona: Glimpse (2006), Paradise Now (2005), Game Over (2005), An Ordinary Man (2017), The Cannibal Man (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Glimpse (2006)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Morten is a young medical student who's Japanese girlfriend dies under mysterious circumstances. When strange things begin to happen around him, he tries to find out who she really was. He discovers that her family is haunted by a curse, a ...
Style: psychotronic, bleak, scary, suspense
Plot: supernatural, curse, able to see the dead, nightmare, supernatural power, father son relationship, ghost, good versus evil, fear, hospital, death, flashback ...
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95%
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Paradise Now (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Netherlands, Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paradise Now is filmed from the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel. This is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.
Style: disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, controversial, depressing ...
Plot: terrorism, politics, freedom, friendship, suicide, muslim, conflict, israeli palestinian conflict, manipulation, islam, self sacrifice, israeli ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: middle east, palestine, israel, jerusalem, maghreb ...
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86%
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Game Over (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Finland, Spain, UK, Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: ...
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, bleak, rough ...
Plot: true crime, murder investigation, trial, murder trial, murder, friendship, double murder, prison, police, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, jail, father son relationship ...
Place: finland
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An Ordinary Man (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A war criminal in hiding forms a relationship with his only connection to the outside world - his maid.
Style: rough, suspense, bleak, scary, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: war criminal, maid, rivalry, love, disorder, love and romance, escapades, life is a bitch, female nudity, criminal, fugitive, young boy ...
Place: former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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The Cannibal Man (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man, Marco, working as a butcher, accidentally kills a taxi driver. His girlfriend Paula wants to go to the police so he has to kill her too. He then has to kill his brother, his brother’s fiancée and his father, who have become ...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, psychotronic, terrifying, dark drama ...
Plot: cannibal, serial killer, exploitation, murder, gay, taxi, macabre, killer, freak, misfit, 666, extreme ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 5.6
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Our Evil (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man with spiritualist powers is told by his mentor that a demonic entity is returning to destroy his daughter's soul, and that he should take drastic measures to prevent this from happening.
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: supernatural, demon, serial killer, paranormal investigation, paranormal phenomena, supernatural power, violence, paranormal, peril, murder, exorcism, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Under the Shadow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Jordan, Qatar, Iran
Duration: 84 min.
Story: As a mother and daughter struggle to cope with the terrors of the post-revolution, war torn Tehran of the 80s, a mysterious evil begins to haunt their home.
Style: suspense, intense, stylized, creepy, post-horror ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, brutality, danger, war, ghost, supernatural power, mother daughter relationship, djinn, haunted house, paranormal, paranormal activity, female warrior ...
Time: 80s
Place: middle east, iran, maghreb, jordan, tehran ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Bad Seed Returns (2022)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, scary, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage life, teenager, murder, school, graphic violence, fear, teenage girl, youth, psychopath, brutality
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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The Suicide Manual (2003)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a group suicide, two journalists investigate the cycle of suicides caused by spirits bound by the Suicide Manual.
Style: bleak, tense, suspense, rough, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, suicide, suicide by hanging, suicide by poison, extreme, scoop, group, double suicide, failed suicide, teen suicide, euthanasia, suicide by gunshot ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Loon Lake (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Eager to escape the grief and nightmares of the city, Louis Olsen travels to Southwest Minnesota, seeking the peace of the rural countryside. When he accidentally disturbs the grave of a supposed local 'witch' Mary Jane Terlinden, what ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: curse, witch, ghost, isolation, legend, nightmare, pastor, undead, small town, cemetery, torture, ritual ...
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Clash (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Egypt, France, Germany, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Inspired by a real event , Clash takes place almost entirely in a riot van during a demonstration in Cairo after the removal of President Morsi in 2013.
Style: suspense, emotional, rough, disturbing, political ...
Plot: arab, muslim, egyptian revolution, humiliation, death, journalist, riot, protest, chaos, street riots, lynching, nurse ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s
Place: egypt, africa, middle east, maghreb, cairo egypt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Ixcanul (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Guatemala, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: María, a 17-year-old Kaqchikel Maya, lives with her parents on a coffee plantation at the foot of an active volcano. She is set to be married to the farm's foreman. But María longs to discover the world on the other side of the mountain, a ...
Style: sincere, realistic, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: poverty, teenage life, unfulfilled love, love and romance, youth, arranged marriage, coming of age, volcano, mother daughter relationship, feminist, native, wedding planning ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, latin america, guatemala
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.1
 27
GH5 (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After the sudden loss of his fiancee Emma, Matt becomes obsessed with finding life after death. For seven years, Matt and his younger brother Michael visited over one hundred Ghost House cases in the U.S.- every one of them turning into a ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, tense, scary ...
Plot: paranormal phenomena, paranormal, ghost, young adult, murder, death, chase, violence, deadly creature, vengeance, demon, peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Bunker (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore underground ...
Style: serious, rough, psychological, disturbing, spooky ...
Plot: world war two, ghost, soldier, military, danger, isolation, bunker, wartime life, escapades, plague, hitler, nazi ...
Time: year 2001, 20th century, 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.2
 4K
Grimm Love (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In Germany, as graduate student Katie Armstrong researches cannibal killer Oliver Hagen for her thesis, she becomes obsessed with her subject and ultimately plunges into a lifestyle similar to Hagen's and the thousands of people like him.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, rough, controversial ...
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, mental illness, gory, murder, obsession, psychopath, dangerous attraction, self discovery, uncover truth, danger, life is a bitch ...
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 3.7
 745
The Voices (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Angry and upset after a sudden breakup with her fiancé, Grace Crawford seeks sanctuary at the remote home of her sister, Catherine. It becomes clear that Catherine is suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, much like their late mother, who had taken ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, bleak, psychological, psychotronic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: schizophrenia, hearing voices, death of mother, sister sister relationship, suicide, mysticism, dream, danger, death, life & death, hallucination, brutality ...
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52%
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Heks (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A grieving British girl unravels her murdered mother's secrets connected to a South African witch doctor's curse. She wants to put an end to this haunting hex by traveling to South Africa, but instead it casts her deeper into sinister ...
Style: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, fear, murder, chase, death, violence, paranormal, evil, deadly creature, peril, supernatural power, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.1
 130
Haunted House (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Romano and his men are ambushed in one military operation. Romano almost gets killed but wakes up after staying in coma for several days. His life will never be the same again. He resigns from the military and goes into seclusion in their Baguio ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending
Plot: supernatural power, family relations, fight, danger, road trip, murder, ex soldier, premonition, male female relationship, freak accident, seeing dead people, destiny ...
Place: the philippines, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Bride (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Han and Hao are about to get married soon when Hao picks up a strange red envelope on the street and then all hell breaks loose with a vengeful supernatural bride wreaking havoc on his life.
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, wedding, supernatural, supernatural power, vengeance, revenge, supernatural ability, love and romance, couples, paranormal investigation, curses spells and rituals, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan
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48%
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Rustom (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Rustom Pavri, an honourable officer of the Indian Navy shoots his friend Vikram to death after discovering that his wife Cynthia had an affair with the rich businessman. The Commander surrenders himself to the Police immediately and admits to have ...
Style: patriotic, tense, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: naval officer, murder, love, danger, patriot, death, rivalry, friendship, youth, escapades, trial, courtroom ...
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47%
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13 (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, black and white, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: overdose, murder, life is a bitch, depression, visceral, reward, contests and competitions, danger, fish out of water, social decay, profanity, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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47%
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The Promise (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Ib and Boum decide to commit suicide together in Bangkok in 1997. After reneging on the promise, the vengeful ghost of Ib returns 20 years later to haunt Boum and her 15 year old daughter, Bell.
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, bleak
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suicide, revenge, mother and daughter, supernatural power, woman in danger, paranormal phenomena, killings, escapades, curses spells and rituals, mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
We Are What We Are (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this reimagining of the 2010 Mexican film of the same name, director Jim Mickle paints a gruesome portrait of an introverted family struggling to keep their macabre traditions alive, giving us something we can really sink our teeth into.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, tense, creepy ...
Plot: cannibalism, cannibal, rain, small town, gory, family drama, macabre, nudity, death, religion, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, delaware
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47%
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Dead of Night (1974)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young soldier who was thought to be killed in the line of duty in Vietnam returns home shortly thereafter, much to the confusion of his family. Upon his return, he exhibits strange, withdrawn behavior and begins wandering the streets at night.
Style: psychotronic, slasher, grindhouse, scary, independent film ...
Plot: vampire, undead, vietnam war, hitchhiker, zombie, military, canuxploitation, supernatural, soldier, gory, homecoming, paranormal ...
Time: 70s
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Haunted (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Set in the beautiful winter landscape of Norway, Haunted follows Catherine as she travels back to her old family estate after her father's death. When locals start telling stories of disappearances and possible murders, she is forced to ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, enigmatic
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Time: 21st century
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Incident in a Ghostland (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things ...
Style: suspense, psychological, exciting, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: nightmare, home invasion, serial killer, ghost, sister sister relationship, insanity, sisters, female protagonist, doll, danger, paranoid schizophrenia, violence ...
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I Know When You Are Going to Die (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Siena is able to see signs that people will die. The sign appeared on Brama, someone she loves. Siena tries hard to prevent Brama's death.
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: death, violence, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability, spirit, peril, supernatural, supernatural power, fear, chase, vengeance, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.3
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I Stand Alone (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, psychological, bleak, controversial ...
Audience: adult
Plot: loneliness, incest, butcher, revenge, violence, alienation, nihilism, insanity, existentialism, macabre, violent, obsession ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A horror film based on a real-life mass murder that took place in 1966. Richard Franklin Speck was a mass murderer who systematically tortured, raped and murdered eight student nurses from South Chicago Community Hospital in 1966.
Style: slasher, tense, rough, disturbing, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, sexual abuse, murder, psychopath, violence spree, confined, hostage, journalism, maniac, misogynist, brutality, psychiatrist ...
Time: 60s, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place: chicago, usa, dallas texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Bed Number 6 (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Doctor Bianca Valentino is hired to cover the night shift in the ward of a pediatric hospital. She finds herself immersed in an environment that, behind its reassuring image, hides a terrifying secret linked to its past as a children's asylum. ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot: supernatural horror, supernatural ability, macabre, evil, evil force, paranormal phenomena, parents and children, vengeance, child murder, redemption, paranoia, catholicism ...
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