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File 253 (2015)
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File 253 (2015)
Original name: Archivo 253
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story: In 2013 a psychiatric clinic which served for more than 50 years caring for patients in Mexico City was demolished. A few months before its demolition, four young men came to investigate the clinic, determined to discover the truth about rumors of strange and paranormal events, recording everything with which they encounter. Today, the whereabouts of these four young men are unknown, remaining only fragments of their recordings.
Style: psychotronic, scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, mockumentary
Plot: found footage, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, mental institution, dark secret, ghost, psychopath, supernatural, afterlife, isolation, haunted house, danger, haunted by the past, missing person, paranormal investigation, psychiatric hospital, deadly, crimes

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about ghost, supernatural, danger, haunted house, found footage, deadly and paranormal mostly in Horror, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like File 253: Grave Encounters (2011), Terrified (2017), The Borderlands (2013), Episode 50 (2011), Paranormal Incident (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Grave Encounters (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A crew from a paranormal reality television show lock themselves in a haunted psychiatric hospital. They search for evidence of paranormal activity as they shoot what ends up becoming their final episode.
Style: scary, suspenseful, suspense, demonic, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, paranormal, mental institution, paranormal investigation, claustrophobia, abandoned hospital, paranormal investigator, maze, haunting ...
Time: 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The St. Francisville Experiment (2000)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: According to local legend, the ghosts of tortured slaves still haunt New Orleans' Lalaurie House. For The St. Francisville Experiment, a paranormal researcher, a self-proclaimed psychic, a Louisiana historian, and a filmmaker were given digital ...
Style: scary, suspense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: afterlife, found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, danger, gory, cons and scams, paranormal, mansion, experiment, haunted ...
Time: 90s
Place: louisiana, usa
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Terrified (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Police commissary Funes and three researches of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbia of Buenos Aires.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, spooky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: macabre, paranormal investigation, paranormal investigator, paranormal phenomena, reanimated corpse, haunted house, dead child, living dead, supernatural, death of boy, fear, terror ...
Place: argentina, south america, buenos aires argentina
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The Borderlands (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.
Style: scary, demonic, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, folk horror, church, catholic priest, religions or cults, supernatural, suicide, uncover truth, paganism, clergy, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Episode 50 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Teaming up for the first time for a special episode of a supernatural reality TV show, two rival crews get more then they bargained for when they make physical contact with a ferocious spirit of terrifying power. They must band together before it ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, found footage, danger, survival, haunted house, haunted, witch, supernatural, violent content, media, deadly, indoor
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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Paranormal Incident (2011)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The infamous Odenbrook Sanitarium closed after a mass suicide occurred within its walls. Sixty years later, six college students armed with cameras and recording equipment venture into the asylum to prove the existence of the paranormal. Thrills ...
Style: scary, serious, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, mental institution, supernatural, survival, haunted house, danger, isolation, confined, haunted by the past, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Crying Dead (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: In 2008 a cast and crew set out to shoot a pilot for a paranormal reality show. During the first night vague apparitions became violent hauntings. One by one they lost their lives. The Whispering Dead is a diary of the final tortured moments of real ...
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Plot: ghost, supernatural, found footage, mental institution, danger, supernatural power, disappearance, hospital, paranormal, paranormal investigation, witch, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sightings: Heartland Ghost (2002)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, mind bending
Plot: haunted house, ghost, investigation, haunted by the past, afterlife, supernatural, danger, supernatural ability, curses spells and rituals, filmmaking, psychic, poltergeist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Knock Knock 2 (2011)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On the night before Halloween, four friends decided to go on a self made tour of famous Hollywood murders and celebrity haunted houses. The tour led them to a house known as 1666. They have been missing ever since.
Style: suspenseful, scary, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: found footage, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, survival, danger, hollywood, isolation, confined, halloween, missing person, friends ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.7
 828
Rorschach (2015)
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Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Two skeptic researchers investigate a mother's claim that an unknown presence may be trying to communicate with her 7-year-old daughter.
Style: dark, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: date night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Levenger Tapes (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Detectives in a remote town pore through every frame of a troubling tape to find the whereabouts of three missing college students. The chilling footage becomes more and more disturbing when the students come upon the bloody dress of an 8-year-old ...
Style: scary, mockumentary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sanatorium (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they ...
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Plot: afterlife, found footage, ghost, mentally unstable, mental institution, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, hospital, danger, violence, murder, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.8
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Dark Remains (2005)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After their daughter is brutally murdered in their home, a grieving young couple, Allena and Julie Pkye; escape the city to find solace in the mountains. Julie photographs an abandoned prison she finds in the woods. Upon developing the prints, she ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, obsession, ghost, losing-it hero, family in danger, isolation, family problems, haunted by the past, murder, death in the family, haunted house, haunted ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Paranormal Activity 2: Tokyo Night (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Style: tense, scary, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 4K
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Streamer (2023)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.4
 4K
The Pact II (2014)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Greystone Park (2012)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
An American Ghost Story (2012)
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 3.1
 4K
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Duration: 92 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.5
 2K
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.2
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
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