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The Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison in the world
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspenseful, stylized
Plot:
prison, supernatural, alcatraz, supernatural power, ghost, paranormal activity, twists and turns, macabre, murder, prison life, murder mystery, danger, imaginary, confined, secret, existence paradox, investigation, tragedy, chases and races, convict, levitation, death, night, deadly, young ...
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Most similar movies to The Haunting of Alcatraz
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and serious films with plots about supernatural, murder, danger, ghost, deadly, death and supernatural power mostly in Horror, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like The Haunting of Alcatraz: Last Night in Soho (2021), The Wind of Fear (2007), Furnace (2007), Sorum (2001), Jekyll and Hyde (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
gothic, suspense, postmodern, psychological horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
murder, time travel, fashion designer, rape, nostalgia, nightmare, brothel, female serial killer, plot twist, grandmother granddaughter relationship, female teacher, suicide of mother ...
Time:
60s, 2020s, year 1960, year 1969, year 1965 ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Claudia is a troubled teen confined in a very particular support center ruled with roughness by renowned psychiatrist Bernarda Alquicira. Coexisting with girls who have experienced similar trances, Claudia confronts horrible visions of Andrea, a ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, mentally unstable, isolation, mental institution, supernatural, confined, vengeance, uncover truth, danger, murder, death, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
55%
804
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A ghost story taking place at a maximum security prison. A detective (Michael Paré ) is called to investigate a string of unexplained deaths as the prisoners fear for their lives.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, ghost, danger, murder, supernatural, rivalry, confined, investigation, police detective, violence, paranormal, law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
1K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have traumatic histories, and over time the ghosts of their past come to light.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
ghost, domestic disturbance, family problems, estrangement, danger, supernatural, murder, asian, extreme, vampire, taxi, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lawyer Gabriel Utterson is astonished to learn that his lifelong friend Henry Jekyll has apparently committed murder and suicide in the space of one night. A lengthy “confession” written in Jekyll’s own hand tells an incredible story – that ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, gothic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
murder, dual identity, transformation, split personality, investigation, identity crisis, macabre, human nature, moral ambiguity, mad scientist, confession, laboratory ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
15 international directors reunite to re-tell Edgar Allan Poe's most popular terror tales.
Style:
atmospheric, scary, stylized, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, danger, terror, blood, death, chess, hara kiri, stop motion, masquerade, castle, sea, night ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tim and his team are the rising stars of the ghost hunting game. One thing they all like better than a good haunt is a great prank. When the team arrives at a new investigation, they cannot figure if the occurrences are part of some elaborate master ...
Style:
brutal, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural, investigation, paranormal activity, haunted house, ghost, danger, brutality, death, transformation, insanity, murder, witch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Mr. and Mrs. Myers move into their highly coveted Beverly Hills home, they wonder why the price tag is too good to be true. Their daughter, Danielle, discovers the truth when a neighbor tells her one of the previous owners was murdered there ...
Style:
scary, serious, creepy, suspenseful, psychological horror ...
Plot:
sexual fantasy, ghost, supernatural, danger, murder, teenage life, hollywood, death, neighbor, haunted house, macabre, paranormal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
beverly hills
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Bedlam was a British supernatural drama television series created by David Allison, Neil Jones and Chris Parker. It first aired on 7 February 2011 on Sky Living and Sky Living HD. The series finale was aired on 15 March 2011. In December 2011, it ...
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, psychological, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, mental illness, apartment building, medium, vengeance, supernatural ability, sex, ghost, danger, murder, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, serial killer, talking to the dead, new neighbor, death, fugitive, sex, train, flashback ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A young man, while out on a field trip, gets bitten by an ill looking person. When he comes back home he starts getting sick and a slow but steady degeneration begins in his body. He is turning into a zombie. He leaves his girlfriend and moves into ...
Style:
depressing, scary, serious, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Plot:
body horror, confined, virus, macabre, living dead, violent content, isolation, gory, survival, supernatural, danger, masturbation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
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:
disturbing, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, danger, death, rescue, paranormal investigation, chase, violence, murder, ghost, deadly creature, haunted by the past, peril ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Kristof, an eccentric rich kid, tricks his high school friends into getting back together for a reunion of sorts, under the pretense of a funeral. The group of twenty-somethings is forced to spend the night in an old abandoned witches' prison. ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, serious, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
seance, zombie, prison, ghost, prank, supernatural, survival, danger, buddies, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, death ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, possession, murder, survival, supernatural, danger, haunted, haunting, female nudity, meme, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, tense, serious, gothic ...
Plot:
death, folk horror, ghost, lake, father daughter relationship, hidden truth, female protagonist, supernatural, obsession, danger, family problems, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
The lonely Estrella is an intelligent teenager and good student but is outcast in school. She spends most of her time alone in school or at home, reading horror books or watching horror movies, while her widow mother Angela works as a nurse in a ...
Style:
surreal, scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
youth, school, supernatural, haunted by the past, deadly creature, danger, social misfits, family relations, figment, house, parents and children, nosferatu ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, danger, family relations, haunted by the past, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Six young criminals break into hidden catacombs underneath their town and attempt to steal jewelry buried from the "Great Depression" only to find inhabitants guarding the precious belongings. After being trapped in this dark maze of ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, danger, confined, escapades, supernatural, catacomb, crypt, deadly creature, struggle for survival, murder, treasure hunt, violence ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Seventeen-year-old Jesse has been hearing terrifying sounds coming from his neighbor’s apartment, but when he turns on his camera and sets out to uncover their source, he encounters an ancient evil that won’t rest until it’s claimed his very ...
Style:
scary, demonic, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, danger, demon, found footage, ghost, curses spells and rituals, demonic possession, murder, paranormal activity, female nudity, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2012, 80s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
30%
519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. Hidden deep underground beneath the west cell block is a sub-basement structure that has not been entered in 100 years. Inside are the skeletal ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, disturbing, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
prison, supernatural, investigation, ghost, supernatural ability, legends and myths, murder, religions or cults, danger, mythical creature, curses spells and rituals, mentally unstable ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
4K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.
Style:
scary, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, supernatural, isolation, on the run, danger, vengeance, murder, curses spells and rituals, cursed, supernatural power, haunted ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, yorkshire
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a deadly secret rots the mind of a grieving widower, the decision to work alone on a deserted island morphs into a terrifying race to save his sanity and his life.
Style:
captivating, tense, thrilling, disturbing, mystical ...
Plot:
supernatural, death, ghost, secret, evil spirit, vengeful ghost, remote island, mysticism, supernatural horror, paranormal phenomena, confronting the past, tragic past ...
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
As a broken woman obsessed with revenge desperately searches for the monster who destroyed her family, she unexpectedly finds herself in a surreal and frightening world.
Style:
suspenseful, surreal, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
werewolf, witch, zombie, revenge, danger, obsession, rivalry, supernatural, vengeance, gory, riddles and clues, woman ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One year on from the notorious Ripper murders, London is terrorised once again by a series of brutal killings. When gruesome letters from the Ripper begin landing on his desk, an innocent reporter finds himself drawn into a deadly mystery, ...
Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder mystery, serial killer, investigation, killing, homicidal maniac, serial murder, murder investigation, killing spree, murder, private investigation, puzzle, who done it ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A group of travelers are forced to seek shelter inside an abandoned jail where a notorious nun named Sister Monday had once been assigned and was suspected of murdering prisoners.
Style:
suspense, psychotronic, suspenseful, serious, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
curse, murder, secret identity, mysticism, fear, abandoned building, friends, evil nun, danger, evil, life & death, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
In 2018 a string of tragedies unfold in the high desert of North Eastern Nevada. A woman was found dead and another would vanish along the same stretch of remote highway. Could these events be linked to the infamous 2017 disappearance of outdoorsman ...
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, serious, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, investigation, supernatural, missing woman, desert, isolation, missing man, death, corpse, danger, disappearance ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A family moves into a new house where they gradually begin to encounter paranormal and horror events.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, family relations, family in danger, paranormal activity, supernatural, parents and children, death, black cat, haunted, evil force, fear, old dark house ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
china, asia, thailand
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that ...
Style:
mumblecore, demonic, psychological thriller, spooky, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, cursed, pursuit, occult, parallel universe, spirituality, twists and turns, haunting, medium ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An old doll seemingly returns to life to wreak havoc.
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, scary, bleak, stylized ...
Plot:
supernatural, doll, killer doll, evil doll, violence, supernatural power, monster, supernatural ability, loss, victim, creature, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
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