Movies like The Haunting of Alcatraz

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The Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)
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The Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)
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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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, serious and suspense films with plots about supernatural, danger, ghost, murder, deadly, death and haunted house 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), Laddaland (2011), Sorum (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
The Wind of Fear (2007)
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, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, mentally unstable, isolation, confined, mental institution, supernatural, vengeance, uncover truth, danger, murder, death, gays and lesbians ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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56%
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Furnace (2007)
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, murder, danger, rivalry, confined, supernatural, investigation, police detective, violence, paranormal, law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.2
 3K
Laddaland (2011)
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, tense, dark, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, family in danger, family relations, supernatural, parents and children, death, black cat, haunted, paranormal activity, evil force, fear, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Sorum (2001)
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: scary, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, domestic disturbance, murder, family problems, danger, estrangement, asian, extreme, vampire ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Before Someone Gets Hurt (2018)
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: suspenseful, brutal, scary, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: supernatural, investigation, haunted house, ghost, paranormal activity, danger, brutality, insanity, transformation, death, murder, witch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie (2011)
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, masquerade, stop motion, night, sea, castle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Horror in the High Desert 2: Minerva (2023)
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: bleak, serious, scary, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: found footage, missing person, supernatural, missing woman, corpse, investigation, danger, missing man, death, desert, mysterious disappearance, woman
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37%
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A Near Death Experience (2008)
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, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, talking to the dead, serial killer, death, new neighbor, fugitive, flashback, train, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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37%
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Bedlam (2011)
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, bleak, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, mental illness, apartment building, medium, vengeance, supernatural ability, ghost, haunted house, danger, murder, mental institution ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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37%
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Altar (2014)
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, esoteric ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, vengeance, danger, murder, isolation, on the run, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, haunted, occult ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, yorkshire
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36%
The Haunting of Whaley House (2012)
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: ghost, possession, murder, survival, supernatural, danger, legends and myths, haunted, haunting, haunted house, woman with a gun, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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35%
Prison of the Dead (2000)
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, supernatural, ghost, danger, survival, prank, buddies, curses spells and rituals, supernatural power, funeral ...
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34%
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014)
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, danger, demon, ghost, haunted house, found footage, curses spells and rituals, murder, demonic possession, twists and turns, religions or cults, investigation ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Cold Blood Canyon (2007)
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
Plot: murder, ghost, sexual fantasy, danger, supernatural, teenage life, hollywood, death, neighbor, haunting, sex, legend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Neverlake (2013)
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, serious, scary, tense, slasher ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, father daughter relationship, hidden truth, lake, obsession, danger, death, family problems, life is a bitch, uncover truth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
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I Zombie: The Chronicles of Pain (1998)
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, suspenseful, offbeat ...
Plot: body horror, confined, virus, living dead, macabre, isolation, gory, danger, supernatural, survival, violent content, zombie ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, london
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32%
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The Maid (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is now haunting and terrorizing the family. Joy works to uncover the reason behind the former maid’s disappearance.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, teenager, murder, victim, who done it, fear, murder investigation, chase, vengeance, violence, paranormal investigation, uncover truth ...
Place: thailand
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32%
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The Innkeepers (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, spooky, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, paranormal investigation, macabre, hotel, paranormal, ghost story, fear, paranormal activity, haunted, workplace, amateur detective ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, connecticut, usa
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31%
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Awakened (2013)
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, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Grindstone Road (2008)
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, haunted house, supernatural, family relations, haunted by the past, danger, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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31%
Bram Stoker's Van Helsing (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: England, 1897. Abraham Van Helsing receives a letter from his former student Dr John Seward requesting his urgent assistance in the northern town of Whitby, where his fiancée Lucy is showing all the signs of vampirism. Van Helsing follows the ...
Style: gothic, gothic horror, psychological, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: vampire, female vampire, dracula, death, friendship, romantic rivalry, death of loved one, supernatural power, vampire bite, evil, supernatural ability, love and romance ...
Place: london
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31%
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We Go On (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 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, suspenseful, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, pursuit, occult, parallel universe, twists and turns, spirituality, haunting, overdose, airport ...
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30%
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The Crypt (2009)
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, cemetery, crypt, struggle for survival, deadly creature, murder, treasure hunt ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa
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30%
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The Complex (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Nursing student Asuka (Atsuko Maeda) has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her new room, she is awoken by a strange scratching sound coming from the apartment of her neighbor, a ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: curses spells and rituals, ghost, danger, riddles and clues, supernatural, death, extreme, haunted, scoop, hunted, family problems, retirement home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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29%
Suicide Forest Village (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: One day a mysterious box arrived and a curse began to spread all over. The source of the box is 'Jukai Village'. The village is hidden in Jukai Forest, a suicide spot that once you enter it, you can never come out.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychotronic, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: curse, suicide, forest, supernatural, danger, death, cursed object, supernatural power, murder, society, cursed, violence ...
Place: japan
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29%
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The Canal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy ...
Plot: supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, haunted house, protagonist as suspect, husband wife relationship, xmas, tragedy, adultery ...
Time: 2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 2.7
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A Nun's Curse (2019)
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, bleak, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: curse, murder, friends, abandoned building, evil nun, secret identity, mysticism, fear, supernatural, evil, prison, paranormal activity ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Ripper's Revenge (2023)
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: psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: murder, investigation, murder investigation, serial murder, murderer, private investigation, killing spree, murder mystery, undercover, puzzle, killings, homicidal maniac ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Restless Souls (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young couple and their daughter move into a rambling old house. Soon, an increasingly alarming string of events and supernatural disturbances connects the house, and them, with a series of unsolved murders committed three years earlier. They are ...
Style: serious, scary, suspenseful, enigmatic, psychotronic
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, danger, couple relations, family relations, parent child relationship, research, supernatural power, couples, child murder, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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