Movies and TV shows like Shadows House

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Shadows House (2021)
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Shadows House (2021)
Original name: シャドーハウス
Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: A faceless clan lives in a large mansion, masquerading as nobles. Their caretakers are living dolls who spend their days cleaning up the dirt the tenants leave behind. But there’s a deeper mystery at play… and the secret of the house will be unveiled.
Style: anime, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, gothic, visually appealing, dark fantasy, contemplative
Plot: doll, mansion, friendship, youth, chase, supernatural ability, uncover truth, haunted house, old dark house, brainwashing, parasite, toys, red herring, supernatural, spirit, cleaning, ghost, escapades, society, supernatural power, toy
Time: 21st century
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out anime, captivating, tense and exciting films and TV series with plots about supernatural, friendship, supernatural ability, supernatural power, youth, escapades and friends mostly in Animation, Fantasy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Shadows House: Otherside Picnic (2021), Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (2021), Alice & Zouroku (2017), Dark Gathering (2023), The Urara of Labyrinth Town (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dr. Ramune: Mysterious Disease Specialist (2021)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: So long as people have hearts, there will be those with worries and concerns. Those hearts are then invaded by something strange, causing them to show strange physical symptoms. These ailments, called "mysterious diseases," exist unseen to ...
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Otherside Picnic (2021)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Friendless college girl Sorawo finds a door to another world one day — a strangely post-apocalyptic-feeling Otherside with serene emptiness, which becomes her new “special place.” There, she meets one other human, the beautiful and independent ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bungo Stray Dogs Wan! (2021)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The peaceful days of the very popular work Bungou Stray Dogs are here. The characters of the Armed Detective Agency and the Mafia are in miniature form?! Due to Atsushi and co. becoming cute, this is a different experience to the original work—a ...
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Alice & Zouroku (2017)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: The story centers on a little girl called Sana, who is one of the children that holds the power of "Alice's Dream," an ability that enables her to materialize anything she imagines. After escaping a lab where she was a test subject, ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dark Gathering (2023)
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Story: The story centers on Keitarou Gentouga, who has the ability to be a spirit medium. In junior high school, he got someone else wrapped up in a spirit possession incident, and he has been a shut-in for more than two years. As he reintroduces himself ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Urara of Labyrinth Town (2017)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: This is Meiro-machi (Labyrinth Town), the town of fortune-telling. In town, there is a fortune-telling shop called Urara, where girls aspiring to be fortune-tellers come from all over the country. Chiya, who was raised in the mountains, comes to the ...
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Story: Based on the best selling Kaidan Restaurant line of ghost story anthologies by Miyoko Matsutani and illustrators Yoshikazu Takai and Kumiko Kato. Each episode contains three short stories, an"appetizer", "entree" and ...
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Gleipnir (2020)
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Story: Shuichi Kagaya is an ordinary high school kid in a boring little town. But when a beautiful classmate is caught in a warehouse fire, he discovers a mysterious power: he can transform into a furry dog with an oversized revolver and a zipper down his ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
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TV show
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Country: Japan
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TV show
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TV show
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