Movies like Nightbooks

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Nightbooks (2021)
 5.8
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Nightbooks (2021)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way out of this twisted place.
Style: suspense, dark, exciting, tense, captivating, disturbing, dark fantasy, splatter, minimal cast, horror comedy ...
Audience: kids
Plot: witch, evil wizard, female villain, friendship, library, writers, magical, spell, cat, evil witch, attempted escape, escape, magician, captivity, teamwork, captive, struggle for survival, child protagonist, held captive, child, black magic, magic, supernatural, youth, kidnapping ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york

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Most similar movies to Nightbooks

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychotronic, scary, fairy tale and spooky films with plots about supernatural, witch, witchcraft, magic, danger, wizard and teenager mostly in Fantasy, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like Nightbooks: The Circle (2015), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Holidays (2016), The Witches (1990), The Blair Witch Project (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Lewis goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house that contains a mysterious ticktock noise. When Lewis accidentally awakens the dead, the town's sleepy facade magically springs to life with a secret world of witches and ...
Style: spooky, entertaining, humorous, fairy tale, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, horror for children, adult
Plot: haunted house, halloween, magician, spell, child, medieval, paranormal, book of magic, magic, wizard, youth, sword and sorcery ...
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: michigan, germany
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100%
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The Circle (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An otherworldly evil is slipping into a small town in Sweden. Six unrelated girls have been chosen to fight this evil. Together they must overcome their differences in order to save themselves and the world.
Style: satanic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, chick flick
Plot: witch, friendship, magic, high school, small town, witchcraft, evil, demon, murder, bullying, save the world, friends ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style: gothic, dark, scary, dark fantasy, atmospheric ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, family friendly
Plot: supernatural, witch, murder, ghost, investigation, supernatural horror, small town, magical, horseman, witchcraft, goth, legends and myths ...
Time: 18th century, georgian era, 19th century, victorian era, year 1999 ...
Place: new york, madagascar, america, britain, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 12K
Holidays (2016)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
Style: anthology, christmas horror, suspense, psychological, dark ...
Plot: christmas, halloween, st. patrick's day, snake, pregnancy, holiday, holiday horror, new year's eve, monster, blood, coach, torture ...
Time: year 2016
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Witches (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, dark fantasy, stylized, scary ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: witch, magic, good versus evil, hotel, coven, supernatural, mouse, boy, chocolate, halloween, childhood, young heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Blair Witch Project (1999)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.
Style: suspense, scary, dark, independent film, mockumentary ...
Audience: date night, teens, adult
Plot: found footage, witch, supernatural, urban legend, woods, fear, folk horror, survival, lost in the woods, wilderness, videotaping, panic ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century, year 1994
Place: maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 155K
Hocus Pocus (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After 300 years of slumber, three sister witches are accidentally resurrected in Salem on Halloween night, and it us up to three kids and their newfound feline friend to put an end to the witches' reign of terror once and for all.
Style: fairy tale, sweet, scary, mystical, gothic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, date night ...
Plot: witch, halloween, magic, supernatural, teenage life, childhood, witchcraft, spell, children, sisters, halloween party, cat ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 18th century, 17th century
Place: massachusetts, usa, new england, salem massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Craft: Legacy (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 20 years later sequel to The Craft (1996).
Style: mystical, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: witch, teenage witch, witchcraft, magical power, teenager, high school student, supernatural, high school, religion, evil, wizard, female protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Worst Witch (2017)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Join Mildred Hubble in CBBC's adaptation of The Worst Witch books, written by Jill Murphy.
Style: entertaining, humorous, feel good, light, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen fantasy
Plot: witch, friendship, witchcraft, magic, bully, teenage witch, teenager, wizards and magicians, magical power, female friendship, girl, teenage girl ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
Story: Ignoring threats to his life, Harry returns to Hogwarts to investigate – aided by Ron and Hermione – a mysterious series of attacks.
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, dark fantasy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: magic, harry potter, witch, magical, boarding school, fantasy world, creature, wizard, teacher, supernatural, youth, chosen one ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 2002, year 1992, year 1993 ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
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Twitches Too (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Reunited witch twins Camryn and Alex adjust to their new life as supernatural beings while at the same time trying to maintain a normal existence in this sequel to the magical Disney Channel original movie Twitches. But they soon find themselves ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, teen, spooky ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: witch, supernatural, good versus evil, halloween, magic, curses spells and rituals, family relations, escapades, youth, heroes, danger, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 152 min.
Story: Harry Potter has lived under the stairs at his aunt and uncle's house his whole life. But on his 11th birthday, he learns he's a powerful wizard -- with a place waiting for him at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. As he ...
Style: fairy tale, entertaining, exciting, touching, teen ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: harry potter, magic, wizard, witch, friendship, fantasy world, magical, boarding school, chosen one, youth, children, school ...
Time: year 2001, 80s, year 1991, year 1981, 20th century ...
Place: england, europe, london, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Return to Halloweentown (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: As Halloweentown prepares to celebrate its 1,000th anniversary, Marnie Piper and her brother Dylan return to Witch University, where trouble is in session from the Sinister Sisters and from someone who's plotting to use Marnie's powers for ...
Style: feel good, exciting, semi serious, humorous, spooky ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: halloween, witch, heroic mission, college, witchcraft, magic, imaginary, mysterious character, youth, danger, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Halloweentown II: Kalabar's Revenge (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The Cromwell clan live in the real world, except for their grandmother who lives in Halloweentown, a place where monsters go to escape reality. But now the son of the Cromwells' old enemy Kalabar has a plan to use the grandmother's book to ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, stylized, humorous, teen ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, pre-teens ...
Plot: witch, halloween, supernatural, witchcraft, teenage witch, heroes, religions or cults, friends, curses spells and rituals, rivalry, imaginary, real world ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Halloweentown (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On her 13th birthday, Marnie learns she's a witch, discovers a secret portal, and is transported to Halloweentown — a magical place where ghosts and ghouls, witches and werewolves live apart from the human world. But she soon finds herself ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: halloween, witch, teenage girl, magic, youth, witchcraft, good versus evil, disorder, supernatural ability, save the day, rescue, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Halloweentown High (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, feel good, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: halloween, witch, magic, supernatural, witchcraft, holiday, friends, hereditary gift of witchcraft, monster, friendship, vengeance, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
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Inkheart (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, UK, USA, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
Style: fairy tale, touching, exciting, dark fantasy, serious ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: adventurer, fictional reality, young heroes, imaginary, supernatural, writers, family relations, book, magic, parents and children, father daughter relationship, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2008, middle ages
Place: alps, italy
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100%
The Book of Masters (2009)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A beautiful and kind girl, daughter of Baba Yaga, finds a magical stone Alatyr while walking in a field. It transforms her heart into a stone and puts her under a queer curse. She is to be the evil Countess of Stones and live in a stone tower. If ...
Style: fairy tale, touching, humorous, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: magic, evil wizard, wizards and magicians, friendship, evil witch, evil sorcerer, showdown, good versus evil, sorceress, wizard, magician, black magic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Gretel & Hansel (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Style: dark, fairy tale, dark fantasy, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: witch, witchcraft, folk horror, danger, good versus evil, forest, black magic, supernatural power, blood, child, supernatural, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Dark Shadows (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Australia, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, parody, humorous, gothic horror ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family friendly, date night
Plot: vampire, witch, eccentric family, immortality, dark humor, witchcraft, magic, supernatural, curse, werewolf, ghost, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, 70s ...
Place: new england, usa, liverpool, england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 293K
1408 (2007)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, ghost, hotel, fear, stephen king, isolation, survival, trapped, evil, insanity, writers ...
Time: year 2007, y2k, 15th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.7
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Rorschach (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
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
Plot: found footage, haunted house, evil, investigation, danger, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, ghost, girl, fear, paranormal, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Harry, Ron and Hermione continue their quest to vanquish the evil Voldemort once and for all. Just as things begin to look hopeless for the young wizards, Harry discovers a trio of magical objects that endow him with powers to rival Voldemort's ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, atmospheric, sad, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, chick flick, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: magic, magical, witch, supernatural, sorcerer, imaginary, chosen one, dragon, wizards and magicians, friendship, harry potter, good versus evil ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, year 1997, 20th century, year 1998 ...
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Siblings Lucy, Edmund, Susan and Peter step through a magical wardrobe and find the land of Narnia. There, the they discover a charming, once peaceful kingdom that has been plunged into eternal winter by the evil White Witch, Jadis. Aided by the ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, exciting, epic, scenic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: fantasy world, witch, good versus evil, legends and myths, magic, magical, medieval, imaginary kingdom, parallel world, winter, sword fight, heroes ...
Time: 1940s, year 2005, future, year 1940, 20th century
Place: antarctic, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Scarlet's Witch (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A lonely girl befriend a witch in the woods who has alter motives in this adult fairy tale.
Style: fairy tale, suspenseful, thrilling, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: witch, intrigue, evil witch, unrequited love, problem, supernatural power, teenager, black magic, female protagonist, tragic love, supernatural, magical ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Witches of East End (2013)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Melissa de la Cruz's best-selling novel, "Witches of East End" centers on the adventures of Joanna Beauchamp and her two adult daughters Freya and Ingrid -- both of whom unknowingly are their family's next generation of ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspenseful, serious, feel good ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: witch, supernatural, magic, creature, supernatural ability, immortality, curses spells and rituals, family secret, spell, magical, evil force, siblings relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: long island, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.0
 80K
The Haunting (1999)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – ...
Style: gothic, suspense, psychological, demonic, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: haunted house, ghost, supernatural, evil, psychology, survival, insomnia, danger, domestic disturbance, destiny, vengeance, haunted ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Witches in the Woods (2019)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of students head off for a snowboarding adventure on an untouched piece of land. When their SUV mysteriously stalls in a brutal snowstorm they are not only faced with the reality of freezing to death but a fate even more horrifying. For they ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, splatter, slasher ...
Plot: supernatural, survival, danger, youth, murder, friendship, snow, woods, witch, witchcraft, vacation gone wrong, backwoods ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 3.9
 278
Rows (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Rows is a psychological thriller, a Gothic fantasy inspired by Grimm's tales. A young woman, Rose, is tasked by her developer father to deliver an eviction notice to a reclusive woman in a ramshackle farmhouse. The woman has strange powers, ...
Style: gothic, scary, fairy tale, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: witch, curse, abduction, supernatural power, surrealism, supernatural, supernatural ability, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, obsessive quest, killings, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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