Movies and TV shows like Detention

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Detention (2020)
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Detention (2020)
Original name: 返校
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Starts at Greenwood High School in the 1990s. Yunxiang Liu, a transfer student, steps into the forbidden area on the campus by accident, where she encounters the ghost of Ruixin Fang. Fang later unveils the hidden history and trauma over the past 30 years, and how a group of young students and teachers were persecuted as they fought for freedom in the era of censorship. Their stories keep coming back to the school like haunting nightmares, waiting to be told and revealed.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot: ghost, student, supernatural, demon, revenge, exorcism, heroes, violence, hunting, youth, death, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, rescue, chase, supernatural ability, evil, fear, couples, vengeance, rivalry, society, supernatural power, peril, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and bleak films and TV series with plots about curses spells and rituals, chase, supernatural ability, deadly creature, paranormal investigation, murder and death mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Detention: Kafr Delhap (2017), Hungry Ghosts (2020), The Darkness Between Us (2020), Ju-On: Origins (2020), Anjaan: Special Crimes Unit (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kafr Delhap (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A doctor travels to a damned hamlet, where there are no newborns, with many cases of girls and men possessed by Jinn, all of whom say that there is a woman who speaks to them and that she wants to take revenge on the whole hamlet.
Style: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic ...
Plot: girl, supernatural power, revenge, supernatural, ghost, violence, mission, hunting, paranormal phenomena, demon, peril, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: egypt
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Hungry Ghosts (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is unleashed, bringing the dead with him. As these spirits wreak havoc across the Vietnamese-Australian community in Melbourne, reclaiming lost ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural power, supernatural, deadly creature, friends, curses spells and rituals, vengeance, fear, friendship, paranormal phenomena, rescue, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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The Darkness Between Us (2020)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Denmark
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: When a new, mysterious student moves into a boarding school surrounded by a deep, dark forest, long-time students must face their inner darkness and darkness that arose a long time ago before their souls are sacrificed to the devil.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, scary, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: boarding school, pact with the devil, witch burning, revenge, vengeance, chase, fear, murder, violence, death, friends, characters in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Ju-On: Origins (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A paranormal researcher searches obsessively for a cursed home where something terrible happened to a mother and her child long ago.
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, demon, death, fear, chase, violence, murder, supernatural power, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Anjaan: Special Crimes Unit (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
TV show
Story: Two police officers, ASP Aditi Sharma the believer and ACP Vikrant Singhal the skeptic, investigate strange unsolved cases, while unnatural forces impede their efforts.
Style: suspense, bleak, psychotronic, tense, scary ...
Plot: police, supernatural, ghost, supernatural power, partner, youth, partners against crime, escapades, chase, friends, obsessive quest, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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La reine rouge (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 114 min.
TV show
Story: Michelle Beaulieu, a young woman of seventeen with a troubled past, attempts to operate in a society whose codes escape her. She discovers that murder turns out to be an easy solution. She realizes that morality has no more authority over her. What ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: teenager, female nudity, gang rape, rape, strong sexual content, revenge, ghost, murder, youth, monster, evil, supernatural power ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Etheria (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: From post-apocalyptic westerns to demented comedies to terrifying horror and gore, ETHERIA serves up the perfect blend of mind-bending and panic-inducing excitement from the best emerging women genre directors in the world. Each episode showcases a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, action packed, dark comedy ...
Plot: supernatural, supernatural power, vengeance, monster, paranormal, creature, evil, obsessive quest, rescue, exorcism, demon, loss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Return (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
Story: A tale of terror. Cathy Reed has been institutionalized most of her life because of Schizophrenia, as a child her parents thought she was possessed by demons and had her exercised by priests. Medical science saw different. Now decades later Cathy is ...
Style: suspense, psychotronic, bleak, scary, disturbing
Plot: supernatural power, supernatural, ghost, death, paranormal investigation, chase, murder, revenge, exorcism, victim, violence, hunting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Halfworlds (2015)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Thailand
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In the bustling streets and back alleys of Jakarta, a parallel world of bloodthirsty creatures from Indonesian mythology has lived alongside humans for generations. Taking on the appearance of humans themselves, the true identity of these ...
Style: psychotronic, bleak, disturbing, scary, suspense ...
Plot: parallel world, evil, death, supernatural ability, characters in danger, chase, revenge, mission, creature, supernatural, monster, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Whistler: Origins (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Venezuela
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the mid-nineteenth century, in a small Venezuelan village, Father Giovanni and a clerk write the story of a supernatural case that they have witnessed, is the story of a mysterious specter, which the people of the town have baptized as "El ...
Style: psychotronic, tense, psychological, scary, suspense
Plot: supernatural power, curse, supernatural, violence, abusive father, evil, victim, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, characters in danger, fear, supernatural ability ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
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ThirTEEN Terrors (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
TV show
Story: Every school has a past that people want to be concealed. There are things that happened that people don't want to talk about. There are students whom people want to forget. And there are secrets waiting for the day that they're revealed.
Style: suspenseful, scary, bleak, suspense, terrifying ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, curses spells and rituals, heroes, characters in danger, supernatural ability, deadly creature, killings, hunting, peril, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
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The Bride (2015)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Han and Hao are about to get married soon when Hao picks up a strange red envelope on the street and then all hell breaks loose with a vengeful supernatural bride wreaking havoc on his life.
Style: psychotronic, scary, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: ghost, wedding, supernatural, supernatural power, vengeance, revenge, supernatural ability, love and romance, couples, paranormal investigation, curses spells and rituals, paranormal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan
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Gates of Darkness (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A teen endures a terrifying exorcism in the hopes of unlocking shocking secrets about the church and his family.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, psychological, scary, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, exorcism, redemption, supernatural power, family relations, husband wife relationship, curses spells and rituals, society, rivalry, supernatural ability, murder, victim ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Residue (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
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Story: The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.
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Munafik 2 (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Malaysia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ustaz Adam has to help a friend whose village is corrupted by a group of misguided religionists lead by a sinister sorcerer. To make matter worse, Adam himself is also being mysteriously haunted by evil apparitions that keeps disturbing him from ...
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Evil Things (2017)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Revealing the horrifying stories of people who barely survived terrifying paranormal activity caused by possessed or cursed objects. Each twister mystery exposes the sinister secrets hiding within the most innocent items.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychotronic ...
Plot: paranormal, ghost, supernatural power, supernatural, vengeance, revenge, violence, chase, murder, fear, exorcism, rescue ...
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The Holzer Files (2019)
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Country: USA
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Story: Paranormal investigator Dave Schrader, psychic medium Cindy Kaza, equipment expert Shane Pittman and researcher Gabe Roth investigate terrifyingly true hauntings from the recently discovered case files of America's first ghost hunter, Dr. Hans ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: ghost hunter, ghost, haunted house, supernatural, chase, vengeance, curses spells and rituals, heroes, deadly creature, supernatural ability, characters in danger, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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77%
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Hausen (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
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Story: After the death of his mother, 16-year-old Juri and his father Jaschek move into a rundown housing complex on the city outskirts. While Jaschek tries to establish a new life for himself and his son, as caretaker of the building, Juri gradually ...
Style: scary, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted house, peril, paranormal, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation, society, victim, demon, deadly creature, exorcism, youth, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Psych-Hunter (2020)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
TV show
Story: Jiang Shuo is in the business of buying haunted houses and selling them. He crosses paths with Qin Yi Heng, a psychologist searching for his father, and Yuan Mu Qing who is the daughter of a warlord. Together, they partner up to fight against ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, bleak, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural power, youth, paranormal phenomena, rescue, revenge, obsessive quest, deadly creature, friends, evil, exorcism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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Observance (2015)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: supernatural, characters in danger, escapades, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, hunting, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, rescue, vengeance, loss, exorcism ...
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Place: australia
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Occurrence at Mills Creek (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young girl awakens to a nightmare as her pleas to be seen and heard by her sister are taken as supernatural occurrences in this stylistic and suspenseful short that is now a full-length feature film.
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: supernatural, death, woman in danger, characters in danger, evil, peril, violence, good versus evil, paranormal, female protagonist, vengeance, mission ...
Time: 21st century
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Door to the Other Side (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young couple awakens a terrible force when they attempt to socialize their reclusive neighbor.
Style: scary, psychotronic, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: paranormal, recluse, supernatural horror, haunted house, house, supernatural power, couple relations, supernatural, ghost, violence, characters in danger, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Always Be with You (2017)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Taxi driver David, who's doomed after a terminal cancer diagnosis, accidentally kills hotel owner Patrick in a car crash. Patrick's girlfriend takes over his hotel by a lake in Hong Kong, which is soon plagued by serial suicidal incidents.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, scary, psychotronic ...
Plot: ghost, police officer killed, characters in danger, revenge, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, supernatural, supernatural power, killings, evil, victim, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Dead Places (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An author who has dedicated his career to solving paranormal cases, returns home to South Africa to investigate the biggest mystery of his life: His sister's death in a water canal 20 years ago.
Style: tense, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: death, exorcism, death of sister, ghost, supernatural power, supernatural, paranormal investigator, peril, paranormal investigation, loss, revenge, demon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa
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Reunion (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A pregnant woman returns to her recently-deceased grandparents’ old family home to spend time with her estranged mother. What begins as a tenuous reunion slowly turns terrifying.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, scary, suspense, psychotronic
Plot: ghost, supernatural, pregnancy, mother daughter relationship, family relations, deadly creature, characters in danger, curses spells and rituals, chase, victim, youth, mission ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new zealand, oceania
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75%
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Priest (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Oh Soo Min is a former doctor, but he is now a Catholic priest. He performs exorcisms. Meanwhile, Ham Eun Ho is a doctor in the emergency room of a hospital. One day, Oh Soo Min goes to the hospital where Ham Eun Ho works. She gets involved with him.
Style: bleak, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, scary
Plot: priest, supernatural power, supernatural, supernatural ability, demon, exorcism, violence, murder, paranormal, rescue, evil, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Promise (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Ib and Boum decide to commit suicide together in Bangkok in 1997. After reneging on the promise, the vengeful ghost of Ib returns 20 years later to haunt Boum and her 15 year old daughter, Bell.
Style: scary, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic, bleak
Plot: ghost, supernatural, suicide, revenge, mother and daughter, supernatural power, woman in danger, paranormal phenomena, killings, escapades, curses spells and rituals, mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Urban Myths (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A group of high school seniors embark on a spring break camping trip to investigate the myths they had been researching and learning from their History teacher. During their trip, they stumble on an old haunted Indian Burial ground and get more than ...
Style: psychotronic, suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: paranormal, paranormal phenomena, mythology, revenge, violence, chase, ghost, demon, curses spells and rituals, peril, vengeance, deadly creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Echoes of Fear (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After inheriting her grandfather's house, a young woman must confront the mystery of his sudden death and the evil that hides inside.
Style: scary, suspense, psychotronic, unusual plot structure, bleak ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, exorcism, death, rescue, ghost, murder, paranormal phenomena, supernatural ability, loss, violence, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The House That Never Dies (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Story based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, which local legend says is haunted by the ghost of a Kuomintang official's wife, who committed suicide in the home around the time of the Cultural Revolution. ...
Style: bleak, scary, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: ghost, spirit, supernatural power, supernatural, rescue, family relations, mission, fear, violence, deadly creature, supernatural ability, paranormal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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75%
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