Movies like Son 2021
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Son (2021)
7K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
Style:
suspense, demonic, scary, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, splatter ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, cannibalism, single mother, illness, female warrior, freak, satanic cult, occult, runaway, single parent, moral dilemma, child illness, dark past, haunted by the past, dark secret, mother child relationship, confronting the past, shark, apocalypse, supernatural, hospital, evil child, parenthood, demonic possession, motel ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
ireland, kansas
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Most similar movies to Son
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful and tense films with plots about supernatural, murder, danger, ghost, violence, gore and deadly mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Son: Cinderella (2006), The Monitor (2011), The Demon Murder Case (1983), The Canal (2014), Unrest (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Though having never once in her life seen her father, Hyun-soo has never felt his absense, as there is a perfect mother for her. Her mother is also a renowned plastic surgeon, so she is never lonely, surrounded by girls who want beauty consultations ...
Style:
suspense, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
ghost, nightmare, darkroom, obsession, supernatural, legends and myths, family relations, family problems, cinderella, murder, haunted by the past, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After escaping an abusive husband, Anna and her 8 year old son move to a secret location in a giant apartment building. Terrified that her ex-husband will find them she buys a baby monitor to keep in her son's room at all times. But strange ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
delusion, haunted by the past, social worker, family relations, danger, murder, ghost, nordic, mother son relationship, mental disorder, wedding, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
Style:
atmospheric, demonic, tense, supernatural thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
occult, serial killer, supernatural, possession, murder, exorcism, fear, evil, childhood trauma, paranormal investigation, haunting, religious conflict ...
Place:
rhode island, new england
Similarity:
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16K
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, creepy, suspenseful, surreal, spooky ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, haunted, murder, investigation, obsession, protagonist as suspect, male nudity, hot and sexy, husband wife relationship, xmas ...
Time:
2010s, 1900s, 21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young pathology med student suspects that the spirit of a dead cadaver in the hospital morgue where she works is killing off all those who handle or desecrate the body.
Style:
scary, medical horror, psychological, serious, rough ...
Plot:
hospital, supernatural, medical, spell, murder, gory, haunted by the past, insanity, student, cadaver, curse, exploitation ...
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
54%
48K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Indonesia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Inside a darkened house looms a column of TVs littered with VHS tapes, a pagan shrine to forgotten analog gods. The screens crackle and pop endlessly with monochrome vistas of static white noise permeating the brain and fogging concentration. But ...
Style:
disturbing, anthology, tense, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
found footage, violence, supernatural, gory, male nudity, ghost child, danger, murder, alien abduction, mountain biking, zombie, evil ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying ...
Style:
scary, suspense, bad ending, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
supernatural, witch, supernatural horror, autopsy, morgue, witchcraft, nudity, mutilation, corpse, dead woman, supernatural power, mysterious death ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017
Place:
new england, salem massachusetts, london
Similarity:
52%
351
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When a disgraced architect awakens from a coma, he is confronted by an agent of evil with a proposition; kill five people to reconcile his life's misdeeds and live, or decline the offer and die. As he proceeds with his grim assignment and ...
Style:
tense, suspense, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, moral dilemma, supernatural, afterlife, rivalry, paranormal, uncover truth, haunted by the past, vigilantism, guilt, deal with the devil, amateur detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
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14K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Feature length version of the 2013 Turkish short film about police making a horrifying discovery in an apartment building.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, creepy, lovecraft ...
Plot:
nightmare, black mass, body horror, frog, torture, road accident, hell, sect, violence, supernatural horror, insanity, police officer ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A married couple loses their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation, but it becomes clear that they are not who they used to be, that something terrifying has changed them.
Style:
scary, serious, tense, frightening, demonic ...
Plot:
demonic possession, family problems, danger, parents and children, siblings relations, gory, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, occult, evil child, strong sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, tijuana mexico
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house ...
Style:
scary, suspense, serious, rough, demonic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage girl, nightmare, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, haunted house, possession, found footage, ghost, danger, investigation, cursed, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1974, year 1965, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, The Devils Tree follows Samantha, a college student studying journalism, who needs to finish her thesis with one last breaking news story. Along with her friend Rob, Samantha stumbles across a news article about an old tree ...
Style:
demonic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
evil spirit, tree, murder, curse, cursed, demon, paranormal phenomena, urban legend, legend, danger, demonic possession, seance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Bound to an ancient pact, a family of unlimited power descend upon a small rural town to sacrifice 4 human lives.
Style:
scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
demonic possession, incest, cheating wife, demon, supernatural power, parenthood, sacrifice, pregnancy, danger, seance, violent content, graphic violence ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
As Nell Sweetzer tries to build a new life after the events of the first movie, the evil force that once possessed her returns with an even more horrific plan.
Style:
demonic, serious, suspenseful, scary, saga ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, demonic possession, supernatural, supernatural horror, memory loss, evil, satan, demon, ghost, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, good versus evil ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On her wedding night, a young woman conceives a child during an hallucinatory encounter. Several years later, as her friends and family begin to behave strangely, she pieces together clues that lead to one conclusion...her son is the Antichrist
Style:
suspenseful, satanic, serious, scary, surprise ending ...
Plot:
evil child, supernatural, wedding, murder, mother son relationship, mentally unstable, danger, apocalypse, pregnancy, family relations, religious, child murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london
Similarity:
50%
99K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents try to harm the child, and so Emily ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
supernatural, evil child, demon, supernatural horror, social worker, creepy child, child abuse, macabre, twists and turns, uncover truth, mysterious character, mental institution ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa
Similarity:
50%
39K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming ...
Style:
scary, suspense, disturbing, horror comedy, mumblecore ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, found footage, female nudity, murder, fear, male nudity, psychopath, mental disorder, obsession, stalker, gory, escapades ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ronald Perkins builds an army of 14 people brainwashed through cult-like methods to protect him from his parents' killers. When Perkins is imprisoned, the police unwittingly unleash his followers on a small town and they've only got one ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, serious, scary, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
evil wins, psychopath, small town, mentally unstable, haunted by the past, danger, gory, vengeance, zombie, deputy sheriff, revenge, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, scary, surreal ...
Plot:
supernatural, ritual, grief, danger, dealing with death, folk horror, occult, pagan, haunted by the past, isolation, spouse in danger, small town ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
50%
153K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, ...
Style:
scary, gothic, frightening, sexy, slasher ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
body horror, macabre, demon, supernatural horror, brutality, gory, human sacrifice, cursed object, surrealism, sadomasochism, sex horror, undead ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman contracts a deadly virus after an unusual sexual encounter, and soon develops a taste for human blood.
Style:
gothic, brutal, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex scene, cannibalism, demon, blood, murder, danger, strong violent content, macabre, torment, gory, virus, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
49%
900
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Lizzie, a young woman with amnesia, slowly comes to realize that she may be responsible for the horrific murder of her parents. After returning to the family home, Lizzie had terrifying flashbacks to her childhood, and comes face to face with the ...
Style:
suspense, scary, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
nightmare, vengeance, murder, childhood trauma, ghost, danger, uncover truth, memory loss, haunted by the past, haunted house, losing-it hero, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a series of disturbing supernatural events in his home, Joel a young single father, comes to suspect that his young son may be possessed. Soon Joel receives a visit from Father Lambert, a controversial exorcist in town whose last patient died ...
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, tense
Audience:
date night
Plot:
curses spells and rituals, supernatural, exorcism, demon, devil, violence, cruelty, parenthood, spirit, danger, evil, graphic violence ...
Similarity:
49%
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781
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sick Boy stars Skye McCole Bartusiak as Lucy, a young woman who steps in for a friend to take a job babysitting a young boy confined to his room due to a mysterious illness. Lucy begins to suspect the child’s mother, played by horror legend Debbie ...
Style:
serious, tense, scary, suspenseful, demonic ...
Plot:
danger, child illness, zombie, parents and children, family problems, virus, violence, murder, feral man, evil child, killer child, possession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Style:
scary, demonic, suspense, mystical, satanic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
demonic possession, morgue, corpse, exorcism, demon, hospital, supernatural, terror, fear, police officer, priest, delusion ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child - a supernatural entity that has chosen her ...
Style:
suspense, scary, melancholic, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
macabre, insomnia, supernatural horror, supernatural, children, tragedy, paranormal activity, afterlife, mental disorder, dream, parents and children, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Gail is forced to come to terms with Josh, her new stepson, at a remote country home. After stealing an evil talisman from a mysterious neighbor, Josh has sinister dreams of his dead mother, who commands Josh to murder Gail. When Josh's dad ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, scary, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
nightmare, widower, death of mother, nightmare comes true, recurring nightmare, waking up from a nightmare, child protagonist, mysterious event, ghost, getting home, supernatural, love ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In 1997 the close-knit Anderson family vanished from their home without a trace. No bodies were ever found and no explanation satisfied curiosity. For 17 years the house has remained undisturbed...until now. This eerily expert frightener is further ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, death, murder, family in danger, sibling relationship, danger, exorcism, haunted by the past, evil force, riddles and clues ...
Time:
year 2004, year 1997, 21st century
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Seven friends summon a monster when they are tricked into eating burgers made of human flesh.
Style:
psychotronic, tense, suspenseful, suspense, scary ...
Plot:
cannibal, cannibalism, creature, psychiatric patient, fear, supernatural power, chase, death, youth, characters in danger, deadly creature, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, ...
Style:
bloody, frightening, medical horror, slasher, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
demon, hell, gory, hellraiser, cursed object, violent, monster, maze, body horror, doctor, puzzle, psychiatric hospital ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
england, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
48%
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