Movies and TV shows like Possessed

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Possessed (2017)
 6.9
 895
Possessed (2017)
Original name: Sahipli
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: After becoming a doctor, Büşra returns to her hometown. There, she meets a teacher named Selim. Büşra and Selim, both carrying the scars of the past, set out on a journey with no return.
Style: enigmatic, psychological, bleak, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, terrifying, horrifying
Plot: small village, haunted by the past, tragic past, getting home, male female relationship, secret, secret past, dark past, dark secret, confronting the past, troubled past, past coming back to haunt, mysterious character, couple relations, doctor, mystery

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Most similar movies to Possessed

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, psychological and disturbing films and TV series with plots about confronting the past, dark past, tragic past, secret, troubled past, secret past and relationship problems mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Possessed: Insanity (2021), Hannibal (2013), Lisey's Story (2021), Tell Me Your Secrets (2021), The Time of Your Life (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 350
Insanity (2021)
Genre: Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 38 min.
TV show
Story: A personal tragedy causes young forensics investigator Paula to have a breakdown, which results in her admittance to a psychiatric hospital. There, she is pulled into the darkest and most terrifying corners of her mind by a mysterious doctor.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: mental institution, insanity, family tragedy, investigator, conspiracy, evil plot, psychopath, psycho, delusional woman, dark secret, male female relationship, cannibalism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.5
 274K
Hannibal (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1680 min.
TV show
Story: Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel. But while Graham is pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford teams him ...
Style: psychological, scary, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cannibal, psychopath, mind game, cannibalism, death, murder, psychiatrist, mental patient, graphic violence, fbi, mental health ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lisey's Story (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 401 min.
TV show
Story: An adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: stephen king, confronting the past, tragic past, investigation, dark past, past coming back to haunt, murder investigation, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, writers, animal death, killing an animal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Tell Me Your Secrets (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A complex thriller revolving around three characters, each with troubling pasts clouding their intersecting motives: Emma is a young woman who once loved a dangerous killer, John is a former serial predator desperate for redemption, and a grieving ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, captivating, exciting, thrilling ...
Plot: criminal, mysterious past, victim, troubled past, tragic past, secret past, dark past, haunted by the past, female victim, relationship problems, confronting the past, dark secret ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Time of Your Life (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A 35 year old woman, Kate, awakes from an eighteen year coma following a tragic accident to an unfamiliar world. As she tries to make sense of what has happened her family and old school friends are reluctant to dig up the past.
Style: captivating, psychological, enigmatic, suspense
Plot: coma, high school friend, family relations, secret past, uncover truth, dark past, tragic past, confronting the past, secret, relationships, life is a bitch, smoking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Mother's Guilt (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 33 min.
TV show
Story: Hanggang Saan is a 2017 Philippine drama television series starring Sylvia Sanchez and Arjo Atayde, together with Sue Ramirez, Maris Racal, Yves Flores, Teresa Loyzaga and Ariel Rivera.
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful, serious, psychological
Plot: single mother, mother and son, traumatic past, mysterious past, troubled past, confronting the past, past, haunted by the past, dark past, secret past, son
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Man in the Basement (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple ...
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: basement, anti semitism, confronting the past, dark past, tragic past, troubled past, changing lives, problem, life is a bitch, lawyer, brother brother relationship, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 3.8
 534
The Deleted (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 14 min.
TV show
Story: A Noir-Fairy Tale thriller that follows the disappearance of three seemingly unconnected people from Los Angeles, which triggers paranoia among a group of twenty somethings who escaped from a cult a few years back.
Style: erotic, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: mysterious disappearance, confronting the past, escape, past, paranoid, disappearance, relationships, sexual content, sex, female nudity, topless woman, paranoia
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 5.8
 521
Savage Beauty (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In Savage Beauty, Rosemary Zimu plays Zinhle - a first young woman with a tragic past who is determined to take revenge on the Bhengus family, who destroyed a lot of lives with their infernal vision. Don and Grace Bhengu once used street children ...
Style: captivating, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: revenge, beauty pageant, troubled past, empire fashion, vengeance, dark past, confronting the past, tragic past, fashion industry, female protagonist, family business, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.2
 389
Hometown (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mystery evil thriller which finds the truth of a recording tape containing mysterious serial killings and unidentified sounds in a small city.
Style: suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, guilt, murder mystery, dark secret, small town, puzzle, secret, siblings, missing person, tragic past, murder, trauma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.9
 3K
The Sister (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Almost a decade into his new devoted married life Nathan is rocked to the core when Bob, an unwelcome face from the past, turns up on his doorstep with shocking news, triggering a series of catastrophic decisions.
Style: psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, thrilling, non-linear
Plot: family relations, secret, husband wife relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, redemption, dealing with the past, marital problem, troubled past, secret past, confronting the past ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Blood Sisters (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 224 min.
TV show
Story: Connected by a dangerous secret, best friends Sarah and Kemi are forced to flee after a wealthy groom disappears at his own engagement party.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: friendship, punishment, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, forbidden love, tragic love, couple relations, secret, male female relationship, relationships, relationship problems, criminal, friends ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Man from the Equator (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A man that had his family and whole life has been taken away by the friend he trusted the most has returned and is burning for revenge.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: revenge, love triangle, relationship problems, betrayal by friend, murder investigation, tragic past, deception, investigation, love affair, bonding, change of luck, confronting the past ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Acceptable Risk (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When her husband, Lee, is murdered, Sarah Manning comes to realize that she knows nothing about his past. Sarah begins to question who Lee actually was and what he did in his work for a powerful global organization. And why did Lee, a salesman, need ...
Style: detective, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: female protagonist, spouse, crime investigation, confronting the past, investigation, family secret, dark past, secret, uncover truth, murder investigation, police, female detective ...
Time: future
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 4.4
 257
Lies For Rent (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Diane is not ready to date but also does not want to attend a work event alone. Her sister suggests a rent-a-date where she can hire a fake boyfriend. Soon, it becomes evident that she has rented a liar with a disturbing past.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: relationship problems, dating, undercover, secret, dark past, deception, secret past, male female relationship, couple relations, relationships, date
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Game of Silence (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A successful Atlanta attorney's long-lost childhood friends unexpectedly reappear after 25 years. When a dark secret they thought they'd buried resurfaces, the brotherhood bands together to right the wrongs of their shared past - a journey ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: lawyer, friendship between men, organized crime, conspiracy, revenge, childhood friend, murder, hidden truth, mysterious past, secret past, confronting the past, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.5
 348
Paap (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
TV show
Story: What's the reason for Parboni's return to her past? Will her family accept her this way? This Durga Puja, witness the drama that unfolds at the Chowdhury household as Parboni returns with a dreaded secret.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot: witness, mysterious past, secret, family secret, dark past, changing lives, lifestyle change
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.4
 145
Green Door (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
TV show
Story: A troubled psychologist returns from the U.S. and sets up a clinic in Taiwan, where mysterious patients and uncanny events shed light on his murky past.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, scary, suspense ...
Plot: spirit, possessed, haunted, supernatural, doctor patient relationship, psychiatrist, haunted by the past, psychiatric patient, psychiatrist patient relationship, doctors and patients, confronting the past, dark secret ...
Place: taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Night Logan Woke Up (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 293 min.
TV show
Story: On a cold October night in 1991, an unspeakable event rocks a small town in Quebec, forever haunting a family who tries to hide their dark secret. Thirty years later these secrets buried deep in the past resurface, sending the family on an ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot: family relations, brother sister relationship, dark past, family problems, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, relationship problems, rape victim, confronting the past, small town, troubled past, dysfunctional family ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 3K
The Clearing (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 391 min.
TV show
Story: A woman is forced to confront the nightmares of her past in order to stop a secret cult intent on gathering children to fulfil its master plan.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot: victim, female protagonist, occult ritual, life is a bitch, confronting the past, dark past, secret, ritual sacrifice, troubled past, satanic cult, tragic past, ritual ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.1
 88
Sleep Tight (2016)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A horror anthology following a young woman determined to document the first hand accounts of people who have survived unimaginable horrors that range from the real to the supernatural. The deeper she gets in collecting the stories of these survivors ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, mystical, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: survival horror, paranormal phenomena, female protagonist, sadistic horror, memories, confronting the past, dark past, paranormal investigation, supernatural horror, tragic past, multiple storylines, mysticism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 1K
Over Water (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: John Beckers gains one last chance from his wife Marjan and their two children to get his life back on track. After a visit to rehab, John starts his new job at the freight company of his father-in-law. The port of Antwerp is a whole new world for ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: second chance, family relations, family problems, confronting the past, starting over, conspiracy, relationship problems, male female relationship, dark past, tragic past, intrigue, past ...
Place: antwerp
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.3
 312
Vows of Deceit (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When blushing bride Sara Ross ties the knot with her seemingly perfect, handsome newlywed husband Leo, she soon starts to suspect that not only is Leo a thief and a conman but also quite possibly a killer, and that she just might be the next bride ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: unhappy marriage, troubled past, confronting the past, husband wife relationship, marriage, secret past, marital problem, troubled marriage, relationship problems, dark past, secret, dysfunctional marriage ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Innocents (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Safiye and Gülben are two obsessive sisters who live in a dependent manner with their brother Han who is the only real connection between this family, including their sick father, and the world. Han’s lifelong goal is to keep this family afloat ...
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: fall in love, dysfunctional family, love affair, family life, love interest, male female relationship, family problems, in love, dark past, relationships, relationship problems, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
BG: Personal Bodyguard (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: Akira Shimazaki (Takuya Kimura) lives with his middle school student son. He used to work as a bodyguard, but, due to an incident, he now works as a security guard at a construction site. The private security company where he works establishes a new ...
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: police, secret, workplace, tragic past, working undercover, hidden identity, secret past, hidden truth, bodyguard
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.4
 9K
Fatma (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Reeling from tragedy, a nondescript house cleaner embarks on a murderous streak as she searches for her missing husband and reckons with old wounds.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: murder, serial killer, murderer, cleaning lady, killings, murder mystery, secret identity, dark past, secret past, confronting the past, social problems, female protagonist ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.8
 473
Souls (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: In Stockholm, pregnant pathologist Allie tries everything to prevent her beloved husband and pilot Leo from flying. In Berlin, 25-year-old Linn joins a cult whose members, for a variety of reasons, desperately want to believe in life after death. ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: changing lives, tragic past, memories, troubled past, problem, secret past, dark past, mysterious past, reincarnation, confronting the past, car, catastrophe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 3.7
 140
The Red Dress (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Malta
Story: Rainer and Patricia move to Malta to reinvigorate their marriage after the loss of their child.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, tragic past, family tragedy, marital problem, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, troubled past, family life, new life, male female relationship, loss of child ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Time Is a Killer (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: In 1994, at the age of sixteen, Clotilde Idrissi suffered a road accident. Clotilde is the only survivor, unlike her brother Nicolas and his parents, who died instantly. Twenty-five years later, she returns to the scene of the tragedy with her ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: confronting the past, troubled past, life is a bitch, introspection, learning the truth, uncover truth, family secret, secret, changing lives, female protagonist, self discovery
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.5
 39
SYD2030 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: SYD2030 is a multi-award-winning Australian teen drama web series. The show can be found distributed across the web including on Blip and YouTube. It premiered on 6 March 2012 and revolves around the lives of seven Sydney socialites in law school. ...
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: confronting the past, betrayal, heir, couple relations, love affair, tragic past, relationships, social problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, secret, relationship problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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