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Unsoul (2020)
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Original name: Desalma
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
In 1988, the disappearance of a young girl shocks the population of little Brígida, in the interior of southern Brazil, resulting in the banning of pagan festivities of Ivana Kupala. Thirty years later, the city is preparing to bring the party back, but terrifying events, along with the dangerous ritual of transmigration of souls, unsettle the community and bring to light the secrets of a crime that ties three families’ destinies through time.
Style:
psychological, bleak, disturbing, atmospheric, dark, suspenseful, tense, gothic, sinister, mystical
Plot:
small town, religions or cults, supernatural, folklore, society, child in peril, family relations, danger, life & death, death of husband, supernatural horror, mistrust, mysticism, folk horror, family drama, occult, ritual, secrets, grief, investigation, macabre, revelation, superstition, psychic, remote village ...
Time:
year 1988
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, psychological and dark films and TV series with plots about supernatural, small town, slow burn, investigation, moral ambiguity, occult and ghost mostly in Drama, Mystery and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Unsoul: Channel Zero (2016), Bloom (2019), Passenger (2024), Elise's Secret (2015), Equinox (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 44 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
missing person, supernatural, small town, kidnapping, private investigation, child in peril, abduction, mysterious disappearance, investigation, family problems, getting home, mysticism ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
67%
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
small town, supernatural, problem, mysticism, secret, unsettling, mistrust, secrets, investigation, fear, paranoia, slow burn ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
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The death of a young girl in 1969 haunts a house inhabited throughout the years by three different generations of people.
Style:
unusual plot structure, psychological, tense, disturbing, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
Haunted by visions after her sister vanished with her classmates 21 years before, Astrid begins an investigation that uncovers the dark, eerie truth.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
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Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, creepy, captivating, scary ...
Plot:
supernatural, ghost, ghost story, paranormal, macabre, haunting, supernatural power, paranormal phenomena, paranormal activity, apparition, supernatural being, slow burn ...
Time:
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Similarity:
55%
251
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 360 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 52 min.
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Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, christmas horror ...
Plot:
ghost, beach, hotel, curses spells and rituals, danger, haunted by the past, supernatural, uncover truth, ghost story, folk horror, rivalry, elderly ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
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Story:
The series of shocking murders are forcing two absolutely opposite detectives to unite. Working as a team helping them to solve the crime but they understand that winning the war never means that war is over.
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, dark, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Style:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Plot:
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Duration: 45 min.
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Style:
detective, suspense, captivating, dramatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 467 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, mystic, mystical ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
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Duration: 95 min.
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
germany
Similarity:
50%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
investigation, homicide, family secret, small town, police procedural, getting home, cold case, moral ambiguity, slow burn, isolation
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Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 60 min.
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dark, psychological, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Style:
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Plot:
supernatural, ghost story, ghost, christmas, supernatural power, spirit, hoax, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, mysticism, paranormal activity, folk horror ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, scary, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
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Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 300 min.
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Style:
gothic, thrilling, spooky, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Thailand
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
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Story:
Follows Reverend Jack Brooks and her daughter in Chapel Croft, a place for a fresh start that soon reveals its community's dark history and where ancient superstitions and mistrust of outsiders are quite common.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tension ...
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