Movies like Arang
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Arang (2006)
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Original name: 아랑
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A salt storehouse near the sea may be haunted. A penniless ex-con dies a gristly death in a house he can ill afford. The detectives assigned the case are Min, newly reinstated after a suspension, and Lee, a new transfer from forensics. Min has nightmares: a sexual assault that haunts her. She and Lee work well together, but soon two more deaths occur - each mysteriously poisoned, both friends of the ex-con. A fourth friend, a newly married doctor, is a suspect. But what has all this to do with the salt storehouse, a death ten years ago, and a missing girl? Can Min and Lee get to the bottom of it, or is the supernatural beyond a cop's reach?
Style:
serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, scary, tense, mind bending, realistic, surprise ending, sinister, asian horror
Plot:
serial killer, afterlife, murder, supernatural, sexual abuse, rivalry, law enforcement, grudge, revenge, suspense, disappearance, ex convict, dark secret, nightmare, post apocalypse, children, conspiracy, haunted, ghost, wedding, rape, pregnant from rape, couples, computers and web, dog ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
seoul, asia, korea, south korea
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, scary and tense films with plots about murder, danger, deadly, ghost, suspense, supernatural and serial killer mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Arang: Killer Toon (2013), Bunshinsaba: Ouija Board (2004), Behind the Wall (2007), The Entrance (2006), Death Bell (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Duration: 81 min.
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, tense, slasher ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
By taking her own life in the infamous Suicide Forest of Mount Fuji, a sexy American cover-girl supernaturally transforms into a demonic spirit to wreak a violent revenge, one by one, upon those who helped her ex-boyfriend leave her. .
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: South Korea
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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