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The Puppet (2013)
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Original name: 꼭두각시
Genre: Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A jaded psychiatrist sees a client who is having hallucinations. He uses hypnotism to seek answers into her dark past, but soon gets wrapped up in her delusions and starts to fall for her charms...
Style:
suspense, erotic, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, intense, psychological horror, surreal, twist ending, noir
Plot:
hypnosis, hallucination, forbidden love, psychiatrist, mind game, fall in love, in love, tragic love, secret, love interest, supernatural horror, visual hallucination, visionary, obsession, memory, manipulation, patient, paranoia, delusion, dark past, mental breakdown, claustrophobia, isolation, romantic obsession, guilt ...
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Most similar movies to The Puppet
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological horror, suspense, tense and psychological thriller films with plots about isolation, slow burn, obsession, claustrophobia, paranoia, investigation and guilt mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Puppet: Killing Time (2022), The Drowned (2023), Gun-Kyu: War Pigeon (2008), Deadly Waters (2015), The Stare (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Sonia wanders around the gloomy mansion where she lives, obsessed with unraveling a dark hidden secret. Her past, her fears, her desire and her terrible nightmares have created a deadly web in which she is trapped, taking her away the little sanity ...
Style:
bleak, atmospheric, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense ...
Plot:
nightmare, mansion, obsession, female protagonist, undercover, dark secret, past, confronting the past, secret past, house, fear, dark past ...
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95%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After stealing a priceless painting, three men arrive at a secluded safe house by the sea to discover their fourth accomplice missing. Was one of them responsible, or is there a more sinister presence lurking at the water's edge?
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspense, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
heist, paranoia, isolation, missing person, isolated house, betrayal, moral ambiguity, investigation, guilt, claustrophobia, seaside, rain ...
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82%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Ever since that fatal incident in college, Kanako has sensed them. A sound behind her... an object moving at the corner of her vision. Birds. Cooing, taunting birds... But are they real, or just in her head? As she struggles to perform her duties ...
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, creepy, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
hallucination, paranoia, obsession, supernatural, mental breakdown, bird, insanity, revenge, guilt, curse, isolation, slow burn ...
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76%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Story:
A young man falls in love with a seductive, sultry, young woman he meets on the beach. The more he falls for her, the more he will learn the dangers of falling in love with a siren.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, disturbing, mystical ...
Plot:
forbidden love, beach, supernatural horror, tragic love, in love, supernatural being, relationship problems, star crossed lovers, love story, love interest, relationships, mysticism ...
Similarity:
73%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ayano Mishima works as an AD at a TV broadcasting station. She covers the mysterious death case of a young man. Before he died, he said that somebody was watching him. Covering the case, Ayano Mishima realizes that the mysterious eye is also coming ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder investigation, japanese girl, japanese woman, paranoia, murder, death, murder mystery, mysterious death, spying, stalking, murderer, female protagonist ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Roland Bennett, an obnoxious late-night presenter specializing in the supernatural is not having a good night! A visit from his soon-to-be ex-wife brings divorce papers to the station, a boss listening in due to complaints, and finally, a call from ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, phone terror, telephone call, serial murder, killing spree, killing, murderer, murder mystery, talk show, psycho killer, murder, homicidal maniac ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A mysterious writer working for a monster fanzine asks three New Yorkers what really scares them. After the article is published the primal fears of each interviewee come true. Will they be frightened to death?
Style:
psychological thriller, creepy, psychological horror, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
death, paranoia, urban, supernatural, fate, curse, obsession, interview, mature, social commentary, paranormal, investigation ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of friends travel for a weekend away to an isolated cabin in the woods to shoot an experimental horror movie. Slowly the film begins to unravel, and we see the true monster appear from the shadows. The director.
Style:
dark, tension, meta, experimental, suspense ...
Plot:
found footage, filmmaking, obsession, isolation, fear, woods, paranoia, manipulation, claustrophobia, power struggle, slow burn, friends ...
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The story is about a woman who is abducted and forced to watch footage of captives getting molested. She doesn't know whether the sexual torture is amateur porn, or if these are sex crimes caught on tape. As she is exposed to more of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
abduction, rape, sexual abuse, kidnapping, captivity, violence, voyeurism, violent, kidnapped, victim, graphic violence, kidnapper ...
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67%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple arrives at the house of the husband's late wife, where the flowers have been maintained to the dead woman's memory. Soon, eerie events lead the new wife, to believe she is losing her mind.
Style:
psychological horror, suspenseful, tense, psychological, mystic ...
Plot:
haunted house, relationships, mentally unstable, supernatural horror, mental disorder, mysticism, husband wife relationship, family relations, supernatural, paranormal activity, ghost, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A sociopath who, upon meeting a reporter, begins to explain that his killings and the pain he inflicts on others are to him a form of art.
Style:
psychological thriller, crime drama, intense, psychological horror, noir ...
Plot:
serial killer, sociopath, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, obsession, reporter, violence, mind game, psychological manipulation, character study, interrogation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
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324
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A struggling actress tracks down the star of a movie she hopes will be remade, only to uncover dark secrets.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, noir
Plot:
female protagonist, celebrity culture, confrontation, obsession, dark past, ambition, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia, female rivalry, identity crisis, manipulation ...
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
when Arun enters their lives, altering the course of their relationship. The consequence of their toxic relationship leads them into a dark world, as the narrative unfolds in a horror setting.
Style:
dark, tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, suspense
Plot:
toxic relationship, love triangle, obsession, jealousy, betrayal, manipulation, emotional breakdown, domestic drama, claustrophobia, guilt, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
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56%
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young girl wakes up imprisoned underground, with amnesia. She must escape, unravel the mystery behind her captivity, and confront her personal struggles. A suspenseful tale of survival, truth, and inner turmoil unfolds.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
amnesia, escape, survival, female protagonist, confined space, claustrophobia, isolation, trauma, identity, danger, darkness, flashback ...
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Horror
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Elena wakes up in a mental hospital room with no memory of anything. They tell her that she suffers from amnesia and that she suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. However, nothing is what it seems, and Elena will have to find a way to escape from ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
mental institution, psychology, memory loss, amnesia, hallucination, paranoia, psychosis, identity crisis, psychiatric hospital, insane asylum, psychiatrist, psychiatric patient ...
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54%
Genre: Horror
Country: South Africa
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In post-apartheid South Africa, Tsidi, a single mother, is forced to move in with her own estranged mother Mavis, a live-in domestic worker caring obsessively for her catatonic white ‘Madam’. And as Tsidi tries to heal her family, a sinister ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, macabre, unsettling, problem, mysticism, life is a bitch, family relations, threat, family problems, nursing, mental illness ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
When a young man falls for a seductive but mentally unstable fortune-teller, he begins to suspect her family is hiding a diabolical secret.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, creepy, psychological horror, dark ...
Plot:
family secret, occult, fortune teller, supernatural, toxic relationship, dangerous attraction, suspicion, seduction, paranoia, manipulation, obsession, macabre ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
University student Trang's friend suddenly goes missing after she was last seen playing a ritual game in an elevator. She and her cousin investigate the place where the girl vanished, and get obsessively invested with what might be a door to a ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, creepy, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
elevator, claustrophobia, supernatural, alternate dimension, supernatural power, curses spells and rituals, trapped in an elevator, another dimension, mysterious disappearance, undercover, secret, superhuman powers ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
This horror thriller revolves around the 168 hours of a married couple. Many scary events creep into their life and this forms the crux of the movie.
Style:
creepy, intense, tense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
married couple, fear, paranoia, macabre, unsettling, haunting, supernatural, isolation, confined, claustrophobia, family conflict, slow burn ...
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49%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young mother who's crushed by guilt and shame after the disappearance of her young son five years previously, is offered a bizarre opportunity to learn the truth and set things right. Is she willing to pay the terrifying price for a chance to ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
ritual, grief, missing child, loss, motherhood, guilt, secret, disappearance, drug, drug abuse, mysterious disappearance, problem ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style:
bleak, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
isolation, survival horror, survival, death of loved one, trauma, female protagonist, loss, grief, death, danger, mind game, trap ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Tim films his brother Sean's funeral after his suicide, then uncovers Sean's fixation with a nonexistent online urban legend about a failed government mind control experiment.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mind control, found footage, grief, conspiracy, brotherhood, obsession, trauma, mourning, paranoia, suicide, urban legend, family drama ...
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45%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A couple buys a house from The Slumlord Tapes, infamous for hidden cameras and a psycho landlord. It's not as safe as they tell themselves.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
surveillance, secretly observing, found footage, voyeurism, problem, couples, married couple, threat, video surveillance, stalker, paranoia, obsession ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Ukraine
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After observing a hauntingly familiar abnormal CAT scan of a 13 year old girl, radiologist Nina Evanko battles to find the source of the young girl's sleeping disorder. What she discovers is darker and stranger than she could have imagined.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense, gothic horror ...
Plot:
demonic possession, sleep disorder, insomnia, undercover, mysticism, supernatural horror, nightmare, haunting, investigation, unsettling, hospital, obsession ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Horror
Country: India
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A dream come true moment for a Lover Boy when her girlfriend invites him home for a night stay with her when her parents are out of town. But that dream starts becoming a nightmare as a series of bizarre events unfold at the girlfriend's house.
Style:
tension, intense, suspense, psychological, romantic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
fear, claustrophobia, secrets, single, paranoia, panic, isolation, intimate, young lovers, sexual tension, cat and mouse, betrayal ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A secret turns one family's pleasant life into a blood bath.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, intense, disturbing ...
Plot:
claustrophobia, bloodbath, family tragedy, isolation, coma, violent content, escape, home invasion, revenge, murder mystery, graphic violence, caretaker ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Style:
intense, mind bending, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
survival, claustrophobia, female protagonist, isolation, mature, violence, paranoia, supernatural, home invasion, body horror, slow burn, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
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413
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When a psychiatric doctor researches a young girls' diary to find out why she murdered her entire family, he begins to fall into the same state of insomnia and confusion that led her to lose her mind.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
insomnia, mental illness, paranoia, murder, psychiatrist patient relationship, mental breakdown, mental institution, siblings relations, mistrust, parents and children, dishonesty, pretense ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The 666 Killer kills 6 victims over 6 days, 6 ways to die...and, unfortunately, Jamie Anderson has been chosen as victim #6.
Style:
suspense, slasher, psychological horror, dark, grim ...
Plot:
serial killer, nightmare, hallucination, fear, stalker, madness, trauma, terror, paranoia, cat and mouse, survival, supernatural ...
Place:
texas
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
While recovering from an abusive relationship, Joy joins her friend's therapy group on an isolated mountainous retreat. Led by a doctor with experimental methods, the group is soon forced to confront a monstrous entity.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological horror, psychological, dread, captivating ...
Plot:
confronting the past, survival, survival horror, trauma, isolation, tragic past, dark past, troubled past, haunted by the past, violence, traumatic past, struggle for survival ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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