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The Gates (2023)
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A serial killer has been sentenced to death by electric chair in London in the 1890s, but in his final hours, he puts a curse on the prison he is in, and all of those in it.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, captivating, thrilling, tense, atmospheric, gothic, dread, grim, psychological ...
Plot:
electric chair, prison, serial killer, curse, murderer, execution, prisoner, murder, homicidal maniac, psycho killer, serial murder, jail, confined, killing spree, killing, supernatural, macabre, ghost story, fear, death row, occult, retribution, claustrophobia, isolation, guilt ...
Time:
victorian era, 1890s, victorian
Place:
london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, captivating and dark films with plots about isolation, murder, serial killer, murderer, survival, investigation and supernatural mostly in Horror, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Gates: Ripper's Revenge (2023), We Might Hurt Each Other (2022), Scathing (2016), Scalper (2023), The Zeme (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One year on from the notorious Ripper murders, London is terrorised once again by a series of brutal killings. When gruesome letters from the Ripper begin landing on his desk, an innocent reporter finds himself drawn into a deadly mystery, ...
Style:
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Plot:
murder mystery, serial killer, investigation, killing, homicidal maniac, serial murder, murder investigation, killing spree, murder, private investigation, puzzle, who done it ...
Time:
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Place:
london
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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463
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young couple are stranded in a remote location for several days without food or water, while a massive, giant, madman stalks their every move, proving it impossible for them to escape unscathed.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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169
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Everyone around psychic Clementine Carter is being brutally murdered by a masked killer dubbed ‘The Scalper.’ Is it dead psycho Andrew Lubitz back from the grave, a copycat killer or a horror beyond imagination? Clementine must use her second ...
Style:
slasher, tense, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
psychic, serial killer, killing spree, masked killer, murderer, murder, supernatural ability, supernatural power, murder mystery, homicidal maniac, maniac, supernatural ...
Similarity:
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182
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A developer relocates to a remote island with his family, where the cursed land takes over his soul, but will it make him a killer?
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, serious, scary, captivating ...
Plot:
remote island, obsession, paranormal phenomena, possessed, curses spells and rituals, cursed, curse, murder, island, murderer, possession, supernatural ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Massena, New York, 1998. A decade of terror comes to a close with the capture of Elizabeth Caulfield, a woman who kidnapped five young girls and pretended they were her own. Only one girl, Christina Bowden, managed to get away with her life, the ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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53%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
One night every year the world sees an alarming surge in violent home invasions. This is no coincidence.
Style:
slasher, bleak, tense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
home invasion, stranger, trapped, sister sister relationship, fear, killing, serial killer, murderer, masked killer, evil, murder, violent ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Over six tumultuous decades, three unwitting guests of a cursed New England home stumble upon a sinister secret dwelling beneath its floors - an eternal witch with an insatiable thirst for the flesh of the living.
Style:
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Plot:
flesh eating, haunted house, supernatural, witchcraft, curse, mature, macabre, body horror, occult, claustrophobia, folklore, generation ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When a city is terrorized by a sadistic serial killer, a seasoned detective and a newly recruited paramedic discover the key to stopping the bloodshed lies in unlocking the truth of their own haunted pasts.
Style:
suspenseful, detective, tense, crime thriller, thrilling ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, killing spree, killing, murder, uncover truth, murderer, murder investigation, murder mystery, crime solving, crime investigation, trauma ...
Similarity:
47%
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:
47%
541
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A group of teens stumble across the story of now dead serial killer Baby Blue and decide he'd be the perfect subject of a true crime vodcast. But when they start digging, they quickly discover that his murder spree never stopped. Now they are ...
Style:
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Plot:
serial killer, ghost, paranormal, psycho killer, supernatural horror, killing, paranormal activity, murderer, mysticism, murder, paranormal phenomena, revenge from beyond the grave ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A group of US filmmakers travel to Cyprus to film a documentary in the tragically famous Hotel Gula - a once popular resort where more than 100 people died in mysterious circumstances. What begins as just another day at the office will eventually ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, scary, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
haunted hotel, ghost, supernatural, investigation, survival, paranormal, supernatural horror, macabre, resort, resort hotel, director, fear ...
Place:
cyprus
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After an unsuccessful attack on an online sensation, an enraged follower stalks a group of millennials on vacation.
Style:
thrilling, psychological horror, psychological thriller, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
texas
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A chilling tale of a city being tormented by a mysterious killer. Everywhere the citizens turn, they uncover more body parts. The only ones who can possibly capture the demented madman are a pair of homicide cops who play by their own rules.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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621
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young boy is taken over by demons who force him to commit murder.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two couples drive to a secluded house in the desert for a weekend getaway, each with their own baggage, expectations, and secrets. Upon their arrival, they’re met by two strangers, claiming to have rented the house as well.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A group of friends decide to spend a weekend together at a country house, but an unexpected accident forces them to stop at a strange and remote estate. In this abandoned and eerie place, a rare antique camera is discovered. Slowly the camera ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
While a couple creates an audition tape for an up-and-coming Charles Manson film, the dark events of the audition material slowly slip into their reality as they find themselves intertwined in an occult leader's sinister plot.
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, bleak, captivating ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A serial killer traps and taunts a young dancer inside a laundromat that located down an isolated alley.
Style:
suspense, tense, dark, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
serial killer, isolation, young woman, loneliness, danger, violence, murder, fear, survival, supernatural, trapped, neighborhood ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Within the city limits of Devilin lies a home the towns folk call "Hell House". A house that was once the home of a family accused of mass murder. A family known as the Reapers.
Style:
slasher horror, thrilling, suspenseful, tense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young writer believes she has discovered the holy grail of terror, the knives used by Jack the Ripper for his notorious murders.
Style:
bleak, psychotronic, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, jack the ripper, killing, murderer, homicidal maniac, killing spree, investigation, death, crime investigation, masked killer, murder mystery, supernatural ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
london
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an experimental drug trial goes awry, the test subjects face a terrifying side effect: if you fall asleep you die. Trapped in an isolated facility, panic ensues as they try to escape and somehow stay awake.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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561
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, controversial ...
Plot:
prison, death row, captivity, isolation, danger, filmmaking, confined, curses spells and rituals, abduction, electric chair, kidnapping, hollywood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Amy begins her first night shift in a hotel with a murderous past. Witnessing terrifying events and trapped within a loop, Amy must find a way to escape the flesh obsessed murderer and save residents of the hotel.
Style:
suspense, rough, suspenseful, absurd, psychological ...
Plot:
time loop, elevator, hotel room, macabre, serial killer, mysticism, psychopath, female victim, groundhog day, fight, criminal, disorder ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Naoto Ihara lives happily with his wife Miyuki and their son Haruto. Their happiness is crushed when Miyuki suddenly dies in a car accident. Naoto falls into deep grief over the death of his wife. Meanwhile, Haruto buries his dead mother ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a group of students gets lost during a hiking trip, they stumble across a deserted house containing lost souls and a deadly board game.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, creepy, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
dream, premonition, hiking, mountain, student, ghost, isolated house, supernatural, paranormal, board game, game of death, young woman ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
southeast asia
Similarity:
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Philippines, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A fashion designer hires a nanny from the Philippines to assist her in caring for her family while she is suffering from what she believes is a tick-related illness. The nanny uses traditional Filipino folk healing techniques to help her, but in the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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