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Burga (2023)
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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 there while fighting to keep her sanity and not confuse hallucinations with reality.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, serious, captivating, psychotronic, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental institution, psychology, memory loss, amnesia, hallucination, psychosis, identity crisis, paranoia, psychiatric hospital, psycho, psychologist, mental disorder, mental patient, psychiatrist, psychiatry, mental illness, disturbed individual, mentally unstable, psychiatric patient, insane asylum, escape, claustrophobia, isolation, female protagonist, confined ...
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Most similar movies to Burga
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller and suspenseful films with plots about isolation, slow burn, claustrophobia, paranoia, female protagonist, supernatural and obsession mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Burga: Killing Time (2022), Dark Nature (2022), A Haunting in Ravenwood (2021), The Intruder (2020), The Awakening of Lilith (2021). 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: 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:
68%
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:
61%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico, UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inés works as a dubbing actress and sings in a choir in Buenos Aires. After a traumatic experience during a holiday trip, she develops a sleep disorder and starts suffering from very vivid nightmares. At work, the studio microphones pick up strange ...
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
nightmare, female protagonist, identity crisis, trauma, split personality, unsettling, psychological trauma, escape from reality, borderline personality disorder, psychological torment, disturbed individual, career ...
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina
Similarity:
53%
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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:
52%
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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52%
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 ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Horror
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jessica grew up with a mother plagued by inexplicable psychological issues. Years later, Jessica begins to experience the same disturbing symptoms and she starts to suspect that the cause isn't psychological but something evil.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful, atmospheric, dread ...
Plot:
mental illness, mother daughter relationship, haunting, paranoia, family curse, supernatural, slow burn, identity crisis, isolation, possession, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A mentally ill woman with a severe personalty disorder develops a strange relationship with her dolls. She becomes victim to insomnia and even self-mutilation leaving her son to unfold the strange truth about Anne's illness.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, doll, evil spirit, paranormal activity, mental disorder, uncover truth, mental illness, danger, demonic possession, demon, curses spells and rituals, self mutilation ...
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49%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Ryan O'Neil, a War Veteran suffering from PTSD after being wounded in combat, returns home to his pregnant wife, Stephanie. Her brother Tony, a corrupt cop, has been helping her out while her husband has been serving the country. Ryan and Tony ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, psychological horror, bleak ...
Plot:
war veteran, a vision, pregnancy, trauma, ptsd, brother, post traumatic stress, wound, police officer, marriage, veteran, pregnant wife ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.
Style:
psychological horror, dark, disturbing, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
infant, motherhood, haunted house, female protagonist, threat, supernatural, trauma, paranoia, mental illness, claustrophobia, driven mad, family secret ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
His latest offering from serial horror movie director, Melanie Ansley is sure to send a chill down your spine. Charles, a western reporter, is exiled to a small village in south china where he discovers the most extraordinary story... He finds a ...
Style:
scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
supernatural, escapades, zombie, village life, small town life, danger, social relations, small town, macabre, unsettling, isolation, undead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Sara wakes from a coma to a life she doesn't remember; a fragile, slippery reality that spirals into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems.
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tense, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, memory loss, survival horror, insanity, coma, amnesia, life is a bitch, power relations, suicide attempt, relationship problems, despot, suicide threat ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Scott Wills returns to his childhood home with his wife and daughter. He has inherited the house from his mother, who left him in the care of relatives just before disappearing from his life. While renovating the house, Scott gets a small splinter ...
Style:
psychological horror, creepy, atmospheric, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
family secret, getting home, body horror, trauma, nightmare, slow burn, legacy, inheritance, claustrophobia, paranoia, isolation, infection ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Kaname Azuma is sick of her marriage life with her husband and she decides to divorce him. She leaves Japan and travels to South Korea. There, she visits her brother Teruo's villa. Teruo is surprised by Kaname's sudden visit, but after he ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, thrilling, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
male female relationship, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, family problems, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, haunted, macabre, supernatural, family drama, isolation ...
Place:
south korea, japan
Similarity:
44%
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: 85 min.
Story:
A young woman accepts a job on a property with a traumatic history. Upon her arrival, she soon realizes that the nightmares of her childhood are connected to the evil in the house.
Style:
tense, psychological horror, suspenseful, captivating, mystical ...
Plot:
childhood trauma, female protagonist, paranormal, evil, haunted house, mysticism, paranormal phenomena, tragic past, confronting the past, supernatural horror, trauma, nightmare ...
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105
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:
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Place:
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Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Female protagonist’s brother dies under mysterious circumstances. Extremely vivid nightmares begin to haunt her and she decides to turn to the Institute of somnology for help. Along with other patients, they are induced into a «collective lucid ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, psychological horror, emotional ...
Plot:
nightmare, dream, fear, female protagonist, group of strangers, sleeping, dreamscape, alternate reality, supernatural, haunting, insomnia, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
After a winter storm strands five friends in a remote cabin with no power and little food, disorientation slowly claims their sanity as each of them succumbs to a fear that the snow itself may be contaminated or somehow evil.
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, captivating, scary, disturbing ...
Plot:
group of friends, snow, young adult, dead woman, dead man, bare chested male, fear, isolation, snowstorm, storm, evil, cabin in the woods ...
Similarity:
38%
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:
38%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A young woman from a small town moves out on her own for the first time only to realize something sinister lurking inside her new home.
Style:
psychological horror, atmospheric, creepy, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
haunted house, macabre, isolation, slow burn, claustrophobia, loneliness, paranoia, female protagonist, supernatural, young woman, intimate, mental disorder ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Against the backdrop of a decaying cityscape, Rick Miner, an off-the-books insurance investigator, is tasked with examining the suspicious death of an ex-con involving a million-dollar life insurance claim. While retracing the victim’s steps, Rick ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, neo noir, mind bending, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, private investigator, mental breakdown, suspicion, urban decay, dark city, mysterious death, psychosis, paranoia, moral ambiguity, loneliness, insomnia ...
Similarity:
38%
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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 ...
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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:
36%
104
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
After a woman survives a bizarre attack at an abandoned well, her mental state deteriorates as she tries to prove to others what really happened.
Style:
psychological thriller, mysterious, tense, psychological horror, dread ...
Plot:
isolation, trauma, survival, paranoia, emotional breakdown, hallucination, female protagonist, obsession, claustrophobia, slow burn, obsessive quest, investigation ...
Place:
mulholland drive
Similarity:
35%
300
Genre: Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A ghost horror about single mother and nurse Natalie who falls mysteriously ill and struggles to stop her family from being destroyed.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, mystical ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, single mother, paranormal activity, paranormal, possession, paranormal phenomena, female protagonist, mysticism, supernatural horror, secret, single parent ...
Similarity:
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10K
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 ...
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survival, claustrophobia, female protagonist, isolation, mature, violence, paranoia, supernatural, home invasion, body horror, slow burn, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a small village in Leon, Spain, María José prepares to end her life after failing to get over the suicide of her bullied son years before. Everything changes when she receives a visit from Lucía, a strange little girl who could be connected to ...
Style:
bleak, tense, suspenseful, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, small village, grief, problem, rural area, myth, child suicide, saving a life, countryside, rural setting, supernatural, guilt ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young man caring for his terminally ill father gets pulled into a maelstrom of murder, madness and the macabre. Based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Style:
tense, dark, gothic, psychological horror, disturbing ...
Plot:
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300
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Takashi Shimizu's newest film is about a mysterious cassette tape containing a melody. People who hear this melody gradually begin to hum it themselves and become involved in a mysterious incident. What is the mystery behind this melody ?
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, creepy, thrilling, psychological horror ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, macabre, supernatural, problem, threat, secret, curse, slow burn, urban legend, obsession, possession, investigation ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
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