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Knocking (2021)
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Original name: Knackningar
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, dark drama, psychological thriller, psychological horror
Plot:
mental institution, mentally unstable, mental illness, female protagonist, paranoia, lgbt, obsession, european, police, fire, neighbor, woman, paramedic, drowning, lgbtq, psychiatric hospital, lesbian, beach, noise
Time:
2020s
Place:
eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Knocking
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological, suspenseful and tense films with plots about female protagonist, paranoia, isolation, murder, obsession, mental illness and claustrophobia mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Horror genres. Some movies like Knocking: The Dark Red (2018), Breaking Dawn (2004), Blood Cell (2019), Kindred Spirits (2019), Insane (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An investigative reporter Nellie Bly, who’s on a mission to expose the deplorable conditions and mistreatment of patients at the notorious Women’s Lunatic Asylum, and feigns mental illness in order to be institutionalized to report from the ...
Style:
bleak, serious, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
mental institution, abuse, torture, journalist, female reporter, investigative reporter, fish out of water, violence, investigative journalism, psychiatrist, social problems, violent ...
Time:
victorian era, 1880s, 1800s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, supernatural, schizophrenia, occult, revenge, psychiatric hospital, kidnapping, supernatural horror, mental patient, child abduction, mentally unstable, female psychopath ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspenseful, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental institution, paranoia, losing-it hero, mental illness, mentally unstable, investigation, murder, hospital, stalking, uncover truth, obsession, mind game ...
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Barbara adjusts to her new life behind bars, her crimes start to haunt her. Her new cellmate Evelyn is about to start an obsessive and ghostly friendship with her, one that Barbara cannot escape from.
Style:
dark, tense, psychological horror, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
confined space, claustrophobia, character study, obsession, female protagonist, guilt, supernatural, isolation, paranoia, manipulation, power struggle, slow burn ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Single mother Chloe has her life turned upside down when her younger sister, Sadie, comes home after a long, unexplained absence. Though Sadie seems to want to settle in with her sister and 17-year-old niece, it soon becomes apparent that she may ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, single mother, female antagonist, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, aunt niece relationship, troubled, mentally unstable woman, male female relationship, relationships, plan, family problems ...
Similarity:
60%
698
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A woman gets kidnapped in the middle of the day and is tortured in a psychiatric hospital. A Journalist gets on the trace of the case and tries to find out the truth.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
nurse patient relationship, investigation, abduction, escape, diary, mental institution, murder, psychiatric hospital, kidnapping, house fire, violence, brutality ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
57%
123
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 ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Kevin, an American psychiatrist has just entered the bestseller list books. During the recent book promotion tour he meets a sister of a former patient he committed to a mental institution in Spain. She asks if he will visit her sister, as her ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
supernatural, mental institution, split personality, uncover truth, haunted by the past, confined, doctors and patients, multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder, macabre, character study, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young woman seeking self-improvement enlists the help of a renowned hypnotist but, after a handful of intense sessions, discovers unexpected and deadly consequences.
Style:
suspense, psychological, enigmatic, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
brain, spell, hypnosis, murder, restraining order, memory loss, memory, anxiety, tragedy, doctor, stillbirth, psychologist ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, mystical, psychological ...
Plot:
twins, psychotherapy, hypnosis, supernatural, couples therapy, paranormal, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, paranormal phenomena, mysticism, sisters, unconventional method ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Malcom McDowell, Lou Diamond Phillips and Robert Englund star in three separate stories set in an eerie mental asylum.
Style:
psychological, anthology, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, losing-it hero, mental institution, hospital, psychiatric ward, mental disorder, illness, psychological trauma, danger, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, doll ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits a small island in New York and discovers it has a dangerous history.
Style:
tense, disturbing, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
island, remote island, female protagonist, problem, dark secret, undercover, threat, murder, murder mystery, secret, isolation, dark past ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, obsession, grief, motherhood, loss, lifestyle, mentally unstable, new neighbor, tragic past, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Lonely medical student Frank is pleased with his flat, a quiet place to focus on his coming exams. But when he meets the girl upstairs, the intrusive Lotte, he realizes there is something wrong with the place. Each time he leaves his apartment, ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
apartment building, danger, murder, student, neighbor, uncover truth, suspicion, nordic, mental disorder, stalker, paranoia, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A visit to a wealthy and reclusive friend lands a young man in a world of fear and despair.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological horror, captivating ...
Plot:
family secret, secret, wealthy family, puzzle, isolation, paranoia, slow burn, claustrophobia, haunting, melancholy, manor, edgar allan poe ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a bitterly cold December night, a paranormal investigations team has set their sights on the bloody Hillcrest Sanatorium to answer the age old question: Is there life after death? With rumours of hauntings and local children gone missing, they ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
afterlife, found footage, ghost, mentally unstable, psychiatric ward, mental institution, chaos and mayhem, supernatural, hospital, danger, violence, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Widowed mother Holly is radically tested when her teenage daughter Betsey experiences a profound enlightenment and insists that her body is no longer her own, but in service to a higher power. Bound to her newfound faith, Betsey refuses to eat but ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
supernatural horror, mother and daughter, possessed woman, family problems, family relations, teenage life, life is a bitch, teenage girl, obsession, faith, body horror, religious faith ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, suspicion, murder, danger, losing-it hero, hallucination, serial killer, uncover truth, youth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kyung-min lives alone in a one-room apartment. One day, she found a trace of a stranger breaking into her room and soon a mysterious murder case begins to unravel
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
secretly observing, female victim, violence against women, murder, breaking and entering, attempted murder, woman in danger, pursuit, investigation, disembowelment, dismemberment, twists and turns ...
Similarity:
42%
41
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of friends fall victim to tragic events after one of them dials *69 in response to a crank call. Tina, who's finally putting the missing pieces of her life back together after a car accident robbed her of her memory a year prior, ...
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
uncover truth, memory lapse, threatening telephone call, repressed memory, private investigation, crime solving, investigation, memory loss, nightmare, secret, dark secret, death ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental disorder, house, marital problem, disturbed individual, psycho, female protagonist, mental illness, mysticism, family problems, marital crisis, supernatural horror, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
witch, vengeance, revenge, female protagonist, fire, dark past, murder, witch burning, mysterious past, supernatural ability, supernatural power, train ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
After the tragic death of her husband, a soldier posted to Afghanistan, Bryony tries to build a new life for herself and her young son, James. Struggling with her own grief she fails to notice that James has become secretive and withdrawn, spending ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, gothic horror ...
Plot:
bereavement, mother son relationship, family tragedy, family drama, loss of spouse, grief, family relations, life is a bitch, survival horror, family problems, loss of father, loss of husband ...
Similarity:
39%
581
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Love can be painful. Very painful. The intriguing-on-the-outside, twisted-and-tortured-on-the-inside Tara sets her sights on the unassuming guy-next-door Ray. Their innocent flirting turns into a regretful one night stand which he hopes to put ...
Style:
disturbing, slasher, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
female stalker, female protagonist, unrequited love, sadistic woman, tragic love, girl next door, violent, love affair, mentally unstable, violence, neighbor, psychopath ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Claire has everything - money, a loving husband and a desired child. But suddenly her life changes. Doubts and lies bring her to the edge of insanity.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
deception, husband wife relationship, family problems, mental breakdown, infidelity, relationships, male female relationship, marriage crisis, marital problem, family relations, changing lives, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Rose awakes in an unknown house following a serious car accident with memory loss and no ability to walk. Her Mother and boyfriend are there to help her. Rose wants to piece together her life before the accident. All is not what it seems.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, car accident, accident, memory, wheelchair bound, woman in a wheelchair, female protagonist, amnesiac, memory lapse, family secret, identity ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of ...
Style:
mumblecore, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
found footage, lake, sister sister relationship, sisters, family problems, female protagonist, women, diving, puzzle, mother daughter relationship, house, woman ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A teenage boy befriends an escapee from a mental institution who sees visions of horrible murders being committed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mentally unstable, confined, danger, gory, haunted by the past, mental illness, mental institution, escaped mental patient, nypd, escape ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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:
35%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, girl next door, maniac, surveillance camera, neighbor, threat, stalking, hidden camera, isolation, manipulation, obsession, paranoia ...
Similarity:
35%
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