Based on short story movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant based on short story movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric and weird films and TV shows about / with storytelling, death, dialogue, murder, violence, mentor, blood, brutality, adaptation and monster plots mostly in Horror, Drama and Thriller genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as based on short story: Re-Animator (1985), Burning (2018), Book of Blood (2009), Real Steel (2011), Dagon (2001), Predestination (2014), They Live (1988), Candyman (1992), Dread (2009), 3:10 to Yuma (2007).
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.
Style:
splatter, lovecraft, bloody, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
violence, mad scientist, zombie, insanity, reanimated corpse, female nudity, dark humor, overdose, gory, laboratory, hospital, evil scientist ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, europe, austria, zurich switzerland
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85K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic ...
Style:
suspense, art house, exciting, ambiguous ending, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
class differences, metaphor, suspicion, arson, asian, anger, aspiring writer, childhood friend, rural setting, stalking, tragic love, bare breasts ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea, seoul, korea, india
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of ...
Style:
psychological, demonic, serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, haunted house, afterlife, supernatural, professor, death, paranormal investigator, sex scene, supernatural horror, blood, psychic, dragonfly ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
378K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: USA, India
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the near-future, Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After Charlie's robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son Max to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
Style:
futuristic, inspirational, feel good, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
boxing, father son relationship, underdog, robot, androids and robots, technology, against the odds, boy, contests and competitions, giant robot, arena, artificial intelligence ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2011, 2020s, 2010s ...
Place:
usa, austin texas, iran, north america, brazil ...
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23K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is pursued by the entire town. ...
Style:
suspense, lovecraft, surprise ending, atmospheric, satanic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nightmare, cthulhu, body horror, small town, curses spells and rituals, chase, monster, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, supernatural, ritual, sea, sacrifice ...
Place:
spain, galicia, europe
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Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has ...
Style:
surprise ending, philosophical, confusing, clever, mind bending ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, time loop, plot twist, time machine, time paradox, twists and turns, parallel universe, gender, destiny, existentialism, changing the past or future, loner ...
Time:
year 1975, future, 2010s, 1940s, year 2014 ...
Place:
usa, new york, peru, cleveland ohio
Is relevant?
162K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No ...
Style:
cult classic, homoerotic, suspenseful, serious, black comedy ...
Plot:
conspiracy, alien invasion, dystopia, alien, distopia, mind control, social commentary, anti conformity, violence, resistance, evil alien, capitalism ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place:
los angeles
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109K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Style:
scary, slasher, bloody, frightening, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
urban legend, serial killer, revenge, urban decay, belief, folklore, supernatural, macabre, investigation, ghost, legend, accused of murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, usa
Is relevant?
14K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three college students set out to document what other people dread most.
Style:
disturbing, psychological horror, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
fear, torture, nightmare, cruelty, psychopath, manipulation, college student, childhood trauma, held captive, violence, mind game, murder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
349K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In Arizona in the late 1800s, infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, ...
Style:
tense, harsh, psychological, clever, brutal ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
old west, gunfight, wild west, runaway, honor, outlaw, prisoner, gunslinger, sheriff, heroic mission, righting the wronged, gang ...
Time:
19th century, 1880s, year 2007, 2000s, 1800s
Place:
arizona, tucson arizona, yuma arizona, usa, sonora ...
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An investigator seeking the cause of an airline disaster discovers the involvement of an organisation of time travellers from a future Earth irreparably polluted who seek to rejuvenate the human race from those about to die in the past. Based on a ...
Style:
apocalyptic, serious, atmospheric, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
time travel, disaster, time warp, scientist, airplane crash, investigation, airplane, robot, time paradox, female warrior, aviation, paradox ...
Time:
future, year 1989, year 1963, distant future
Is relevant?
219K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. ...
Style:
classic horror, dark, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
horror for children
Plot:
bird, bird attack, disaster, paranoia, animal attack, killer animal, small town, lawyer, unsolved mystery, seagull, teacher, creature feature ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, 60s
Place:
california, san francisco, bay area
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Genre: Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
John Hall is a drifter who wanders into a small town in Maine. He needs a job and decides to seek employment at the community's top business: a large textile mill. He is hired to work the "graveyard shift" -- from around midnight to ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rat, drifter, stephen king, supernatural, creature, gory, eaten alive, twists and turns, dangerous animal, deadly creature, rescue, uncover truth ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
maine, usa, new england
Is relevant?
1.4M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, confusing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
memory, vengeance, memory loss, plot twist, revenge, murder, amnesia, whodunit, twists and turns, paranoia, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2001, future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, america, usa ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 238 min.
Story:
The former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on his countryside residence in the French Provence. When the young artist Nicolas visits him with his girlfriend Marianne, Frenhofer decides to start again the work on a painting he ...
Style:
erotic, sincere, atmospheric, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
painting, painter, artist, art, eroticism, husband wife relationship, couples, couple relations, creative process, taxidermy, drawing, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1991
Place:
provence, france, usa, los angeles, south of france
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Style:
scary, apocalyptic, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, dinosaur, time machine, danger, alternate reality, heroic mission, natural disaster, experiment gone awry, technology, jungle, race against time, killer animal ...
Time:
future, prehistory, prehistoric times, 1900s, year 2005
Place:
chicago, illinois
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Neddy Merrill has been away for most of the summer. He reappears at a friend's pool. As they talk, someone notices that there are pools spanning the entire valley. He decided to jog from pool to pool to swim the whole valley. As he stops in ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, depressing ...
Plot:
swimming pool, midlife crisis, swimmer, swimming, nudist, surrealism, neighbor, existentialism, neighborhood, character study, life philosophy, social relations ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century, 70s
Place:
connecticut, usa, california
Is relevant?
852K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Taking place after alien crafts land around the world, an expert linguist is recruited by the military to determine whether they come in peace or are a threat.
Style:
psychological, philosophical, intellectual, reflective, twist ending ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
first contact, alien, female protagonist, linguist, ufo, extraterrestrial, alien contact, time, alien invasion, creature, science, alien race ...
Time:
year 2016, future, 2010s
Place:
montana, china, america, massachusetts, venezuela ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two modern-day cowboys meet on a shepherding job in the summer of '63, the two share a raw and powerful summer together that turns into a lifelong relationship conflicting with the lives they are supposed to live.
Style:
emotional, touching, sexy, sad, melancholic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
gay, homosexuality, gay romance, gay relationship, homosexual, forbidden love, love story, gays and lesbians, lgbt, first gay sexual experience, gay slur, gay love ...
Time:
80s, year 1963, 60s, year 2005, 20th century ...
Place:
wyoming, usa, texas, idaho, america ...
Is relevant?
78K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
Style:
suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, scary, enigmatic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
stephen king, farmer, corpse, murder, hallucination, cornfield, husband murders wife, guilt, infection, murder of wife, husband wife relationship, psychosis ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
usa, america, nebraska
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An executed witch inhabits her teenaged daughter's body to continue in the pursuit of bloodshed.
Style:
gothic, erotic, slasher, independent film, ambiguous ending
Plot:
possession, female nudity, lesbian sex, curse, witch, voyeur, satanism, demonic possession, occult, ghost, father daughter relationship, murder of a nude woman ...
Time:
18th century
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on a novella from Stephen King, A famous mystery writer sets out for revenge after a brutal attack.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, brutal, mindfuck ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape victim, stephen king, serial rapist, revenge, sexualized violence, rapist, vigilantism, woman with a gun, writers, imaginary friend, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nova scotia, new england
Is relevant?
169K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style:
serious, cerebral, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
robbery, twists and turns, fall in love, criminal's revenge, catholic, danger, criminal heroes, criminal, organized crime, crime boss, hitman, church ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
boston, new york, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Sport
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a corporate-controlled future, an ultra-violent sport known as Rollerball represents the world, and one of its powerful athletes is out to defy those who want him out of the game.
Style:
grindhouse, cult classic, apocalyptic, freeze frame, funny ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dystopia, cyberpunk, brutality, corporation, satire, fighting the system, fistfight, tournament, corporate executive, resentment, courage, conspiracy ...
Time:
future, 70s, near future, 2010s, year 1975 ...
Place:
houston texas, new york, tokyo, geneva switzerland, california
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that ...
Style:
scary, suspense, splatter, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Plot:
vampire, reporter, stephen king, supernatural, airplane, evil wins, professional rivalry, airport, investigation, monster, serial killer, macabre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york state, maryland
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Bubba Ho-tep tells the "true" story of what really did become of Elvis Presley. We find Elvis as an elderly resident in an East Texas rest home, who switched identities with an Elvis impersonator years before his "death," then ...
Style:
splatter, funny, black comedy, independent film, cult classic ...
Plot:
mummy, nightmare, dark humor, undead, mental illness, president, elvis impersonator, old age, profanity, roommate, musician, satire ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
texas, las vegas, usa, southern usa, austin texas ...
Is relevant?
371K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bad ending, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, twists and turns, survival horror, cosmic horror, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, distant future, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Craig, a young boy living in a small town befriends an older, reclusive billionaire, Mr. Harrigan. The two form a bond over books and an iPhone, but when the man passes away the boy discovers that not everything dead is gone.
Style:
captivating, mystical, psychological, spooky, teen ...
Plot:
stephen king, small town, telephone call, teenage boy, ghost, teenager, materialism, secret, supernatural horror, terror, friend, paranormal ...
Time:
2020s, year 2011, year 2003
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan, ...
Style:
slasher, tense, scary, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
stephen king, psychopath, folk horror, paranoia, serial murder, violent, creepy kid, murder, small town, danger, revenge, masked killer ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
usa, nebraska
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Malaysia, Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land ...
Style:
lovecraft, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cosmic horror, mutation, farm, husband wife relationship, meteorite, farmhouse, alien invasion, mind control, brother brother relationship, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, contamination ...
Time:
future
Place:
new england, arizona, massachusetts
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