Movies Like Pitfall
If you liked Pitfall (1962), a mystery and fantasy movie directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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The King Tide (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also mystery and fantasyAfter the mayor of an idyllic island village discovers a child with mysterious powers awash on their shores, the once peaceful community devolves into civil war, torn over the belief that the child is the next saviour.
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High and Low (1963)
★ 8.4/10Also crime and mysteryA Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.
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Summer Ghost (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and fantasyAn urban legend says that lighting fireworks at an abandoned airfield will beckon the "summer ghost," a spirit that can answer any question. Three teenagers, Tomoya, Aoi, and Ryo, each have their own reason to show up…
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Demon City (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also crime and fantasyFramed for his family's murder and left for dead, an ex-hitman will stop at nothing to exact revenge on the masked "demons" who have taken over his city.
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Detective Conan: Black Iron Submarine (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also crime and mysteryWhile visiting Hachijo-jima, Conan sneaks aboard a security boat heading to the Pacific Buoy, an off-shore facility constructed near the coasts built to connect surveillance cameras used by police forces around the…
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The Girl from the Other Side (2023)
★ 7.8/10Also mystery and fantasyOnce upon a time, in a far, faraway place, there were two lands. The world was divided into an inner land and an outer land. People feared the outer land, inhabited by eerie beings, the carriers of curse. One day, on…
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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasy and mysterySkeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a…
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Ugetsu (1953)
★ 8/10Also fantasy and mysteryIn 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit…
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Haunted (1995)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and fantasyProfessor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching…
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Changeling (2008)
★ 7.6/10Also crime and mysteryLos Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a trace. Five months later, the police reunite mother and son. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her…
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The Car (1977)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and fantasyThe Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined…
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Scooby-Doo! and the Witch's Ghost (1999)
★ 7.4/10Also mystery and fantasyScooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang visit Oakhaven, Massachusetts to seek strange goings on involving a famous horror novelist and his ancestor who is rumored to have been a witch.
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
★ 7.7/10Also crime and mysteryAfrican-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie, the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but…
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Mushi-Shi: The Next Chapter - Drops of Bells (2015)
★ 8.3/10Also mystery and fantasyOn a warm summer day, a boy heard the sound of bells ringing, as if in celebration, in the mountain near his home. Several years later in that same mountain, the mushishi Ginko stumbles upon a young girl in a mountain…
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The Witch (2016)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and mysteryIn 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are…
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Uzumaki (2000)
★ 6/10Also mystery and fantasyThe inhabitants of a small Japanese town become increasingly obsessed with and tormented by spirals.
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The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and crimeA picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13…
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Youth of the Beast (1963)
★ 6.9/10Also crime and mysteryWhen a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.
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Abigail (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and mysteryA young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going…
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Black Butler (2014)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and mysterySet in the year 2020, following her supposed death, a young woman returns as the son of her noble family to precede the family's prestigious company, with a demon at her side to avenge her parent's murder.