20 best movies like Alena (2015)

List of the best movies like Alena (2015): The Nun, The Divide, Cruel Summer, Into the Forest, Down a Dark Hall, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Beauty and the Dogs, Slasher, Daddy's Girl, Wildling.

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Markimdb: 4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountrySpain, United Kingdom

A group of catholic school girls are victimized by a sadistic and jealous nun, "Sister Ursula". The girls drown the nun in a pool of "holy" water. Eighteen years later circumstances arise in which the nuns spirit is released to take her revenge. She possesses the body of Eva, the daughter of one of her killers. In order for the Sister Ursula to be properly laid to rest Eva herself must be killed.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller, drama, drama
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada, France
Duration02:02

Survivors of a nuclear attack are grouped together for days in the basement of their apartment building, where fear and dwindling supplies wear away at their dynamic.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

Young Autism sufferer Danny enjoys the serenity and solitude of camping. That's all about to change when enraged teens Nicholas, Calvin and Julia find him, each with their own agenda for wanting to see Danny suffer.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryFrance, Sweden

Tom (8) and Benjamin (11) travel to Stockholm to spend the summer with their father, whom they have barely seen since he divorced their mother. Tom, in particular, knows next to nothing about this strange, solitary man who seems never to sleep. When he suggests they spend a few days at his cabin in the country, the boys are delighted. But the cabin is totally isolated in the middle of a huge forest, a place both beautiful and troubling.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountrySpain, USA
Duration02:25

Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:23

A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family take an unexpected turn.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryTunisia, France, Sweden
Duration02:18

When Mariam, a young Tunisian woman, is raped by police officers after leaving a party, she is propelled into a harrowing night in which she must fight for her rights even though justice lies on the side of her tormentors.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryCanada
Duration00:30

Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:35

A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:25

A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:40

A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, history
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Romania, USA
Duration01:23

Based on the true events of the only case in US History where a spirit caused the death of a man.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A young camgirl discovers that she’s inexplicably been replaced on her site with an exact replica of herself.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:59

Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:39

A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryNorway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration02:16

A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryCanada
Duration01:42

A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller
CountrySpain, Belgium

Abraham and his female friend Álex have a close relationship; they share both secrets and fears. When Abraham starts going out with Anchi, he begins to distance himself from Álex, who gradually dives into a living hell where she encounters strange apparitions, nightmarish visions and extreme situations.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, drama
CountrySweden, Denmark
Duration01:25

As a couple goes on a trip to find their way back to each other, a sideshow artist and his shady entourage emerge from the woods, terrorizing them, luring them deeper into a maelstrom of psychological terror and humiliating slapstick.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:26

A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:43

High school senior Lily and her group of friends live in a haze of texts, posts, selfies and chats just like the rest of the world. So, when an anonymous hacker starts posting details from the private lives of everyone in their small town, the result is absolute madness leaving Lily and her friends questioning whether they'll live through the night.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:27

Two high school filmmakers decide to create the illusion of a haunting on an unsuspecting neighbor.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:58

Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryGermany
Duration01:41

While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest four teenagers come across an old US military radio tower station. Back in the days of the Cold War it was part of a secret military program that produced horrific side effects, but has long since abandoned. Until now, when the station is mysteriously powered up again.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryDenmark, France, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, Tunisia
Duration02:43

Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryGermany, USA
Duration01:37

David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure
CountryNorway
Duration01:39

    A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    People disappear every year out in the snow--but this year, something is adding to the body count. Jim and his research team study the Canadian Lynx every year. This year, he has to take his rebelling 16 year-old daughter, Emmy, with him. But the lynx are missing. As Jim and his team try to find why, something stalks them--a predator no prey can escape.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, China
    Duration02:22

    When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    The pit has spoken. Dawai, the potter of a backwoods community, has crafted a face on a ceramic jug of the person that the pit wants sacrificed. Ada, pregnant with her brother’s child, has seen her face on the jug and hides it in the woods, determined to save the life of her unborn. If she does not sacrifice herself however, the creature from the pit will kill everyone in the village until she does.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountrySweden
    Duration01:16

    Caroline, a woman in her late thirties, has lost everything and is searching for a new beginning. She moves into an old apartment and starts to realize that she is not as alone as she thought she was. Just as she is searching for something new, something old is searching for her.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:46

    When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryLuxembourg
    Duration02:15

    15-year-old Mia faces an overwhelming transformation which puts her entire existence into question. Her body is changing radically, and despite desperate attempts to halt the process, Mia is soon forced to accept that nature is far more powerful than she is.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:11

    After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

    When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryItaly
    Duration01:25

    Viola and Nicola are going through a rough time. To overcome this crisis, they decide to spend a weekend in a remote cabin belonged to Nicola's parents. Just a couple of days together to heal their wounds, , but everything will take a turn for the worst, when a sneaking suspicion become pure madness. What was supposed to be a quiet trip will suddenly slip into a deadly nightmare.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:00

    In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryHungary, Germany, Sweden
    Duration02:01

    Favoring pedigree dogs, a new regulation puts a severe tax on mixed breeds. Owners dump their dogs and shelters become overcrowded. 13-year-old Lili fights desperately to protect her pet Hagen, but her father eventually sets the dog free on the streets. Hagen and his master search desperately for each other until Lili loses faith. Struggling to survive, homeless Hagen realizes that not everyone is a dog’s best friend. Hagen joins a gang of stray dogs, but is soon captured and sent to the pound. With little hope inside there, the dogs will seize an opportunity to escape and revolt against mankind. Their revenge will be merciless. Lili may be the only one who can halt this unexpected war between man and dog.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySweden, France
    Duration04:41

    Kahina Zadi, 32, a French police officer travels to Kiruna in Sweden to investigate the bestial murder of a French citizen. Together with Anders, a Swedish prosecutor of Sami origin, she begins an investigation. Soon new killings start to happen and the first victim turns out to be the tip of a very dark iceberg. The victims seemingly have nothing in common more than that they are all being killed in a well-planned and vicious manner. In their hunt for the truth, both Kahina and Anders are forced to deal with their own past that they have repressed. A personal journey through a painful past becomes the key to succeed in preventing the violent killings that affects the small mining community of Kiruna.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    An evil is unleashed in a small town when a logging company sets up shop in the neighboring woods. Isolated and threatened, a mysterious force hidden within the trees outside the small town of Maiden Woods, strikes fear in the townspeople as Sheriff Paul Shields attempts to overcome the demons of his past while protecting those that he loves.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:32

    A couple on a deep-wilderness hike become hopelessly lost within an aggressive black bear's territory.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia

    Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Sweden
    Duration02:28

    A group of friends travels to Sweden to visit the rural hometown of one of them and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryIran, France
    Duration01:53

    Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.




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