20 best movies like American Horror Story (2011)

List of the best movies like American Horror Story (2011): Visions, The Bye Bye Man, Darling, The Orphanage, I Am a Ghost, We Go On, The Offering, The Hearse, The Divide, I Will Follow You Into the Dark.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

After moving to a vineyard with her family, a pregnant woman experiences horrifying visions.

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: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA

A young woman slowly goes crazy after taking a job as the caretaker for an ancient New York home.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountrySpain, Mexico
Duration01:45

    A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    Emily, a troubled spirit, haunts her own house every day, wondering why she can't leave. With the help of Sylvia, a clairvoyant hired to rid the house of spirits, Emily is forced into a 'patient/therapist' relationship, uncovering disturbing mysteries about her past that may help her move on to 'the next place

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that can prove that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his fiercely protective mother, he embarks on an adventure that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountrySingapore, USA
    Duration01:48

    When young and successful reporter Jamie finds out that her sister has died in mysterious circumstances, she travels to Singapore to uncover the truth. There, she discovers multiple deaths linked to her sister's and must join forces with her sister's husband in order to defeat a demonic entity that is using new technology to complete an ancient mission.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A schoolteacher moves into her deceased aunt’s house in a small Californian town, and is harassed by unfriendly locals and a mysterious hearse.

    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: 4.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:23

    A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

    Markimdb: 3.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:07

    A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:56

    A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryNorway, France
    Duration01:35

    A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated and becomes pale and unresponsive. Similar attacks begin to happen, and Johanna’s father takes it on himself to find out the truth. He embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy, and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:37

    The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    A group of young men dare a classmate to reach the porch of a legendary old house, said to be haunted by the thirteen victims of a family massacre. In hopes of making a viral video they arm him with a video camera to prove he was there or to capture him fleeing in terror before even reaching the house, as others have. When he doesn't return, the guys must go in to get him. Inside they discover the truth about the house, the fate of their friend and their own fate as well.

    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: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    A young woman recuperating at her father's run-down home after a tragic accident soon encounters a terrifying presence with a connection to her long-deceased mother.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
    Duration02:21

    A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    A boy named Eli with a rare autoimmune disorder is confined to a special experimental clinic for his treatment. He soon begins experiencing supernatural forces, turning the supposedly safe facility into a haunted prison for him and his fellow patients.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    A mother takes her son on a trip into remote wilderness to scatter his father's ashes; they must confront their worst fears when a lone hiker begins following them.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:32

    Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA, Belgium
    Duration01:36

    A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, family
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration01:20

    Flight 7500 departs Los Angeles International Airport bound for Tokyo. As the overnight flight makes its way over the Pacific Ocean during its ten-hour course, the passengers encounter what appears to be a supernatural force in the cabin.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, Canada, Mexico
    Duration01:36

    Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.

    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: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:29

      About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:41

      Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi and director Gil Kenan reimagine and contemporize the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:41

      A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:57

      Theresa, a haunted young woman spiraling in the wake of profound loss, is torn between her fractured emotional state and the reality-altering effects of a potent cannabinoid drug.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a decade earlier. Suspicion falls on a duplicitous banker and his wealthy father, played by Stewart and Lloyd.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryNew Zealand, Netherlands, Singapore

      American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer wanders the world, exploring and exploiting ethnic themes in his tattoo designs. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he gets his first glimpse at the exotic world of traditional Samoan tattoo (tatau), and, in a thoughtless act, unwittingly unleashes a powerful angry spirit. In his devastating journey into Pacific mysticism, Jake must find a way to save his new love, Sina and recover his own soul.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

        Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:56

        Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:23

        A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.

        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: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:28

        A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA

        A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:05

        Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the investigation becomes more and more perilous, they are forced to confront the sins of their pasts, as well as contend with the paranormal consequences of trespassing to the other side.

        Markimdb: 2.5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:22

        A woman uncovers sinister secrets while investigating the apparent suicide of her sister.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA, Canada, Australia

        Whether you’re a fan of Sydney's iconic genre film festival A Night of Horror, or just a fan of the best and bloodiest in new horror cinema, you can’t afford to miss this fright-filled anthology. Zombies, demonic entities, self-surgery, cannibalism and more await in the dark corners of this terrifying offering from some of the most talented filmmakers working in the genre today.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden
        Duration01:34

        40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

        Markimdb: 3.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:31

        A young couple moves into what appears to be the perfect home, but when they discover that they will soon become parents, things begin to fall apart. Rachel, the expectant mother, is haunted by a ghost in a red dress, while Kevin, the soon to be father, has frightening nightmares even while he’s awake. The once happy couple is torn apart by horrific events, which all seem to be centered around the birth of their unborn child.




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