20 best movies like Angel Heart (1987)


List of the best movies like Angel Heart (1987): Gothika, The Dead Zone, In the Mouth of Madness, Doctor Sleep, Lord of Illusions, Mindhunters, Sinister 2, The Believers, The Sound, Whiteout.

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Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration01:38

After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:43

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

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, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:49

During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland
Duration01:46

    Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration02:34

    A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

    Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:34

    A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, France, Turkey
    Duration01:41

      The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Hungary, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

      In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. A security patrolman, battles through the high winds to investigate why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth’s crust than ever before.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:30

      Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

      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: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
      Duration01:34

      Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.

      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
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, United Kingdom, Australia, USA
      Duration01:49

      A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, western, detective
      CountrySouth Africa, United Kingdom
      Duration01:27

      A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryGermany, United Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:50

      Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

        With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryGermany
        Duration01:11

        Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:38

        A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:34

        The police force of a remote Midwestern town search for a killer Santa Claus who is picking off citizens on Christmas Eve.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

        Twenty five years ago, the SS Corona Queen disappeared in the region known as, "The Bermuda Triangle". Now, it has returned. Seven people go on board to learn the truth behind her disappearance but the ship did not return alone...

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:58

        Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

        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: 6.4
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration02:31

        In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:29

        After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        An unexpected pregnancy takes a terrifying turn for newlyweds Zach and Samantha McCall.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryAustralia
        Duration01:30

        In this cunning mystery-horror hybrid, college student Ben inherits a curious old mechanical box that churns out voodoo dolls. When a shadowy figure starts using the box to murder Ben's friends, Ben must find the killer.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryFrance, USA
        Duration01:38

        Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, detective
        CountrySouth Africa, USA
        Duration01:29

        A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:26

        Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:38

        Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrethriller
        CountryCanada, USA

        After getting hired to probe a suspicious death in the small town of Wander, a mentally unstable private investigator becomes convinced the case is linked to the same 'conspiracy cover up' that caused the death of his daughter.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:24

          Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:09

          Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the beautiful young "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

          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: 7.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:29

            On the night a comet is passing near Earth, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. When the power goes out, they discover that the only house on the street left with power also holds many secrets.

            Markimdb: 7.6
            Genrethriller, crime, detective
            CountrySpain
            Duration01:48

            A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
            Duration02:07

            Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrehorror, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:00

            Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire who prowled around his castle. One year later, Irena, Karell's daughter, is haunted by the vampire and will be his next victim… unless Professor Zelen can avoid it.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
            CountryJapan

            A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...

            Markimdb: 5.9
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:21

            A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!




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