20 best movies like Braid (2018)

List of the best movies like Braid (2018): Ready or Not, Darling, Crimson Peak, The People Under the Stairs, They Look Like People, Sun Choke, Mindscape, Game Night, Sam Was Here, Long Lost.

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Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:30

A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.

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: 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: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

When young Poindexter "Fool" Williams breaks into the creepy, immense old home of his family's greedy and uncaring landlords, he uncovers a disturbing scenario underneath the stairs.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.

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: 6.9
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:08

Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, France

California, Mojave Desert, 1998. A strange glow appears in the sky. Sam, a forty-something door-to-door salesman, travels through the few inhabited zones of the Californian desert in search of clients.

Markimdb: 5
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:57

When Seth receives a mysterious letter inviting him to spend the weekend at a secluded mansion in the country, he soon realizes the people inside the house may know him better than he knows himself.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:13

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

    Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:49

    A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    Erin Bell is an LAPD detective who, as a young cop, was placed undercover with a gang in the California desert with tragic results. When the leader of that gang re-emerges many years later, she must work her way back through the remaining members and into her own history with them to finally reckon with the demons that destroyed her past.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, Australia

    When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA

    A family moves into a secluded mansion where they soon find themselves being targeted by an entity taking the form of a giant spider.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:37

    A weekend camping trip among six old friends in Northern Minnesota's "Boundary Waters" turns tragic after one dies under mysterious circumstances, triggering further turmoil as they attempt to unmask the killer within their own group.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, detective, biography
    CountryUSA

    A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:03

    When his girlfriend goes missing, David must track down her whereabouts after he realizes she's not who she was pretending to be.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    A spellbinding and romantic supernatural thriller. Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Roni receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Roni descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead-and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Fish has spent six years in jail. Six years alone. Six years keeping his mouth shut about the robbery, about the other men involved. The night he is released, the four men he protected with silence celebrate his freedom with a congratulatory dinner. The meal is a lavish array of sushi, served off the naked body of a beautiful young woman. The sushi girl seems catatonic, trained to ignore everything in the room, even if things become dangerous. Sure enough, the four unwieldy thieves can't help but open old wounds in an attempt to find their missing loot.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:37

    Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, move from Boston to Ludlow, in rural Maine, with their two young children. Hidden in the woods near the new family home, Ellie, their eldest daughter, discovers a mysterious cemetery where the pets of community members are buried.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryItaly, USA
    Duration02:26

    A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    4 would be astronauts spend 400 days in a land locked space simulator to test the psychological effects of deep space travel but, when something goes terribly wrong and they are forced to leave the simulation, they discover that everything on earth has changed. Is this real or is the simulation on a higher level than they could have ever imagined?

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    When Grace is accused of playing a role in a deadly accident, her best friend reaches out from beyond the grave to unveil the truth behind what happened.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Republic of Ireland, USA

    After the death of her family in an airplane crash on a flight that she was meant to be on, Stephanie Patrick discovers the crash was not an accident. She then seeks to uncover the truth by adapting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Japan, USA

    Tokyo, Japan, 1989. Lucy Fly, a foreigner who works as a translator, begins a passionate relationship with Teiji, a mysterious man obsessed with photography.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    FBI Agent Karl Helter and his partner Rebecca Lombardo are very close to busting a sex-trafficking ring. When they realize their investigation has crossed the path of a brutal serial killer, they team up with a Texas Ranger to put an end to the infamous 'Truck Stop Killer'.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
    Duration02:21

    Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    A rookie cop's world is turned upside down when she comes face to face with Paymon - King Of Hell. Officer Jessica Loren has the last shift at a transitioning police station, assigned to wait for a crew picking up bio-hazard waste from the armoury. But unbeknownst to her, cult leader John Michael Paymon has haunted the department ever since he committed suicide in custody. Jessica is about to find out just how dangerous he still is, all alone on the graveyard shift.............

    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: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:42

    An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:12

    Shannon and Kris embark on a cross country road trip, to put back the pieces of their strained friendship. But it all falls apart when their car breaks down in Kain, Arizona. A place where you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:45

    In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a desperate bid to end the nightmare before it's too late.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Japan, Canada
    Duration01:33

    After a young mother murders her family in her own house, a detective attempts to investigate the mysterious case, only to discover that the house is cursed by a vengeful ghost. Now targeted by the demonic spirits, the detective must do anything to protect herself and her family from harm.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, western, detective
    CountryUSA

    A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryFrance, USA

    A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    When a foreign exchange student, Ana (Hayley McLaughlin), studying abroad in America becomes the target of a dangerous stalker, she accepts the invitation to move in with her roommate's family in their idyllic town.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:55

    Letty Dobesh is a thief and con artist fresh out of prison whose life is always one wrong turn and bad decision from implosions — just how she likes it. But when she overhears a hitman being hired to kill a man’s wife, she sets out to derail the job, launching her on a collision course with the killer, entangling them in a dangerous and seductive relationship.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySerbia
    Duration01:44

      Milos, a retired porn star, leads a normal family life trying to make ends meet. Presented with the opportunity of a lifetime to financially support his family for the rest of their lives, Milos must participate in one last mysterious film. From then on, Milos is drawn into a maelstrom of unbelievable cruelty and mayhem.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:42

      Charlie, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Charlie plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, Germany, France
      Duration02:03

      A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.

      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: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      Christy (Zehetner) returns to her hometown years after a car accident that disfigured her older sister. Haunted by the accident in which she was the driver, she learns that her worst nightmares have either come true ... or are about to.




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