20 best movies like Cat People (1942)


List of the best movies like Cat People (1942): The Perfect Guy, Coherence, The Signal, #Horror, Dragonwyck, The Remaining, Resolution, Dark Water, The Big Clock, When the Bough Breaks.

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

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: 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: 3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:43

    For Miranda Wells, moving to New York to live in Dragonwyck Manor with her rich cousin, Nicholas, seems like a dream. However, the situation gradually becomes nightmarish. She observes Nicholas' troubled relationship with his tenant farmers, as well as with his daughter, to whom Miranda serves as governess. Her relationship with Nicholas intensifies after his wife dies, but his mental imbalance threatens any hope of happiness.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    When a group of close-knit friends assemble for the marriage of Skylar and Dan, they have no idea they will witness The Rapture and face a series of catastrophic events turning the celebration into a life-or-death struggle.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    Michael is committed to getting his best friend Chris to sober up and get his life back on track. With the best of intentions, Michael implements a plan to convince Chris to go to rehab before his drug addiction leads to an early death. But what begins as an attempt to save his friend's life quickly takes an unexpected turn as the two friends confront personal demons, the consequences of past actions, and forces beyond their control.

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

    Dahlia Williams and her daughter Cecelia move into a rundown apartment on New York's Roosevelt Island. She is currently in midst of divorce proceedings and the apartment, though near an excellent school for her daughter, is all she can afford. From the time she arrives, there are mysterious occurrences and there is a constant drip from the ceiling in her daughter's bedroom.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:36

    A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

    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: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:22

    A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

    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: 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: 5.9
      Genrehorror, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:32

      In Italy, a woman becomes involved in a series of unauthorized exorcisms during her mission to discover what happened to her mother, who allegedly murdered three people during her own exorcism.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:32

      The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:10

      Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend, Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

      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: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial.

      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: 4.2
      Genrehorror, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:20

      While investigating the murder of her father by her blind younger brother, a young woman disturbs the vengeful spirit of Elizabeth Short, known in legend as "The Black Dahlia".

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.

      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: 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: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:31

        Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:29

        A documentary filmmaker turns his lens on an enigmatic conspiracy theorist who claims he's found the entrance to a vast underground city populated entirely by monsters.

        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: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:29

        A teen must resort to extreme measures to protect her family from a supernatural entity.

        Markimdb: 8.5
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:05

          A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryItaly

          A burned out, abusive, alcoholic writer named Oliviero lives with his wife, Irina, at their estate in Venice, along with his late mother's mysterious black cat, Satan. To pass the time, Oliviero hosts parties for the local hippies, humiliating Irina in front of his guests. When his mistress is murdered, police suspect Oliviero, and things get complicated when his young, beautiful and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryDenmark, France
          Duration01:24

          The young woman, Marie, is an outsider in the small coastal community where she has grown up. The townspeople live in fear of her and not least her mother, who is wheelchair bound, suffering from a mysterious illness. When Marie discovers her body changing – long hair growing on her chest and back – she begins searching for answers concerning her family’s hidden past. Something that will have great consequences for herself and her family – and the choices she has to make.

          Markimdb: 5.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, Iceland

          In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:27

          A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

          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: 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: 5.6
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany, France
          Duration02:01

          Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.

          Markimdb: 6.2
          Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, USA
          Duration01:40

          It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he is her dead husband reincarnated. At first she ignores the child, but his knowledge of her former husband's life is uncanny, leading her to believe that he might be telling the truth.

          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: 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: 5.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

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

          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: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, Eli meets the mysterious Amanda when she gives him an apple. The next day she extracts a promise from him to avoid the deep woods. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night he breaks this promise and finds her body hanging from a tree.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, drama, detective
          CountryItaly

          On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:43

          Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.

          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: 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.




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