20 best movies like Dark (2017)


List of the best movies like Dark (2017): Project Almanac, Looper, Predestination, Elsewhere, The Jacket, Black Tide, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things, Bad Day at Black Rock, Who Am I, Criminal.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

    A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, China
    Duration01:58

    In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrefantastic, action, drama, detective
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:38

      Predestination chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to prevent future killers from committing their crimes. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must stop the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time and prevent a devastating attack in which thousands of lives will be lost.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      A teen girl disappears after trying to meet men online in order to escape her small town. Apparently, only her best friend worries enough to investigate the mystery.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:42

      A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryFrance, Belgium
      Duration01:00

      When a teenager suddenly disappears without a trace, the case is assigned to an alcoholic police officer who maintains a complicated relationship with his own troubled teenage son, suspected of drug trafficking.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA

      The film tells the story of quick-witted teen Mark, contentedly living the same day in an endless loop whose world is turned upside-down when he meets mysterious Margaret also stuck in the time loop. Mark and Margaret form a magnetic partnership, setting out to find all the tiny things that make that one day perfect. What follows is a love story with a fantastical twist, as the two struggle to figure out how -- and whether -- to escape their never-ending day.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:42

      Benjamin, a young German computer whiz, is invited to join a subversive hacker group that wants to be noticed on the world's stage.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Bulgaria
      Duration02:27

      Bill Pope is a CIA agent on a mission in London tracking down a shadowy hacker nicknamed "The Dutchman." When he gets mysteriously ambushed and killed, an experimental procedure is used to transfer his memories into dangerous ex-convict Jericho Stewart. When he wakes up with the CIA agent's memories, his mission is to find The Dutchman and eliminate him before the hacker launches ICBM's and starts World War III. But complications soon arise and the mission turns personal.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      A psychiatrist makes multiple trips through time to save a woman that was murdered by her brutal husband.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountrySpain, France, Italy, Argentina, Germany
      Duration02:01

      Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      When a women's husband is brutally murdered and casterated, she enlists the help of a paranormal expert to analyze strange phone calls from his phone and her investigations lead her to a group of swingers that expose her husband's double life.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryDenmark, Germany, Sweden

      Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:38

      A DEA agent investigates the disappearance of a legendary Army ranger drill sergeant and several of his cadets during a training exercise gone severely awry.

      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: 5.3
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:32

      A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:46

      U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Sweden, South Africa
      Duration01:42

      After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryItaly

      Taurus City, The United States of Europe, 2023. Uly, a disillusioned soldier riddled with amnesia, returns home from a war in the Middle East, knowing only that he must desperately comb the city to find his beloved wife, Penelope. Fate fills this endless night with a series of chance meetings. Whether it be the wealthy Alcyde, the beastly cyclops Popov, Aeo the Gyspy, or Cici the Sorceress, good or evil that they be, each encounter fills in a missing piece of Uly's memory, so that he can finally face his past.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration02:02

      A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe deduces that there's much more to this than a simple missing-person case. Marlowe's path crosses that of a blackmailed movie star, Mavis Wald, and her friend, exotic dancer Delores. A mobster sends karate expert Winslow Wong to bust up Marlowe's office and warn him off the case, while Lieutenant French also cautions the detective to stay out of the police's way.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:39

      Three friends head to the seafront for a drunken weekend, only to be imprisoned on the top floor of their holiday apartment by a malevolent paranormal force.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:34

      Revolves around a British military contractor Lex Walker who is told his daughter has died. When he arrives in Los Angeles and discovers the body is not hers, he begins an investigation.

      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: 7.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      Armed with only one word - Tenet - and fighting for the survival of the entire world, the Protagonist journeys through a twilight world of international espionage on a mission that will unfold in something beyond real time.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, action
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Australia, China
      Duration02:01

      A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:53

        Major Bill Cage is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously demoted and dropped into combat. Cage is killed within minutes, managing to take an alpha alien down with him. He awakens back at the beginning of the same day and is forced to fight and die again... and again - as physical contact with the alien has thrown him into a time loop.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:44

        Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrefantastic, comedy, melodrama
        CountryUSA, Hong Kong

        When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, or each other.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantastic, action, adventure
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
        Duration01:36

        Hoping to alter the events of the past, a 19th century inventor instead travels 800,000 years into the future, where he finds humankind divided into two warring races.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
        CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Germany
        Duration01:41

          When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Japan

          A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.

          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: 6.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryAustralia
          Duration01:30

          Anna Macy left Kettering when she was just 14, shortly after her best friend, Gillian Baxter mysteriously disappeared. The two girls had been playing in the forbidden forests outside Kettering when they saw strange lights in the sky. Eight hours later, Anna was found alone, terrified and covered in blood. 15 years on, Anna returns to find the town struggling to survive. The forests have been marked for logging and the community is being torn apart by passionate but violent clashes between environmentalists and the local loggers.

          Markimdb: 3.6
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:43

          S. Darko follows Samantha Darko, the younger sister of Donnie, the protagonist of Donnie Darko, and her friend Corey. On their way to California, their car breaks down, forcing them to wait in a small town until it is fixed. While there, Samantha begins to have dreams that warn her of the end of the universe.

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