20 best movies like Dead Ringers (1988)


List of the best movies like Dead Ringers (1988): Left Behind, The Prestige, A Single Shot, Wander, Foxcatcher, The Hunter, Jonah Hex, Villain, .45, The Informant.

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Markimdb: 3.1
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:45

A small group of survivors are left behind after millions of people suddenly vanish during the rapture and the world is plunged into chaos and destruction.

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: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Canada
    Duration01:56

    The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.

    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: 7
    Genredrama, history, sport
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryIran, Germany
    Duration01:30

    In an act of vengeance, a young man randomly kills two police officers. He escapes to the forest, where he is arrested by two other officers. The three men are surrounded by trees, the woods. They are lost in a maze, a desolate landscape, where the boundaries between the hunter and the hunted are difficult to perceive.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:13

      Gunslinger Jonah Hex (Josh Brolin) is appointed by President Ulysses Grant to track down terrorist Quentin Turnbull (John Malkovich), a former Confederate officer determined on unleashing hell on earth. Jonah not only secures freedom by accepting this task, he also gets revenge on the man who slayed his wife and child. Megan Fox plays a prostitute as well as Jonah Hex's love interst in the film.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, and he ends up using his life savings to calling in favours with mobster friends to try and help.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA

      Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: Vic, a woman who would like to be Kate's lover; Reilly, who runs with Al but also is attracted to Kate and repulsed by Al's violence; and, Liz, the counselor assigned to Kate from a battered-women's program. Vic and Reilly talk about killing Al, Liz gives pep talks; Kate remains frightened. Will Al's menace and Kate's dependency hold sway?

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, crime
      CountryFrance, Canada

      A story centered on a man who works as an informant for the French border patrol.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:10

      Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.

      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: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:05

      ACP Vishnu is sent on a mission to investigate and clean the underbelly of Goa. During his investigation, he uncovers a huge racket and discovers the involvement of various politicians.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:31

      Battling insomnia and undiagnosed PTSD, a war veteran works nights as a projectionist at a decrepit theater. While struggling to adapt to civilian life, he soon finds himself tangled in an inescapable web of seduction, addiction, and violence.

      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: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

      Markimdb: 8.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:25

      During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing her, so he begins tampering with her treatment, keeping Diane sick and in the hospital right next to him.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryTurkey

      In the absence of Behzat Ç., a superintendent named Himmet gets replaced as the president of the murder Bureau. When the murder of minister of Interior makes a big impact, Himmet decides to take advantage of it and he makes his team help the fight against terrorism bureau.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

        The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryCanada

        After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryRussia
        Duration02:08

        Igor, a Russian oligarch gets into a heated argument with Eva, his estranged daughter whilst traveling on his private jet. Igor orders the plane to land. As the plane touches down Eva disappears into the Goan jungle. Thus begins Igor's desperate search for his only daughter. A search that will bring him and Eva into contact with various characters who in turn are trying to find their own paths through life. Makar, a guy from Novosibirsk, who is desperately searching for enlightenment. Alexey and Kristina are ending their marriage here, while Dimon and Lenya are raising hell and pushing Goa to its partying limits. Kosmos the Guru ("just don't call him that") dispenses the chemicals that in a bat of an eyelid will take you to an alternate reality. There are different destinies here. There are a myriad of people. But all of them have one Motherland, which is easy not to love as long it is close to you

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:08

        Veteran Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan is a man haunted by his failure to save President Kennedy while serving protection detail in Dallas. Thirty years later, a man calling himself "Booth" threatens the life of the current President, forcing Horrigan to come back to protection detail to confront the ghosts from his past.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, drama, history
        CountryLuxembourg, United Kingdom, Germany, South Africa
        Duration01:37

        A band of Vikings cross enemy lines and a panicked race begins. The losers will pay with their lives.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryItaly, USA
        Duration02:06

        A down-on-his-luck PI is hired by his old flame to investigate a murder. But while the case at first appears routine, it slowly reveals itself to be a complex interwoven web of crimes, suspects and dead bodies.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
        Duration01:45

        A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryGermany

        13-year-old Sinikka vanishes on a hot summer night. Her bicycle is found in the exact place where a girl was killed 23 years ago. The dramatic present forces those involved in the original case to face their past.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada

        Twelve extremely talented men and women have been chosen to be part of the Phaeton mission, a 10-year trek to explore a distant planetary system. In order to endure the stress of being confined to their high-tech vessel, the crew passes the time using advanced virtual reality modules that allow them to take on various identities. But as the ship approaches a critical phase of their journey, a deadly flaw is discovered in the virtual system, forcing them to question if someone onboard might be a killer.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:29

        A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountrySouth Korea
        Duration02:01

        An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.

        Markimdb: 4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Earth as we know it is gone. A virus has destroyed the planet and rendered all its women infertile, all but one. An elite team of soldiers are tasked with bringing the woman to safety on the newly habitable Earth Two. But when they are forced underground they find themselves fighting for survival from an bloodthirsty creature in a maze of ever shrinking tunnels. As the team's ranks start to dwindle, the tunnels shrink and the ammunition run out, the crawl for survival becomes more and more desperate.

        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: 5.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:39

        Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:40

        Coming together to solve a series of murders in New York City are a DEA agent whose family was slain as part of a conspiracy and an assassin out to avenge her sister's death. The duo will be hunted by the police, the mob, and a ruthless corporation.

        Markimdb: 8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:20

        Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, adventure
        CountryGermany, USA
        Duration01:50

        Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:34

        Some of Sin City's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with a few of its more reviled inhabitants.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration02:17

        The story follows a down-on-their-luck couple who discovers a serial killer's film reels. They decide to take the law into their own hands, risking everything for the chance at a $100,000 reward. It isn't long until they find themselves in the killer's lethal cross-hairs.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

          A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

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