20 best movies like Diabolique (1996)


List of the best movies like Diabolique (1996): Unforgettable, The Black Dahlia, Palmetto, The Wannabe, An American Haunting, Goodbye Lover, When the Bough Breaks, Taboo, Gone Girl, Apostle.

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Markimdb: 6
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.

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: 6.1
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: 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: 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: 5.6
Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.

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: 3.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:50

Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder.

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: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:18

    In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:48

    A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:04

    Barr is a psychiatrist who falls in love with the sister of one of his clients. She's beautiful and married to a gangster. She hates her husband but is unable to escape from him.

    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: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a decade earlier. Suspicion falls on a duplicitous banker and his wealthy father, played by Stewart and Lloyd.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, crime, detective
    CountryJapan
    Duration01:59

    In Victorian-era London, on the night of Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday a fire destroyed his manor and killed both of his parents. In a moment of death Ceil strikes a deal with a demon, his soul in exchange for revenge. This demon becomes his butler and calls himself by name of Sebastian Michaelis, to protect and serve Ciel until the deal has been completed. One month after the fire Ciel returns from being missing, with his new butler Sebastian. Ceil is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the work as the Queen of England’s guard dog and looking for his parents murders.

    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: 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: 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: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:39

    A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING... not knowing if what they're seeing is real, or staged.

    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: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.

    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
    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: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

    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: 7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:34

    Quiet, withdrawn 13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives peacefully in her home in a New England beach town. Whenever the prying landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she politely claims that he's in the city on business. But when the landlady's creepy and increasingly persistent son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with kindly neighbor boy Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    An inventor of a secret process suddenly finds himself alone as both his friends and the corporation he works for turn against him.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration03:12

    In 1960, seven pre-teen outcasts fight an evil demon who poses as a child-killing clown. Thirty years later, they reunite to stop the demon once and for all when it returns to their hometown.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, music
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:43

    In this spine-tingling and visually stunning thriller, Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Shaft, Pulp Fiction delivers a "full-throttle performance" (People) as Romulus Ledbetter, a misunderstood musician turned recluse, hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave. When Romulus finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree, the authorities - including his police officer daughter (Aunjanne Ellis) - claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by prominent art photographer David Leppenraub (Colm Feore). But how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, France
    Duration01:53

    A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.

    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: 5.8
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:19

    One man's struggle to contain the curse he hides within... and his last-ditch attempt to free himself with the love of family. But when it looks as if he is losing his battle, and endangering all he holds most dear, the family dog, Thor, is the last hope for his family's survival... and the end to his Werewolf curse.

    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: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:34

    Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father. When Dorothy tells Jonathan that she is pregnant and that her father will deny her inheritance if he finds out, Jonathan murders her, but he stages her death as a suicide. As Jonathan works his way onto Mr. Carlsson's payroll, Dorothy's twin sister, Ellen, investigates the apparent suicide.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountrySpain

    The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    A small group of Catholics led by an ailing priest believe that Satan intends to become man, just as God did in the person of Jesus. The writings of a possessed mental patient lead them to Peter Kelson, a writer who studies serial killers. They think it's his body Satan will occupy. The youngest in the group, a teacher named Maya Larkin, goes to Peter to investigate further and to convince him to believe in the possibility of Evil incarnate. Other signs come to him as he and Maya them take a journey full of strange occurrences, self-discovery, and an ultimate showdown

    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: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:29

      A census-taker (Sisto) is sent to investigate why a certain small town has had the same population -- 436 residents -- for the last 100 years.

      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: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

      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: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryAustralia

      Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      Leona Stevenson is confined to bed and uses her telephone to keep in contact with the outside world. One day she overhears a murder plot on the telephone and is desperate to find out who is the intended victim.




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