20 best movies like Don't Look Now (1973)

List of the best movies like Don't Look Now (1973): The Machinist, The Lodge, Half Light, The Dead Zone, Gone Girl, Take Shelter, Possum, Scream and Scream Again, The Forest, In the Mouth of Madness.

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:37

The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

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: 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: 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: 7.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:01

      Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:56

      A disgraced children’s puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:35

      A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:26

      Set in the Aokigahara Forest, a real-life place in Japan where people go to end their lives. Against this backdrop, a young American woman comes in search of her twin sister, who has mysteriously disappeared.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

      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: 7.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:57

      A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

      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
      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: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      The plot follows Morris (Curran), a recluse with psychotic tendencies, whose life changes when his innocent daughter (Vickers) rescues one of his victims and befriends him. Jake (Hill), an ordinary businessman, soon realizes that he is stranded, and his presence in the house gradually reveals unexpected and dark mysteries from the past.

      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: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryAustria
      Duration01:48

      Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      An evil is unleashed in a small town when a logging company sets up shop in the neighboring woods. Isolated and threatened, a mysterious force hidden within the trees outside the small town of Maiden Woods, strikes fear in the townspeople as Sheriff Paul Shields attempts to overcome the demons of his past while protecting those that he loves.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

      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: 7.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:45

        In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden
        Duration01:34

        40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Italy, United Kingdom
        Duration01:47

        An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:46

        Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid rules to keep himself “good” and “normal”. However, when a real monster shows up in his town he has to let his dark side out in order to stop it – but without his rules to keep him in check, he might be more dangerous than the monster he’s trying to kill.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:30

        Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryCanada, United Kingdom, Australia, USA
        Duration01:49

        A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

        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: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
        Duration01:38

        After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryChina
        Duration01:44

        The famous psychologist Xu Ruining has a raising career, when he met the troublesome patient Ren Xiaoyan. The meeting is not easy as feeble-looking Ren is point by point against him.

        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: 2.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

        A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryFrance, Germany, Japan
        Duration01:44

        Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.

        Markimdb: 3.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:34

        A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryFrance, United Kingdom
        Duration01:42

        In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this film of psychological imagery and an erotic exploration of the female body.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:40

        A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

        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, drama, detective
          CountryNetherlands, Belgium, Denmark
          Duration01:53

          Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence unleashes a crowing gallery of distortion around the careful façade constructed by an arrogant, comfortable couple, their three children and nanny.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genreaction, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:59

          Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryItaly, France
          Duration01:58

          Irena, a Ukrainian woman coming to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.

          Markimdb: 7.6
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryFrance
          Duration02:06

          A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill himself.

          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: 5.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

          Markimdb: 6.3
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:34

          A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia
          Duration01:28

          A contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple travelling through the Australian outback become involved with a mysterious and charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly suspect and sinister.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:00

          In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

          Markimdb: 6.5
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:45

          A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

          Markimdb: 4.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:10

          In 19th century Baltimore, Isabel Porter, a girl stricken with grief from her parents' untimely death, voluntarily checks herself into the Rosewood Institute. Subjected to bizarre and increasingly violent pseudo-scientific experiments in personality modification, brainwashing and mind control, she must escape the clutches of the Rosewood and exact her revenge, or else be forever lost.

          Markimdb: 6
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryItaly
          Duration02:00

          A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.




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