20 best movies like Dragonfly (2002)


List of the best movies like Dragonfly (2002): Half Light, The Bye Bye Man, Pali Road, The Haunting of Whaley House, The Devil's Advocate, Odd Thomas, The Dark, The Dead Zone, The Illusionist, Haunter.

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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: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, China
Duration02:22

When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryChina, USA

PALI ROAD is a mysterious and thrilling journey in search for true love between two different worlds. Lily, a young doctor, wakes up from a car accident and discovers she is living a completely different life. Now married to her boyfriend’s rival, Dr. Mitch Kayne, and a mother to a 5-year-old son, she has an established life she remembers nothing about. Everyone around her denies that her boyfriend Neil ever existed. As Lily begins to doubt her own sanity, memories of Neil resurface, causing her to encounter unexplainable incidents. While desperately searching for the truth of her past life, she questions her entire existence; but in the end, she discovers the meaning of true love.

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: 7.5
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:24

A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:33

    In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany
    Duration01:33

    Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter as she is tormented by Celtic mythology from the past.

    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: 7.6
    Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Czech Republic
    Duration01:50

    With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:37

    A teenager is stuck in a time loop that is not quite the same each time. She must uncover the truth but her actions have consequences for herself and others.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.

    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: 6
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, France
    Duration01:42

    When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the murder of a young child, a psychologist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' resistance, the therapist soon suspects that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryFrance, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium
    Duration01:55

    A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

    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: 7.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountrySpain, Mexico
    Duration01:45

      A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

      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: 6.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
        Duration01:27

        Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:32

        Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.

        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: 4.8
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

        A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.

        Markimdb: 3.4
        Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada

        A woman who is tormented by the ghost of her abusive, alcoholic husband. She must come to terms with the past if she is to find peace and love...

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, family, detective
        CountryUSA

        When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:08

        Two strangers find their lives colliding in an impossible way. Alex is a methodical cargo thief working for a dangerous cartel. Sam is a determined paramedic trying to save the world while running from her past.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:44

          A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

          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: 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: 5
          Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
          CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
          Duration02:21

          A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

          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: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:03

          After moving to a vineyard with her family, a pregnant woman experiences horrifying visions.

          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
            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
            Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
            CountryChina, USA
            Duration01:43

            An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

            Markimdb: 4.4
            Genrethriller, fantasy, melodrama, detective
            CountryUSA

            Dylan, a young man working at a funeral parlor, is trying to unravel a mystery that shattered his life ten years earlier. After faking his own funeral to see who will show up, he befriends a mysterious street junkie and is reunited with an old love from his past. The lives of these three characters are transformed by supernatural forces as Dylan discovers that no one is who they seem to be.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:29

              About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.

              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: 6
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryGermany, USA
              Duration01:37

              David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

              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: 3.6
              Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:23

              Four young women travel to their college professor's new country home for a weekend getaway, only to discover that the house has a malevolent past.

              Markimdb: 5.7
              Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
              CountryArgentina
              Duration01:30

              Buenos Aires in the 1980s. Detective Chavez, a family man and a tough cop, once again must solve a mysterious crime. To reveal the identity of the murderer, Chavez must clarify the enigma waiting in ambush to capture his own heart. Passion surprises even the most astute detective. What will triumph: law or desire?

              Markimdb: 5.2
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:24

              Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness when he loses everything he ever cared about. One year later, Bruce decides to give Samantha the punishment he believes she escaped. Samantha has struggled with her own demons since that fateful night, and Bruce will take her struggles to the edge when he implements a demented plan to teach her a twisted lesson that may cost her the ultimate price.

              Markimdb: 5.1
              Genrethriller, drama, detective
              CountryUSA

              Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.

              Markimdb: 6.8
              Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
              CountryFrance, USA
              Duration01:38

              Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

              Markimdb: 5
              Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration01:53

              Dr. David Marrow invites Nell Vance, and Theo and Luke Sanderson to the eerie and isolated Hill House to be subjects for a sleep disorder study. The unfortunate guests discover that Marrow is far more interested in the sinister mansion itself – and they soon see the true nature of its horror.

              Markimdb: 6.1
              Genrethriller, fantasy, family, detective
              CountryUSA, United Kingdom
              Duration01:24

              No sooner does an all-American family takes possession of a baronial English manor when all manner of peculiar things occurring, including signs that point to the disappearance of a young girl during a solar eclipse decades before. Bette Davis headlines and Lynn-Holly Johnson co-stars in this suspenseful take on haunted houses.

              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: 5.9
              Genreaction, fantasy, melodrama, drama, adventure, detective
              CountryGermany, Canada
              Duration02:10

                In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.

                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.




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