20 best movies like Harper's Island (2009)

List of the best movies like Harper's Island (2009): Bound to Vengeance, The Witness for the Prosecution, Skinwalker Ranch, Before I Fall, Inception, Angel of Mine, Cam, Edge of Darkness, Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise, The Transcendents.

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA

A young woman, Eve, fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration00:40

The hunt is on to find the murderer of a wealthy glamorous heiress who is found dead in her London townhouse. Based on the short story by Agatha Christie.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:21

In 2010 “Skinwalker Ranch” gained media attention after experiencing a wide range of unexplained phenomena. Reports ranged from UFO sightings to livestock mutilation, but maybe most notable was the disappearance of ranch owner Hoyt Miller’s eight-year-old son Cody on November 11, 2010. Close to a year later, Modern Defense Enterprises has sent a team of experts to document and investigate the mysterious occurrences, which only escalate upon their arrival. Tensions rise as the team must decide how far they will go to unlock the mysteries of “Skinwalker Ranch.” The group debates whether the answers are worth risking their lives for, or if they should just call off the investigation and leave the ranch—that is, if leaving is actually an option…

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: 8.8
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration02:28

    Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryAustralia, USA
    Duration01:37

    A woman grieving over the death of her daughter loses grip of reality when she begins to think her girl may still be alive.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    A young camgirl discovers that she’s inexplicably been replaced on her site with an exact replica of herself.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:52

    As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to uncover the disturbing secrets surrounding her murder, including corporate corruption, government collusion and Emma's own mysterious life.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:26

    Once a Los Angeles homicide detective, Police Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an investigation filled with surprises, unlikely suspects and grave danger. Though it's widely believed the murder was committed by an incarcerated serial killer, Jesse suspects another killer is at large and is hell-bent on bringing him to justice.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, detective, music
    CountryUSA

    Roger, a Rasputin-like drifter, is in search of the ultimate indie-rock band, The Transcendents. What he finds is less than transcendent: a band who has all but abandoned society, a host of unpleasant memories, and more questions than answers in search of his own existential fulfillment. Set in the Wonderland of America's Do-it-Yourself music scene, The Transcendents is a dark comedic fairytale that straddles the line between the absurd and the all too real.

    Markimdb: 2.6
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    A beautiful schizophrenic woman is pushed over the edge by her husbands elicit affairs and when her hallucinations become reality the Devil comes to take his due. Is Miriam insane or has the Devil come to collect on her promise?

    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: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom

    A mermaid is ripped from the Pacific, her tail is chopped off and she's thrown into a mental home where no one believes she is a mermaid.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    At the dawn of the space-race, two radio-obsessed teens discover a strange frequency over the airwaves in what becomes the most important night of their lives and in the history of their small town.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Ten people arrive at a secluded mountain resort to find it completely deserted. With no gas for the return trip, the visitors are forced to stay and investigate the mystery surrounding the abandoned lodge.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    Driving cross-country, Ray and his wife and daughter stop at a highway rest area where his daughter falls and breaks her arm. After a frantic rush to the hospital and a clash with the check-in nurse, Ray is finally able to get her to a doctor. While the wife and daughter go downstairs for an MRI, Ray, exhausted, passes out in a chair in the lobby. Upon waking up, they have no record or knowledge of Ray's family ever being checked in.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain, Canada, USA
    Duration02:16

      Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.

      Markimdb: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      Sean Reynolds, a highly acclaimed investigative journalist (who strongly believed in paranormal phenomena), destroyed his career when the most watched episode of his reality show, based on paranormal phenomena, turned out to be a hoax. Sean saw a news report on a "Bigfoot Hunter" (Carl Drybeck) who claimed to possess the body of a dead Sasquatch. He believes Drybeck is a phony and decides to create a new show that reveals people's paranormal claims as hoaxes. Sean assembles his old film crew and heads to Northern California's "Lost Coast" to meet with and interview Drybeck. Obsessed, Sean is staking his comeback, his life and the lives of his documentary film crew on proving Drybeck's claim to be a hoax.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam (Fran Kranz) is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert (Alyson Hannigan) to discuss his options.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      A group of friends sneak into an abandoned prison with the intention of making a ghost hunting video, until they start to go missing one by one.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:18

      In 1988, Philadelphia police officer Thomas "Locke" Lockhart, hungry to become a detective, begins tracking a serial killer whose crimes defy scientific explanation. When the killer mysteriously resurfaces nine years later, Locke's obsession with finding the truth threatens to destroy his career, his family, and possibly his sanity.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      A once-abused woman devotes herself to ridding victims of their domestic abusers while hunting down the one she must kill to be truly free.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Spain, Hungary, Serbia
      Duration01:50

      A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration02:28

      A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryCanada, USA, Germany

      Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountrySpain, USA
      Duration02:25

      Kit, a troubled girl, is sent to the exclusive Blackwood boarding school, where she discovers that only four other female students have been admitted to learn the four pillars of knowledge under the ominous wing of the mysterious headmistress Madame Duret.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

        A group of six tourists looking to go off the beaten path, hire an 'extreme tour guide'. Ignoring warnings, he takes them into the city of Pripyat, the former home to the workers of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, but a deserted town since the disaster more than 25 years earlier. After a brief exploration of the abandoned city, the group members find themselves stranded, only to discover that they are not alone.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:29

        A teen must resort to extreme measures to protect her family from a supernatural entity.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        Helen tries to cope with the recent death of her husband, a scientist who killed himself right when he was on the verge of successfully completing the invention of a time machine. One day, she receives a phone call, and a voice suspiciously resembling her own voice warns her that she’s in danger. Is it possible Helen has time travelled? And what could have led her to do something like that?

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Caught between her dreams of a better life, a rich mobster who thinks he owns her and an unstable boyfriend who has just killed a man, Sable must take control of her own life or she may find herself dead by dawn.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        Mysterious emotional thriller about a woman who, after being left at the altar, has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane which ultimately puts her – and everyone else on the flight – in terrible danger.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryCanada, USA

        A mysterious disappearance of a young woman leads her boyfriend on a journey for truth and perhaps his own unknown reality in this dark, hypnotic mystery that transcends the limitations of traditional narrative.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        A young man with a violent past enters a mysterious clinic where the patients wildly transform their bodies and minds using genetic engineering.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:06

        20 years after three teenagers disappeared in the wake of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona, unseen footage from that night has been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition.




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