20 best movies like M.F.A. (2017)

List of the best movies like M.F.A. (2017): The Bye Bye Man, Halloween, When a Stranger Calls, Haunt, 14 Cameras, Dead of Summer, Excess Flesh, Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word, The Hand, The Divide.

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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: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:42

Laurie Strode comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller, short
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

Far away from the site of a gruesome murder, a teenager named Jill Johnson arrives at a luxurious home for a baby-sitting job. With the children fast asleep, she settles in for what she expects to be an ordinary evening. Soon, the ringing of a phone and the frightening words of a sadistic caller turn Jill's routine experience into a night of terror.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an "extreme" haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA

When a family of four rent a beautiful house for their summer vacation, the price seems too good to be true. Unbeknownst to them, the lascivious owner has set up a series of spy cams throughout the house, documenting their most intimate moments and live streaming them to the dark web.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration00:59

Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.

Markimdb: 3.7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Obsessed with her sexy roommate, Jill violently imprisons Jennifer in their apartment in a twisted attempt to bring them closer together.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

When a young man is executed for committing murder, he leaves behind a curse letter, promising vengeance for all those connected to his unfair trial.

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: 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: 5.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

A homicide detective teams up with a criminal profiler to catch a serial killer whose crimes are inspired by the children's game, Hangman.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

After a series of bad experiences with men, Shae teams up with her co-worker, Lu, who has a simple, deadly way of dealing with the opposite sex.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.

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: 6.2
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: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

On a trip to Big Sur, two friends, both actresses, try to reconnect with one another. Once alone, the women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments begin to rise, causing them to lose their grasp on not only the true nature of their relationship, but also their identities.

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: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA

A mother takes her son on a trip into remote wilderness to scatter his father's ashes; they must confront their worst fears when a lone hiker begins following them.

Markimdb: 3.4
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

    After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    After losing his brother in combat, Jacob Singer returns home from Afghanistan -- only to be pulled into a mind-twisting state of paranoia. Singer soon realizes that his sibling is alive but life is not what it seems.

    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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

    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: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryCanada, United Kingdom, USA, Germany
    Duration01:35

    A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:39

    A thief makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are no longer how he expected.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Belgium, Denmark, France
    Duration01:43

      When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Hong Kong
      Duration02:28

      A grieving mother transforms herself into a vigilante following the murders of her husband and daughter, eluding the authorities to deliver her own personal brand of justice.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:30

      On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the embarrassing situation.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      In need of creative inspiration, a professionally stagnant and hard-partying Los Angeles artist recklessly indulges in a series of drug binges. As the narcotics fly out of control, so does her newfound and inexplicable, yet unquenchable, craving for blood.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Spain, Republic of Ireland, USA

      After the death of her family in an airplane crash on a flight that she was meant to be on, Stephanie Patrick discovers the crash was not an accident. She then seeks to uncover the truth by adapting the identity of an assassin to track down those responsible.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:41

      A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:50

      A disgraced former cop, fresh off a six-year prison sentence for attempted murder - returns home looking for redemption but winds up trapped in the mess he left behind.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:41

        After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
        Duration02:24

        Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

        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: 4.3
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, Iceland, United Kingdom

        A small town detective while investigating the disappearance of a local woman comes across an unassuming Sociology professor who is hiding a secret life.

        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: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:48

        A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:08

        With his business in shambles, a mounting criminal record, and a cheating wife, today is the day that Buddy Hutchins snaps.

        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: 4.8
        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: 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: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:35

        After a violent encounter, Roy finds Rocky and sees something in her eyes that prompts a fateful decision. He takes her with him as he flees to Galveston, an action as ill-advised as it is inescapable.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        A young writer experiences visions during episodes of sleep paralysis, and she retreats with her boyfriend to an isolated house in the desert. As the visions worsen, she teeters on the edge of insanity as she uncovers a life-threatening secret.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, biography
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:27

        Based on a true story. Philip Markoff, a charismatic and popular med student at Boston University, leads a double life as a brutal and cruel sexual deviant who abuses prostitutes he finds via Craigslist.

        Markimdb: 4.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:56

        Disturbing and mysterious things begin to happen to a bartender in New Orleans after he picks up a phone left behind at his bar.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:40

        A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White, a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother, who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

        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.




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