20 best movies like Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)

List of the best movies like Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960): The Divide, Road Games, Fortitude, Coherence, Don't Knock Twice, Doctor Sleep, Residue, Apostle, House Of 9, The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia.

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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: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France

When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety’s sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple’s mansion…

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Fortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now. In such a close-knit community a murder touches everyone and the unsettling, mysterious horror of this crime threatens the future of the town itself.

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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:05

    A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

    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: 5.2
    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: 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: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Romania, Germany, France
    Duration01:26

    Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:41

    A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:19

    A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous kids when their school comes under siege after hours.

    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: 7.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    University lecturer Robert Bridge becomes involved in a series of supernatural events surrounding medium Alison Mundy.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, military
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:28

    In 1944, in the Belgian - German border, seven German soldiers survive an American attack in the front and lock themselves in a bunker to protect the position. Under siege by the enemy and with little ammunition, they decide to explore underground tunnels to seek supplies and find an escape route. While in the tunnel, weird things happen with the group.

    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: 3.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:38

    Director Robin Hardy's reimagining of his eerie 1973 film, The Wicker Man. Young Christians Beth and Steve, a gospel singer and her cowboy boyfriend, leave Texas to preach door-to-door in Scotland. When, after initial abuse, they are welcomed with joy and elation to Tressock, the border fiefdom of Sir Lachlan Morrison, they assume their hosts simply want to hear more about Jesus. How innocent and wrong they are.

    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: 5.7
    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: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
    Duration01:39

    A man's family brought back from the verge of death, he then discovers he can identify people who are about to die.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    When Ryan mysteriously inherits a house from his biological father, a man he thought long dead, he and his pregnant fiancé travel to the property with high hopes for the future. But curiosity about his deceased father leads Ryan to uncover a dark family history...

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:46

    When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:33

    A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons behind his expulsion. With Miles back at home, the governess starts noticing ethereal figures roaming the estate's grounds. Desperate to learn more about these sinister sightings she discovers that the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor hold grim implications for herself. As she becomes increasingly fearful that malevolent forces are stalking the children the governess is determined to save them, risking herself and her sanity in the process.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryJapan

    A group of people must find out how to stop the newborn deadly curse, which has born and gone viral after a Youtuber accidentally captured a vengeful ghost on camera.

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

    A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:23

    A teenager's attempts to bring a brilliant surgeon into his dysfunctional family take an unexpected turn.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

      Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

      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: 5.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountrySpain, United Kingdom

      Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:45

      A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

      Markimdb: 3.9
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      When a women's husband is brutally murdered and casterated, she enlists the help of a paranormal expert to analyze strange phone calls from his phone and her investigations lead her to a group of swingers that expose her husband's double life.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      Fiona Wagner, a journalism student, tracks a cold-blooded killer with the help of her detective father and a therapist.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Graduate student Calliope Girard's orderly life is thrown into chaos by unexplained seizures that unlock buried memories of a violent past.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryMexico, Norway, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg

      Hypnotic, perturbing, and utterly enthralling, The Untamed combines a suspenseful family drama with truly bizarre elements of science fiction and horror. Desperate to flee but consumed by fear, Alejandra, a young mother and working housewife, is trapped in a violent and unsatisfying relationship with her husband, Angel. She leans on her brother Fabián for support, but he has secrets of his own. All of their lives are turned upside down by the arrival of the mysterious Veronica. She convinces them that in the nearby woods, inside an isolated cabin, dwells something not of this world that could be the answer to all of their problems... something whose force they cannot resist and with whom they must make peace or suffer its wrath.




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