20 best movies like Nosferatu (1922)

List of the best movies like Nosferatu (1922): The Lair of the White Worm, Ouija: Origin of Evil, I Trapped the Devil, Cronos, Dorian Gray, After.Life, Beyond the Hills, Waking the Dead, The Invisible, What We Do in the Shadows.

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Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:33

In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

A man descends into paranoia after trapping what he believes to be the devil in his basement, but things take a dark turn when his family unexpectedly arrive for Christmas.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, drama
CountryMexico
Duration01:34

Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:52

A vain London playboy offers his soul in exchange for eternal beauty in this adaptation of the chilling tale by author Oscar Wilde. Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton (Colin Firth), handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray (Ben Barnes) becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryRomania, France, Belgium
Duration02:35

A drama centered on the friendship between two young women who grew up in the same orphanage; one has found refuge at a convent in Romania and refuses to leave with her friend, who now lives in Germany.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:28

A congressional candidate questions his sanity after seeing the love of his life, presumed dead, suddenly emerge.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
CountrySweden

A teenager is assaulted and killed, but returns as a ghost to find his killer.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryNew Zealand, USA
Duration01:25

Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

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: 6.2
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:00

    Sir Karell Borotyn appears to have been killed by Count Mora, a vampire who prowled around his castle. One year later, Irena, Karell's daughter, is haunted by the vampire and will be his next victim… unless Professor Zelen can avoid it.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:37

    The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, cartoon, anime
    CountryJapan, USA
    Duration01:43

    D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a woman, Charlotte Elbourne. D's orders are strict - find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time, D faces serious competition. The Markus Brothers, a family of Vampire Hunters, were hired for the same bounty. D Must intercept Meier and conquer hostile forces on all sides in a deadly race against time.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genredrama, music
    CountryGermany
    Duration01:34

    Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.

    Duration01:37

      Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryAustralia, Canada
      Duration01:33

      A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:30

      Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula nemesis Abraham Van Helsing is resurrected five years in the future to find out that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to lead an offensive to take back what has been lost.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, drama, detective
      CountryItaly

      On a trip home to visit her father, Jenny is thrown into a world of mystery, horror and legend when she is called upon by 3000 year old spirits of the Neverlake to help return their lost artifacts and save the lives of missing children.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryUSA

      A caring mother loses her sanity, setting off a chain of events resulting in tragedy and murder. The story of Casey Pollack unfolds from two very different perspectives when one night in the woods culminates in absolute terror.

      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: 5.6
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryUSA, Australia, Mexico
      Duration01:39

      A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror
      CountryNorway
      Duration01:48

      A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryUSA

      The story of Stan, an orphaned teenager stuck living with his abusive grandfather and tasked with routinely protecting his best friend from high school bullies. When Stan discovers a murderous creature has taken refuge inside the tool shed in his backyard, he tries to secretly battle the demon alone until his bullied friend discovers the creature and has a far more sinister plan in mind.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      A group of four amateur adventurers who specialize in exploring remote and forsaken places pay a visit to Shookum Hills, a town in the remote Appalachian Mountains which was abandoned decades ago due to a mysterious coal mine fire.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:49

      A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genredrama
      CountryFinland, Sweden, Denmark
      Duration01:36

      A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother, in Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s gorgeously stylized and emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger generations, and the ways we do it.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      June is different from all other nine-year old girls. She is an orphan hiding a secret. Bad things happen when she gets upset, supernatural things. June has been in many foster homes usually leaving them destroyed. But this time it will be different. June has a new foster home and she really likes her new parents. She will have to face the force within her to protect her new parents and to save herself.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrehorror, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:20

      Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
      Duration01:40

      Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, including Vlad's son, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire Dracula.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrefantasy, drama, detective
      CountryRussia, Germany, Japan, Italy, France, USA, United Kingdom
      Duration02:20

      Faust inhabits an earthy, 19th-century world of primitive autopsies and medical rituals. He becomes obsessed with the beautiful Margarete and desperately turns to a physically grotesque moneylender to conjure their union.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland
      Duration01:58

        Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago and survive on human blood. As knowledge of their secret spreads, their past catches up on them with deathly consequence.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        MIDNIGHT SON is the story of Jacob, a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, Jacob’s actions become increasingly bizarre as he struggles to cope with the effects of his worsening condition. Forced by the disease to drink human blood for sustenance, he must control his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrehorror, drama, musical
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:39

        A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:27

        The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula..

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:22

        The story of Leon, an antiques collector who inherits a house from his estranged mother only to discover that she had been living in a shrine devoted to a mysterious cult. Soon, Leon comes to suspect that his mother's oppressive spirit still lingers within her home and is using items in the house to contact him with an urgent message.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, melodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:49

        Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Count Dracula is a subject of fatal attraction to more than one English maiden lady, as he seeks an immortal bride.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountrySpain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, United Kingdom
        Duration01:38

        Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.

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