20 best movies like Orphan (2009)

List of the best movies like Orphan (2009): The Dead Zone, Half Light, An American Haunting, The Uninvited, Gothika, The Divide, Nine Dead, The Eye, The Number 23, Doctor Sleep.

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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
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: 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: 6.3
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: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration01:38

After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

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: 5.5
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: 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: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.

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: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada

Mourning the accidental death of his wife and having just moved to New York with his young son, laconic police psychologist Cal Jamison is reluctantly drawn into a series of grisly, ritualistic murders involving the immolation of two youths.

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: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:38

    Dr. Taylor Biggs is haunted by a past that's not his own. A hallucinatory drug gives him the power to see visions of vicious crimes, visions made all that more disturbing when he discovers that the murderous memories may belong to the father he never knew . Biggs's mother, whose own failing memory makes her powerless to help him unravel his family history.

    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: 7.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA

    When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.

    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: 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: 6
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:24

        Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.

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

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

          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: 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: 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: 5.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:23

          A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.

          Markimdb: 4.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:29

          After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..

          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: 6.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:48

          Chilling and eerie, this supernatural tale of good versus evil coils around twin brothers living with their grandmother in a sleepy rural area during the summer of 1935. After his grandmother encourages Niles to develop what seem to be psychic gifts, Niles starts to suspect that his twin may be involved in recent fatal accidents.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryCanada, USA
          Duration01:48

          A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada
          Duration01:42

          A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to evoke a witch to kill her mother.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:27

          What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

          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: 7.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
          Duration01:53

          The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryCanada, United Kingdom, Australia, USA
          Duration01:49

          A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.

          Markimdb: 6.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration03:01

          A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.

          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: 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: 5.2
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:05

            Five medical students, hoping to gain insight into the mystery of what lies beyond the confines of life, embark on a daring and dangerous experiment. By stopping their hearts for short periods of time, each triggers a near-death experience. As the investigation becomes more and more perilous, they are forced to confront the sins of their pasts, as well as contend with the paranormal consequences of trespassing to the other side.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA

            Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.

            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: 6.3
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

            An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

            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
            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: 7.4
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:01

              Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.

              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: 3.5
                Genrehorror, thriller, detective
                CountryCanada
                Duration01:34

                A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.

                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: 5.4
                Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
                CountryUSA

                A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.

                Markimdb: 5.2
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryGermany, USA
                Duration01:41

                Canadian scientist, Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden in order to contribute to their most important project—a human regeneration gene—that also has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal tragedy that has haunted him for years.

                Markimdb: 5.6
                Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration02:40

                A psychological thriller about a young married couple who buys a beautiful Napa Valley house on several acres of land only to find that the man they bought it from refuses to let go of the property.




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