20 best movies like Play or Die (2019)

List of the best movies like Play or Die (2019): Leatherface, The Bye Bye Man, Halloween, Armed Response, Truth or Dare, The Abandoned, The Recall, Breathing Room, Suspiria, Jigsaw.

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Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

A young nurse is kidnapped by a group of violent teens who escape from a mental hospital and take her on the road trip from hell. Pursued by an equally deranged lawman out for revenge, one of the teens is destined for tragedy and horrors that will destroy his mind, moulding him into a monster named Leatherface.

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: 3.7
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

The story follows a team of highly trained operatives who find themselves trapped inside an isolated military compound.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:18

Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.

Markimdb: 4.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
CountryCanada

When five friends vacation at a remote lake house, they expect nothing less then a good time, unaware that Earth is under attack by an alien invasion and mass-abductions.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Thrown naked into a desolate room with thirteen strangers, Tonya discovers that she is the final contestant in a deadly game. Restrained by lethal electronic collars, the players must utilize hints and tools from a box marked "pieces" to find both an exit and the reason for their abduction. One by one the players are eliminated as their "curfew" begins and the lights go out. With each dead body comes another clue, which they use to discover that one of them is the killer. The question is ... which one?

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryItaly, USA
Duration02:26

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:23

Dead bodies begin to turn up all over the city, each meeting their demise in a variety of grisly ways. All investigations begin to point the finger at deceased killer John Kramer.

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: 4.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:39

    A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING... not knowing if what they're seeing is real, or staged.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Japan
    Duration02:43

    Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

    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: 3.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
    CountryUSA

    A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of some marine life in an inland salt water lake that has been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of a legend.

    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: 5.5
    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: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Malta

    A lone fisherman on his daily run finds himself lost in a thick fog which proves impossible to navigate. The worst is yet to come when his encounter with a seemingly abandoned sailboat becomes a fight for survival against an enemy unknown.

    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: 6.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:30

    Simon Cable wakes up in a hospital bed, confused and disoriented. He soon discovers from doctors that he has amnesia and is unable to remember the last two years of his life. Cable investigates what has happened to him and slowly pieces together his enigmatic past.

    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: 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: 6.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:30

    Anna Macy left Kettering when she was just 14, shortly after her best friend, Gillian Baxter mysteriously disappeared. The two girls had been playing in the forbidden forests outside Kettering when they saw strange lights in the sky. Eight hours later, Anna was found alone, terrified and covered in blood. 15 years on, Anna returns to find the town struggling to survive. The forests have been marked for logging and the community is being torn apart by passionate but violent clashes between environmentalists and the local loggers.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA, China, Japan
    Duration01:56

    Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
    CountryUSA

    At the risk of her group's safety, a young woman travels into a National Forest where her sister has become trapped in a multi-dimensional world of monsters.

    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: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

      A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryItaly
      Duration01:27

      Wrath of the crows is very gory and brutal, but tied by a strong concept and the whole story is focused on the characters' development. So there's not only splatter sequences, but also atmospheric moments, a few dream-like sequences and a final twist that will shock you all.

      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: 4.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
      CountrySouth Korea
      Duration01:31

      After his parents are murdered, Bin is taken into the care of relatives. He begins to act strangely, the new occupants of his house experience horrific nightmares, and a mystery unfolds as a terrible secret is revealed.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:41

      While on a GPS treasure hunt in the Palatinate forest four teenagers come across an old US military radio tower station. Back in the days of the Cold War it was part of a secret military program that produced horrific side effects, but has long since abandoned. Until now, when the station is mysteriously powered up again.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
      CountryAustria, United Kingdom, Germany, France

      A genetically engineered plant scatters its seeds and seems to cause uncanny changes on living creatures. The afflicted appear strange, as if they were replaced - especially for those, who are close to them. Or is it all just imagination? Thus starts a play between various truths,on which end stands the loss of the own identity.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, military
      CountrySerbia, Croatia, Hungary
      Duration01:48

      The story begins a couple days after the war has ended. A group of Serbian soldiers in charge of clearing the fields from mines discovers a man sealed inside a factory's basement. A mysterious man says he is 'ours', he doesn't feel cold, isn't hungry and only asks for cigarettes. As soon as he is brought along, people start disappearing, and the infighting begins. Who is the mystery man?

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Germany, Czech Republic, Belgium
      Duration01:55

      A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:46

      A true story, Bela Kiss was one of the the most brutal serial killers, who killed 23 young women during the beginning of the first World War. The blood-drained bodies were found in metal barrels, conserved in alcohol. According to rumors, he was still seen decades later, in different parts of the world. He never was found and so the whereabouts of this man are unknown, even today. Almost a century later, five bank robbers search for a hideaway in a remote hotel, as they flee from the police. Brutal and unforeseen events take overhand and build a bridge to the past. The assumed safe house turns into a nightmare... is Bela Kiss still alive?

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

      A police officer and a psychologist investigate the deaths of five people who were killed while trying to summon ghosts.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      A group of friends download a Siri-like App which, at first, seems like a harmless way to get directions or a restaurant recommendation. But the sinister nature of the App soon reveals itself. The App not only knows each person’s deepest, darkest fears, but is able to manifest these fears into the real world to literally scare the kids to death.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration02:01

      Students on a camping trip discover something sinister is lurking beyond the trees.

      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: 3.9
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:14

      A group of young people awake, locked inside a warehouse with cameras screwed into their heads. It becomes apparent that they are unwilling competitors in a deadly game, and they will need to murder each other if they hope to survive.

      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: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.

      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: 4.1
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:49

        A young man's life is turned upside down when his violent dreams begin to blend with reality.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:28

        A young woman fights the spirit that is slowly taking possession of her.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:36

          Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his innocence, he begins to question his own sanity.

          Markimdb: 5.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Japan, Germany
          Duration01:50

          A homicide detective and an anthropologist try to destroy a South American lizard-like god, who's on a people eating rampage in a Chicago museum.

          Markimdb: 4.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, Czech Republic
          Duration01:28

          Set in Las Vegas, the film centers on a man who attends his best friend's bachelor party, unaware of an insidious agenda that plays into hunting humans.

          Markimdb: 5
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountrySpain, Argentina, Uruguay
          Duration01:59

          In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without sleep, they reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the secrets of the place and the energies that inhabit it. When Bianca, a young, promising actress, joins the cast, competing for the lead role, she must survive not only the intensity of the work and her cast mates, but the unknown force that is pulling them towards a tragic outcome.




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