20 best movies like Repulsion (1965)

List of the best movies like Repulsion (1965): Don't Look Now, In the Mouth of Madness, The Turn of the Screw, Legend, Possum, Scream and Scream Again, The Phantom of the Opera, Sweeney Todd, The Living and the Dead, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Italy
Duration01:50

Laura and John, grieved by a terrible loss, meet in Venice, where John is in charge of the restoration of a church, two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

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: 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: 6.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
Duration02:29

Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

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: 5.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:35

A serial killer, who drains his victims for blood is on the loose in London, the Police follow him to a house owned by an eccentric scientist.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective, music
CountryUnited Kingdom

The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. Years later, Petry returns to terrorize a London opera house that is about to perform one of his stolen operas.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:30

A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.

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: 7.3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, musical
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:56

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySpain, France, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:37

The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ability to sleep. This is no ordinary insomnia...

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden
Duration01:34

40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:47

1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:16

Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…

Markimdb: 3.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:24

Seven strangers wake up on the deserted streets of London with no knowledge of how they got there. Before long someone -or something - is picking them off, one by one....

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryMexico, Italy
Duration02:03

A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and then commit suicide. Back in the present, he escapes and rejoins his surviving and armless mother.

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: 8.5
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:05

      A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, drama, detective, history
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

      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: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:42

      A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again - until the first bugs arrive...

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg
      Duration01:48

        A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:38

        A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche might manifest. As the experiment unravels along with their sanity, the rogue PHD students, led by their determined professor, are soon confronted with a terrifying reality: they have triggered an unspeakable force with a power beyond all explanation.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:35

        Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

        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: 5.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, biography
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom
        Duration01:40

        A novelist's wife and son see him changed by an apparent encounter with aliens in the mountains.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In foggy London Dr Jekyll experiments on newly deceased women determined to discover an elixir for immortal life. Success enables his spectacular transformation into the beautiful but psychotic Sister Hyde who stalks the dark alleys of Whitechapel for young, innocent, female victims, ensuring continuation of the bloodstained research. With each transformation Sister Hyde becomes the more dominant personality, determined to eventually suppress the frail, ineffectual Dr Jekyll forever.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrethriller, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany
        Duration01:33

        A noir thriller told from the point of view of a femme fatale, who falls for the detective in charge of a murder case.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:21

        A psychological thriller from the writer of the original "Twilight Zone!" In a showdown of man vs. machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation!

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom

        On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:39

        Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the dark arts of assassination and learns the true meaning of friendship, honor and respect.

        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: 5.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
          CountryUSA

          Sixteen year old Jude discovers each and every one of his fears is true.

          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: 6.8
          Genrethriller, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:52

          A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.

          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: 7.3
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom

          A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrethriller, drama, adventure
          CountryAustralia, Colombia, United Kingdom
          Duration02:13

          A mysterious guide escorts an enthusiastic adventurer and his friend into the Amazon jungle, but their journey turns into a terrifying ordeal as the darkest elements of human nature and the deadliest threats of the wild force them to fight for survival.

          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: 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: 7
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryFrance, USA, Mexico, Belgium

          An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.

          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: 6.9
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryJapan

          Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he decides to take a rest. Not only are the front desk clerks a bit strange, but even the ambiance feels unusual. Minami soon realizes he may have gotten more than he bargained for.

          Markimdb: 4.7
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:30

          Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

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

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




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