20 best movies like Santa Sangre (1989)

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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: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
CountryGermany
Duration02:07

When a notorious German serial killer is captured after committing some of the most heinous acts against humanity ever imaginable, a farmer and police officer from a sleepy rural community on the outskirts of Berlin is drawn into the case as he searches for the answers to a murder that has shaken his tight-knit community.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryNorway, France
Duration01:35

A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated and becomes pale and unresponsive. Similar attacks begin to happen, and Johanna’s father takes it on himself to find out the truth. He embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy, and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:00

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

    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: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryAustria

    A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryCzech Republic, Slovakia
    Duration02:03

    Loosely based on two short stories by Edgar Allan Poe and inspired by the works of the Marquis de Sade. In 19th century France a young man is plagued by nightmares in which he is dragged off to a madhouse. On the journey back from his mother’s funeral he is invited by a Marquis he meets at lunch to spend the night in his castle. There he witnesses a blasphemous orgy and a ‘therapeutic’ funeral. He tries to flee but is taken to a lunatic asylum where the patients have complete freedom and the staff are locked up behind bars.

    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: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA

    When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:56

    After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he's the wrong man.

    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: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    The plot follows Morris (Curran), a recluse with psychotic tendencies, whose life changes when his innocent daughter (Vickers) rescues one of his victims and befriends him. Jake (Hill), an ordinary businessman, soon realizes that he is stranded, and his presence in the house gradually reveals unexpected and dark mysteries from the past.

    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: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada
    Duration01:34

    A weekend of 'fear therapy' turns into a nightmare of terror when a mannequin comes to life. Only those with the courage to confront their demons will survive.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Three girls discover that two men are willing to do anything to impress Mother and what impresses Mother is watching her sons commit acts of rape and murder. Now these women are prisoners and lowered to pawns in the game of checkers between two dim wits and their Maniac Mommy and the question becomes, can any of them escape, alive?

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    The first segment features an animated mummy stalking selected student victims; the second tale tells the story of a "cat from hell" who cannot be killed and leaves a trail of victims behind it; the third story is about a man who witnesses a bizarre killing and promises never to tell what he saw and the "in-between" bit is the story of a woman preparing to cook her newspaper boy for supper.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryAustralia

    Three teens blackmail a serial killer into helping them get rid of a violent bully.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryGermany

    Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins a homicide investigation conducted by Chief Inspector Minks. The victim is a naked young woman with the skin stripped off her back, killed as she staggered into traffic. As Schrader and Minks investigate the murder, the case is complicated by a finger found in the stomach of the victim. Forensic examination proves the finger belongs to Nobert Günzel, who was previously convicted of rape and assault. The police raid Günzel’s residence, and discover a blood-stained table with restraints and bits of human flesh in his basement. They also find video equipment and preserved, tattooed skin from the victim’s back. Soon, they found dead bodies buried in the garden. Günzel then goes missing.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:35

    A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.

    Markimdb: 8
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:14

    Two aging film actresses live as virtual recluses in an old Hollywood mansion. Jane Hudson, a successful child star, cares for her crippled sister Blanche, whose career in later years eclipsed that of Jane. Now the two live together, their relationship affected by simmering subconscious thoughts of mutual envy, hate and revenge.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryItaly
    Duration02:00

    A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.

    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
    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: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryItaly

    A burned out, abusive, alcoholic writer named Oliviero lives with his wife, Irina, at their estate in Venice, along with his late mother's mysterious black cat, Satan. To pass the time, Oliviero hosts parties for the local hippies, humiliating Irina in front of his guests. When his mistress is murdered, police suspect Oliviero, and things get complicated when his young, beautiful and self-confident niece, Floriana, pays an unexpected visit.

    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: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland
    Duration01:15

    When her husband John has a heart attack while out in a rowboat on the lake, Louise Haloran throws his body overboard and later tells the family that he has left on an urgent business trip. Her main concern is that she can only inherit a part of the family fortune if her husband is alive. The Halorans are a strange family, still grieving over the death of the youngest daughter Kathleen who drowned in a pond when she was just a child. They hold an annual ceremony of remembrance every year on the anniversary of her death. This year however, someone is wielding an ax intent on murder.

    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: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    A law student, who takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue, begins to discover clues that implicate him as the suspect of a series of murders.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA

    After Jake Tilton is given a mystical "monkey's paw" talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, he finds his world turned upside down after his first two wishes result in his malevolent coworker, Tony Cobb, being resurrected from the dead. When Cobb pressures Jake into using the final wish to reunite Cobb with his son, his intimidation quickly escalates into relentless murder - forcing Jake to outwit his psychotic friend and save his remaining loved ones.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:43

    A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.

    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: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

    A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, he descends to the level of a cave dweller and falls deeper into crime and degradation.

    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: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    When neighborhood kids begin vanishing, Jenny suspects her child psychologist husband, Carter, may be resuming the deranged experiments his father performed on Carter when he was young. Now, it falls to Jenny to unravel the mystery. And as more children disappear, she fears for her own child's safety.

    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: 5.2
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama
    CountrySpain, United Kingdom
    Duration01:31

    A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara (Elsa Pataky) falls in love with travelling vendor Manuel Romasanta, she is at first besotted with him - but soon begins to be suspicious of him. What has happened to her sister, who - after being escorted by Romasanta to the city - seems to have disappeared forever.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryCanada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:55

    After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:27

    After a series of bad experiences with men, Shae teams up with her co-worker, Lu, who has a simple, deadly way of dealing with the opposite sex.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:26

    A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer struck decades earlier.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryColombia

    A woman wakes up next to a mysterious man she's never seen before. Wondering what happened, she is seduced by the man and brutally killed later on in a moment of passion. As she awakes over and over again and to the same fate, she must dig into her fading memories to learn about the killer's true identity in order to save her own life.




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