20 best movies like Shadow of the Vampire (2000)

List of the best movies like Shadow of the Vampire (2000): 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, Kołysanka, Justice League: Gods and Monsters, Priest, The Night Watchmen, Blood Fest, The Transfiguration, Aaron's Blood, Patient Seven, Strippers vs. Werewolves.

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Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryUSA, New Zealand
Duration01:32

After surviving the incidents in Barrow, Alaska, Stella Olemaun relocates to Los Angeles, where she intentionally attracts the attention of the local vampire population in order to avenge the death of her husband, Eben.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantasy, comedy
CountryPoland
Duration01:35

Lullaby is a menacing story full of humor and suspense from the master of the genre, Juliusz Machulski. Two policemen investigate mysterious disappearances in a small scenic town. People keep disappearing, but the investigation brings no results. The tension grows and step by step a dark mystery unravels.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, cartoon
CountryUSA
Duration01:30

In an alternate universe, very different versions of DC's Trinity fight against the government after they are framed for an embassy bombing.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, action, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

Three inept night watchmen, aided by a young rookie and a fearless tabloid journalist, fight an epic battle to save their lives. A mistaken warehouse delivery unleashes a horde of hungry vampires, and these unlikely heroes must not only save themselves but also stop the scourge that threatens to take over the city of Baltimore.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:42

Fans flock to a festival celebrating the most iconic horror movies, only to discover that the charismatic showman behind the event has a diabolical agenda. As attendees start dying off, three teenagers with more horror-film wits than real-world knowledge must band together and battle through every madman, monstrosity, and terrifying scenario if they have any hope of surviving.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUSA

When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUSA

Single father Aaron fights to save his 12-year-old hemophiliac son after becoming infected with vampire blood.

Markimdb: 5
Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

The film centers on Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist who has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.

Markimdb: 3
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

Mickey, who happens to be a werewolf and a crime boss, gets all worked up and hairy during a private dance at a strip club. Justice, the dancer, grabs the nearest weapon and lands a fatal blow: her silver fountain pen right through Mickey's wolfed-out eye. This ignites a small-scale war between Mickey's group of werewolf mobsters and the sultry strippers of Vixens.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure
CountryUSA

Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Michael Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

    Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, action, thriller, comedy, adventure
    CountryUSA, South Africa, Germany

    Vampire hunter Edgar Frog is destitute and nearly friendless, when the beautiful vampire-romance novelist Gwen Lieber offers him a small fortune to go on the vampire hunt of a lifetime and save her brother from an army of newborn vampires who use a new drug called the Thirst, which is a mixture of Ecstasy and vampire blood. Realising he can't do this alone, Edgar turns to his brother, Alan Frog, to help him save Gwen's brother.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

    Vampires have just made themselves public! Now a group of documentarians have been granted access to spend some time with them and learn how they live and coexist with humans. But as reality sets in, the crew realize they are in for far more than they bargained for.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:33

    It's young Lucy's first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel's treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever..

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, fantasy
    CountryRussia

    When eighteen-year-old Pasha rescues a beautiful young woman from a band of strangely powerful attackers, he discovers an underworld of supernatural beings living among us.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA

    A listless grand-daughter, Chance Sinclair, is sentenced to live with her draconian grand-father, August after a violent incident at school and begins to question the source of her families immense wealth and power. When Chance's scheming Mom, June hires a troubled chef Sydney to poison August, the family's monstrous secrets are revealed over the course of one bloody night. Every soul is up for grabs as The Sinclair Family Games Night gets underway and Chance learns that being a part of this family is a blood-in, blood-out proposition.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:21

    When aspiring horror filmmakers post an online casting call looking for "real life" monsters to interview for their upcoming documentary called, The Monster Project, they find three individuals claiming to be a skin-walker, a vampire, and a demon. Meeting these monsters at a remote mansion in the woods on the night of a total lunar eclipse, the filmmakers invite the three subjects to share their haunting, personal experiences. Working on the crew is a recovering drug addict who suffers withdrawal and paranoia. As a person of faith, he fears his friends underestimate the dark powers they are summoning. When the interviews turn deadly, he must battle the demons, inside and out, to escape the house and defeat the rise of evil incarnate.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:58

    Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, action, comedy
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In a quiet countryside farmhouse, Britain's vampires gather for their once-every-fifty-years meeting. Others will be joining them too; Sebastian Crockett, an unwitting Essex boy who thinks he's on a promise with sexy cougar Vanessa; and a detachment of Special Forces vampire killers who have bitten off more than they can chew. This is certainly going to be a night to remember... and for some of them it will be their last.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    Vampires and humans live in a future world where they co-exist – barely. Now, both groups find themselves under attack by a new species of super vampire. The surviving humans and vampires join forces to obliterate the vicious man-sized bat vampires which threaten to shatter the uneasy peace between the two species.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:00

      After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.

      Markimdb: 2.3
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
      CountryTurkey

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      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrefantasy, comedy, detective
      CountryHungary

      Vampires are among us! But no need to worry: the Hungarian Secret Police are after them, and beyond the usual spy gadgets, they even use garlic to repel the beasts.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, Canada
      Duration01:22

      Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, the new arrival at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa's bond with Lucie, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret?

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryHungary
      Duration01:39

      Inspired by Carmilla, the seminal 19th Century vampire tale by Sheridan LeFanu, STYRIA plunges the viewer into a haunted world of fantasy and obsession. In 1989, Lara Hill (Eleanor Tomlinson), accompanies her art historian father (Stephen Rea) to an abandoned castle across the Iron Curtain. From a car crash outside of the castle, emerges the beautiful and mysterious Carmilla. Lara secrets Carmilla into the castle and the two are drawn into an intoxicating relationship. But when Carmilla mysteriously disappears, and women of the town begin committing suicide, Lara’s psychic wounds erupt into a living nightmare that consumes the entire town of Styria.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantasy, comedy, melodrama
      CountryUSA, Australia, United Kingdom
      Duration01:53

      Vampire Barnabas Collins is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate and family have fallen into ruin.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror, action, comedy, sport
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:29

      Eight of the world's most legendary monsters, along with their diabolical managers, compete in a wrestling tournament deathmatch to determine the most powerful champion of all time. Interviews, pre-fight breakdowns, trash talking, and monster origin segments round out this ultimate fight of the living dead.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:40

      Settling into their new home—the rambling Victorian mansion at 1313 Mockingbird Lane— the Munster are quickly onto the mission at hand: to gently ease sweet little Eddie into the reality of his werewolf adolescence. The loving, supportive, run-of-the-mill family includes his mom Lily, the daughter of Dracula, his dad Herman, who brings new meaning to "Frankenstein," and Grandpa! Of course, there's creepy cousin Marilyn, who's really the odd one because she's so completely normal.

      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: 5.7
      Genrehorror, action, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:24

      An action-packed horror comedy, BLOODSUCKING BASTARDS stars Fran Kranz as Evan, a dutiful and overworked employee stuck at a soul-killing corporation with his beautiful co-worker and girlfriend Amanda (Emma Fitzpatrick) and his slacker best friend Tim (Joey Kern). Evans world begins to crumble when Amanda dumps him and his boss Ted (Joel Murray) hands his coveted promotion to his nemesis Max (Pedro Pascal). When his office mates start going through disturbing changes, Evan must find a way to stop the evil brewing admist the cubicles, and rescue his workplace pals before his life and career go from dead-end... to just dead.

      Markimdb: 3.6
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUSA

      When bestselling author Carl Black moves his family back to his childhood home, he must team up with oddball neighbors to do battle with a pimp, who may or may not be an actual vampire.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, Japan, Canada

      A vampire, who works as a teacher, searches for suicidal female students and seduces them prior to sucking their blood.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, family
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:23

      A Californian family inherits a castle in Romania. This is especially exciting to the son, who is obsessed with monsters. And he is not disappointed.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:48

      Supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket and blue jeans.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:55

      A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.

      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: 3.7
      Genrehorror, action, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:25

      A multinational expedition discovers a lost city beneath a pyramid, where they must stop the reawakened gods of ancient Egypt from initiating the apocalypse

      Markimdb: 1.6
      Genrefantastic, comedy
      CountryRussia

      Alexander Pushkin survives in duel. Young inventors of time machine transfer him to XXI century. But, there are too much dangers in modern world. Moscow teenagers must save great russian poet.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom

      A crew of hardy road workers, led by a bickering Father and Son, must survive the night when they accidentally awaken an ancient Irish vampire.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUSA

      Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.

      Markimdb: 3
      Genrehorror, action, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:16

      Rayne fights against the Nazis in Europe during World War II, encountering Ekart Brand, a Nazi leader whose target is to inject Adolf Hitler with Rayne's blood in an attempt to transform him into a dhampir and attain immortality.

      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: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryCanada

        Equal parts Goodfellas and Dusk till Dawn, Sicilian Vampire tells the story of reputed mobster Sonny Traficante who was hoping to get away to the family hunt lodge for a little rest and relaxation and create some memories. Instead, what he got was a night he will never forget. Once there, Sonny is bitten by a bat released from a container of bananas they brought up to the lodge. The bat takes a vicious bite of Sonny's neck and then flies off into the night. From that moment on Sonny is entrusted with powers beyond that of any mortal - supersonic hearing, enhanced sight, and superhuman strength - even the ability to speak to the dead. Because of these heightened senses Sonny now feels a responsibility to right the wrongs in his life, and protect those he loves. At first, he resists these new found powers but in the end he welcomes his fate.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genreaction, fantasy, melodrama
        CountryChina, Hong Kong
        Duration01:38

        The Sorcerer and the White Snake is an ancient Chinese fable about a woman demon who falls in love with a mortal is brought to life through the latest advances in CGI and action techniques.

        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, fantastic, action, fantasy
          CountryBrazil
          Duration01:35

          Death and blood are in the middle of a feud between two families. Something creepy rounds the Silva Farm and makes its victims. The Carvalho Family, stuck to their past and hatred, can't see the secular evil that approaches from the darken woods.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrethriller, fantasy, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France
          Duration01:58

            A depressed musician reunites with his lover in the desolate streets of Detroit. Though their romance has endured several centuries, it is tested by the arrival of her capricious and unpredictable younger sister.

            Markimdb: 2.3
            Genrecomedy, family
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:19

            A comedic spoof based on the worldwide phenomenon "The Twilight Saga."




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