20 best movies like The Face of Another (1966)

List of the best movies like The Face of Another (1966): Gozu, The Signal, The Divide, Izo, Trouble Every Day, Tony, Brain Dead, Coherence, Residue, The Entity.

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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: 6
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, suddenly everything goes dark. When one of the students regains consciousness, he finds himself in a waking nightmare.

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
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, military
CountryJapan

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryFrance, Germany, Japan
Duration01:44

Two American newlyweds in Paris experience a love so strong, it almost devours them.

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: 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: 7.2
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: 5.2
    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: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and in front of her children. Could this be a case of hysteria, a manifestation of childhood sexual trauma, or something even more horrific?

    Markimdb: 2.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    A pharmaceutical company recruits a well-known scientist to help develop a vaccine against a deadly virus.

    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: 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, fantastic, fantastic, thriller, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, drama
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:35

      Alien pods come to Earth and, naturally, start taking over Human Hosts. One such pod only manages to take over one human's, Shin Izumi, right arm. Together they grow and co-exist, all the while the other aliens are making meals of other humans; Shin feels he must put a stop to it all, but his alien, Migi, doesn't see why.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
      CountryJapan

      Now a member of Anteiku, Ken Kaneki grows closer to the ghouls around him. Determined to protect his new home against anti-ghoul forces, he trains his powers in secret. But when the infamous gourmet, Shu Tsukiyama, wishes to savour some half-ghoul flavour, Kaneki's training is put to test of a lifetime.

      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: 6.8
      Genrehorror, fantastic
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:32

      A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryIndia

      Manohar, an upwardly mobile middle class Indian moves into a new apartment -13B on the 13th floor with his family. From the first day in their new home, the women are hooked on to a new TV show 'Sab Khairiyat'. The show is about a family eerily similar to theirs who have also just moved into a new house. As the TV show unfolds, all the incidents that happen in the show start happening to them.

      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: 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: 6.5
      Genrefantastic, comedy, drama
      CountryJapan

      In an alternate Japan, territorial street gangs form opposing factions collectively known as the Tokyo Tribes. The simmering tension between them is about to boil over into all-out war.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:45

      Bruno Hamel is a thirty eight year old surgeon. He lives in Drummondville with his wife Sylvie, and their eight year-old daughter Jasmine. Like many happy people, he is leading an uneventful life until a beautiful fall afternoon, when his daughter is raped and murdered. From then on, the world of the Hamel family collapses. When the murderer is arrested, a terrible project germinates in Bruno's darkened mind. He plans to capture the "monster" and make him pay for his crime. The day the murderer appears in Court, Hamel, who had prepared his plan in great detail, kidnaps the monster and later sends the police a brief message stating that the rapist and murderer of his daughter was going to be tortured for 7 days and then executed. Once this task accomplished, he will then give himself up.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genredrama, history, sport
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      The greatest Olympic Wrestling Champion brother team joins Team Foxcatcher led by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont as they train for the 1988 games in Seoul - a union that leads to unlikely circumstances.

      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: 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: 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: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryNetherlands
      Duration01:42

      An alcoholic writer begins having visions apparently warning him of impending danger. After he delivers a lecture, he begins an affair with a woman from the audience. The visions intensify, however, and begin to threaten his relationship with the woman, since it may be her the visions are warning against.

      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
        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: 5.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

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

        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: 6.4
        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: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryJapan
        Duration02:06

        Koichi and Atsumi are lovers who have known each other all their lives. A year ago, however, a suicide attempt by Atsumi left her in a coma. Through 'sensing', a type of neurosurgical procedure allowing contact with the intentional aspect of a comatose patient's mind, Koishi tries to find out why Atsumi tried to kill herself, and to bring her back to consciousness. He enters her subconscious, and is told to find a picture of a plesiosaur she drew when she was a child. It turns out that a childhood incident buried in their past will bring their minds together.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryCanada

        Friends on a weekend excursion take a path into a forest that leads to death and destruction.

        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: 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: 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: 6.8
        Genrefantastic, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

        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: 6.8
        Genrethriller, drama, for adults
        CountryJapan
        Duration01:17

        Rinku is a suicide-prevention counselor, living with her husband Shigehiko. He's older than she, scrubbing things constantly, sexually indifferent. They sleep apart. During Tokyo's rainy season, Iguchi, a photographer Rinku has counseled by phone, sends her pictures he has taken through her skylight: she's wearing a short skirt, masturbating. He offers her the negatives if she'll follow his instructions. She's humiliated and agrees. He tells her he's only giving her license to express her inner desires. He sends her into the night to walk on the wild side. Then, she asks a favor of him, and soon her husband receives phone calls and photographs. Where will this triangle lead?

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountryFrance, West Germany
        Duration02:07

        A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        A quadriplegic man is given a trained monkey help him with every day activities, until the little monkey begins to develop feelings, and rage, against its new master and those who get too close to him.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada
        Duration01:37

        A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genrefantasy, drama, adventure, western
        CountryUSA, Germany, Japan
        Duration02:01

        On the run after murdering a man, accountant William Blake encounters a strange North American man named Nobody who prepares him for his journey into the spiritual world.

        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: 6.7
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountrySpain, France
        Duration01:31

        Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        A young Brooklyn boy witnesses the brutal murder of his mother and grows up obsessed with finding her killer. Thus begins his life as a quiet, straight-A student by day and a self-appointed hero at night. But what is a real hero? And who decides what is right or wrong? As the boundaries blur, Sean's dual life wears on his psyche and his two worlds careen dangerously close to colliding. Like a graphic novel you can't put down, Boy Wonder challenges morality, distorting perceptions of what is right and what is justified, as it races to its shocking conclusion.

        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: 6.6
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:09

        Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.




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