20 best movies like The Medusa Touch (1978)

List of the best movies like The Medusa Touch (1978): Time Lapse, The I Inside, Residue, Eden Log, Scream and Scream Again, Kafka, The Believers, The Canal, Narcopolis, Alien Code.

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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: 6.1
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: 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: 5.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
CountryFrance

A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine.

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: 6.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:38

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

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: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Duration01:34

Film archivist David and his wife are perfectly happy or so he believes. When a looming secret shatters their marriage at the same time as a turn-of-the-century film reel he is studying reveals their house to be the site of a 1902 multiple-murder, David begins to unravel, and the house’s eerie history threatens to repeat itself. Dripping with tension and chilling to the core, this visceral Irish ghost story is a visually arresting and genuinely shocking journey into the darkness within.

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

In the near future, Frank, a police officer, discovers that the legalization of all recreational drugs comes with a price.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

After deciphering a message found in a satellite, genius cryptographer Alex Jacobs finds himself being stalked by government agents and otherworldly beings.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryAustralia

It is about two Atheists who run a video blog debunking Psychics, Mediums and religious beliefs. However, a death experiment goes totally wrong and as a result they attract evil entities that stalk and haunt them.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:14

The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft.They are the best of best, smart and logical, and the perfect choice to learn more about the spacecraft.

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: 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: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:07

Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

Markimdb: 4
Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

When a lowly postman is inducted into a top-secret superhuman DNA program at a research facility, it's revealed that he'll be able to receive, control and send information based on the senses of others.

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: 7
    Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:03

    Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman discovers a sinister and bizarre plot to rekindle the Third Reich.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrefantastic, thriller, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, USA
    Duration01:39

    A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:38

    Since the 1960s, a disproportionate number of the population in and around Nome, Alaska, have gone missing. Despite FBI investigations, the disappearances remain a mystery. Dr. Abigail Tyler, a psychologist, may be on the verge of blowing the unsolved cases wide open when, during the course of treating her patients, she finds evidence of alien abductions.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryItaly, France, Spain, United Kingdom

    Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    As a snow storm closes in, one final plane takes off. The plane reports to the ground that both pilots are dead, while the slowly dwindling number of passengers on the plane wish that they’d never left the ground.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
    Duration01:48

      Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
      Duration02:34

      A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

      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: 4.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, South Africa

        After miners disappear in the Namib Desert, some scientists find their remains and the demonic creature that killed them.

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
        CountrySpain, USA
        Duration01:22

        An experimental submarine, the "Siren II", with a very experienced crew is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously dissapeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...

        Markimdb: 7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryNorway, France, Denmark, Sweden
        Duration02:16

        A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:22

        When plans for a weekend vacation hit a dead end, a group of close-knit friends find themselves stranded in unfamiliar territory, pursued by a menacing predator. Holed up in an isolated cabin, tensions mount as long-buried secrets are revealed. As the body count rises, the group must put their differences aside and fight for survival.

        Markimdb: 5.8
        Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
        CountrySpain, United Kingdom

        David Norton is used to being in control. As a best-selling author, he decides the fate of his characters, their lives and their deaths. But what happens when his fictional world becomes all too real?

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryJapan
        Duration01:58

        After one of their friends commits suicide, strange things begin happening to a group of young Tokyo residents. One of them sees visions of his dead friend in the shadows on the wall, while another's computer keeps showing strange, ghostly images. Is their friend trying to contact them from beyond the grave, or is there something much more sinister going on?

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Hungary, Australia, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia

        In the Sahara desert, a sandstorm batters a deserted drilling station. A security patrolman, battles through the high winds to investigate why all contact with the station has been lost. Originally built for gas exploration, and then abandoned, the site had recently been taken over by a multi-national research team intent on drilling deeper into the earth’s crust than ever before.

        Markimdb: 6.3
        Genrefantastic, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        After a man's family dies in what appears to be a murder, he gets a phone call from one of the dead, his niece. He's not sure if she’s a ghost or if he's going mad - but as it turns out, he's not. Instead, her calls help him rewrite history.

        Markimdb: 3.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountrySpain, United Kingdom

        Studying under a disciple of Aleister Crowley, the leader of an upper class group invokes a supernatural force that slowly devours the village of Marienbad and its inhabitants, threatening to spread beyond its geographical limits. The mayor from the town nearby commissions the building of a dam which would flood the valley and therefore submerge the village forever sealing the evil force under water after leader and his followers were incapacitated to be kept from escaping. However, fate ensured the leader's freedom as he remained in the depths when the waters covered Marienbad. Now 40 years later an array of disappearances and deaths in mysterious circumstances are threatening the town next to the reservoir that now covers Marienbad.

        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: 5.2
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        A reporter stumbles upon the journal of a murderer replete with plans to butcher specific people, and investigates on his own, finding that every trail leads to a 9-year-old orphan living in a group home.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:52

        Ray Liotta stars as a medical examiner who has been acquitted for his wife's murder but many still question his innocence. Obsessed with finding his wife's killer, a possible solution presents itself in an experimental serum designed by a neurobiology Linda Fiorentino which has the ability to transfer memories from one person to another, but not without consequences. Liotta driven to solve the case injects himself with the serum, bringing him closer and closer to finding her killer but bringing him closer to death.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryItaly, West Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Iran
        Duration01:35

        Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing various unpunished crimes, which sets off a series of murders in the hotel.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrethriller, melodrama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:38

        A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.

        Markimdb: 5.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:29

          Officially, Apollo 17 was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later in 1973, three American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. What you are about to see is the actual footage which the astronauts captured on that mission. While NASA denies it's authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryFrance
          Duration01:30

          In 1922, a young novelist goes to the countryside to write her latest book and falls victim to terrifying hallucinations and nightmares.

          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: 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: 6.3
          Genreaction, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, China, Canada
          Duration01:55

          A businessman, on his daily commute home, gets unwittingly caught up in a criminal conspiracy that threatens not only his life but the lives of those around him.

          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: 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: 6.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, France
          Duration02:11

          While treating a policewoman for smoking, hypnotherapist Michael Strother has a telepathic vision of a young girl floating beneath the surface of a stream. The escaped victim of a ritualistic serial killer, the girl has become mute, and Michael is called upon by Scotland Yard to unlock the secrets she holds in order to catch a man who believes he has discovered the key to immortality.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA

          Dr. Jacob Hood is a brilliant biophysicist and special science advisor to the government who investigates scientific crises and oddities. His crusade is to protect the substance of science against those who would abuse and misuse scientific discoveries for their own gain.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrethriller, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Australia, France, USA
          Duration01:59

          Following the gruesome murder of a young woman in her neighborhood, a self-determined woman living in New York City--as if to test the limits of her own safety--propels herself into an impossibly risky sexual liaison. Soon she grows increasingly wary about the motives of every man with whom she has contact--and about her own.




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