20 best movies like The Number 23 (2007)

List of the best movies like The Number 23 (2007): Surveillance, The Girl on the Train, The Dead Zone, Mindscape, Secret in Their Eyes, Kafka, Side Effects, Prisoners, I Wake Up Screaming, Deceiver.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:21

Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

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: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySpain, USA
Duration01:39

A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
Duration02:32

A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

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: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

    A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:33

      When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:26

      Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the local police, but they aren't interested - Bobby was their killer.

      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: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:59

      Set in the late 1980s, school is out for the summer, and a sun-drenched season of firsts beckons the counselors at Camp Clearwater, a seemingly idyllic Midwestern summer camp, including first loves, first kisses – and first kills. Clearwater’s dark, ancient mythology awakens, and what was supposed to be a summer of fun soon turns into one of unforgettable scares and evil at every turn.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

      A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.

      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: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCanada, France
      Duration01:46

      When her child goes missing, a mother looks to unravel the legend of the Tall Man, an entity who allegedly abducts children.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:48

      A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

      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: 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: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        Cold Moon takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark’s character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a decade earlier. Suspicion falls on a duplicitous banker and his wealthy father, played by Stewart and Lloyd.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrethriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        When Grace is accused of playing a role in a deadly accident, her best friend reaches out from beyond the grave to unveil the truth behind what happened.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:03

        After moving to a vineyard with her family, a pregnant woman experiences horrifying visions.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:54

        When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons - they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live. As the case progresses, Kenzie and Gennaro face drug dealers, gangs and pedophiles. When they are about to solve the case, they are faced with a moral dilemma that tears them apart.

        Markimdb: 5.7
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent swamp-dweller Hillary Van Wetter was framed for the murder of a corrupt local sheriff.

        Markimdb: 5.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:36

        A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryAustralia
        Duration01:30

        Anna Macy left Kettering when she was just 14, shortly after her best friend, Gillian Baxter mysteriously disappeared. The two girls had been playing in the forbidden forests outside Kettering when they saw strange lights in the sky. Eight hours later, Anna was found alone, terrified and covered in blood. 15 years on, Anna returns to find the town struggling to survive. The forests have been marked for logging and the community is being torn apart by passionate but violent clashes between environmentalists and the local loggers.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genredrama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:41

        Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself recognition. With the assistance of a psychiatrist and his girlfriend, Barrett convinces the doctors at the institution to commit him. Once inside, he begins his investigation -- and gradually loses his mind.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:56

        When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

        Markimdb: 7.9
        Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, USA

        This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, France, Sweden
        Duration01:32

        A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.

        Markimdb: 6
        Genrethriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:24

          Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered there, and the surviving husband is the town's prime suspect. With help from a neighbor who was close to the murdered family, Will pieces together a horrifying chain of events.

          Markimdb: 4.3
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:50

          After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.

          Markimdb: 5.7
          Genrethriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

          A journalist goes undercover to ferret out businessman Harrison Hill as her best friend's killer. Posing as one of his temps, she enters into a game of online cat-and-mouse.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

          Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:49

          Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrethriller, drama, crime
          CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, France, USA, Japan
          Duration02:01

          Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain the money while avoiding detection opens a Pandora's box when the fear of getting caught triggers panicked behavior and leads to virulent consequences

          Markimdb: 5.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:29

          After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.

          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: 6.2
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:45

          In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine U.S.S. Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this is about to become a journey into the sensory delusions, mental deceptions and runaway fear that lurk just below the surface of the ocean.

          Markimdb: 6.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland
          Duration01:46

            Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryCanada
            Duration00:30

            Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.

            Markimdb: 5.2
            Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective, film noir
            CountryUSA

            A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family curse and has begun committing ghastly murders in a nearby park.

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:38

            Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who is supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, music
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:43

            In this spine-tingling and visually stunning thriller, Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Shaft, Pulp Fiction delivers a "full-throttle performance" (People) as Romulus Ledbetter, a misunderstood musician turned recluse, hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave. When Romulus finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree, the authorities - including his police officer daughter (Aunjanne Ellis) - claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by prominent art photographer David Leppenraub (Colm Feore). But how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?




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