20 best movies like The Phantom of the Opera (1962)


List of the best movies like The Phantom of the Opera (1962): The Phantom of the Opera, Phantom of the Opera, Scream and Scream Again, Sweeney Todd, Crimson Peak, Trauma, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, Half Light, An American Haunting, The Turn of the Screw.

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Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Hungary
Duration01:33

A darker version of the classic Gaston Leroux novel. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer who has plans for those oppose himself or the young singer.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

Pit violinist Claudin hopelessly loves rising operatic soprano Christine Dubois (as do baritone Anatole and police inspector Raoul) and secretly aids her career. But Claudin loses both his touch and his job, murders a rascally music publisher in a fit of madness, and has his face etched with acid. Soon, mysterious crimes plague the Paris Opera House, blamed on a legendary "phantom".

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: 6.9
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: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration02:31

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:30

Awaking from a coma to discover his wife has been killed in a car accident, Ben's world may as well have come to an end. A few weeks later, Ben's out of hospital and, attempting to start a new life, he moves home and is befriended by a beautiful young neighbour Charlotte. His life may be turning around but all is not what it seems and, haunted by visions of his dead wife, Ben starts to lose his grip on reality.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:53

Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryGermany, United Kingdom, USA
Duration01:50

Rachel Carson, a best-selling crime novelist, is devastated and filled with guilt over the accidental death of her son. Hoping that a change of scenery will help alleviate her suffering, she leaves her home in the city and moves into a vacant country house owned by a friend and begins a relationship with charming local Angus. But, just as her life is taking a turn for the better, Rachel realizes she's being romanced by a ghost, leading her to doubt her own sanity.

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: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:33

A young governess, Ann, is sent to a country house to take care of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Soon after her arrival, Miles is expelled from boarding school. Although charmed by her young charge, she secretly fears there are ominous reasons behind his expulsion. With Miles back at home, the governess starts noticing ethereal figures roaming the estate's grounds. Desperate to learn more about these sinister sightings she discovers that the suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of her predecessor hold grim implications for herself. As she becomes increasingly fearful that malevolent forces are stalking the children the governess is determined to save them, risking herself and her sanity in the process.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:43

Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

A traumatized, alcoholic Dan Torrance meets Abra, a kid who also has the ability to "shine." He tries to protect her from the True Knot, a cult whose goal is to feed off of people like them in order to remain immortal. Doctor Sleep is a sequel to Stephen King's 1977 novel "The Shining". Doctor Sleep is set several decades after the events of the first "Shining".

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:47

1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.

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: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration03:01

A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.

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: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA, Sweden
    Duration01:34

    40 years after the first haunting at Eel Marsh House, a group of children evacuated from WWII London arrive, awakening the house's darkest inhabitant.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

    Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.

    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: 5.6
    Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:27

    The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their fears in a frenzy of shocking lunacy. Horrifying visions invade the castle - realizations of Byron's fear of leeches, Shelley's fear of premature burial, Mary's fear of birthing a stillborn child - all brought forth in a bizarre dreamscape. They share the terrifying fantasies that chase them through the castle that night. The events of that night later inspired Mary Shelley to write the classic "Frankenstein" and Dr. Polidori to pen "The Vampyre," which became the basis for the creation of Dracula..

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:19

    A group of teachers must defend themselves from a gang of murderous kids when their school comes under siege after hours.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    A young family find themselves in serious danger when they move to an isolated haunted house in the Yorkshire Moors.

    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: 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
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:52

      Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

      Markimdb: 4.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:29

      After witnessing a horrific and traumatic event, Julia Lund, a graduate student in psychology, gradually comes to the realization that everything which scared her as a child could be real. And what's worse, it might be coming back to get her..

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A young journalist goes deep undercover within a mountain commune and becomes manipulated by a duplicitous cult leader.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Fortitude is a place like nowhere else. Although surrounded by the savage beauty of the Arctic landscape, Fortitude is one of the safest towns on earth. There has never been a violent crime here. Until now. In such a close-knit community a murder touches everyone and the unsettling, mysterious horror of this crime threatens the future of the town itself.

      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: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:56

      A couple and their 12-year-old son move into a giant house for the summer. Things start acting strange almost immediately. It seems that every time some gets hurt on the grounds the beat-up house seems to repair itself.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, musical
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:56

      The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:38

      A university student and some classmates are recruited to carry out a private experiment -- to create a poltergeist. Their subject: an alluring, but dangerously disturbed young woman. Their quest: to explore the dark energy that her damaged psyche might manifest. As the experiment unravels along with their sanity, the rogue PHD students, led by their determined professor, are soon confronted with a terrifying reality: they have triggered an unspeakable force with a power beyond all explanation.

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      No one is safe when a killer, wielding the deadly contents of his toolbox, methodically stalks his prey.

      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: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:05

      A mother desperate to reconnect with her troubled daughter becomes embroiled in the urban legend of a demonic witch.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:58

      Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago. Shortly afterward he finds himself stalked by the killer and is soon drawn to an old house where a mysterious Lady In White lives. As he discovers the secret of the woman he soon finds that the killer may be someone close to him.

      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: 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: 6.9
      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: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryUSA

      A crew of coal miners becomes trapped 600 feet below ground after a disastrous collapse. As the air grows more toxic and time runs out, they slowly descend into madness and begin to turn on one another. Inspired by true events.

      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: 6.1
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, adventure, family, crime, detective
      CountryJapan
      Duration01:59

      In Victorian-era London, on the night of Ciel Phantomhive's tenth birthday a fire destroyed his manor and killed both of his parents. In a moment of death Ceil strikes a deal with a demon, his soul in exchange for revenge. This demon becomes his butler and calls himself by name of Sebastian Michaelis, to protect and serve Ciel until the deal has been completed. One month after the fire Ciel returns from being missing, with his new butler Sebastian. Ceil is now the head of the Phantomhive corporation, handling all business affairs as well as the work as the Queen of England’s guard dog and looking for his parents murders.

      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: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryAustralia

      In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.

      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: 5.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:43

        Bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, unable to cope after his wife's sudden death, returns to the couple's lakeside retreat in Maine, where he becomes involved in a custody battle between a young widow and her child's enormously wealthy grandfather. Mike inexplicably receives mysterious ghostly visitations, escalating nightmares and the realization that his late wife still has something to tell him.




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