20 best movies like The Phantom of the Opera (1989)


List of the best movies like The Phantom of the Opera (1989): The Phantom of the Opera, Phantom of the Opera, Great Expectations, The Perfect Guy, Victor Frankenstein, The Woman in Black 2: Angel of Death, Count Dracula, Humoresque, Sweeney Todd, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead.

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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: 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: 6.4
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:08

Miss Havisham, a wealthy spinster who wears an old wedding dress and lives in the dilapidated Satis House, asks Pip's "Uncle Pumblechook" (who is actually Joe's uncle) to find a boy to play with her adopted daughter Estella. Pip begins to visit Miss Havisham and Estella, with whom he falls in love,then Pip a humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.

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
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, 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: 5.7
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountrySpain, West Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, United Kingdom
    Duration01:38

    Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:05

    A classical musician from a working class background is sidetracked by his love for a wealthy, neurotic socialite.

    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: 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
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:37

    After the death of her father, Little Voice or LV becomes a virtual recluse, never going out and hardly ever saying a word. She just sits in her bedroom listening to her father's collection of old records of Shirley Bassey, Marilyn Monroe and various other famous female singers. But at night time, LV sings, imitating these great singers with surprising accuracy. One night she is overheard by one of her mother's boyfriends, who happens to be a talent agent. He manages to convince her that her talent is special and arranges for her to perform at the local night club, but several problems arise.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
    Duration02:36

    A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:34

    Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, drama, biography, history
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:26

    England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Argentina, Germany, Netherlands, USA

    On a trip to Paris Sally meets Pablo, a tango dancer. He starts teaching her to dance then she returns to London to work on some "projects". She visits Buenos Aires and learns more from Pablo's friends. Sally and Pablo meet again but this time their relationship changes, she realises they want different things from each other. On a trip to Buenos Aires they cement their friendship.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, drama, crime, military, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:34

    An old firm leader returns to Green Street for Revanche after receiving a call that his little brother was killed, but is he able to cope with a new type of hooliganism and can he find his killer?

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    A woman reeling from the death of her parents becomes attached to an alluring man whose sudden disappearance sends her and her friends into a haunted high-rise to find him.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Beautiful vampire Djuna tries to resist the advances of the handsome, human screenwriter Paolo, but eventually gives in to their passion. When her seductive and highly volatile sister Mimi unexpectedly comes to visit, she threatens Djuna's new relationship, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

    Markimdb: 8.1
    Genremelodrama, drama, music
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:13

    In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.

    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: 7.6
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    A young novelist, Richard Harland, meets beautiful Ellen Berent on a train where they fall in love and are soon married. When tragedies take first his handicapped young brother, then his unborn son from him, Harland gradually realises that his wife's insane jealousy may be the cause of the tragedies in his life. Yet another shock awaits them all, as Ellen's emotions become uncontrollable.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:42

    On a rainy London night in 1946, novelist Maurice Bendrix has a chance meeting with Henry Miles, husband of his ex-mistress Sarah, who abruptly ended their affair two years before. Bendrix's obsession with Sarah is rekindled; he succumbs to his own jealousy and arranges to have her followed.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
    CountryItaly, France, Spain
    Duration01:50

    When Englishman Jonathan Harker visits the exotic castle of Count Dracula, he is entranced by the mysterious aristocrat. But upon learning that the count has sinister designs on his wife, Mina, Harker seeks help from vampire slayer Van Helsing.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
    Duration01:55

    A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Netherlands
    Duration01:37

    Clarissa Dalloway looks back on her youth as she readies for a gathering at her house. The wife of a legislator and a doyenne of London's upper-crust party scene, Clarissa finds that the plight of ailing war veteran Septimus Warren Smith reminds her of a past romance with Peter Walsh. In flashbacks, young Clarissa explores her possibilities with Peter.

    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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada, France

    Martin Brundle, born of the human/fly, is adopted by his father's place of employment (Bartok Inc.) while the employees simply wait for his mutant chromosomes to come out of their dormant state.

    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: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday. Her late childhood, stint as a prostitute, early tours, marriages and drug addiction are featured.

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genremelodrama, drama, music, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    Based on the autobiographical novel, the tempestuous 6-year relationship between Liberace and his (much younger) lover, Scott Thorson, is recounted.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:33

    Based on the literary classic by Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd is the story of independent, beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene, who attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer, captivated by her fetching willfulness; Frank Troy, a handsome and reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor. This timeless story of Bathsheba's choices and passions explores the nature of relationships and love – as well as the human ability to overcome hardships through resilience and perseverance.

    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: 6.9
    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: 7.3
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:44

    George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, biography
    CountryCanada, United Kingdom, USA, Germany
    Duration01:35

    A young woman commits a hit-and-run, then finds her fate tied to her victim.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genremelodrama, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration02:09

    A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy. Based on the classic novel by Emily Bronte.

    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: 6.7
      Genremelodrama, drama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:52

      Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. Hot on O'Malley's heels is lawman Dana Stribling who has a personal reason for getting him back into his jurisdiction. Both men join Breckenridge and his wife on the drive. As they near Texas tensions mount, not least because Stribling is starting to court Belle and O'Malley is increasingly drawn by her daughter Missy.

      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: 4.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      Chance Harris looks to find a balance between his school, work, relationships and opportunity to perform at the nationally televised step competition during homecoming weekend at Truth University.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, music
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:28

      After being gone for a decade, a country star returns home to the love he left behind.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, music
      CountryGermany, Italy
      Duration01:57

      The life story of Italian violinist and composer, Niccolò Paganini, who rose to fame as a virtuoso in the early 19th Century.

      Markimdb: 4
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryIndia
      Duration02:37

      A writer adrift in the icy slopes of Kashmir, discovers a woman with a strange and silent past.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:27

      Three suburban English families' lives intertwine with tragic consequences.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:28

      MIDNIGHT SON is the story of Jacob, a young man confined to a life of isolation, due to a rare skin disorder that prevents him from being exposed to sunlight. His world opens up when he meets Mary, a local bartender, and falls in love. Tragically, Jacob’s actions become increasingly bizarre as he struggles to cope with the effects of his worsening condition. Forced by the disease to drink human blood for sustenance, he must control his increasingly violent tendencies as local law enforcement narrow their focus on him as a suspect in a series of grisly murders.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, musical, music
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration02:01

      Set 10 years later, the Phantom has escaped from Paris to New York where he lives amongst the joyrides and freak shows of Coney Island. He has finally found a place for his music to soar, all that is missing is his love Christine Daaé. In a bid to win back her love, the Phantom lures Christine, her husband Raoul, and their young son Gustave from Manhattan, to the glittering and glorious world of Coney Island... they have no idea what lies in store for them... You truly haven’t experienced Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies until you see this spectacular new Australian production, filmed at Melbourne’s iconic Regent Theatre.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom

      Hooligan boss Billy Evans has it all - a successful business, a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey over a backstreet proetection racket, Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to finally settle the question - who is Top Dog?

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, drama, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Heading east to Fort Worth to hire a schoolteacher for his frontier town home, Link Jones is stranded with singer Billie Ellis and gambler Sam Beasley when their train is held up. For shelter, Jones leads them to his nearby former home, where he was brought up an outlaw. Finding the gang still living in the shack, Jones pretends to be ready to return to a life crime.




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