20 best movies like The Suffering (2016)

List of the best movies like The Suffering (2016): The Empty Man, Burnt Offerings, Salvage, Penny Dreadful, The Damned, They Look Like People, Coherence, 8213: Gacy House, Find Me, One of Us.

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Markimdb: 6.2
Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
CountryUSA, South Africa, United Kingdom

After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers a secretive group and their attempts to summon a horrific, mystical entity, and soon his life—and the lives of those close to him—are in grave danger.

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: 5.3
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA

Claire Parker is going to die. At the hands of a sadistic and depraved killer, she will endure a terrifying, unimaginable brutal death--and it will all happen again. After being beaten, dragged, sliced, and stabbed, Claire awakens at work--where it all began--untouched and unharmed. But the hellish ordeal is far from over. The madman is back and he's ready for more blood...

Markimdb: 4.9
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA

Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

After suffering the recent loss of his wife, David Reynolds decides to take his family on a cathartic trip to her home village in Columbia. While en route, they get into a car accident and seek refuge in a secluded inn. While there they find a mysterious young girl, Ana Maria, locked up with cryptic symbols painted on the walls of her cell. Shocked by the treatment of her caretaker, the family sets Ana free only to realize that she is possessed by an evil spirit from centuries past. What’s worse, the spirit can jump from person to person, creating a deadly dynamic amongst the once loving family. Now, David must figure out a way to lock the spirit up for good before it destroys him and his family.

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: 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: 3.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    A group of paranormal investigators enter the abandoned home of paedophile and serial killer John Gacy, hoping to find evidence of paranormal activity. Upon entering the house they set-up cameras throughout the abandoned house while going room to room with hand-held cameras, performing séance's and asking for John Gacy to come forward. As the evening progresses it seems the investigators are not prepared for the horror still within the house.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    Before boxes are unpacked in their new home, newlyweds Tim and Emily, find themselves playing a very creepy game of hide and seek with a vengeful spirit.

    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: 5.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, Norway, Canada
    Duration01:28

    High school loner Bird Fitcher has no idea what dark secrets are tied to the mysterious Polaroid vintage camera she stumbles upon, but it doesn't take long to discover that those who have their picture taken meet a tragic end. Bird and her friends must survive one more night as they race to solve the mystery of the haunted Polaroid before it kills them all.

    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: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:26

    A woman inherits a rent-controlled apartment and is terrorized by a neighbor.

    Markimdb: 4.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Twenty five years ago, the SS Corona Queen disappeared in the region known as, "The Bermuda Triangle". Now, it has returned. Seven people go on board to learn the truth behind her disappearance but the ship did not return alone...

    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
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:48

    A troubled young woman who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with a brusque rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to not let her mind play tricks on her while she patrols the empty halls. But as the night progresses strange things begin to happen - and she realizes it may not all be in her head.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    A fishing community on a remote Maine island finds itself suddenly cut off from the rest of the world after the ferry stops coming. When people start to vanish, the terrified survivors realize that someone - or something - is hunting them.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryIndonesia

    Gambir is an artist whose success masks a dark and shameful secret ... which may be nothing compared to the sordid details of the past that his wife keeps hidden behind a mysterious door in their home.

    Markimdb: 3.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:23

    Four young women travel to their college professor's new country home for a weekend getaway, only to discover that the house has a malevolent past.

    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
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:49

    During a routine case in L.A., NY private investigator Harry D'Amour stumbles over members of a fanatic cult who are preparing for the resurrection of their leader Nix, a powerful magician who was killed 13 years earlier.

    Markimdb: 3.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    Six young adults struggle with their personal demons while staying at a secluded mansion during a dark and stormy night where a seemingly innocent game of 'taboo' brings out their inter-most secrets which soon leads to murder.

    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
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    Fresh out of rehab, a young woman moves back in with her parents and sister, and soon becomes involved in a mystery that has left people in her town paralyzed.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    17-year old Eli moves with his family to the isolated farm of reclusive Waylon, a man whose dark past threatens to overtake him. Eli’s family works to restore the desolate fields, while he becomes fascinated with the forests. While on the farm, Eli meets the mysterious Amanda when she gives him an apple. The next day she extracts a promise from him to avoid the deep woods. Reeling from a violent encounter with his father, one night he breaks this promise and finds her body hanging from a tree.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that "God told them to."

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA

    Based on a true story, shot in THE REAL EXORCIST HOUSE, a young woman returns to her old family home, the site of an infamous exorcism and discovers the devil never left. This film was shot in THE REAL EXORCIST HOUSE and during filming captured both audible and visible paranormal activity which has been left in the film giving those who dare to watch a unique look into one of the most infamous homes in America and possibly exposing them to the devil still lurking within.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:33

    When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:29

      A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

      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: 3.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryCanada
      Duration01:34

      A writer who studies the paranormal believes that low frequency tactile sound is the cause for reported ghost sightings in an abandoned subway station. In an attempt to debunk the sightings, she breaks into the station to record evidence.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      A torn suburban family refuses to heed the warning of an innocent prank left upon them which causes an unknown supernatural force to wreak havoc.

      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:38

      Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government's secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets.

      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: 4.5
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:10

      Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend, Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      INNER DEMONS follows an 'Intervention'-style reality show crew that films an episode about a sixteen-year old girl, a former A-student, who is fighting addiction but may in fact be suffering from something even more destructive: demonic possession. The movie is an inquiry into the truth about her - with symptoms that straddle the disturbing and scary intersection between insanity, addiction and true possession.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:11

      After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryItaly

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      Markimdb: 4.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Graduate student Calliope Girard's orderly life is thrown into chaos by unexplained seizures that unlock buried memories of a violent past.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.

      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: 5.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:12

      Shannon and Kris embark on a cross country road trip, to put back the pieces of their strained friendship. But it all falls apart when their car breaks down in Kain, Arizona. A place where you can check in anytime you want, but you can never leave.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountrySpain, Mexico
      Duration01:08

      Quintanilla family was found dead in their country side house. Police reported the existence of 37 hours of recorded evidence. The family traveled to their old farm house, where they investigated about the Legend of the Girl in the Garraf woods. They used to record whatever they did. Atrocious shows the last five days of this family, and the strange situations that they lived in those moments and which remain unexplained.

      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: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountrySingapore
      Duration01:19

      HAUNTED CHANGI synopsis: In January of 2010, a group of local filmmakers began exploring the famously haunted Old Changi Hospital in Singapore with terrifying and tragic results. This movie pieces together the original Haunted Changi film crew's footage to tell the full story.

      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: 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: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      My name is Rebecca. When I left for college my ex John thought web cams would help us keep in touch. It does however it also leads us to a dark secret when we meet and cam with Vera Madeline, an on-line psychic, who initiates a deadly reign of terror.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Germany
      Duration01:33

      Adèle and her daughter Sarah are traveling on the Welsh coastline to see her husband James when Sarah disappears. A different but similar looking girl appears who says she died in a past time. Adèle tries to discover what happened to her daughter as she is tormented by Celtic mythology from the past.

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      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryAustralia

      Three friends find themselves fighting for their lives when their urban exploration goes horribly wrong




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