Best movies like Red Lights
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Plot Summary:
Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the most varied metaphysical phenomena with the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 years to become the greatest international challenge to both orthodox science and professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop an intense obsession with Silver, whose magnetism becomes stronger with each new manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his worldview is threatened to its core.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, enigmatic, twist ending, atmospheric, tense, clever, suspense, twisted, psychological thriller, mind blowing
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Trauma (2004)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, bleak, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, sentimental, disturbing, splatter
Similar in 75%
Apartment 143 (2011)
Plot Summary:
A team of parapsychologists sets out to investigate a series of anomalous phenomena taking place in a newly occupied apartment. Telephone calls with no caller, mysterious shadows, extraordinary light emissions, flying objects, and exploding light bulbs are some of the events they will face while recording their every step with state-of-the-art technology. Using infrared filming, digital photography, psychophonic recordings, movement detectors, and magnetic field alteration meters, the group’s attempts to contact the “other side” will grow increasingly dangerous as they near a point of no return.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, enigmatic, bleak, mockumentary, suspense, demonic, psychological, psychological horror, spooky
Similar in 86%
Stone (2010)
Plot Summary:
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, cerebral, sexual, psychological thriller, twisted, thought provoking, neo noir
Similar in 77%
In Dreams (1999)
Plot Summary:
A suburban housewife learns that she has psychic connections to a serial killer, and can predict this person's motives through her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, intense, serious, atmospheric, spiritual, mystical
Similar in 90%
Before I Wake (2016)
Plot Summary:
About an orphaned child whose dreams - and nightmares - manifest physically as he sleeps.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, serious, suspenseful, psychological, spooky, atmospheric, suspense, post-horror, psychological thriller, inspirational
Similar in 84%
Horns (2013)
Plot Summary:
In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: dark fantasy, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, serious, dark comedy, visual, tense, scary, mind bending
Similar in 89%
The Order (2003)
Plot Summary:
For centuries, a secret Order of priests has existed within the Church. A renegade priest, Father Alex Bernier, is sent to Rome to investigate the mysterious death of one of the Order's most revered members. Following a series of strangely similar killings, Bernier launches an investigation that forces him to confront unimaginable evil.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, gothic, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, twist ending, psychological thriller, mind bending, bleak
Similar in 86%
Passengers (2008)
Plot Summary:
After a plane crash, a young therapist, Claire, is assigned by her mentor to counsel the flight's five survivors. When they share their recollections of the incident -- which some say include an explosion that the airline claims never happened -- Claire is intrigued by Eric, the most secretive of the passengers.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, twist ending, captivating, emotional, serious, romantic, tense
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Regression (2015)
Plot Summary:
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in to help him relive his memories and what they discover unmasks a horrifying nationwide mystery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, scary, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, twisted, detective, creepy, psychological thriller
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Premonition (2007)
Plot Summary:
A depressed housewife who learns her husband was killed in a car accident the day previously, awakens the next morning to find him alive and well at home, and then awakens the day after to a world in which he is still dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, psychological, mind bending, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, confusing, suspense thriller
Similar in 87%
The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
Plot Summary:
Six years after the events of The X-Files series finale, former FBI agent Doctor Dana Scully is now a staff physician at Our Lady of Sorrows, a Catholic hospital, and treating a boy named Christian who has Sandhoff disease, a terminal brain condition. FBI agent Drummy arrives to ask Scully’s help in locating Fox Mulder, the fugitive former head of the X-Files division, and says they will call off its manhunt for him if he will help investigate the disappearances of several women, including young FBI agent Monica Banan. Mulder and Scully are called back to duty by the FBI when a former priest claims to be receiving psychic visions pertaining to a kidnapped agent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 93000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, exciting, psychological thriller, apocalyptic, cult classic, scary, mind bending, serious
Similar in 82%
The Watch (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once she's alone, strange things start happening. Or is she just paranoid? Cassie is terrified that her past may be coming back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, psychological, serious
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The Innkeepers (2011)
Plot Summary:
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: scary, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark, suspense, psychological, tense, spooky, stylized
Similar in 81%
Half Light (2006)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, twist ending, surprise ending, stylized, intense, enigmatic, scary
Similar in 79%
In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Plot Summary:
With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to investigate Cane's mysterious vanishing act and ends up in the sleepy little East Coast town of Hobb's End.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, surreal, atmospheric, gothic, neo noir, suspense, lovecraft, scary, suspenseful, dark
Similar in 87%
Hide and Seek (2005)
Plot Summary:
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, intense, scary, dark
Similar in 80%
The Gift (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a local woman disappears and the police can't seem to find any leads, her father turns to a poor young woman with psychic powers. Slowly she starts having visions of the woman chained and in a pond. Her visions lead to the body and the arrest of an abusive husband, but did he really do it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, scary, psychological, southern gothic, sexy, dark, psychological thriller, tense
Similar in 85%
Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, serious, psychological thriller, tricky, intense, clever
Similar in 76%
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Plot Summary:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, scary, psychological thriller, twist ending, atmospheric, creepy, sexy
Similar in 88%
The Raven (2012)
Plot Summary:
A fictionalized account of the last days of Edgar Allan Poe's life, in which the poet is in pursuit of a serial killer whose murders mirror those in the writer's stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 88000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Spain, Hungary
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, psychological, gothic horror, atmospheric, psychotronic, detective, suspenseful, period piece, costume drama
Similar in 77%
Stir of Echoes (1999)
Plot Summary:
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, twist ending, suspense, atmospheric, scary, disturbing, sexy, dark, psychological thriller, surprise ending
Similar in 81%
The Orphanage (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scary, twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, gothic horror, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, suspense, dark
Similar in 78%
Odd Thomas (2013)
Plot Summary:
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, twist ending, suspense, stylized, serious, horror comedy, dark fantasy, touching, sad, surreal
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The Illusionist (2006)
Plot Summary:
With his eye on a lovely aristocrat, a gifted illusionist named Eisenheim uses his powers to win her away from her betrothed, a crowned prince. But Eisenheim's scheme creates tumult within the monarchy and ignites the suspicion of a dogged inspector.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 386000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, surprise ending, period piece, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, twist ending, mind bending, tricky, psychological thriller
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The Skeleton Key (2005)
Plot Summary:
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 121000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, gothic, psychological, southern gothic, mind bending, mysterious, tricky
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The Others (2001)
Plot Summary:
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 387000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, gothic, dark, enigmatic, psychological thriller
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The Game (1997)
Plot Summary:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, Nicholas finds himself consumed by a dangerous set of ever-changing rules, unable to distinguish where the charade ends and reality begins.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 421000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir, suspenseful, intellectual, unusual plot structure, clever, philosophical
Similar in 84%
Dream House (2011)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, scary, serious, enigmatic, intense
Similar in 80%
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts of dead people.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, psychological thriller, mind bending, touching, tense
Similar in 83%
Gothika (2003)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Canada, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, surprise ending, psychological thriller, atmospheric, suspense, dark, twist ending