Best movies like The Woman Who Wouldn't Die
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Plot Summary:
A rich woman who uses meditation to deal with pain is visited by her niece who returns from Paris. The woman can be a handful and one of her employees suggests to her husband that he kill her freeing them both. When an affair starts between the husband and the niece murder becomes a real possibility. However some people won't stay dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: noir, surprise ending, twist ending, vintage
Best tv shows and movies like The Woman Who Wouldn't Die (1965):
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The Naked Edge (1961)
Plot Summary:
Michael Anderson's 1961 suspense thriller stars Deborah Kerr as a London wife who suspects her wealthy husband (Gary Cooper) might be a murderer. The cast also includes Eric Portman, Diane Cilento, Hermione Gingold and Michael Wilding. This was Gary Cooper's last film.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: noir
Similar in 75%
Berserk (1967)
Plot Summary:
Monica Rivers, is the owner and ringmaster of a traveling circus and who'll stop at nothing to draw bigger audiences. When a series of mysterious murders begins to occur and some of her performers die gruesomely, her profits soar. She hires high-wire walker Frank Hawkins, impressed by the handsome and muscular young man. They begin an affair which arouses her previous lover Durando's jealousy. When Durando is found dead shortly afterward, the other performers begin to take alarm, as a mysterious killer is obviously loose in their midst. Many suspect Monica herself of the killings, especially Matilda, who has set her sights on Monica's new lover. At this point, Monica's unruly, sixteen-year-old daughter Angela, is expelled from school for being incorrigible and Monica is forced to take her into the circus, allowing her to become the partner of knife-thrower Gustavo. Meanwhile, the dead bodies continue to pile up.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic, slasher, psychological thriller, suspense, grindhouse, scary, rough, mind bending, serious
Similar in 76%
The Shadow of the Cat (1961)
Plot Summary:
Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: gothic horror, psychotronic, gothic, suspense, slasher, grindhouse, classic horror, tripping
Similar in 78%
Jigsaw (1968)
Plot Summary:
After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
Red Wind (1991)
Plot Summary:
A psychotherapist who specializes in treating people in abusive relationships inadvertently causes a patient to kill her abusive husband.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, surprise ending, twist ending
Similar in 82%
Dangerous to Know (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman recovers from a suicide attempt in a secluded cabin, but things quickly go horrifyingly wrong when a series of unexplained incidents occur.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, psychological, neo noir, minimal cast
Similar in 80%
The Squeaker (1963)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
The Phantom of Sojo (1964)
Plot Summary:
A masked killer is stalking and killing Londoners outside a nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, classic horror, art house, psychotronic
Similar in 79%
Dying Room Only (1973)
Plot Summary:
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 552
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: spooky, crime thriller, thrilling, independent film, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
Homicidal (1961)
Plot Summary:
The story centers around a murderous scheme to collect a rich inheritance. The object of murder is Miriam Webster, who is to share in the inheritance with her half brother Warren, who lives with his childhood guardian Helga in the mansion where Warren and Mariam grew up. Confined to a wheelchair after recently suffering a stroke, Helga is cared for by her nurse Emily, a strange young woman who has formed a close bond with Warren.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: scary, slasher, serious, suspenseful, realistic, surprise ending, black and white, suspense, twist ending, grindhouse
Similar in 86%
Fear in the Night (1972)
Plot Summary:
It took Penny Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Penny is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychotronic, noir, pastoral, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
Night Watch (1973)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Wheeler, a rich widow, is recovering from a nervous breakdown. One day, while staring out the window, she witnesses a murder. But does anybody believe her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, clever, suspense, slasher, independent film, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 85%
The Dark Area (2000)
Plot Summary:
Five friends get lost in the woods. Soon one by one gets killed by a mysterious person.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, slasher, independent film
Similar in 84%
Reaper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Horror novelist Luke Sinclair retreats to a small town to finish writing his latest book. A young woman is murdered in the woods nearby, in circumstances similar to those in his bestselling novel, "Reaper". Faced with increasing pressure from a suspicious local sheriff, as well as the advances of a female FBI investigator, he must uncover the killer before he or she strikes again, further implicating him in the crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, independent film
Similar in 77%
Eden Lodge (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young couple arrive at a retreat in the English countryside in the hope of saving their failing marriage. But when the people around them start to be picked off by a vicious killer, the weekend becomes a matter of saving their lives.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
Similar in 84%
Cabin Fear (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends is stalked by a killer at an isolated destination wedding.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, teen horror, horror comedy, surprise ending, twist ending
Similar in 79%
The Dark Half (1993)
Plot Summary:
Thad Beaumont is the author of a highly successful series of violent pulp thrillers written under the pseudonym of ‘George Stark’, but when he decides to ‘kill-off’ his alter-ego in a mock ceremony, it precipitates a string of sadistic murders matching those in his pulp novels, which are soon discovered to be the work of Stark himself. Looking like a maniacal version of his counterpart, Stark is not so willing to quit the writing game – even if it means coming after Thad's wife and their baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, creepy, rough, suspenseful, suspense, splatter, neurotic
Similar in 85%
The Flower with Petals of Steel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy surgeon Andreas Valenti accidentally kills one of his lovers, Daniella, with an unusual objet d'arte and covers it up by dismembering and disposing of the body never realizing he's being watched by a stalker the entire time. Daniella's half-sister, Evelyne, knows he is somehow responsible for the girl's disappearance and enlists the aid of Inspector Garrano to help prove it. They discover the good doctor had a rich young wife who went insane on her wedding night and was committed to a lunatic asylum; later pronounced cured, she had vanished upon release. Andreas, now being blackmailed with photos of his cover-up crime, also finds himself framed when the flower with petals of steel that did Daniella in is used to murder Evelyne. Having fallen for the dead woman, the Insector won't stop until he gets to the bottom of the disappearances and deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 300
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, cult film
Similar in 75%
White of the Eye (1987)
Plot Summary:
Evidence of mutilated housewives points to a sound expert (David Keith) living unhappily with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) in Arizona.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir
Similar in 89%
The Nanny (1965)
Plot Summary:
Ten-year-old Joey returns home from the special school he has attended since killing his baby sister. But at home he creates a terrible fuss, moving from the bedroom Nanny has prepared to one with a strong lock, refusing to eat anything Nanny cooks and adamant that Nanny shall not come near him. He even accuses Nanny of trying to kill him! Poor sweet, kindly Nanny, who single-handedly runs the Fane household? Obviously William is still highly disturbed and dangerous or is he?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, suspense, psychotronic, slasher, black and white, esoteric, twisted, independent film, psychological thriller, tense
Similar in 84%
The Wicker Man (1973)
Plot Summary:
Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: twist ending, psychological, scary, creepy, controversial, psychotronic, suspenseful, suspense, dark, surreal
Similar in 80%
Burnt Offerings (1976)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: scary, atmospheric, psychological, suspenseful, gothic, suspense, creepy, cult classic, psychotronic, slasher
Similar in 81%
Don't Look Now (1973)
Plot Summary:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it seems too good to be true. Perhaps it is.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, twist ending, disturbing, atmospheric, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, erotic, gothic
Similar in 77%
Sinister (2012)
Plot Summary:
Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 274000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, twist ending, rough, dark, creepy, sinister
Similar in 83%
I See You (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing, lead investigator Greg Harper struggles to balance the pressure of the investigation and troubles with his wife, Jackie. Facing a recent affair, great strain is put on the family that slowly gnaws away at Jackie's grip on reality. But after a malicious presence manifests itself in their home and puts their son, Connor, in mortal danger, the cold, hard truth about evil in the Harper household is finally uncovered.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, bleak, detective, twisted, scary, slasher
Similar in 86%
The Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: scary, suspense, psychological, tense, surprise ending, atmospheric, twist ending, minimal cast, suspenseful, clever
Similar in 82%
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 88%
Angel Heart (1987)
Plot Summary:
The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, detective, scary, satanic, neo noir, twisted, surprise ending, sexy, suspense
Similar in 75%
Orphan (2009)
Plot Summary:
A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 247000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: suspense, scary, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, frightening, creepy, disturbing, serious
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From Hell (2001)
Plot Summary:
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: gothic, suspense, atmospheric, scary, suspenseful, tense, gothic horror, serious, twist ending, psychological