Movies like A Barter (2013)
The best movies like A Barter (2013) are The Inhabitant (2022), Polaroid (2019) and The Awakening (2011). If A Barter hooked you with its mystery and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Devil's Backbone (2001)7.3/10 from 1,453 votes
- NewestSaint Catherine (2024)Released 2024
- In SpanishLa Casa (2020)Also in Spanish
The Inhabitant (2022)
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisPolaroid (2019)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Awakening (2011)
In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Casa (2020)
Responding to an urgent call for help, a police officer becomes trapped by the evil spirits of a cursed house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Chalk Line (2022)
After a couple finds a traumatized child of unknown origins, wife Paula must decipher the girl's strange behaviors to unlock her identity and dark past.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Follows (2015)
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Jester (2016)
The Jester is the titular main antagonist of the horror/thriller analogy short films of the same name. He is an enigmatic and malevolent being who enjoys inducing suffering to individuals he comes across who don't appreciate his own tricks or break the rules of Halloween.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Caller (1987)
One night, an unusual stranger in need asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong about the woods.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cellar (2022)
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaint Catherine (2024)
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invisible (2007)
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Still See You (2018)
Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Ronnie descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead—and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Faculty (1998)
When creepy things start happening at Herrington High, the students begin to suspect that their faculty is being controlled by body-snatching aliens.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNever Let Go (2024)
As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerrified (2018)
Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBelzebuth (2019)
While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House (2016)
Just one enchanted jewel stands between earth and an army of evil spirits led by the devious ghoul, Phears. With the help of his new girlfriend and ghost pals, Max Doyle races to find the crystal and save the world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Brides of Dracula (1960)
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
Mary Lou Maloney, Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, is killed during her coronation ceremony due to a prank gone wrong by her jilted boyfriend, Billy Nordham. Thirty years later, teen Vicki Carpenter is in the running for Prom Queen, but accidentally unleashes the vengeful spirit of Mary Lou, who will stop at nothing to be rightfully crowned, even if it means taking Vicki's poor body for a cruise!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Exorcism of Carmen Farias (2021)
Carmen, a brave journalist, discovers soon after her mother's death that she has inherited her grandma's house. She decides to move there without knowing it hides dark secrets.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMalevolent (2018)
A brother-sister team who fake paranormal encounters for cash get more than they bargained for when a job at a haunted estate turns very, very real.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisClassroom 6 (2015)
A local reporter and her assembled TV crew go into a school haunted by a horrific past. The team spends the night locked inside the building, capturing any and everything they find.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Train of the Dead (2007)
Five teenagers on the run from police officers hide in a train carriage. However, its occupants are ghosts on their way to hell and they intend to take them along.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Invasion of Carol Enders (1974)
Television thriller about a woman is possessed after a brutal attack.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Devil's Backbone (2001)
Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Know When You Dead (2020)
Siena is able to see signs that people will die. The sign appeared on Brama, someone she loves. Siena tries hard to prevent Brama's death.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The Ghost in the Road (2023)
On Halloween night 1984, a troubled man receives a visit from a mysterious trick-or-treater who delivers more tricks than treats.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Boo (2005)
The friends Emmett, Freddy, Marie, Kevin and his reluctant girlfriend Jessie decide to spend the Halloween night in an abandoned hospital. Meanwhile, the younger Allan meets the old friend of his father Arlo Ray Baines and asks him to help to find his vanished sister Meg in the same spot. The two groups meet each other in the mental institution section on the haunted third floor.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Haunted School: Girl's Trembling (1997)
Having lost her mother a few months prior, Yura Michiru, now completely alone in the world, was taken in by her mother's sister, the Saegusa family. There, she met her kind cousin, Mika, who attended the same high school. The three of them—Michiru, Mika, and Miya's boyfriend, Shingo Kawai—quickly became close friends. One day, just before summer vacation, Michiru and Mika saw the ghost of a girl in a sailor uniform. From that day on, the balance between the three of them gradually began to crumble. Mika began to suspect the relationship between Michiru and Shingo, and started to treat Michiru harshly, as if possessed by something...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Darkness (2002)
A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy them.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Barter?
The closest matches to A Barter are The Inhabitant (2022), Polaroid (2019) and The Awakening (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Barter?
Start with The Inhabitant (2022), the closest match to A Barter.
What is the highest-rated movie like A Barter?
The Devil's Backbone (2001), rated 7.3/10 by 1,453 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Barter?
Saint Catherine (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like A Barter?
Yes: La Casa (2020), The Chalk Line (2022) and Terrified (2018).
How are movies similar to A Barter chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Barter, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.