Movies like Hævn (2016)

Daddy's Little Girl (2014)

After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter’s killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it’s the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

Bloodline (2019)

Evan values family above all else, and anyone who gets between him, his wife, and newborn son learns that the hard way. But when it comes to violent tendencies, it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

Cheat (2023)

On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror

Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever (2023)

Martin's daughter, Emma, takes up a night watch job to find out what happened to her parents almost thirty years ago. A meeting with Wörmer in his cell pulls the serial killer out of his coma and sets in motion a chain of fateful events.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

Blood Punch (2014)

Milton, a college dropout, was only supposed to cook meth for one day. Broken out of rehab by a brash young woman and her trigger-happy ("ex") boyfriend and driven to a remote cabin the woods, Milton finds himself drawn into a dangerous love triangle gone haywire. The couple's deadpan half-truths spin around Milton like a song on repeat. They seem to read him like an open book, until a mysterious message opens his eyes to his cursed existence. With unlimited ammunition, any hunting tool they could desire, and an ever-growing body count, for what did Milton really sign up?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

The Resurrected (1991)

Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

God Is a Bullet (2023)

Vice detective Bob Hightower finds his ex-wife murdered and daughter kidnapped by a cult. Frustrated by the botched official investigations, he quits the force and infiltrates the cult to hunt down the leader with the help of the cult’s only female victim escapee, Case Hardin.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror

Azrael (2024)

In a world where no one speaks, a devout female hunts down a young woman who has escaped her imprisonment. Recaptured by its ruthless leaders, Azrael is due to be sacrificed to pacify an ancient evil deep within the surrounding wilderness.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

The Domestics (2018)

A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

Hellraiser (2022)

A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

Strange Darling (2024)

Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror

You Shall Not Sleep Tonight (2024)

A boy is haunted by terrifying nightmares where a monster lurks inside the closet. To his relief, his father appears in the middle of the night helping him to face his fears. But the boy will begin to question the true nature of these apparitions, having to face the truth about his father's destiny and the evil force that threatens to consume him.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller

Hider in the House (1989)

A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

In the Blood (2014)

When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

Daylight's End (2016)

Years after a mysterious plague has devastated the planet and turned most of humanity into blood-hungry creatures, a rogue drifter on a vengeful hunt stumbles across a band of survivors in an abandoned police station and reluctantly agrees to try to help them defend themselves and escape to the sanctuary they so desperately need.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Shadow Master (2022)

After being slain by a group of criminals, a man is reborn with animal-like superpowers and makes it his mission to right the wrongs of his city.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

Books of Blood (2020)

A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Headhunter (2009)

Martin Vinge, former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

John Doe: Vigilante (2014)

When John Doe is convicted of being a vigilante serial killer, a vigilante group named 'Speak for the Dead' emerges in support of John's cause—elevating the debate about justice versus vengeance.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller

Saint 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

Friendly Beast (2018)

A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw compulsion.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & horror

I Saw the Devil (2010)

Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & horror

964 Pinocchio (1991)

While wandering around Japan, defective sex cyborg Pinocchio encounters Kyoko, another amnesiac burdened with a terrible secret tied to her amnesia. Together, they strive to rebuild their lives in a world where memory has become obsolete.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & thriller

Titane (2021)

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & horror

Sexbox 360 (2026)

A man who's in love with his childhood Xbox 360 Kinect believes the next step in their relationship is to bring a third home...

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & horror

Birth/Rebirth (2023)

A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

End of Days (1999)

Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he must do everything he can to save the woman and the world.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

I Nostri Giorni (2025)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller

Unthinkable (2010)

The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes are.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller

Merantau (2009)

In Minangkabau, West Sumatera, Yuda a skilled practitioner of Silat Harimau is in the final preparations to begin his "Merantau" a century's old rites-of-passage to be carried out by the community's young men that will see him leave the comforts of his idyllic farming village and make a name for himself in the bustling city of Jakarta.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller