Movies like Astray (2025)

Deliver Us from Evil (2014)

When a frightening wave of violence sweeps through New York City, troubled cop Sarchie fails to find a rational explanation for the bizarre crimes. However, his eyes are opened to a frightening alternate reality when renegade Jesuit priest Mendoza convinces him that demonic possession may be to blame for the gruesome murders. Together, they wage a valiant supernatural struggle to rid the city of an otherworldly evil.

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

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 & crime

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.

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

Psycho Killer (2026)

Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have imagined.

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

825 Forest Road (2025)

After a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark history of being haunted by a ghostly woman who drives residents to suicide.

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

Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025)

When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.

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

Body Cam (2020)

As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.

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

The Wretched (2019)

A rebellious teenage boy, struggling with his parents' imminent divorce, encounters a terrifying evil after his next-door neighbor becomes possessed by an ancient witch that feasts on children.

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

Race with the Devil (1975)

Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

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

The Empty Man (2020)

On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.

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

Barbarian (2022)

In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway.

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

Sisters (1973)

Inquisitive journalist Grace Collier is horrified when she witnesses her neighbor, fashion model Danielle Breton, violently murder a man. Panicking, she calls the police. But when the detective arrives at the scene and finds nothing amiss, Grace is forced to take matters into her own hands. Her first move is to recruit private investigator Joseph Larch, who helps her to uncover a secret about Danielle's past that has them both seeing double.

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

Amsterdamned (1988)

A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.

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

The Night Stalker (1972)

Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hands.

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

6 Souls (2010)

A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.

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

Bone Lake (2025)

A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream getaway spirals into a nightmarish maze of sex, lies, and manipulation, bringing terrifying secrets to light and triggering a bloody battle for survival.

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

Older Gods (2023)

After the disappearance of his troubled friend, American Chris Rivers travels to the remote Welsh countryside to investigate what happened – leading him to a dark apocalyptic cult.

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

Dark Harvest (2023)

In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.

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

The Evil (1978)

Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.

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

Pyewacket (2017)

A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.

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

Déprivation (2024)

Matheo is a 17 years old students. Despite being a good one he is lonely and has no friends. His family is precarious. Born from an alcoholic father and a housewife mother Mathéo did not have the best childhood… It’s during his puberty than he discovers not only himself but his sexuality however he will soon assimilate the taste of sex to taking part of other people’s suffering. He will start by first torturing animals in vicious ways but he will soon change up his mind to tackle bigger species. Men and women that will cross his path.

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

American Psycho (2000)

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

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

Luciano's Successor (2024)

In order to hunt down a missing artifact, two detectives interrogate the recently captured master thief Arsenia Beaumont. But Arsenia is not one to let her secrets be known to just anyone. Only one detective has ever earned her respect. The detectives must prove they are worthy opponents if they want to finish their case.

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

Husbandhood (2016)

In January of 2014, five filmmakers suddenly disappear while shooting in the nearby Drigh Lake Larakana woods. One week later, their camera was found.

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

Conte Cruel 2 - Un vendredi à l'auberge (2020)

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

Conte Cruel 3 - Un lundi au refuge (2022)

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

Ermon County: Gateway of the Fallen (2015)

ERMON COUNTY is a found-footage style mystery-thriller. Set in an old farmhouse, the story unravels through surveillance cameras as two siblings struggle to decipher the mysterious disappearance of their younger brother. A mystery that will lead them into a web of pure evil.

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

Slotherhouse (2023)

Emily Young, a senior, wants to be elected as her sorority's president. She adopts a cute sloth, thinking it can become the new mascot and help her win, until a string of fatalities implicate the sloth as the main suspect in the murders.

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

Catatonia (2014)

The lone survivor of the brutal Oakhurst Sanatorium Murders, suffers from severe post-traumatic dissociative disorder in a state run mental health facility. Budget-cuts lead to the transfer of the criminally-insane killer she escaped right to her hospital, while the true supernatural force behind the killings wants to finish what begun the night of the murders.

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

A Thurles Tale (2025)

A young man tries to get away with a bagful of cash.

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