Movies like The Vagrant (1992)
The best movies like The Vagrant (1992) are The People Under the Stairs (1991), The First Power (1990) and Shocker (1989). If The Vagrant hooked you with its comedy and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAngel Heart (1987)7.1/10 from 1,848 votes
- NewestCrush the Skull (2015)Released 2015
The People Under the Stairs (1991)
Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe First Power (1990)
A dedicated L.A. police detective and a female psychic must stop a demonic serial killer who was given the powers of resurrection, teleportation and possession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisShocker (1989)
About to be electrocuted for a catalog of heinous crimes, the unrepentant Horace Pinker transforms into a terrifying energy source. Only young athlete Jonathan Parker, with an uncanny connection to him through bizarre dreams, can fight the powerful demon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisI, Madman (1989)
A bookshop clerk starts seeing the disfigured killer from her favorite 1950s pulp novels come to life and start killing people around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Stepfather (1987)
Seemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison has just murdered his entire family. After adopting a new identity and skipping town, he begins building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter. However, he soon begins struggling to hide his true identity and maintain a grip on reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPopcorn (1991)
While holding a horror film festival, a group of students are stalked by a madman who may have a sinister connection to a cult leader.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ambulance (1990)
One minute Josh Baker is meeting the woman of his dreams. The next, he's watching her whisked away by a mysterious ambulance that never arrives at the local hospital. Doubted by the police, Josh is forced to carry on a one-man crusade that leads to a discovery more frightening than his worst fears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRelentless (1989)
Two Los Angeles police detectives hunt for a serial killer who randomly chooses his victims from a phone directory.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
The 'Burbs (1989)
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTerror Tract (2000)
A real estate agent terrifies a couple with the grim fates of the previous owners of a house they're looking at.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hand (1981)
Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisUncle Sam (1996)
It's Fourth of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Harper rises from the dead to punish the unpatriotic.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTales from the Hood (1995)
A strange mortician tells four horrific tales to three drug dealers that he traps in a local funeral parlor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMan's Best Friend (1993)
A genetic research facility worker exposes animal abuses there to a local TV reporter, who frees and takes in a genetically altered dog from the lab, unaware that he has a violent streak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAngel Heart (1987)
A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStepfather 3 (1992)
After escaping a Puget Sound institution, "Stepfather" Gene Clifford alters his appearance with plastic surgery and takes on another new identity: Keith Grant. Moving to Deer View, California, Keith falls for a divorced school principal, arousing the suspicions of her wheelchair-bound, computer-savvy son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBasket Case (1982)
A young man carrying a big basket that contains his extremely deformed, formerly conjoined twin brother seeks vengeance on the doctors who separated them against their will.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Shock to the System (1990)
When experienced advertising executive Graham Marshall loses out on a promotion to a young man, he goes down in a path of vengeance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSkinned Alive (1990)
Crawldaddy and her two kids are travelling across the country on the search for victims. The dysfunctional family has the disturbing habit of skinning people alive before killing them. When their van breaks down, they are put up by a friendly couple.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Psycho Cop Returns (1993)
A group of office workers decide to have a party in the office building. Among other things, they want to have some drugs there. Their conversation on the subject is overheard by Joe Vickers, which is rather unfortunate for them, since Joe Vickers is a policeman. Even more unfortunate is the fact that Vickers is also an undead psychotic satanist, and instead of arresting them, he will make sure that nobody leaves the party alive...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBasket Case 3 (1992)
Duane recovers from his delusional breakdown to find his freakish basket-bound brother Belial will soon become a father. But not everything is joyous as the once tight knit brothers no longer seem to trust each other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisManiac Cop 2 (1990)
Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSole Survivor (1984)
After inexplicably surviving a plane crash, TV station worker Denise tries to get on with her life. She soon learns that she was actually supposed to die in the crash. Death refuses to be cheated and starts sending its minions, people that have recently died, to collect her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisHellbound (1994)
Two Chicago police officers are sent to investigate the brutal murder of a rabbi. As the investigation begins, Shatter and Jackson are summoned to Israel for questioning. Upon arrival they realize that they are, in fact, pursuing a supernatural being.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhite of the Eye (1987)
In a wealthy and isolated desert community, a sound expert is targeted as the prime suspect of a series of brutal murders of local suburban housewives who were attacked and mutilated in their homes. As he desperately tries to prove his innocence, his wife starts to uncover startling truths...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dark Backward (1991)
A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisOffice Killer (1997)
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisManiac Cop 3: Badge of Silence (1992)
A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and returns from the dead...again...to do his bidding.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeadline (1980)
A horror film about a screenwriter who loses the ability to distinguish between his fantasy world and the real world, with disastrous consequences. As he ruminates on his place in any world and loses his grip, he also loses his wife and his children's respect, and critics tear him apart. The final undoing of this screenwriter is a deadline that must be met at all costs, costs that perhaps are too great.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Crush the Skull (2015)
A couple of master thieves find themselves trapped within a house they intended to rob, only to discover they've inadvertently wandered into the lair of a deranged serial killer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Vagrant?
The closest matches to The Vagrant are The People Under the Stairs (1991), The First Power (1990) and Shocker (1989). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Vagrant?
People who watched The Vagrant most often go on to The People Under the Stairs (1991), The First Power (1990) and Shocker (1989).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Vagrant?
Angel Heart (1987), rated 7.1/10 by 1,848 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Vagrant?
Crush the Skull (2015) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Vagrant?
Yes: The People Under the Stairs (1991), The First Power (1990) and Shocker (1989).
How are movies similar to The Vagrant chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Vagrant, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.