Movies like Alone (2007)
The best movies like Alone (2007) are Shutter (2004), Ghost of Mae Nak (2005) and After Sundown (2023). If Alone hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedShutter (2004)7.3/10 from 1,484 votes
- NewestSumala (2024)Released 2024
Shutter (2004)
When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGhost of Mae Nak (2005)
Mak and Nak are a young couple who have just moved into their first home as a married couple. But the house they own has a history much older than them and spirits who won't rest until they get what they want. And this time, love won't conquer all!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
After Sundown (2023)
To control their fate and avert a tragedy foretold by a mystic, two men must live under one roof — but a vicious spirit threatens their bond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Satan's Slaves (2017)
After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for three years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNang Nak (1999)
In a rural village in Thailand, Mak is sent to fight in a war and leaves his pregnant wife, Nak. Mak is injured and barely survives. He returns home to his doting wife and child, or so he thinks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Lembayung (2024)
Two medical interns face a mysterious supernatural terror at a hospital after encountering the spirit of a woman believed to have hanged herself, putting their lives and loved ones at risk as they seek help.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Swimmers (2014)
After falling pregnant to her boyfriend's best friend, a young woman commits suicide. She returns to haunt her unborn child's father while her friend seeks revenge on the person who drove her to her fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSumala (2024)
An evil spirit seeking vengeance returns to plague the town that wronged her sister. Based on a chilling urban legend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Sijjin (2023)
Irma falls in love with Galang, her cousin who already has a wife and children. Irma is very obsessed and wants to be the only woman in Galang's life. Irma comes to the shaman to send black magic to Galang's wife. Since then terror and mystical disturbances, possession and death have occurred in Galang's house. However, the threat also targeted Irma herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Unseeable (2006)
Set in 1934 Siam, the story involves a young pregnant woman named Nualchan who's searching for her missing husband. She comes to stay in the spooky rural mansion of a widow, Runjuan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPulse (2001)
In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSilk (2006)
A scientist uses his invention - the "Menger Sponge" - to capture the energy of a dead child's spirit in an old building. In trying to determine why the energy of the ghost does not dissipate, the team discovers the identity and the dramatic story of the boy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDanur 2: Maddah (2018)
As Risa's ability to see ghosts continues to disrupt her life, her uncle's peculiar behavior leads her to discover a haunting mystery at his new house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
The 8th Day (2008)
A mysterious story set in a run-down house where an eccentric elderly lady lives alone. One day, a little girl steps inside the house and never comes back. The girl seems to be locked inside the house for 8 days. No one knows what is going on in the house except for a young doctor who witnesses everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Ring (1995)
In different parts of Tokyo, four young and seemingly healthy people suddenly die of heart failure at exactly the same moment. Reporter Kazuyuki Asakawa decides to investigate the deaths, and discovers that the four had stayed at a rural inn together just a week earlier. At the inn, he comes across a strange video that ends with a message saying that anyone who watches it will die exactly seven days later. Now the clock is ticking for Asakawa. Can he break the curse in time?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDorm (2006)
When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLaddaland (2011)
A family moves into a neighborhood where they encounter a series of terrifying paranormal events that lead them to the edge of sanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDark Water (2002)
A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Promise (2017)
Ib and Boum decide to commit suicide together in Bangkok in 1997. After reneging on the promise, the vengeful ghost of Ib returns 20 years later to haunt Boum and her 15 year old daughter, Bell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like this3 A.M. 3D (2012)
Three filmmakers direct three different horror stories and the only thing they have in common is all the supernatural events occur at three in the morning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Body (2007)
A man tries to prove that his nightmares about a girl who screams for help and is then murdered are real, and contain a message reaching out to her murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisComing Soon (2008)
Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange events befall them following the viewing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tag-Along (2015)
Wei is nowhere to be found one day before his grandma returns from her own strange missing incident. Wei's girlfriend desperately searches for his whereabouts and discovers that a little girl in red followed them before their disappearance. Based on true events and long-circulating urban legend in Taiwan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJu-on: The Curse (2000)
When elementary school teacher Kobayashi investigates the absence of one of his young pupils from the classroom, he finds himself at the doorstep of an anonymous suburban house that harbours a horrible secret, and into which all who enter are doomed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArt of the Devil 2 (2005)
A beautiful teacher is wronged by six of her students. Calling on demons and forces of black magic, she extracts an ultra-gruesome retribution against each of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhost Lab (2021)
After witnessing a haunting in their hospital, two doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBestseller (2010)
Following a humiliating plagiarism scandal, an author moves to an isolated small-town house with her daughter to write her comeback novel. Desperate for inspiration, she communicates with a mysterious ghostly presence that has befriended her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisPhobia 2 (2009)
An anthology of five macabre short stories about hungry ghosts, comatose brain dead, a group of bright-eyed actors, an unscrupulous car salesman, and careless backpack tourists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Maid (2020)
Joy is the new maid of a royal house, whose previous maid disappeared under mysterious circumstances and is now haunting and terrorizing the family. Joy works to uncover the reason behind the former maid's disappearance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Alone?
The closest matches to Alone are Shutter (2004), Ghost of Mae Nak (2005) and After Sundown (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Alone?
People who watched Alone most often go on to Shutter (2004), Ghost of Mae Nak (2005) and After Sundown (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like Alone?
Shutter (2004), rated 7.3/10 by 1,484 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Alone?
Sumala (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Alone chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Alone, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.