Movies like The Sect (1991)
The best movies like The Sect (1991) are The Church (1989), The Mother of Tears (2007) and The Beyond (1981). If The Sect hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Exorcist (1973)7.8/10 from 9,020 votes
- NewestPsycho Killer (2026)Released 2026
- In ItalianThe Church (1989)Also in Italian
The Church (1989)
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mother of Tears (2007)
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beyond (1981)
New Yorker Liza Merril inherits an old hotel in Louisiana and invests her savings to reopen the place, unaware that the hotel houses the body of a dead painter murdered decades earlier, and that the location is about to become a gateway to Hell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemons (1985)
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDemons 2 (1986)
A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShock (1977)
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisÆnigma (1987)
The spirit of a comatose teenage girl possesses the body of a newcomer to her girls' boarding school in order to enact bloody revenge against the elitist, lingerie-clad coeds responsible for her condition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisInferno (1980)
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSuspiria (1977)
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Black Cat (1981)
Townspeople of a small English village begin to die in a series of horrible accidents, and a Scotland Yard inspector arrives to investigate a mysterious local medium who records conversations with the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArcane Sorcerer (1996)
Shunned by the church, a seminary student takes a position as assistant to an excommunicated priest who has been dabbling in the dark arts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBeyond the Door (1974)
Jessica Barrett, wife and mother of two young children, begins to show signs of demonic possession while pregnant with her third child. As she seeks help from her husband and doctor, a mysterious man approaches her and seems to have some answers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe House by the Cemetery (1981)
After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his studies and moves his family into the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil Dead (1983)
In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBurial Ground (1981)
A cursed country estate is besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans, and the unusual relationship between a mother and her young son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrauma (1993)
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known as The Headhunter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPrince of Darkness (1987)
A priest discovers an ancient canister containing a strange liquid in an abandoned church. When a group of graduate students and scientists are tasked with studying it, they unknowingly unleash an evil force waiting to destroy all of humanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHallowed Ground (2007)
After she becomes stranded in a small town, a young woman discovers her arrival there was foretold a century earlier by the town's founding preacher and that she is an integral part of his impending - and terrifying - rebirth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSatan's Baby Doll (1982)
In the crypt of the remote castle of the Aguilars lies the recently-deceased body of Maria. Her husband Antonio is a jealous bully, his mute brother Ignazio is in a wheelchair peeping on his caretaker Sol, a novice. Also present are Miria, the couple's virginal daughter, and Isidro, a factotum who fears Satan's power. A frequent visitor is Juan Suarez, a doctor who wants Miria in a sanatorium for a month. She doesn't want to go. Isidro tries to exorcize the castle's evil spirits. Bodies pile up. Is Miria's mother truly dead, and who is Satan's tool?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The House of Clocks (1989)
A gang of ruthless thugs intent on robbery prey upon a seemingly harmless elderly couple, Vittorio and Sara. The simple plan turns into a terrifying nightmare, as Vittorio's antique clock collection mysteriously turns back time. Now the hunters become the hunted and the old couple becomes a vengeful, malevolent force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Omen (1976)
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPhenomena (1985)
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Exorcist (1973)
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVeronica (2017)
In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor Butcher M.D. (1980)
After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCemetery of Terror (1985)
On Halloween night, a group of bored teens decide to steal a corpse from the local morgue and take it to a nearby cemetery where they perform a Satanic ritual, unwittingly reviving a bloodthirsty serial killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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 thisPsycho 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 horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGod 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 horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCity of the Living Dead (1980)
A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Sect?
The closest matches to The Sect are The Church (1989), The Mother of Tears (2007) and The Beyond (1981). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Sect?
People who watched The Sect most often go on to The Church (1989), The Mother of Tears (2007) and The Beyond (1981).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Sect?
The Exorcist (1973), rated 7.8/10 by 9,020 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Sect?
Psycho Killer (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like The Sect?
Yes: The Church (1989), The Mother of Tears (2007) and The Beyond (1981).
How are movies similar to The Sect chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Sect, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.