Movies like Trauma (1993)
The best movies like Trauma (1993) are The Psychic (1977), Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) and Rings of Fear (1978). If Trauma 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 ratedDeep Red (1975)7.7/10 from 1,661 votes
- NewestThe Mother of Tears (2007)Released 2007
- In ItalianThe Psychic (1977)Also in Italian
The Psychic (1977)
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPsycho IV: The Beginning (1990)
When he hears talk radio host Fran Ambrose discussing the topic of matricide, Norman calls in under a false name to tell his story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisRings of Fear (1978)
Angela Russo, a sixteen-year-old girl, is found dead in a river, having been fatally violated with a large blunt instrument. Inspector Di Salvo is assigned to the case and focuses his investigations on St. Theresa's, the exclusive school where Angela boarded. Three of the murdered girl's classmates, Franca, Paola and Virginia (who call themselves "The Inseparables"), receive threatening poems from an individual using the name "Nemesis." Bizarre "accidents" start to befall the girls: Franca is injured when someone causes her horse to bolt and Virginia nearly breaks her neck on marbles left at the top of a staircase. But Di Salvo is determined to find the killer, even if it means using unorthodox methods. He is aided by Angela Russo's little sister Emily, whose helpful clues lead to a boutique owned by a dubious character and a vice ring where "rich influential men pay well for teenage favours..."
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city and conducts his own investigation, despite him and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTorso (1973)
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTenebre (1982)
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSleepless (2001)
An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIntensity (1997)
Chyna Shepherd is a twenty-six-year-old psychology student who survived an extremely troubled past. While visiting Laura Templeton's house, a farm in the Napa Valley. A serial killer named Edgler Foreman Vess breaks into the house, killing Laura and her parents. Chyna survives, but she learns of Vess's captive: a girl, just as innocent as Chyna, trapped in Vess's home far from the Napa Valley.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Phantom of Death (1988)
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The New York Ripper (1982)
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)
After the death of their grandfather, two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by the Red Queen, whom legend says claims seven lives every hundred years. When a mysterious woman in a red cloak starts targeting their circle of friends, the sisters begin to suspect there might be some truth to the legend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeep Red (1975)
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Ugly (1997)
A female psychologist wants to understand the minds of a confessed serial killer who spent the last five years in a mental hospital because of his state.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath Laid an Egg (1968)
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Blade in the Dark (1983)
Bruno, an up and coming film composer, has been hired to write the score to a new horror movie. After moving into a secluded villa, life begins to imitate art as a vicious killer starts bumping off anyone and everyone who happens to pay him a visit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisCandyman: Farewell to the Flesh (1995)
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFour Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOpera (1987)
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971)
Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Nameless (1999)
The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisYour Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnguish (1987)
An ophthalmologist's assistant with an unhealthy interest in human eyeballs goes on a killing spree to collect eyeballs for his overbearing mother's collection. Reality soon takes a bizarre turn, both for the characters and the audience.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoppelganger (1993)
After being implicated in a murder, a young woman flees New York City and moves to Los Angeles, where she rents a room from a writer. They begin an affair, but it seems she's been followed by a homicidal duplicate of herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Card Player (2004)
Policewoman Anna Mari is forced to play a dangerous game with the title serial killer. If she loses, she witnesses the maniac's tortured victims having their throats cut in explicit close-up detail via webcam. She teams up with British cop John Brennan to find out the identity of the murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Wizard of Gore (2007)
In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
SnoozefestMovies 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
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What are the best movies like Trauma?
The closest matches to Trauma are The Psychic (1977), Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) and Rings of Fear (1978). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Trauma?
People who watched Trauma most often go on to The Psychic (1977), Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990) and Rings of Fear (1978).
What is the highest-rated movie like Trauma?
Deep Red (1975), rated 7.7/10 by 1,661 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Trauma?
The Mother of Tears (2007) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like Trauma?
Yes: The Psychic (1977), Rings of Fear (1978) and The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970).
How are movies similar to Trauma chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Trauma, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.