Movies like The Ward (2011)
The best movies like The Ward (2011) are Session 9 (2001), Psych:9 (2010) and Gothika (2003). If The Ward hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedStonehearst Asylum (2014)6.9/10 from 1,667 votes
- NewestDaniel Isn't Real (2019)Released 2019
Session 9 (2001)
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPsych:9 (2010)
A young woman with a troubled past takes a job at recently closed down hospital. Working the night shift alone she begins to experience a series of unsettling events that lead her to believe that the hospital may be connected to a number of recent murders in the area. To uncover the truth she will have to revisit the past behind the walls of Psych:9.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisGothika (2003)
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband Dr. Douglas Grey — but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-worker, Dr. Pete Graham, of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSublime (2007)
Admitted to Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine procedure, George Grieves discovers that his condition is much more serious and complicated than originally expected; and as his own fears begin to manifest around him, he learns that Mt. Abaddon is not a place where people come to get better... it is a place where people come to die.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMadhouse (2004)
A young psychiatric intern unearths secrets about the mental health facility in which he works.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDementia (2015)
After being diagnosed with dementia, an elderly war veteran is forced by his estranged family to hire a live-in nurse, only to find she harbors a sinister secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Asylum (2001)
Asylum is a taut psychological thriller about a deranged fearsome killer running lose in an abandoned high security Asylum. Pitting the county psychiatrist Dr. Maggie Belham against the psychotic maniac, Dr Belham is trapped in a maze of corridors, and her only help is the janitor, Quitz who may in fact be a forgotten asylum inmate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Fragile (2005)
Haunted by memories of a patient's death, a nurse takes a job at an antiquated hospital for children. Soon she learns that the kids fear a ghost that prowls the floors and will not allow anyone to leave. Amy tries to protect them and convince the other staffers of the evil that lurks there.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDanika (2006)
Traumatized since childhood by her brother's accidental death, Danika Merrick hallucinates a bank robbery and quits her job. Despite support from her three children and loving husband, Danika continues to experience unnerving visions. She seeks help from therapist Evelyn Harris but pervasive reports of violent incidents involving children make Danika fear for her own family, and she grows increasingly paranoid, worrying she may be going insane.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnsane (2018)
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhisper (2007)
Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatient Seven (2016)
Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist, has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStir of Echoes (1999)
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDarkness Falls (2003)
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Fifth Floor (1978)
A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assuming that this is an attempt at suicide, her boyfriend and doctor have her committed to the Fifth Floor, an asylum with obviously crazy inmates and a predatory orderly. The problem is, she's still sane!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Dorothy Mills (2008)
When a gloomy, God-fearing island community is rocked by the assault of an infant, a psychiatrist is called in to examine Dorothy Mills, the teenager accused of the crime. Despite the villagers' hostility to her inquiry, she soon comes to suspect that Dorothy suffers from multiple personality disorder...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlashback (2000)
A young woman is released from an asylum where she has been since witnessing the murder of her parents, but violence continues to haunt her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
My Soul to Take (2010)
On the day the Riverton Ripper vanished without a trace, seven children were born. Today, they're all turning 16... and turning up dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBoogeyman 2 (2007)
A young woman attempts to cure her phobia of the boogeyman by checking herself into a mental health facility, only to realize too late that she is now helplessly trapped with her own greatest fear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Abandoned (2006)
Marie, a film producer, returns to her native Russia to find her birth parents. She quickly learns they are dead, and she has inherited their long-empty farmhouse. At the farm, she meets Nicolai, who claims to be her twin brother. Events take a terrifying turn when the two spot a pair of ghastly doppelgangers and the house itself seems to propel them toward a fate they should have met 40 years earlier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlive (2018)
A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Skeleton Key (2005)
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPenny Dreadful (2006)
Young Penny goes on a retreat with her psychologist; the intention is to help her overcome her phobia, an intense fear of cars. Unexpected events find her in a nightmarish situation where her worst fears come true.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisStonehearst Asylum (2014)
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaniel Isn't Real (2019)
A troubled college freshman resurrects his imaginary friend to help him cope with a violent trauma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like this6 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: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Innkeepers (2012)
During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnatomy (2000)
Medical student Paula wins a place at an exclusive Heidelberg medical school. When the body of a young man she met on the train turns up on her dissection table, she begins to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeadgirl (2008)
When high school misfits Rickie and JT decide to ditch school and find themselves lost in the crumbling facility of a nearby abandoned hospital, they come face-to-face with a gruesome discovery: a body of a woman stripped naked, chained to a table and covered in plastic and soon realize she is anything but dead. Quickly the boys find themselves embarking on a twisted yet poignant journey testing the limits of their friendship, and forces both to decide just how far they're willing to stretch their understanding of right and wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Final (2010)
A group of high school outcasts get revenge on the students that torment them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Ward?
The closest matches to The Ward are Session 9 (2001), Psych:9 (2010) and Gothika (2003). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Ward?
People who watched The Ward most often go on to Session 9 (2001), Psych:9 (2010) and Gothika (2003).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Ward?
Stonehearst Asylum (2014), rated 6.9/10 by 1,667 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Ward?
Daniel Isn't Real (2019) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Ward?
Yes: Session 9 (2001), Psych:9 (2010) and Gothika (2003).
How are movies similar to The Ward chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Ward, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.