Movies like Maléfique
The best movies like Maléfique (2003) are Livid (2011), Among the Living (2014) and Dark Floors (2008). If Maléfique hooked you with its fantasy and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedIn the Mouth of Madness (1995)7.2/10 from 2,053 votes
- NewestMonster Summer (2024)Released 2024
- In FrenchLivid (2011)Also in French
Livid (2011)
Lucie, Ben and William search an old woman's home for a hidden treasure and they encounter a series of supernatural events that change them forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmong the Living (2014)
Three teenagers skip school in order to explore an abandoned film studio lot where they catch sight of a woman being dragged by a masked man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Floors (2008)
A man emerges with his autistic daughter and three others from a hospital elevator to find themselves trapped in the building with devilish monsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMegalomaniac (2023)
Felix and Martha, the two offspring of legendary serial murderer The Skinner of Mons, grapple with the grotesque legacy bequeathed to them. While Martha works a menial janitorial job, Felix continues his father's reign of terror. But following a brutal attack at work, Martha quickly descends into madness, finding she must come to terms with the infamous blood that flows through her veins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisEden Log (2007)
A man wakes up deep inside a cave. Suffering amnesia, he has no recollection of how he came to be here or of what happened to the man whose body he finds beside him. Tailed by a mysterious creature, he must continue through this strange and fantastic world. Enclosed, Tolbiac has no other option to reach the surface than to use REZO ZERO, secret observing cells in this cemetery-like abandoned mine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSorcery (2024)
Chiloé Island, 1880. Rosa Raín is a Huilliche girl who, after the murder of her father at the hands of German settlers, seeks justice with Mateo, leader of an organization of sorcerers called “La Recta Provincia”.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNext Door (2005)
After Ingrid leaves John, he allows himself to be pulled into a mystical and scary world where it is impossible to separate truth from lies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse of Voices (2004)
In 1958, in the French Alp, the young servant Anna Jurin arrives in Saint Ange Orphanage to work with Helena while the orphans moved to new families. Anna, who is secretly pregnant, meets the last orphan, Judith, left behind because of her mental problems, and they become closer when Anna find that Judith also hear voices and footsteps of children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeep Fear (2022)
Three students celebrate their graduation with a visit of the Paris catacombs. When they discover a bunker, little do they know it's not the only thing that Nazi have left behind...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Deep Dark (2023)
1956, in the north of France. A group of underground miners is forced to take a professor to take samples a thousand meters underground. After a landslide that prevents them from going back up, they discover a crypt from another time, and unknowingly awaken a legendary bloodthirsty creature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnomalous (2016)
A young schizophrenic who felt threatened by a presence he was unable to define turns up gruesomely dead in his bathtub
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Night of Death! (1980)
When she takes up her new post at an eerie convalescent home deep in the French countryside, nurse Martine soon discovers that several missing co-workers may have fallen prey to an unspeakable evil rumored to roam the hallways at night. But as Martine looks deeper into the mystery, she suspects the home's aged residents know more about the menace than they let on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Nocebo (2022)
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMuse (2017)
Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a strange ritual. Suddenly, the same woman who appears every night in his dreams is found dead in exactly the same circumstances. Samuel sneaks into the crime scene and there he meets Rachel who has also dreamed about the murder. Together, they will do whatever they can to discover the identity of the mystery woman, entering a terrifying world controlled by the figures who have inspired artists throughout time: the Muses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAbsentia (2011)
Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBook of Blood (2009)
Based on the wraparound story penned by Clive Barker in the author's "Books of Blood" collection, the story centers on a paranormal expert who, while investigating a gruesome slaying, finds a house that is at the intersection of "highways" transporting souls to the afterlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisInside (2007)
Months after a tragic accident, Sarah, a young pregnant woman, must spend Christmas Eve alone in her house before giving birth the next day. But in the middle of the night, a creepy visitor knocks at her door willing to do anything to get what they want, setting off a night of pure terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisParanormal (2009)
Paranormal follows best-selling, self-made novelist Greg Evans struggling through the worst case of writer's block in his award-winning career. In a desperate search for inspiration, Greg quickly finds himself immersed in a world he is not prepared to face. Turning to a group of Paranormal investigators, Greg and the ghost hunting team search for proof and answers, yet are unaware they are about to have an experience of a lifetime! None will leave the way they came. Paranormal will peel back the supernatural curtain to reveal how the TRUTH will EXPOSE the darkness!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Blood Curse (2006)
An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
The Dark Hour (2006)
The eight years boy Jesús has been living in a crumbling underground facility since he was born with eight survivors of an apocalyptical war: the leader Maria and her lover Pablo; the gays Lucas and Mateo; the astronomer Magdalena and the teenager Ana; the soldier Pedro and the lonely Judas. They are permanently is state of surveillance, threatened by the contaminated mutants The Strangers and once a day they have to lock themselves in their rooms without heating to protect against the dangerous ghosts The Invisibles that attack in the Cold Hour. They cannot go to the surface, destroyed by a nuclear war. When they need supplies, medications and ammunitions, they organize expeditions to a store. When the menace of The Invisibles affects the safety of the group of survivors, they need to reach the surface. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisOpen Grave (2013)
A man awakes -- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDon't Look Back (2009)
Panic attacks and memory loss signal the plight of a writer whose body is inexplicably being taken over by another woman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn the Mouth of Madness (1995)
An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDesperation (2006)
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSomething Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Car (1977)
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMonster Summer (2024)
When a mysterious force begins to disrupt their big summer fun, Noah and his friends team up with a retired police detective to embark on a monstrous adventure to save their island.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMermaid Down (2019)
A mermaid is ripped from the ocean by a fishing crew only to be tortured and to have her tail cut off. A seemingly helpful stranger intervenes, but then locks her away in an institution for mentally disturbed young women, where no one believes she is a mermaid. With no way out, she is forced to count on her survival instincts, and fight for her life at all costs.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRed Riding Hood (2011)
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's older sister is killed by a werewolf that prowls the dark forest surrounding their village. Panic grips the town as Valerie discovers that she has a unique connection to the beast--one that inexorably draws them together, making her both suspect ... and bait.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Maléfique?
The closest matches to Maléfique are Livid (2011), Among the Living (2014) and Dark Floors (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Maléfique?
People who watched Maléfique most often go on to Livid (2011), Among the Living (2014) and Dark Floors (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like Maléfique?
In the Mouth of Madness (1995), rated 7.2/10 by 2,053 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Maléfique?
Monster Summer (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Maléfique?
Yes: Livid (2011), Among the Living (2014) and Megalomaniac (2023).
How are movies similar to Maléfique chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Maléfique, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.