Movies like The Nightshifter (2019)
The best movies like The Nightshifter (2019) are Morgue (2019), Friendly Beast (2018) and Insensate (2021). If The Nightshifter hooked you with its thriller and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBacurau (2019)7.6/10 from 1,195 votes
- NewestDisappear Completely (2024)Released 2024
Morgue (2019)
On his first day as a security guard, Diego Martinez is assigned to the night shift at the Hospital Regional. On his rounds, he notices the hallways can be unsettling at night until he accidentally notices he’s trapped inside the morgue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFriendly Beast (2018)
A restaurant owner going over the edge when an armed robbery is attempted at his establishment. He holds everyone captive at gunpoint – criminals and customers alike – and situations corrode into a nightmare state, guided by manipulation and raw compulsion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInsensate (2021)
A woman tries to help her twin sister, with whom she has a strong connection, recover from a trauma. But weird things surround their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Trace We Leave Behind (2017)
A young physician coordinating the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro struggles with a mystery: a patient goes missing one night and completely disappears from the system. As the doctor attempts to find out the truth, he slowly loses his sense of reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKill Me Please (2015)
Barra da Tijuca, West Side Zone of Rio de Janeiro. A wave of murderers plague the area. What starts off as a morbid curiosity for the local youth, slowly begins to spoil away at their lives. Among them is Bia, a 15-year-old girl. After an encounter with death, she will do anything to make sure she is alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Good Manners (2018)
Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBacurau (2019)
Bacurau, a small town in the Brazilian sertão, mourns the loss of its matriarch, Carmelita, who lived to be 94. Days later, its inhabitants notice that their community has vanished from most maps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNeighboring Sounds (2012)
An independent private security firm arrives at a middle-class neighborhood in Recife, Brazil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Night of the Chupacabras (2011)
Death and blood are in the middle of a feud between two families. Something creepy rounds the Silva Farm and makes its victims. The Carvalho Family, stuck to their past and hatred, can't see the secular evil that approaches from the darken woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
M8 - When Death Rescues Life (2019)
When Maurício becomes a student at a top medical school, he becomes obsessed with a mystery linked to the dead bodies used for dissection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLower City (2005)
Best friends Deco and Naldinho co-own a cargo boat in Brazil's Salvador da Bahia. They give a ride to a sultry prostitute named Karinna, and soon both men fall prey to her considerable sexual charms, pushing the bounds of their friendship to the limit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMalasartes e o Duelo com a Morte (2017)
Small-town trickster Pedro Malasartes has to face two great enemies: Próspero, who will do anything to impede such a lazy, cowardly person like Malasartes from dating his sister, Áurea; and Death incarnated, who wants to take a vacation after two thousand years collecting lives and intends on tricking Malasartes into assuming his tedious job.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisO Invasor (2002)
Two businessmen hire a hitman to kill their third partner and are then blackmailed by the hitman as he takes over their company.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Asphalt Kiss (2018)
When witnessing a hit, Arandir, a newly married banker, tries to succor the victim, but the man, almost dead, has only time to make one last request: a kiss. Arandir kisses the man, but his act is spotted by his father-in-law Aprígio and photographed by Amado Ribeiro, a tabloid reporter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Mango Yellow (2002)
The lives of a macho butcher, his wife, a lonely waitress, a sadist and a flophouse manager intersect in Recife, Brazil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCemetery of Lost Souls (2020)
Corrupted by the power of Cipriano's Black Book, a Jesuit and his followers begin a reign of horror in colonial Brazil, until they be cursed to live forever trapped under the graves of a cemetery. Now, centuries later, they are ready to break free and spread their evil all over the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Hard Labor (2011)
After her husband loses his job, Helena opens her own grocery store. Soon, increasingly strange events begin to plague her store, making her question her sanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man of the Year (2003)
Maiquél has lost a bet and dyed his hair blond. This seemingly innocuous event triggers a head-on collision with destiny in which he goes from nobody to hero to outlaw — all in 24 hours.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Devil Lives Here (2016)
Three teenagers go visit a friend at his old farmhouse for the weekend. What they didn't expect was to be stuck in the middle of a centenary war between good and evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Me, You, Them (2000)
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFuturo Beach (2014)
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Wolf at the Door (2013)
Love turns to hate and panic breeds suspicion as two parents deal with the kidnapping of their child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDisappear Completely (2024)
An ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose, one by one, his five senses.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Watch (1973)
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFear in the Night (1972)
It took Peggy Heller a long time to recover from the trauma of a brutal physical assault, suffered in her youth. When she married Robert, he provided her with the love and reassurance she craved for and the two settled down in a pretty house in the grounds of the public school where Robert was a master. But the headmaster of the school is not what he seems and Peggy is convinced he means to harm her - is her fear a figment of her tortured imagination or are there forces at work that intend to manipulate her anxieties with fatal consequences?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Medusa Touch (1978)
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime Lapse (2014)
Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Glass Key (1942)
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Nightshifter?
The closest matches to The Nightshifter are Morgue (2019), Friendly Beast (2018) and Insensate (2021). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Nightshifter?
People who watched The Nightshifter most often go on to Morgue (2019), Friendly Beast (2018) and Insensate (2021).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Nightshifter?
Bacurau (2019), rated 7.6/10 by 1,195 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Nightshifter?
Disappear Completely (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to The Nightshifter chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Nightshifter, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.