Movies like Citadel (2012)
The best movies like Citadel (2012) are The Monster (2016), It Comes at Night (2017) and Let Us Prey (2014). If Citadel hooked you with its drama and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLet the Right One In (2008)7.5/10 from 3,408 votes
- NewestYou'll Never Find Me (2024)Released 2024
The Monster (2016)
Stranded on a desolate road at night, a troubled mother and her daughter are stalked by a terrifying woodland creature while confronting the trauma of their fractured relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisIt Comes at Night (2017)
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLet Us Prey (2014)
Rachel, a rookie cop, is about to begin her first night shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish, backwater town. The kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, the bitter-and-twisted who all think that, really, they deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they're there by accident and that, with a little luck, life is going to get better. Wrong, on both counts. Six is about to arrive - and All Hell Will Break Loose!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisEden Lake (2008)
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like this10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Quiet Place (2018)
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBird Box (2018)
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreen Room (2016)
Members of a punk rock band and a tough young woman are forced to fight for survival after witnessing an act of violence at a skinhead bar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Devil's Candy (2016)
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet the Right One In (2008)
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Mist (2007)
After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Babadook (2014)
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYou'll Never Find Me (2024)
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave. Soon she begins to question Patrick’s intentions, while Patrick begins to question his own grip on reality...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThem (2006)
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHidden (2009)
Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisRadius (2017)
Liam wakes from a car crash with no memory of who he is. As he makes his way into town to look for help, he finds only dead bodies, all with strange pale eyes. Liam's first assessment is that a virus is present in the air, but he soon discovers the horrible truth: anyone who comes within a 50-foot radius of him dies instantly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHereditary (2018)
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Breathe (2016)
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodnight Mommy (2015)
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRaw (2017)
Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thismother! (2017)
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Noonday Witch (2016)
A story of Eliska and her daughter, starting a new life in a remote house with the 'father away on business', as the mother claims. After the lie is disclosed, their relationship begins to wither. At that time, the mythical Noonday Witch begins to materialize. She is coming closer and closer and the question is poised: is the danger real or is it all in the mother's crumbling head?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Dark (2015)
A disturbed young woman must confront her worst fears when she finds herself trapped alone in a New York City loft during the 2003 blackout.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisShadow (2009)
A Young soldier returning from Iraq goes on a high mountain adventure in a desolate place in Europe to forget his past, he will lear truth in a mysterious local legend discovering that reality can be sicker than nightmares.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Machinist (2004)
Trevor, an insomniac lathe operator, experiences unusual occurrences at work and home. A strange man follows him everywhere, but no one else seems to notice him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLet Me In (2010)
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHeartless (2010)
Jamie Morgan is a troubled young man with a facial birthmark, which has left him isolated and fearful, hiding from the world outside. He lives in the East End, notorious for its violent hooded gangs. According to news reports, the gangs are now wearing demon masks. But, one night, after the murder of his mother, Jamie discovers the terrifying truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSavage (2009)
An exploration of masculinity and violence. A story of obsession and revenge, as a man tries to come to terms with a brutal, random attack and its consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Intruders (2015)
Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWerewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Citadel?
The closest matches to Citadel are The Monster (2016), It Comes at Night (2017) and Let Us Prey (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Citadel?
People who watched Citadel most often go on to The Monster (2016), It Comes at Night (2017) and Let Us Prey (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Citadel?
Let the Right One In (2008), rated 7.5/10 by 3,408 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Citadel?
You'll Never Find Me (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Citadel?
Yes: The Monster (2016), It Comes at Night (2017) and Let Us Prey (2014).
How are movies similar to Citadel chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Citadel, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.