Movies like The Reckoning (2021)
The best movies like The Reckoning (2021) are Black Death (2010), Witchhammer (1970) and The Witches (1966). If The Reckoning hooked you with its horror and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHäxan (1922)7.6/10 from 468 votes
- NewestMārama (2026)Released 2026
Black Death (2010)
As the plague decimates medieval Europe, rumours circulate of a village immune from the plague. There is talk of a necromancer who leads the village and is able to raise the dead. A fearsome knight joined by a cohort of soldiers and a young monk are charged by the church to investigate. Their journey is filled with danger, but it's upon entering the village that their true horror begins.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWitchhammer (1970)
In the 1600s, an overzealous clergy hauls innocent women in front of tribunals, forces them to confess to imaginary witchery, and engages in brutal torture and persecution of their subjects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Witches (1966)
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe City of the Dead (1960)
In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHagazussa (2018)
In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNovember (2017)
In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Appearance (2018)
Mateho, an officer of the Inquisition and rational man of science, visits a remote monastery to investigate a bizarre murder of a monk. And you guessed it: something evil is afoot. But is the terror man-made or the result of witchcraft?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Curse of Audrey Earnshaw (2020)
A devout community suffering from a plague is torn apart by a beautiful young woman and the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like this7 Witches (2017)
As their big day approaches Cate and Cody should be celebrating, they've got their family with them, they've rented an island for the big day, but unbeknownst to them their wedding falls on the day when a 100 year old curse comes to fruition. Instead of celebrating they find themselves fighting for their lives as a coven of witches rise for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisViy (1967)
A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYou Won't Be Alone (2022)
In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young feral witch accidentally kills a peasant. She assumes the peasant's shape to see what life is like in her skin, igniting a deep seated curiosity to experience life inside the bodies of others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Witch (2016)
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHäxan (1922)
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCurse of the Crimson Altar (1968)
When his brother disappears, a man visits the remote country house where he was last seen. While the host seems outwardly friendly and his niece more demonstrably so, there's a feeling of menace in the air with the overhanging legend of Lavinia Morley, the Black Witch of Greymarsh.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisEyes of Fire (1983)
In 1750, an adulterous preacher is ejected from a small British colony with his motley crew of followers, who make their way downriver to establish a new settlement of their own beyond the western frontier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Masque of the Red Death (1964)
A European prince terrorizes the local peasantry while using his castle as a refuge against the "Red Death" plague that stalks the land.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGretel & Hansel (2020)
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cleansing (2019)
Set in a small isolated village in 14th century Wales, Alice is a sixteen year old girl who is accused of being a witch and causing the plague that has ravaged the village, taking the lives of many, including Alice's own father. When it is revealed that Alice has been hiding her mother's infection, she is forced to watch The Cleanser, an ominous masked figure, brutally dispatch her mother. The town preacher and de-facto leader Tom has eyes for Alice, and subjects her to five torturous trials after she spurns his advances. Escaping the night before her execution, with the help of her mother's friend Mary, she flees into the forest and discovers the secluded hut of a mysterious healer, with his own troubled past and demons to face. He nurses her back to health, and teaches her how to exact revenge upon those that persecuted her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Damned (2025)
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Golem (2018)
A re-imagining of the old mystical folklore that follows a woman and a tight-knit Jewish community that is besieged by foreign invaders. She conjures a dangerous creature to protect them but it may be more evil than she ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)
Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wind (2018)
Lizzy is a tough, resourceful frontierswoman settling a remote stretch of land on the 19th-century American frontier. Isolated from civilization in a desolate wilderness where the wind never stops howling, she begins to sense a sinister presence that seems to be borne of the land itself, and when a newlywed couple arrive at a nearby homestead, their presence amplifies Lizzy's fears, setting into motion a shocking chain of events.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCry of the Banshee (1970)
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHeresy (2024)
In a medieval Dutch village, a young woman is caught between her faith, fanatic townsfolk and the dark forces lurking in the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Gwen (2018)
A mysterious — and suspicious — run of ill fortune plagues a teenage girl and her mother and sister on their hillside farm in this folk story set in the dark hills of Wales during the industrial revolution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Field in England (2013)
During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMārama (2026)
1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLyle (2014)
Leah's grief over her toddler's death turns into paranoia when she begins to suspect her neighbours are part of a satanic cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
P (2005)
An orphan girl taught magic by her sick grandma must find work in seedy Bangkok, where she encounters a number of unsavory characters. She uses the magical skills her grandmother taught her to her advantage and to increasingly horrific consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lighthouse (2016)
Two lighthouse keepers clash, making their duties difficult even before a freak storms hits and strands them at the lighthouse for months. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Reckoning?
The closest matches to The Reckoning are Black Death (2010), Witchhammer (1970) and The Witches (1966). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Reckoning?
People who watched The Reckoning most often go on to Black Death (2010), Witchhammer (1970) and The Witches (1966).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Reckoning?
Häxan (1922), rated 7.6/10 by 468 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Reckoning?
Mārama (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Reckoning?
Yes: Black Death (2010), The Witches (1966) and The City of the Dead (1960).
How are movies similar to The Reckoning chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Reckoning, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.