Movies like Fanfare (2020)
The best movies like Fanfare (2020) are Revelations (2025), Frank and Penelope (2022) and The Jester 2 (2025). If Fanfare hooked you with its thriller and crime, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMidnight Runners (2017)7.5/10 from 263 votes
- NewestWardriver (2026)Released 2026
- In KoreanRevelations (2025)Also in Korean
Revelations (2025)
A pastor who believes in divine revelation and a detective haunted by visions pursue a missing person case — exposing their own demons in the process.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrank and Penelope (2022)
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Jester 2 (2025)
When teen magician Max crosses paths with the sinister Jester on Halloween night, she must outsmart a supernatural killer whose magic is all too real and whose tricks always end up in blood.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoor Lock (2018)
Kyung-min lives alone in a one-room apartment. One day, she finds traces of a stranger breaking into her room and soon a mysterious murder case begins to unravel.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Evil (1978)
Shortly after moving into a dark, brooding mansion, a psychologist and his co-workers are terrorized by a horrible evil being.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhost Mansion (2021)
A horror webtoon writer journeys to a shabby apartment building in search of ideas. The building's caretaker tells him about multiple strange events that happened throughout the building's history.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWardriver (2026)
He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Worth the HypeMovies like thisIn the Blood (2014)
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisContainment (2015)
Neighbors in a block wake one morning to find they have been sealed inside their apartments. Can they work together to find out why? Or will they destroy each other in their fight to escape?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Red Shoes (2005)
A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mimic (2017)
The mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods, but soon begins to wonder if she is even human.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGangnam Blues (2015)
Jong-dae and Yong-ki make a living by picking up paper and empty bottles. Both then join different gangster clan and becomes involved in a struggle of political interests over development in Gangnam, Seoul.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLady in White (1988)
Locked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hunt (2020)
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVanishing (2022)
When a series of gruesome murders hit Seoul, the Korean investigation police has no choice but to ask help from world-renowned French doctor Alice Launey who developed a revolutionary technique for recognizing bodies. With more corpses on the way and a mysterious organ trafficking ring uncovered, things are about to get more dangerous in the land of the morning calm…
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCheat (2023)
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek, Pennsylvania. But the town's unusually high suicide rate is finally convincing both locals and college students that everything is not as it seems. When Maeve - a female college student - sleeps with Charlie, the married man of the host family she is staying with, both sense the deadly curse is closing in on them. Unable to get anyone to believe them, Maeve and Charlie seek out a local history student to help find answers and figure out a way to defend themselves. It all comes undone, however, as several people are horrifically killed by the savage being - one-by-one at a rapid pace. Eventually, Maeve, Charlie and the few survivors band together in an attempt to defeat the monster once and for all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAll the Devils Are Here (2025)
After a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Swindlers (2017)
A group of swindlers unite to hunt down an infamous con man who was known dead, amid their hidden motives and deception.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Coffin Footage (2016)
A young man slowly realizes that he has become the chosen target of an ominous supernatural presence. As he scrambles to stop it, he realizes there is more to this haunting than meets the eye.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller & horror
1922 (2017)
A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisMidnight Runners (2017)
Two apathetic police academy recruits who become best buddies through the tough training together witness a woman being abducted right before their very eyes. As they were taught in the academy, they quickly report the incident to the police, but the police are in no hurry to jump on the case. So the duo decide to take the matter into their own hands and rescue the woman.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both crime & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUncanny Annie (2019)
On Halloween night a group of college students get trapped in a mysterious board game that brings their darkest secrets and fears to life, where they must play to escape…and win to survive.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChildren of the Corn: Runaway (2018)
The plot of Children of the Corn: Runaway follows a young pregnant Ruth who escapes a murderous child cult in a small Midwestern town. She spends the next decade living anonymously in an attempt to spare her son the horrors that she experienced as a child. She lands in the small Oklahoma town, but something is following her. Now, she must confront this evil or lose her child.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTrick (2019)
A detective tries to track down a masked killer who reappears every Halloween to wreak bloody havoc.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTexas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
After nearly 50 years of hiding, Leatherface returns to terrorize a group of idealistic influencers who accidentally disrupt his carefully shielded world in a remote Texas town.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Tooth and the Nail (2017)
Seok-jin, a magician at a club, meets a mysterious woman, Ha-yeon, who soon becomes his assistant and fiance. Things take a turn when she is found dead and he must find out what happened.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both thriller
Exquisite Corpses (TBA)
Based on the bestselling horror comic book series of the same name, "Exquisite Corpses" is a horror franchise centered on a deadly game played every five years on Halloween, when the wealthiest families in America unleash 12 of the world’s most dangerous killers on an unsuspecting town.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
The House on Haunted Grounds (2026)
What begins as a routine investigation into a house slated for demolition turns into a nightmare when the team faces an evil force, leaving behind only the recovered footage.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Fanfare?
The closest matches to Fanfare are Revelations (2025), Frank and Penelope (2022) and The Jester 2 (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Fanfare?
Start with Revelations (2025), the closest match to Fanfare.
What is the highest-rated movie like Fanfare?
Midnight Runners (2017), rated 7.5/10 by 263 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Fanfare?
Wardriver (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Korean movies like Fanfare?
Yes: Revelations (2025), Door Lock (2018) and Ghost Mansion (2021).
How are movies similar to Fanfare chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Fanfare, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.