Movies like History of the Occult (2023)
The best movies like History of the Occult (2023) are Terrified (2018), Roh (2020) and Murder Me, Monster (2019). If History of the Occult 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 ratedThe Orphanage (2007)7.2/10 from 3,264 votes
- NewestSumala (2024)Released 2024
- In SpanishTerrified (2018)Also in Spanish
Terrified (2018)
Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRoh (2020)
Cut off from civilisation, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Murder Me, Monster (2019)
A rural police officer investigates the bizarre case of a headless woman's body. The prime suspect blames the crime on the appearance of a legendary monster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Are What We Are (2010)
After the death of a patriarch, a family must try to continue on with a disturbing, ritualistic tradition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFree Country (2020)
Former East Germany, 1992. Patrick Stein and Markus Bach, two very different police officers, are commissioned to investigate the disappearance of two female teenagers in a remote area of the country. Did they run away from home or did something more terrible happen to them?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnder the Shadow (2016)
After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tag-Along (2015)
Wei is nowhere to be found one day before his grandma returns from her own strange missing incident. Wei's girlfriend desperately searches for his whereabouts and discovers that a little girl in red followed them before their disappearance. Based on true events and long-circulating urban legend in Taiwan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMuoi: The Legend of a Portrait (2007)
A Korean writer travels to Vietnam to do research for her story about a cursed portrait of a Vietnamese girl named Muoi.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Quietude (2018)
Against the backdrop of a military dictatorship, Eugenia is reunited with her estranged family following her father’s stroke and is forced to confront dark secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Eye 2 (2004)
Pregnant Joey teeters on the brink of madness after several fruitless suicide attempts. She's the unwilling recipient of an influx of shadowy images that haunt her pervasively. In an attempt to quell this disturbing phenomenon, she looks up with her secretive ex-lover Sam, who may be able to shed some light upon the mysterious twilight world descending upon Joey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLake Mungo (2009)
After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Day of the Lord (2020)
In this horror movie, a retired priest haunted by his sins is pulled back into the darkness when a friend begs him to help his possessed daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHere Comes the Devil (2012)
A married couple loses their children while on a family trip near some caves in Tijuana. The kids eventually reappear without explanation, but it becomes clear that they are not who they used to be, that something terrifying has changed them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Appeared (2008)
One night Malena and Pablo, a sister and brother traveling together in Argentina, discover a diary that details crimes committed twenty years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSumala (2024)
An evil spirit seeking vengeance returns to plague the town that wronged her sister. Based on a chilling urban legend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Trenque Lauquen (2023)
With the strange disappearance of Laura, two colleagues, her older boyfriend, Rafael, and Ezequiel, learn of their recent discoveries, which may help them locate her. However, the story is bigger and stranger than they could imagine.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisStray (2019)
Igor is ready for anything for the sake of Polina’s happiness, and in order to compensate for the loss of her son, the couple opens up to a new child. But instead of an ordinary boy from a shelter, a mystical creature that can recreate the memories gets into their family ... There has not yet been found a recipe for centuries of suffering, but perhaps the key to salvation in selfless love for each other ... Open your heart! Let her in ...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Orphanage (2007)
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Inhabitant (2022)
Like any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her to question her own sanity and shocking ancestry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisKM 31: Kilometer 31 (2006)
While driving through the kilometer 31 of a lonely road, Agata Hameran hits a boy. She leaves her car to help the victim and another car runs over her and she falls in a deep coma. Her twin sister Catalina telepathically feels the pain of Agata and hears her whispering for help. Together with her boyfriend Nuno and Agata's mate Omar, they return to the km 31 of the road, and find out that the place is surrounded by supernatural accidents caused by the ghost of a mother that lost her boy many years ago. Further, Catalina discloses that the spirit of Agata is trapped between the worlds of the living and the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLa Llorona (2019)
Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Goat and Her Three Kids (2022)
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRing (1998)
A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVirus: 32 (2022)
A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOx-Head Village (2022)
Having launched a social media prank about a haunted building, three girls suddenly vanish. Rumours circulate that they were victims of The Ox-Head Village curse, triggering an investigation by two of their friends, desperate to find the truth about what has happened…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Kiss and a Promise (2012)
In a quiet Ontario town, a small Bed and Breakfast dwells with a perverse secret. David Beck, a closet sociopath, but seemingly normal man, runs the B & B with his wife Samantha, a fiery woman with masochistic tendencies. The harmony of the house is disrupted when a young girl's body is found on the edge of town and veteran police Detective Anthony Dolan suspects David of the murder.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Wrath of God (2022)
Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Skulls (2000)
A senior at an Ivy League college, who depends on scholarships and working on the side, gets accepted into the secret society The Skulls. He hopes it betters chances at Harvard but The Skulls is not what he thought and comes at a price.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisShock Corridor (1963)
With the help of his girlfriend Cathy and Dr. Fong, a psychiatrist, ambitious journalist Johnny Barrett poses as a madman in order to be admitted to a mental institution where a bloody murder has been committed.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRojo (2018)
A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of Claudio, a successful lawyer, gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like History of the Occult?
The closest matches to History of the Occult are Terrified (2018), Roh (2020) and Murder Me, Monster (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after History of the Occult?
People who watched History of the Occult most often go on to Terrified (2018), Roh (2020) and Murder Me, Monster (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like History of the Occult?
The Orphanage (2007), rated 7.2/10 by 3,264 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like History of the Occult?
Sumala (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like History of the Occult?
Yes: Terrified (2018), Murder Me, Monster (2019) and We Are What We Are (2010).
How are movies similar to History of the Occult chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside History of the Occult, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.