Movies like The Harbinger (2023)
The best movies like The Harbinger (2023) are Girl on the Third Floor (2019), Raccoon Valley (2018) and The Reading (2023). If The Harbinger hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHereditary (2018)7.3/10 from 9,088 votes
- NewestThe Home (2025)Released 2025
Girl on the Third Floor (2019)
Don Koch tries to renovate a rundown mansion with a sordid history for his growing family, only to learn that the house has other plans.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisRaccoon Valley (2018)
A plane bearing biohazardous material crashes into a town, and a deaf women has to navigate her way through the aftermath.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Reading (2023)
After a deadly home invasion, Emma (Mo'Nique Hicks) copes by writing a book, but when a young psychic and her team perform a reading in her home, a new terror is unleashed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
The Dead Center (2019)
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Shade (2024)
Twenty-year-old Ryan struggles with a debilitating anxiety disorder following his father's death. Together with his two brothers, he must fight to break the destructive cycle threatening their family as ancient darkness closes in on them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
All Eyes (2022)
A disgraced podcast host interviews an eccentric farmer who claims to have a monster living in the woods near his house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Beach House (2020)
A romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests – and the surrounding environment – exhibit signs of a mysterious infection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Black String (2018)
When a suburban slacker has a reckless encounter with a mysterious woman, his life begins to unravel in horrific fashion. His friends and family believe he's losing his mind, but he's convinced something far more sinister is taking place.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisClock (2023)
On the eve of her 38th birthday, a woman desperately attempts to fix her broken biological clock.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAfter (2012)
When two bus crash survivors awake to discover that they are the only people left in their small town, they must form an unlikely alliance in a race to unravel the truth behind their isolation. As strange events begin to unfold, they start to question whether the town they know so well is really what it seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisCabin Girl (2023)
When a van-life influencer moves into an isolated cabin, she discovers the home has a dark history and becomes haunted by a troubled spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Super (2018)
A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisResidue (2015)
The government cover-up of the causes behind a massive explosion in a futuristic UK metropolis spur photo journalist Jennifer Preston on to search for the truth and in the process blow open a paranormal phenomenon haunting the city.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Residue (2017)
A private investigator reads a book of sinister origins and unknowingly puts his daughter and himself in a fight for their lives...and their eternal souls.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Mother, May I? (2023)
Emmett enters into a nightmarish game of therapy with his wife Anya, who has inexplicably taken on the persona of his estranged and recently-deceased mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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 & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisOffseason (2022)
Upon receiving a mysterious letter that her mother's grave has been vandalized, Marie travels to the desolate island town where she's buried. Just as she arrives, the island closes for the season, leaving Marie trapped in a nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBroadcast Signal Intrusion (2021)
In the late 90s, a video archivist unearths a series of sinister pirate broadcasts and becomes obsessed with uncovering the dark conspiracy behind them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisHold Your Breath (2024)
In 1930s Oklahoma amid the region's horrific dust storms, a woman is convinced that a sinister presence is threatening her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisResolution (2013)
A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLaced (2023)
In an unprecedented snowstorm, a wife's plans to kill her abusive husband begin to unravel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
The Home (2025)
A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisBefore I Wake (2016)
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNocebo (2022)
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am All Girls (2021)
A special crimes investigator forms an unlikely bond with a serial killer to bring down a global child sex trafficking syndicate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025)
When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisCaged (2021)
An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an abusive female guard.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSavaged (2014)
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Harbinger?
The closest matches to The Harbinger are Girl on the Third Floor (2019), Raccoon Valley (2018) and The Reading (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Harbinger?
People who watched The Harbinger most often go on to Girl on the Third Floor (2019), Raccoon Valley (2018) and The Reading (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Harbinger?
Hereditary (2018), rated 7.3/10 by 9,088 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Harbinger?
The Home (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Harbinger?
Yes: Girl on the Third Floor (2019), Raccoon Valley (2018) and The Reading (2023).
How are movies similar to The Harbinger chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Harbinger, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.