20 movies like The Phantom of the Opera, ordered by similarity : Terror at the Opera(1987), The Phantom of the Opera(1962), Night Tide(1961), Angel Heart(1987), Border(2018), Diabolique(1955), Red Riding Hood(2011), Only Lovers Left Alive(2013), The Killing of a Sacred Deer(2017), Mark of the Vampire(1935), Clive Barker's Book of Blood(2008), I Survived a Zombie Holocaust(2014) ...
Horror
USA
1943
92 Minutes
Claude Rains Nelson Eddy Susanna Foster Edgar Barrier Jane Farrar Barbara Everest Steven Geray Frank Puglia Hans Herbert Fritz Feld J. Edward Bromberg
disfigured person murderer opera singer suitor stalker violinist suspenseful eerie melodramatic opera house paris france stage catacombs obsessive love rise to stardom opera mysterious deaths dark secrets investigation
The city's District Attorney is murdered, and a newspaper reporter investigates. He starts finding out that everything wasn't quite as cut and dried as it appeared to be.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
1987
90 Minutes
Cristina Marsillach Urbano Barberini Daria Nicolodi Ian Charleson Antonella Vitale William McNamara
actress opera singer opera director murderer macbeth detective bleak brutal creepy dark intense frightening opera house stage apartment opera murder serial murders terror sadism
A hooded figure forces a young diva (Cristina Marsillach) to watch as he murders performers in a production of Verdi's opera "Macbeth."
Horror
UK
1962
84 Minutes
Herbert Lom Heather Sears Thorley Walters Michael Gough Edward De Souza Martin Miller Miles Malleson Miriam Karlin John Harvey Harold Godwin Ian Wilson
composer wealthy man producer chorus girl dwarf kidnapper spirited profound melodramatic thrilling opera house backstage office london opera serial murders disfigurement plagiarism kidnapping performance
An acid-scarred composer has his dwarf helper bring an opera singer to his London sewer hide-out.
Horror
1961
84 Minutes
Dennis Hopper Linda Lawson Gavin Muir Luana Anders Tom Dillon Marjorie Eaton H.E. West Marjorie Cameron
sailor young woman captain mermaid boss femme fatale suspenseful emotional marina carnival pier ocean sideshow romance murder mystery love deception love mystery
A sailor (Dennis Hopper) falls in love with a sideshow mermaid (Linda Lawson) who believes she really is a mermaid.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK|Canada|USA
1987
113 Minutes
Mickey Rourke Robert De Niro Lisa Bonet Charlotte Rampling Stocker Fontelieu Brownie McGhee Michael Higgins Charles Gordone Kathleen Wilhoite
private investigator singer daughter satan magician dark gripping suspenseful new york city new orleans hotel racetrack mystery murder secret detective voodoo investigation mystery pursuit
A private investigator is hired by a man who calls himself Louis Cyphre to track down a singer named Johnny Favorite. But the investigation takes an unexpected and somber turn.
Horror, Romance, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy
Sweden|Denmark
2018
108 Minutes
Eva Melander Eero Milonoff Viktor Åkerblom Matti Boustedt Jörgen Thorsson Andreas Kundler Rakel Wärmlander Ann Petrén
customs official traveler stranger co-worker animal love interest emotional endearing engaging uneasy moving tense airport office interrogation room house forest lake unlikely romance nature
A customs officer who can smell fear develops an unusual attraction to a strange traveler while aiding a police investigation which will call into question her entire existence.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
1955
116 Minutes
Simone Signoret Vera Clouzot Paul Meurisse Charles Vanel Jean Brochard Noel Roquebert Thérèse Dorny Pierre Larquey Michel Serrault Yves Marie Maurin Georges Poujouly
teacher headmaster detective wife mistress suspenseful tense dark frightening france boarding school apartment murder adultery revenge deception revenge mystery 1950s
The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy
USA|Canada
2011
99 Minutes
Amanda Seyfried Gary Oldman Billy Burke Shiloh Fernandez Max Irons Virginia Madsen Lukas Haas Julie Christie Shauna Kain Michael Hogan Adrian Holmes
young woman love interest werewolf mother hunter grandmother suspenseful shocking tense dark frightening passionate village woods house church cabin love hunting death
Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family's displeasure.
Sci-Fi, Romance, Drama, Horror, Fantasy
UK|Germany|Greece|France
2013
122 Minutes
Tilda Swinton Tom Hiddleston Anton Yelchin Mia Wasikowska John Hurt Jeffrey Wright Slimane Dazi Carter Logan Yasmine Hamdan Aurélie Thépaut
vampire musician married woman married man author sister bleak emotional melodramatic creative intense dark united states tangiers, morocco detroit house vampires relationships love depression
A depressed musician reunites with his lover. Though their romance, which has already endured several centuries, is disrupted by the arrival of her uncontrollable younger sister.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Ireland|UK|USA
2017
121 Minutes
Bill Camp Raffey Cassidy Denise Dal Vera Colin Farrell Barry Keoghan Nicole Kidman Alicia Silverstone Sunny Suljic Ming Wang Barry G. Bernson Herb Caillouet
surgeon mother child teen boy teen girl dead person dark creepy disturbing emotional tense uneasy suburb hospital house revenge mysterious illness psychology vendetta death of father
Steven, a charismatic surgeon, is forced to make an unthinkable sacrifice after his life starts to fall apart, when the behavior of a teenage boy he has taken under his wing turns sinister.
Horror
USA
1935
61 Minutes
Lionel Barrymore Bela Lugosi Elizabeth Allan Lionel Atwill Holmes Herbert Jean Hersholt Carroll Borland Ivan F. Simpson Egon Brecher Henry Wadsworth Eily Malyon
count daughter friend investigator professor doctor dark thrilling gripping prague house murder investigation vampires mysterious past love mystery discovery transformation 19th century
When a nobleman is murdered, a professor of the occult blames vampires; but not all is what it seems.
Mystery & Thriller, Fantasy, Drama, Horror
2008
100 Minutes
Jonas Armstrong Sophie Ward Paul Blair Doug Bradley James Watson Clive Russell Romana Abercromby Simon Bamford
professor expert student young man partner writer suspenseful gory frightening house college bedroom diner bar truck supernatural haunted houses investigation strange happenings murder
Horror, Comedy
New Zealand
2014
92 Minutes
Harley Neville Jocelyn Christian Ben Baker Reanin Johannink Mike Edward Andrew Laing Simon Ward Mark Neilson Patrick Davies Harry Love
zombie movie producer young woman filmmaker young man love interest bleak intense thrilling suspenseful dark movie set zombie movies zombies love killing spree murder escape discovery escape
A young runner, on a Zombie film set, has the first day from hell when real Zombies overrun the set.
Horror
USA|Canada
2013
95 Minutes
Fiona Dourif A Martinez Danielle Bisutti Brennan Elliott Chantal Quesnelle Summer H. Howell Maitland McConnell
child doll supernatural being mother father chucky chilling dark disturbing frightful gripping eerie house united states town murder evil supernatural death revenge
After her mother's mysterious death, Nica begins to suspect that the talking, red-haired doll her visiting niece has been playing with may be the key to recent bloodshed and chaos.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2013
96 Minutes
Alix Elizabeth Gitter James Ralph Erick Avari Steve Bacic Jade Ramsey James C. Burns Nikita Ramsey Tadhg Kelly Tara Westwood James Cavlo
orphan uncle young girl murder victim murderer ghost creepy dark dreamy suspenseful touching thrilling united states countryside country house village small town murder murder investigation ghosts
A small town is haunted by the twin daughters of a wrongfully convicted man. Young Jordan is sent down the path to who the real killer is, only to find the killer is very close to her.
Horror, Comedy, Fantasy
USA
1982
117 Minutes
Hal Holbrook Adrienne Barbeau E.G. Marshall Fritz Weaver Leslie Nielsen Carrie Nye Viveca Lindfors Ed Harris Ted Danson Stephen King Warner Shook
monster alien husband murderer father daughter gory suspenseful campy frightening small town farm beach cemetery house supernatural revenge death alien invasion alcohol
An anthology which tells five terrifying tales inspired by the E.C. horror comic books of the 1950s.
Horror
USA
1944
73 Minutes
John Carradine Jean Parker Nils Asther Ludwig Stossel George Pembroke Teala Loring Sonia Sorel Iris Adrian Henry Kolker Emmett Lynn Patti McCarty
murderer artist seamstress inspector ex-lover dark creepy artist's studio funeral paris france murder case painting dangerous job wretched excess transformation love 19th century
In Paris, an artist hires portrait models, and after he finishes their portraits, he strangles them.
Horror, Romance
Vietnam|South Korea
2016
105 Minutes
Kate Nhung Jean-Michel Richaud Kim Xuan Svitlana Kovalenko Rosie Fellner Kien An Phi Phung
landowner widower housekeeper orphan ghost jealous woman dark creepy gripping intense thrilling vietnam plantation house mansion vengeance love haunting ghosts forbidden love
When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the... See full summary »
Horror
Sweden
2008
114 Minutes
Kåre Hedebrant Lina Leandersson Per Ragnar Henrik Dahl Karin Bergquist Peter Carlberg Ika Nord Mikael Rahm
young boy vampire mother guardian dark fascinating creepy sweden suburbia apartment building school murder friendship love supernatural bullying revenge underdog discovery revenge
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
Crime, Drama, Horror
USA
2016
92 Minutes
Josh Stewart Candy Clark Frank Whaley Robbie Kay Christopher Lloyd Madison Wolfe Rachele Brooke Smith Laura Cayouette
murder suspect grandmother police officer ghost father brooding solemn dark tense emotional frightening small town american south murder case mysterious deaths paranormal ghosts haunting revenge mystery
From Michael McDowell, the writer of Beetlejuice (1988) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), comes a chilling tale of supernatural vengeance.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Other
USA
1978
91 Minutes
Donald Pleasence Jamie Lee Curtis Nancy Kyes P.J. Soles Charles Cyphers Kyle Richards Brian Andrews Arthur Malet
psychopath sister psychiatrist victim dark creepy suspenseful small town america household death stabbing baby-sitting halloween paranoia murder rise escape 1970s
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.