20 movies like The Picture of Dorian Gray, ordered by similarity : Bluebeard(1944), Repulsion(1965), The Signal(2007), Seoul Station(2016), November(2017), Waxworks(1924), Mystery of the Wax Museum(1933), It: Chapter Two(2019), Ready or Not(2019), The Tenant(1976), Bliss(2019), Alléluia(2014) ...
Horror
USA
1945
110 Minutes
George Sanders Hurd Hatfield Angela Lansbury Donna Reed Lowell Gilmore Peter Lawford Richard Fraser Lydia Bilbrook Morton Lowry Douglas Walton Mary Forbes
wealthy man painter lord enemy lover creepy disturbing sad london tavern parlor theater street attic youth beauty blackmail morality vanity suicide
A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.
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
UK
1965
105 Minutes
Catherine Deneuve Yvonne Furneaux Ian Hendry John Fraser Patrick Wymark James Villiers Renee Houston Helen Fraser Valerie Taylor Hugh Futcher Mike Pratt
manicurist sister boyfriend landlord suitor creepy chilling frightening apartment london mental illness family fall wretched excess 1960s
A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence.
Horror
USA
2007
101 Minutes
A.J. Bowen Dan Bush Anessa Ramsey Justin Welborn Scott Poythress Sahr Ngaujah Cheri Christian Christopher Thomas Matt Stenton Suehyla El-Attar
lover woman man husband murderer maniac bleak frightening intense creepy shocking disturbing apartment science fiction lovers affair manipulation fear murder escape
A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Horror, Animation
South Korea
2016
92 Minutes
korean person zombie daughter boyfriend pimp prostitute bleak disturbing emotional frenetic gripping seoul street city hospital zombies relationships desperation fight to the death survival
Several groups of people try to survive a zombie pandemic that unleashes itself in downtown Seoul.
Horror, Romance, Fantasy, Drama
USA|UK
2017
115 Minutes
Rea Lest Jörgen Liik Arvo Kukumägi Katariina Unt Taavi Eelmaa Heino Kalm Meelis Rämmeld Dieter Laser Jette Loona Hermanis Jaan Tooming Klara Eighorn
baron daughter young woman young man villager somber intense brooding suspenseful disturbing village castle cabin dark arts desperation poverty epidemic survival winter mystery
An ex-C.I.A. operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level C.I.A. officials and the Russian President-elect.
Horror
Germany
1924
60 Minutes
Emil Jannings Leo Birinsky Conrad Veidt Werner Krauss William Dieterle
wax museum owner daughter poet caliph ivan the terrible jack the ripper creepy dreamy germany baghdad moscow london wax museum revenge bloodlust paranoia love revenge wretched excess escape
A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.
Horror
USA
1933
77 Minutes
Lionel Atwill Fay Wray Glenda Farrell Frank McHugh Gavin Gordon Edwin Maxwell Holmes Herbert Arthur Edmund Carewe Allen Vincent Monica Bannister Matthew Betz
sculptor partner assistant fiancée reporter creepy tense london new york city wax museum obsession art murder love fall revenge 1930s
The disappearance of people and corpses leads a reporter to a wax museum and a sinister sculptor.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2019
169 Minutes
Jessica Chastain James McAvoy Bill Hader Isaiah Mustafa Jay Ryan James Ransone Andy Bean Bill Skarsgård Jaeden Martell Wyatt Oleff Jack Dylan Grazer
clown alien young boy teen girl writer zombie chilling creepy campy disturbing somber spirited derry, maine chinese restaurant sewer family home carnival canal evil spirits friendship
Defeated by members of the Losers' Club, the evil clown Pennywise returns 27 years later to terrorize the town of Derry, Maine. Now adults, the united Losers must conquer their deepest fears to destroy the shape-shifting Pennywise once and for all.
Horror, Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada
2019
95 Minutes
Samara Weaving Tyler Gillett Adam Brody Mark O'Brien Henry Czerny Andie MacDowell Melanie Scrofano Kristian Bruun Elyse Levesque Nicky Guadagni John Ralston
bride groom father-in-law mother-in-law sister-in-law husband creepy disturbing campy cheeky gritty hysterical mansion drawing room dining room family estate wedding car hide-and-seek troubled marriage
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Horror
France|USA
1976
125 Minutes
Roman Polanski Isabelle Adjani Melvyn Douglas Shelley Winters Jo Van Fleet Bernard Fresson Lila Kedrova Claude Dauphin Claude Piéplu Rufus Romain Bouteille
tenant neighbor beautiful woman suicidal person chilling tense creepy gripping paris apartment building movie theater hospital paranoia supernatural city life suicide conspiracy fall mystery 1970s
A bureaucrat rents a Paris apartment where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Horror
USA
2019
80 Minutes
Dora Madison Tru Collins Rhys Wakefield Jeremy Gardner Graham Skipper Chris McKenna Rachel Avery Mark Beltzman George Wendt Abraham Benrubi
artist agent friend murder victim brooding dark disturbing thrilling intense los angeles party art gallery apartment artistic struggle drug overdose bloodlust desperation murder mystery fall
A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Belgium|France
2014
93 Minutes
Lola Dueñas Laurent Lucas Héléna Noguerra Edith Le Merdy Anne-Marie Loop Stéphane Bissot David Murgia Renaud Rutten
woman gigolo man lover murder victim murderer emotional shocking passionate gory france online dating sex passion prostitution love rivalry sacrifice fall 2010s
Fervidly dark lovesick horror inspired by the real-life criminal duo, the Lonely Hearts Killers.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Canada|USA|UK
2016
133 Minutes
Patrick Wilson Vera Farmiga Madison Wolfe Frances O'Connor Lauren Esposito Benjamin Haigh Patrick McAuley Simon McBurney Maria Doyle Kennedy Simon Delaney Franka Potente
investigator husband wife single mother daughter demon frightening suspenseful shocking creepy church london house bedroom attic yard investigation demonic possession paranormal search
Ed and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit.
Horror
USA
1932
75 Minutes
Bela Lugosi Sidney Fox Leon Waycoff Bert Roach Brandon Hurst Noble Johnson D'Arcy Corrigan Arlene Francis Herman Bing
mad scientist medical student girlfriend friend mother ape dark disturbing creepy paris carnival street river laboratory medical experiments blood transfusion abduction murder science gone awry animal attack
A mad scientist seeks to mingle human blood with that of an ape, and resorts to kidnapping women for his experiments.
Horror
Canada|USA
1983
90 Minutes
James Woods Deborah Harry Sonja Smits Peter Dvorsky Leslie Carlson Jack Creley Lynne Gorman Julie Khaner
television producer girlfriend analyst daughter technician victim unrestrained shocking disturbing creepy television studio chamber toronto television hallucinations torture conspiracy government secrets violence discovery
A programmer at a TV station that specializes in adult entertainment searches for the producers of a dangerous and bizarre broadcast.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
2015
95 Minutes
Jena Malone Janet McTeer Ed Stoppard Tovah Feldshuh Eliza Madore Glynnis O'Connor Todd Faulkner Allison Guinn
mother father daughter doctor medium creepy dark disturbing gripping intense london manor bedroom united kingdom ghosts mother/daughter relationship sexual repression misogyny love mystery
In the Victorian era, a young wife and her husband go through a difficult time in their marriage after the birth of their child, which is heightened by a mysterious ghost that enters their house.
Horror
Japan
1969
90 Minutes
Eiji Funakoshi Mako Midori Noriko Sengoku
sculptor mother model hedonistic shocking disturbing dreamy warehouse art studio japan kidnapping sadomasochism mind games rape decadence torture wretched excess transformation temptation 1960s
A blind sculpter and his mother kidnap a young model.
Horror
UK
1957
82 Minutes
Dana Andrews Peggy Cummins Niall MacGinnis Maurice Denham Athene Seyler Liam Redmond Reginald Beckwith Ewan Roberts Peter Elliott Rosamund Greenwood Richard Leech
professor psychologist niece skeptic cult leader devil worshipper creepy eerie uneasy england london british museum paranormal satanism curse diary mystery transformation 1950s
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a parapsychology conference, only to find himself investigating the mysterious actions of Devil-worshiper Julian Karswell.
Horror
USA
1940
70 Minutes
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Stanley Ridges Anne Nagel Anne Gwynne Virginia Brissac Edmund MacDonald Paul Fix Murray Alper Jack Mulhall Joe King
doctor professor mobster rival wife reporter tense creepy prison office street death row madness brain transplants organized crime murder death sentence mind control revenge pursuit
Dr. Sovac transplants the brain of a gangster into his professor friend's body to save his life, but there is a side effect that causes a dangerous split personality.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
UK
2015
101 Minutes
James Cosmo Craig Conway Bob Duff James Lance Amy Manson Eileen Nicholas Faye McLoughlin Nora-Jane Noone Simon Quarterman Joy Sanders
disabled girl boyfriend mother estranged father estranged brother sister chilling dark disturbing tense suspenseful creepy family home england family secrets horror memory loss childhood terror uncertainty
A woman returns home to her estranged family after a near-fatal accident, but begins to suspect something is not right.