20 movies like Orphan, ordered by similarity : The Orphanage(2007), Annabelle: Creation(2017), Estranged(2015), Before I Wake(2016), The Living and the Dead(2006), It Comes at Night(2017), Awaiting(2015), Here Comes the Devil(2012), Dead End(2003), They Wait(2007), 13B(2009), The Babadook(2014) ...
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA|Canada|Germany|France
2009
123 Minutes
Vera Farmiga Peter Sarsgaard Isabelle Fuhrman CCH Pounder Aryana Engineer Jimmy Bennett Margo Martindale Karel Roden Rosemary Dunsmore
mother father daughter son orphan nun dark suspenseful tense chilling orphanage household hospital family home loss adoption deception insanity marriage husband/wife relationship
A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Spain|Mexico
2007
105 Minutes
Belén Rueda Fernando Cayo Geraldine Chaplin Montserrat Carulla Mabel Rivera Andrés Gertrúdix Roger Príncep Edgar Vivar
orphan husband son mother ghost old woman suspenseful emotional striking frightening spain orphanage haunted house beach shed cave orphans illness disappearance parenthood
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2017
109 Minutes
Stephanie Sigman Talitha Eliana Bateman Lulu Wilson Philippa Coulthard Grace Fulton Samara Lee Tayler Buck Anthony LaPaglia Miranda Otto Lou Lou Safran Alicia Vela-Bailey
doll toy maker wife nun orphan creepy dark disturbing eerie house orphanage bedroom hallway grief orphans death of a child evil spirits dolls discovery mystery
Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker's possessed creation, Annabelle.
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.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
2016
97 Minutes
Kate Bosworth Thomas Jane Annabeth Gish Dash Mihok Jacob Tremblay Jay Karnes Lance E. Nichols Kyla Deaver Hunter Wenzel
foster child mother father dead person creature family member dark creepy intense thrilling frightening house store bedroom living room car office loss adoption dreams
A man (Thomas Jane) and his wife (Kate Bosworth) experience the wondrous dreams and terrifying nightmares of their 8-year-old foster son (Jacob Tremblay).
Drama, Horror, Mystery & Thriller
UK
2006
83 Minutes
Roger Lloyd-Pack Leo Bill Kate Fahy Sarah Ball Neil Conrich Richard Wills-Cotton Alan Perrin Richard Syms
husband wife son nurse aristocrat father emotional tense frightening england countryside estate family dysfunction mental disability illness aristocracy financial troubles father/son relationship sacrifice discovery
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. ... See full summary »
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2017
97 Minutes
Joel Edgerton Christopher Abbott Carmen Ejogo Riley Keough Kelvin Harrison Jr. Griffin Robert Faulkner David Pendleton Chase Joliet Mick O'Rourke
husband wife son refugee mother survivor bleak brooding creepy disturbing tense thrilling house woods basement forest home disease evil spirits mysterious illness
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. Then a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
UK
2015
95 Minutes
Diana Vickers Tony Curran Rupert Hill Peter Woodward Adrian Bouchet Sophie Lovell Anderson
lawyer father daughter fiancée accident victim man bleak brutal intense suspenseful creepy dark house woods hideout horror accident father/daughter relationship murder tradition
Deep in the English moors, a sociopath preys on innocent people, until one day his secrets are finally revealed and an inevitable confrontation is at hand.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Mexico
2012
97 Minutes
Francisco Barreiro Laura Caro Alan Martinez David Arturo Cabezud Enrique Saint-Martin Michele Estrada Jessica Iris Dana Dorel Juan Carlos Arreguin Giancarlo Ruiz Barbara Perrin Rivemar
wife husband parent couple son daughter thrilling engaging suspenseful shocking dark intense cave mexico tijuana tijuana, mexico horror danger fear change
A married couple lose 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 ... See full summary »
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
France
2003
83 Minutes
Ray Wise Fabrice Canepa Alexandra Holden Lin Shaye Mick Cain Billy Asher Amber Smith Steve Valentine Clement Blake Jimmy Skaggs Ivan Kraljevic
father daughter wife son boyfriend woman dark chilling tense california road car road trip death accident ghosts hitchhiker christmas mystery escape
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
2007
89 Minutes
Jaime King Cheng Pei-Pei Terry Chen Regan Oey Henry O Colin Foo Michael Biehn Vicky Huang
husband wife son pharmacist aunt ghost eerie dark tense vancouver, british columbia hospital funeral house pharmacy murder husband/wife relationship mourning visions chinese mythology supernatural
Jason and Sarah travel to Vancouver for a funeral, and their son begins seeing ghosts and violent deaths. After he is hospitalized, Sarah learns supernatural forces threaten her son.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
India
2009
146 Minutes
Madhavan Neetu Chandra Poonam Dhillon Sachin Khedekar Dhritiman Chatterjee Deepak Dobriyal
tenant wife police officer friend tv personality mother tense chilling thrilling apartment police station india mysterious past mind games family danger television show violence discovery mystery
A man experiences a supernatural occurrence at his newly purchased apartment; a soap opera being telecast exclusively on his TV, which shows the future of his family.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Australia|Canada
2014
93 Minutes
Essie Davis Daniel Henshall Noah Wiseman Hayley McElhinney Barbara West Cathy Adamek Benjamin Winspear Craig Behenna
widow son monster intense somber thrilling shocking suspenseful brutal house child's room bedroom depression children's book monsters mother/son relationship fear horror films transformation mystery
A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book titled "Mister Babadook" manifests in their home.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
1940
71 Minutes
mad scientist doctor prisoner daughter police captain fiancé creepy dark eerie suspenseful prison laboratory house death row aging scientific experiments murder prison life euthanasia father/daughter relationship
A physician on death row for a mercy killing is allowed to experiment on a serum using a criminals' blood, but secretly tests it on himself. He gets a pardon, but finds out he's become a Jekyll-&-Hyde.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
1976
102 Minutes
Paula E. Sheppard Brooke Shields Linda Miller Tom Signorelli Louisa Horton Mildred Clinton Lillian Roth Jane Lowry Rudolph Willrich Niles McMaster
mother daughter aunt father priest landlord dark gory chilling tense church apartment police station patterson, n.j. serial murders jealousy family dysfunction catholicism siblings divorce
In 1961, a divorced catholic couple's life is turned upside down when one of their two adolescent daughters is suspected of her younger sister's brutal murder during her First Communion, and a series of subsequent stabbings.
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, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Ireland|UK
2011
90 Minutes
Eva Birthistle Aidan Gillen Dan Gordon Ruth McCabe Timothy Spall Ella Connolly Amelia Crowley Brian Gleeson
mother father daughter dog village elder dark eerie emotional shocking thrilling rural community car house woods yard northern ireland death of a child paganism ritual grief
The parents of a girl who was killed by a savage dog are granted the opportunity to spend three days with their deceased daughter.
Mystery & Thriller, Horror
USA
2015
88 Minutes
Jason Patric Louisa Krause Mark Margolis Brandon Kieffer Carlos Velazquez
young woman mentally ill person night watchman daughter security guard paraplegic bleak chilling dark gripping suspenseful abandoned building office home apartment building secret passageway abandoned spaces haunted houses paranormal events single mothers
Take a terrifying plunge into the warped mind of a disturbed young woman. Desperate to get her life back on track, the unstable Streak takes a job as a security guard, working the graveyard... See full summary »
Horror, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
USA
2009
113 Minutes
Cameron Diaz James Marsden Frank Langella James Rebhorn Holmes Osborne Sam Stone Gillian Jacobs Celia Weston Deborah Rush Lisa K. Wyatt Mark Cartier
mother father son grandfather mysterious man sister eerie shocking chilling melodramatic household wedding car police station suburb home moral dilemma unintended consequences greed mysterious deaths
A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don't know.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
2013
105 Minutes
Karen Gillan Brenton Thwaites Katee Sackhoff Rory Cochrane Annalise Basso Garrett Ryan James Lafferty Miguel Sandoval Kate Siegel Scott P. Graham
brother evil spirit mother father sister doctor chilling creepy dark house clinic bedroom kitchen yard living room evil spirits haunted houses murder supernatural fear
A woman tries to exonerate her brother, who was convicted of murder, by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
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.