Movies Like The Skin Under the Claws

If you liked The Skin Under the Claws (1975), a mystery and horror movie directed by Alessandro Santini, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
The Mirror Crack'd (1980)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery
Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
2
Saw (2004)
★ 7.4/10Also horror and mystery
Two men wake up to find themselves shackled in a grimy, abandoned bathroom. As they struggle to comprehend their predicament, they discover a disturbing tape left behind by the sadistic mastermind known as Jigsaw. With…
3
Mindcage (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also mystery
Detectives Jake Doyle and Mary Kelly seek the help of an incarcerated serial killer named The Artist when a copycat killer strikes. While Mary searches for clues in The Artist's brilliant but twisted psyche, she and…
4
Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and mystery
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome…
5
The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and mystery
When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently…
6
Cleaner (2007)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery
Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may…
7
The Raven (1935)
★ 6.6/10Also horror
A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to…
8
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and horror
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
9
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (1987)
★ 7.5/10Also mystery
Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
10
Smile (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
11
What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and horror
After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that…
12
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…
13
The Night Stalker (1972)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and horror
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of murders in Las Vegas and suspects the culprit is a vampire. His editor thinks he's crazy and the police think he's a nuisance, so Kolchak takes matters into…
14
The Girl Who Got Away (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and mystery
A female serial killer who killed four young girls is sent away to prison, but a fifth victim escaped with her life. Twenty years later, the killer escapes and begins hunting for the one who got away.
15
Urban Legend (1998)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and horror
A college campus is plagued by a vicious serial killer murdering students in ways that correspond to various urban legends.
16
Psycho (1960)
★ 8.4/10Also horror and mystery
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
17
Strange Darling (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also horror
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
18
The Mean Season (1985)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery
A routine investigation of a shocking murder takes a bizarre twist when the killer contacts the reporter and appoints him his personal spokesman. As the killer's calls and clues increase, the reporter is lured into a…
19
Into the Labyrinth (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery
When a kidnapping victim turns up alive after fifteen years, a profiler and a private investigator try to piece together the mystery.
20
6 Souls (2010)
★ 6/10Also horror and mystery
A female forensic psychiatrist discovers that all of one of her patient's multiple personalities are murder victims. She will have to find out what's happening before her time is finished.