Movies Like Dark Nuns

If you liked Dark Nuns (2025), a horror and mystery movie directed by Kwon Hyeok-jae, 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 Priests (2015)
★ 6.8/10Also mystery and thriller
To save a girl in danger, a priest and deacon jump into a mysterious case.
2
The Others (2001)
★ 7.6/10Also horror and mystery
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to…
3
Pyewacket (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller
A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.
4
The Cellar (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and mystery
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk…
5
Metamorphosis (2019)
★ 7/10Also horror and thriller
An evil spirit that changes faces infiltrates one family placing one brother in danger while the other tries to save him.
6
Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by…
7
Circle (2015)
★ 6/10Also horror and mystery
In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two…
8
The Divine Fury (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and thriller
After waking up with mysterious wounds on his hands, a champion fighter finds himself in an otherworldly battle against evil forces that wreak havoc in the human world.
9
The City of the Dead (1960)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and horror
In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's…
10
The Invitation (2016)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and horror
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that…
11
Mermaid Down (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and mystery
A mermaid is ripped from the ocean by a fishing crew only to be tortured and to have her tail cut off. A seemingly helpful stranger intervenes, but then locks her away in an institution for mentally disturbed young…
12
I Confess (1953)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and thriller
When a priest hears a murderer’s confession, he becomes bound by his vow of silence—even as circumstantial evidence turns suspicion toward him. Torn between faith and self-preservation, he faces public scandal and…
13
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and horror
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
14
Burnt Offerings (1976)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and thriller
A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
15
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and mystery
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
16
Voice (2005)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery
While practicing after hours in her high school, an aspiring singer is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her invisible ghost is trapped in the school, but her best friend is able to hear her voice.
17
Nightmare (1964)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller and horror
A young woman is plagued by nightmares of her asylum-patient mother. Upon returning to her family home, the nightmares become real when she sees a strange woman pacing the halls.
18
The Possessed (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller
A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the…
19
Warning: Do Not Play (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and mystery
A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.
20
The Cat (2011)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and mystery
So-yeon suffers from claustrophobia and inherits a Persian cat when its owner dies. She begins having nightmares and people around her begin dying as she searches for the truth.