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Movies Like The Death That Awaits

If you liked The Death That Awaits (2025), a horror and thriller movie directed by Richard J. Lee, 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. 1Shades of Desire

    Shades of Desire (2023)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller

    After her twin sister Aubrey goes missing, Jennifer uncovers the scandalous, secret double-life that Aubrey leads - and that has put both of them in danger.

  2. 2Succubus

    Succubus (2024)

    ★ 8.3/10Also horror and thriller

    A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman... whose powers of seduction and manipulation entangle him in a mystery more horrifying than he…

  3. 3Vicious

    Vicious (2025)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.

  4. 4Whisper

    Whisper (2007)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror and thriller

    Sinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.

  5. 5You'll Never Find Me

    You'll Never Find Me (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the…

  6. 6Play Dead

    Play Dead (2022)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is…

  7. 7Daddy's Little Girl

    Daddy's Little Girl (2014)

    ★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller

    After the police find Derek’s daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is ‘part of the family.’ With careful research into the history of torture…

  8. 8Nocebo

    Nocebo (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller and horror

    A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…

  9. 9Chief of Station

    Chief of Station (2024)

    ★ 6.3/10Also thriller

    After learning that the death of his wife was not an accident, a former CIA Station Chief is forced back into the espionage underworld, teaming up with an adversary to unravel a conspiracy that challenges everything he…

  10. 10Hider in the House

    Hider in the House (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

  11. 11Bad Sister

    Bad Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also thriller

    As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a…

  12. 12The 9th Life of Louis Drax

    The 9th Life of Louis Drax (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10Also thriller

    A psychologist who begins working with a young boy who has suffered a near-fatal fall finds himself drawn into a mystery that tests the boundaries of fantasy and reality.

  13. 13The Last Breath

    The Last Breath (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    A group of old college friends reunite on a Caribbean scuba diving trip exploring the wreckage of a WWII battleship and find themselves trapped inside the underwater labyrinth of rusted metal surrounded by great white…

  14. 14Bloodline Killer

    Bloodline Killer (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    Moira Cole endeavors to rebuild her shattered life after her family's murder at the hands of her deranged and obsessed cousin.

  15. 15Frank and Penelope

    Frank and Penelope (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also thriller and horror

    A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…

  16. 16Hunting Grounds

    Hunting Grounds (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also thriller

    Desperate to find refuge for her children, Chloe Marvino runs away from her Mafia tied husband, and finds shelter in a cabin with a recluse drifter named Jake. But as her husband's henchmen draw closer to her, it turns…

  17. 17The Deliverance

    The Deliverance (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and thriller

    Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services…

  18. 18Lights Out

    Lights Out (2024)

    ★ 7/10Also thriller

    A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.

  19. 19Body Cam

    Body Cam (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and thriller

    As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.

  20. 20The Infernal Machine

    The Infernal Machine (2022)

    ★ 6.2/10Also thriller

    Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…

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