Movies Like The Inner Flame

If you liked The Inner Flame (2025), a fantasy and mystery movie directed by Cristián Sánchez, 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
La Casa (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery
Responding to an urgent call for help, a police officer becomes trapped by the evil spirits of a cursed house.
2
Tragic Jungle (2020)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery
Deep in the jungle, a group of Mexican gum workers crosses their path with Agnes, a mysterious Belizean woman. Her presence enlivens the fantasies and desires of those men, without knowing that they have woken up an…
3
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery
Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…
4
The Chalk Line (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery
After a couple finds a traumatized child of unknown origins, wife Paula must decipher the girl's strange behaviors to unlock her identity and dark past.
5
Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also mystery and fantasy
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…
6
Abigail (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and mystery
A young girl Abigail lives in a city whose borders were closed many years ago because of an epidemic of a mysterious disease. Abby's father was one of the sick - and he was taken when she was six years old. Going…
7
Legions (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy
While evil forces descend on Argentina, humanity’s best hope, a once-legendary shaman is confined to an insane asylum, powerless to avert the demonic resurrection.
8
Nightbreed (1990)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
9
The Cellar (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also 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…
10
Hide and Seek (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery
David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an…
11
The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy and mystery
In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary…
12
Winter's Tale (2014)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and mystery
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
13
Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy
Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…
14
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and fantasy
A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
15
Anastasia: Once Upon a Time (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy
Anastasia Romanov escapes through a portal when her family is threatened by Vladimir Lenin, and she finds herself in the year 1988, befriended by a young American girl.
16
Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10Also fantasy
When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
17
Come Away (2020)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy
Before Alice went to Wonderland, and before Peter became Pan, they were brother and sister. When their eldest brother dies in a tragic accident, they each seek to save their parents from their downward spirals of…
18
Inkheart (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy
The adventures of a father and his young daughter, in their search for a long lost book that will help reunite a missing, close relative.
19
Wicked (2021)
★ 7.8/10Also fantasy
Ivy Morgan, a college student in New Orleans, falls for Ren Owens, the last person she expected to enter her rigidly controlled life.
20
Momo (2025)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time…