Movies Like uMalusi

If you liked uMalusi, a movie directed by Mlingane Dube, 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
Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)
★ 7.7/10
Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.
2
Hostile (2018)
★ 6/10
Juliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange disturbing creatures that only come out at nighttime.
3
The In Between (2022)
★ 7.3/10
After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he's attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.
4
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
★ 6.6/10
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
5
The Silence (2019)
★ 6/10
With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.
6
The Offering (2022)
★ 5.9/10
In the wake of a young Jewish girl’s disappearance, the son of a Hasidic funeral director returns home with his pregnant wife in hopes of reconciling with his father. Little do they know that directly beneath them in…
7
Other Mommy (2026)
★ 5.8/10
Young Bela forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home that looks uncannily like her own mother, drawing her into a terrifying and increasingly dark world.
8
Arcadian (2024)
★ 6/10
In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their…
9
Flatliners (1990)
★ 6.5/10
Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
10
Dagon (2001)
★ 6.1/10
A boating accident off the coast of Spain sends Paul and his girlfriend Barbara to the decrepit fishing village of Imboca. As night falls, people start to disappear and things not quite human start to appear. Paul is…
11
Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.2/10
Three people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
12
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
★ 6.4/10
After a carnival troupe saves his life, a man agrees to help its immortal leader collect five souls and win a bet with the devil.
13
Baghead (2023)
★ 6.5/10
Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little…
14
R.I.P.D. 2: Rise of the Damned (2022)
★ 6.2/10
When Sheriff Roy Pulsipher finds himself in the afterlife, he joins a special police force and returns to Earth to save humanity from the undead.
15
Jumper (2008)
★ 6.2/10
David Rice is a man who knows no boundaries, a Jumper, born with the uncanny ability to teleport instantly to anywhere on Earth. When he discovers others like himself, David is thrust into a dangerous and bloodthirsty…
16
8 (2020)
★ 6/10
An old man, fated to collect souls for eternity, seeks atonement after trading his daughter's soul.
17
Legion (2010)
★ 5.9/10
When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel…
18
The Relic (1997)
★ 6.2/10
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
19
Chances Are (1989)
★ 6.6/10
Louie Jeffries is happily married to Corinne. On their first anniversary, Louie is killed crossing the road. Louie is reincarnated as Alex Finch, and twenty years later, fate brings Alex and Louie's daughter, Miranda…
20
Saccharine (2026)
★ 7.1/10
After succumbing to an obscure weight-loss craze involving the eating of human ashes, lovelorn medical student Hana finds herself haunted by the ghost of the person she's eating.