Movies Like Vampire Diary

If you liked Vampire Diary (2007), a fantasy and drama movie directed by Phil O'Shea and Mark James, 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 Hunger (1983)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and drama
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of…
2
Martin (1978)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and drama
A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.
3
Ginger Snaps (2000)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and fantasy
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously…
4
Stake Land (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up…
5
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and fantasy
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her…
6
The Surrender (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
7
Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
8
Castle Freak (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
9
The Transfiguration (2016)
★ 6/10Also horror and drama
When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.
10
Fear Street: 1994 (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and drama
After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.
11
Southbound (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and horror
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister…
12
Fear Street: 1978 (2021)
★ 7.2/10Also horror and drama
In 1978, two rival groups at Camp Nightwing must band together to solve a terrifying mystery when horrors from their towns' history come alive.
13
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and fantasy
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
14
Hounds of Love (2016)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror
When Vicki Maloney is randomly abducted from a suburban street by a disturbed couple, she soon observes the dynamic between her captors and quickly realises she must drive a wedge between them if she is to survive.
15
Antichrist (2009)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
16
Vampires (1998)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and horror
The church enlists a team of vampire-hunters to hunt down and destroy a group of vampires searching for an ancient relic that will allow them to exist in sunlight.
17
The Midnight Meat Train (2008)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and fantasy
A photographer's obsessive pursuit of dark subject matter leads him into the path of a serial killer who stalks late night commuters, ultimately butchering them in the most gruesome ways.
18
The Woman (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror
A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.
19
Mandy (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and horror
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and…
20
Heartless (2010)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and horror
Jamie Morgan is a troubled young man with a facial birthmark, which has left him isolated and fearful, hiding from the world outside. He lives in the East End, notorious for its violent hooded gangs. According to news…