Movies Like Forbidden Empire

If you liked Forbidden Empire (2014), a thriller and adventure movie directed by Oleg Stepchenko, 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.

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Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also mystery and thriller
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…
2
The Watchers (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and mystery
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
3
Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller and fantasy
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
4
A Dark Song (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and mystery
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
5
Dark Harvest (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and thriller
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
6
The Entity (1982)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and thriller
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
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In the Lost Lands (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also adventure and fantasy
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.
8
Gogol. The Beginning (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and adventure
1829: Nikolay Gogol, troubled Third Section clerk, burns his own books. Epileptic seizures plague him. Investigator Yakov Guro discovers Gogol's visions hold crime-solving clues. Together, they tackle a baffling case…
9
Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and thriller
When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
10
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and thriller
A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against…
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Castle Freak (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and mystery
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
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Underworld: Evolution (2006)
★ 6.6/10Also fantasy and thriller
As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an…
13
Haunted (1995)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and fantasy
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching…
14
I Still See You (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and fantasy
Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Ronnie descends…
15
Gogol. Viy (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also mystery and adventure
A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from Saint Petersburg has to take charge of the investigation, but the closer he…
16
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.
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Abandoned (2022)
★ 5.8/10Also mystery and thriller
After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.
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The Witch (2016)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and mystery
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are…
19
The Silence (2019)
★ 6/10Also thriller and fantasy
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.
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also mystery and thriller
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd ever seen before…