Movies Like The Secret of the Blue Room
If you liked The Secret of the Blue Room (1932), a horror and mystery movie directed by Erich Engels, 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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Play Dead (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorCriminology 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…
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The Inhabitant (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and mysteryLike any other teenage girl, Tara is just surviving high school — yet her father and mother seem strangely distant. Amidst a nearby spree of gruesome ax murders, Tara has sightings of terrifying entities, forcing her…
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Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and mysteryWhen a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
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Whisper (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also horrorSinister things begin happening to kidnappers who are holding a young boy for ransom in a remote cabin.
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No One Gets Out Alive (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and mysteryAn immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
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Dark Harvest (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horrorIn 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.
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The Woman in Black (1989)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and mysteryA lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.
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Night Watch (1973)
★ 6.3/10Also mystery and horrorA woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
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Older Gods (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and mysteryAfter the disappearance of his troubled friend, American Chris Rivers travels to the remote Welsh countryside to investigate what happened – leading him to a dark apocalyptic cult.
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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mysterySix people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive... and discovering they've all played the games before.
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All the Devils Are Here (2025)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryAfter a heist, four criminals lay low in a remote safehouse, waiting for orders. As paranoia builds, one thing becomes clear — the real threat may not be outside, but among them.
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The Last Breath (2024)
★ 6/10Also horrorA 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…
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Stowaway (2022)
★ 6/10Also mysteryA tenacious party girl fights to survive after three thieves commandeer her luxury yacht. Unable to escape and trapped on the yacht at high seas, the prey becomes the hunter as she turns the tables on the intruders and…
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryNancy 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…
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The Blue Gardenia (1953)
★ 6.5/10Also mysteryUpon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while…
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The Dogs (2025)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and mysteryAfter fleeing his psychotic father, a young teen and his mom seek refuge in a remote farmhouse, only to face a pack of ferocious dogs and the sinister spirits that haunt the property.
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Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mysteryA group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is…
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Amelia’s Children (2024)
★ 6/10Also horror and mysteryWhen Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin…
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Vicious (2025)
★ 6/10Also horrorWhen 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.
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825 Forest Road (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also horrorAfter a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark history of being haunted by a ghostly…