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Movies Like A Dragon Arrives!

If you liked A Dragon Arrives! (2016), a drama and mystery movie directed by Mani Haghighi, 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. 1Mārama

    Mārama (2026)

    ★ 6.3/10Also horror and drama

    1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.

  2. 2Stay

    Stay (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10Also mystery and drama

    Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…

  3. 3The Home

    The Home (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror and mystery

    A troubled man starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to…

  4. 4Hollywoodland

    Hollywoodland (2006)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and mystery

    When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.

  5. 5The Client

    The Client (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and mystery

    A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the…

  6. 6The Ritual Killer

    The Ritual Killer (2023)

    ★ 5.8/10Also mystery and drama

    Unable to process the death of his daughter, Detective Boyd embarks on a hunt for a serial killer who murders according to a brutal tribal ritual: Muti. The only person who can help Boyd is Professor Mackles, an…

  7. 7Nocturne

    Nocturne (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror and mystery

    Inside the halls of an elite arts academy, a timid music student begins to outshine her more accomplished and outgoing twin sister when she discovers a mysterious notebook belonging to a recently deceased classmate.

  8. 8The Ring

    The Ring (2002)

    ★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery

    Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel…

  9. 9Black Rainbow

    Black Rainbow (1989)

    ★ 5.9/10Also mystery and horror

    Martha Travis is a medium who makes contact with spirits "on the other side" and connects them with their loved ones still alive, in public performances. Trouble begins when she gives a message to Mary Kuron from her…

  10. 10Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise

    Jesse Stone: Lost in Paradise (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and mystery

    Police Chief Jesse Stone now presides over the quiet, seaside village of Paradise, Massachusetts. When the facts don't add up in a brutal Boston-area murder case, Jesse opens an investigation filled with surprises…

  11. 11The Awakening

    The Awakening (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10Also horror and mystery

    In post–War England, a writer and sometime-ghost hunter investigates a reported haunting at a boys boarding school.

  12. 12The Number 23

    The Number 23 (2007)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery and drama

    Animal control officer Walter Sparrow becomes obsessed with a novel that he believes was written about him, as more and more similarities between himself and his literary alter ego seem to arise.

  13. 13The Good Doctor

    The Good Doctor (2011)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and mystery

    Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts…

  14. 14Triage

    Triage (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and mystery

    The wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.

  15. 15The Clovehitch Killer

    The Clovehitch Killer (2018)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama and mystery

    A picture-perfect family is torn apart after Tyler finds a cache of disturbing images in his father's possession. He begins to suspect that the man he trusts most in the world may be responsible for the murder of 13…

  16. 16The Serpent's Egg

    The Serpent's Egg (1977)

    ★ 6.2/10Also mystery and drama

    In 1923 Berlin, following the suicide of his brother, an American acrobat struggles to survive while facing unemployment, depression, alcoholism, and the social decay of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

  17. 17Intruders

    Intruders (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror

    Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.

  18. 18They Call Me Mister Tibbs!

    They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and mystery

    A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.

  19. 19Raging Grace

    Raging Grace (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror

    An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for…

  20. 20True Crime

    True Crime (1999)

    ★ 6.5/10Also mystery and drama

    Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly…

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