Movies Like Das Gesicht auf der Wand
If you liked Das Gesicht auf der Wand (1983), a mystery movie directed by Dieter Finnern, 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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The Jester (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also mysteryThe Jester is the titular main antagonist of the horror/thriller analogy short films of the same name. He is an enigmatic and malevolent being who enjoys inducing suffering to individuals he comes across who don't…
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The Lady Vanishes (2013)
★ 6.3/10Also mysteryYoung socialite Iris Carr befriends an older woman while traveling solo by train. When Iris wakes from a nap, the woman is gone and other passengers claim she never existed.
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The Cellar (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryWhen Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk…
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What Lies Beneath (2000)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryNorman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
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Body Cam (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryAs a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.
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The Entity (1982)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryA 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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Night Watch (1973)
★ 6.3/10Also mysteryA 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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The Infernal Machine (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryReclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…
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Haunted (1995)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryProfessor 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…
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The Limits of Control (2009)
★ 6/10Also mysteryA mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him…
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The Car (1977)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryThe Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined…
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Don't Let Go (2019)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryA detective suffering from a personal loss receives a call from his recently deceased niece. Being able to communicate across time, the two work together to try and stop the crime before it occurs.
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Hide and Seek (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also mysteryDavid Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an…
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Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also 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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Sleepy Hollow (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also mysterySkeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a…
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Anon (2018)
★ 6/10Also mysterySet in a near-future world where there is no privacy, ignorance or anonymity, our private memories are recorded and crime almost ceases to exist. In trying to solve a series of unsolved murders, Sal Frieland stumbles…
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Lady in White (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also mysteryLocked in a school closet during Halloween 1962, young Frank witnesses the ghost of a young girl and the man who murdered her years ago.
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Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also mysteryA 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…
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Spellbound (1945)
★ 7.4/10Also mysteryWhen Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the…
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Maniac (1963)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryWhen a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.