Movies Like The Riddle of Jaan Niemand

If you liked The Riddle of Jaan Niemand (2018), a thriller and fantasy movie directed by Kaur Kokk, 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
Caddo Lake (2024)
★ 7.2/10Also mystery and thriller
When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.
2
Blindness (2008)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and thriller
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
3
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasy and thriller
Skeptical 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…
4
Open Grave (2013)
★ 6/10Also thriller and mystery
A man awakes -- without memory -- in a pit full of bodies and must figure out if the people who rescued him are the killers, or if he is the murderer.
5
What Lies Beneath (2000)
★ 6.4/10Also mystery and thriller
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
6
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…
7
Old (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller and mystery
A group of families on a tropical holiday discover that the secluded beach where they are staying is somehow causing them to age rapidly – reducing their entire lives into a single day.
8
Before I Wake (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy and thriller
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
9
Men (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller and fantasy
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her…
10
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.
11
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…
12
Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and thriller
Raimund Gregorius, having saved a beautiful Portuguese woman from leaping to her death, stumbles upon a mesmerizing book by a Portuguese author, which compels him to suddenly abandon the boring life he has led for…
13
The Village (2004)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and thriller
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
14
Remember (2015)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and mystery
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.
15
The Watcher in the Woods (1980)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and thriller
After an American family moves to an old country manor in rural England, one of the daughters is tormented by the spirit of the owner's long lost daughter, who mysteriously disappeared 30 years ago during a solar…
16
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…
17
The Lighthouse (2019)
★ 7.5/10Also fantasy and thriller
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
18
Stir of Echoes (1999)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery and thriller
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
19
The I Inside (2004)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and mystery
When Simon awakens in the hospital after surviving a near-fatal accident, amnesia has erased the last two years from his memory. He learns that his brother was killed, he has married a woman he doesn't remember and…
20
The Caller (1987)
★ 5.9/10Also mystery and thriller
One night, an unusual stranger in need asks a woman living alone in a house in the woods if he can use her phone. It soon becomes clear that they're playing a strange mind game and that there's something very wrong…