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Movies Like Back For Revenge

If you liked Back For Revenge (1988), a crime and horror movie, 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. 1Nocebo

    Nocebo (2022)

    ★ 6/10Also mystery and horror

    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. 2The Limits of Control

    The Limits of Control (2009)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and mystery

    A 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…

  3. 3All the Devils Are Here

    All the Devils Are Here (2025)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and mystery

    After 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.

  4. 4Cleaner

    Cleaner (2007)

    ★ 6.1/10Also crime and mystery

    Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may…

  5. 5Black 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…

  6. 6The Seven-Ups

    The Seven-Ups (1973)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and mystery

    A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.

  7. 7Abandoned

    Abandoned (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror and mystery

    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.

  8. 8Awake

    Awake (2007)

    ★ 6.6/10Also crime and mystery

    While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make…

  9. 9Frank and Penelope

    Frank and Penelope (2022)

    ★ 7.3/10Also horror and crime

    A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is…

  10. 10The Blue Gardenia

    The Blue Gardenia (1953)

    ★ 6.5/10Also crime and mystery

    Upon 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…

  11. 11Maniac

    Maniac (1963)

    ★ 6.2/10Also crime and mystery

    When 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.

  12. 12The Mirror Crack'd

    The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

    ★ 6.1/10Also mystery and crime

    Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.

  13. 13The Inhabitant

    The Inhabitant (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and mystery

    Like 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…

  14. 14Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase

    Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and mystery

    Nancy 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…

  15. 15Body Cam

    Body Cam (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and mystery

    As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.

  16. 16Don't Let Go

    Don't Let Go (2019)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror and mystery

    A 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.

  17. 17The International

    The International (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10Also crime and mystery

    An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their…

  18. 18Absolution

    Absolution (2024)

    ★ 5.9/10Also crime and mystery

    An aging ex-boxer gangster working as muscle for a Boston crime boss receives an upsetting diagnosis. Despite a faltering memory, he attempts to rectify the sins of his past and reconnect with his estranged children…

  19. 19Like Minds

    Like Minds (2006)

    ★ 6.4/10Also mystery and horror

    A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.

  20. 20Anon

    Anon (2018)

    ★ 6/10Also crime and mystery

    Set 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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