Movies Like Kawela

If you liked Kawela (2017), a thriller movie directed by Amanjit Singh Brar, 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
Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
2
Spectral (2016)
★ 6.6/10Also thriller
A special-ops team is dispatched to fight supernatural beings that have taken over a European city.
3
The Deliverance (2024)
★ 6/10Also thriller
Ebony Jackson, a struggling single mother fighting her personal demons, moves her family into a new home for a fresh start. But when strange occurrences inside the home raise the suspicions of Child Protective Services…
4
Blackwood (2014)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
Having recovered from a shattering emotional breakdown, college professor Ben Marshall relocates to the countryside with his wife and young son, hoping for a fresh start. He has a teaching job lined up and a new home…
5
Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also 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…
6
The Ritual (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller
Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.
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The Entity (1982)
★ 6.8/10Also thriller
A 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.
8
Strange but True (2019)
★ 6/10Also thriller
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
9
What Lies Beneath (2000)
★ 6.4/10Also 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.
10
Body Cam (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
As a police officer investigates the gruesome murder of her colleague, she discovers that a mysterious supernatural force is behind it.
11
Bagman (2024)
★ 6.1/10Also thriller
For centuries and across cultures, parents have warned their children of the legendary Bagman, who snatches innocent children and stuffs them into his vile, rotting bag—never to be seen again. Patrick McKee narrowly…
12
Black Box (2026)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
Vero Airlines Flight 298 from New Orleans to Seattle becomes the center of a chilling supernatural mystery.
13
Don't Hang Up (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
An evening of drunken prank calls becomes a nightmare for a pair of teenagers when a mysterious stranger turns their own game against them.
14
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also 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…
15
The Unhealer (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also thriller
A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to…
16
Next (2007)
★ 6.2/10Also thriller
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical…
17
Candyman (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also thriller
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
18
Cheat (2023)
★ 7.1/10Also thriller
On the surface it's believed to be another urban legend - a supernatural being from the afterlife is violently killing anyone who cheats on their significant other in the small college town of Silvercreek…
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Stigmata (1999)
★ 6.3/10Also thriller
A young woman with no strong religious beliefs, Frankie Paige begins having strange and violent experiences, showing signs of the wounds that Jesus received when crucified. When the Vatican gets word of Frankie's…
20
Pooka Lives! (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller
A group of thirty-something friends from high school create their own Creepypasta about Pooka for laughs, but are shocked when it becomes so viral on the internet that it actually manifests more murdererous versions of…