Movies Like The Poltergeist Diaries
If you liked The Poltergeist Diaries (2021), a horror and mystery movie directed by József Gallai, 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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Butterfly Kisses (2018)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and mysteryA filmmaker discovers a box of video tapes depicting two students' disturbing film project featuring a local horror legend, The Peeping Tom. As he sets out to prove this story is real and release it as a work of his…
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Past Malice: An Emma Fielding Mystery (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also mystery and dramaArchaeologist Emma Fielding is hired to consult on the acquisition of a castle-like estate that local legend states is cursed. But she finds herself in the middle of a murder case after discovering the body of the…
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The Caveman's Valentine (2001)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and mysteryRomulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim…
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Body Cam (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and 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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Mārama (2026)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and drama1859. 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.
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The Clovehitch Killer (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and mysteryA 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…
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A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2015)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and dramaA librarian with a sharp mind for murder, Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling…
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The Inhabitant (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and mysteryLike 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…
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The Ritual Killer (2023)
★ 5.8/10Also mystery and dramaUnable 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…
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Hell House LLC Origins: The Carmichael Manor (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mysteryA group of cold case investigators stay at the Carmichael Manor, site of the grisly and unsolved murders of the Carmichael family back in the eighties. After four nights, the group was never heard from again. What is…
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Paranormal Activity (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and mysteryAfter a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of…
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Triage (2009)
★ 6/10Also drama and mysteryThe wife of a photojournalist sets out to discover why he came home from a recent assignment without his colleague.
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Lady in White (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also mystery and horrorLocked 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 mystery and horrorA 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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Site Unseen: An Emma Fielding Mystery (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also mystery and dramaBrilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding is trying to unearth evidence of a 17th century coastal Maine settlement that predates Jamestown, one of the most significant archaeological finds in years…
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The Woman in Black (1989)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and mysteryA lawyer travels to a small seaside town to settle the estate of a recently deceased woman, but soon becomes ensnared in something much more sinister.
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Curse of the Blair Witch (1999)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and mysteryA mockumentary exploring the legend of the Blair Witch and the case of the three missing student filmmakers.
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The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and mysteryA three-year-old boy disappears during his mother's high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated.
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Older Gods (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and mysteryAfter the disappearance of his troubled friend, American Chris Rivers travels to the remote Welsh countryside to investigate what happened – leading him to a dark apocalyptic cult.
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Amelia’s Children (2024)
★ 6/10Also horror and mysteryWhen Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin…