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Movies that feel like Forbidden Empire (2014)

If you loved Forbidden Empire, the closest films we have are The Sentinel (1977), Noroi: The Curse (2005) and Finders Keepers (2014). All three share Forbidden Empire's twisty and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

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The Sentinel
1977 · dir. Michael Winner
🍅 45%6.3horror · mystery · fantasy

Both are working the same pair: church, demon

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Forbidden Empire

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

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Noroi: The Curse
2005 · dir. Koji Shiraishi
6.8horror · mystery · thriller

The same preoccupation in both: demon

A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon.

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Finders Keepers
2014 · dir. Alexander Yellen
🍅 98%4.3mystery · thriller · horror

Both land tension and twists at once

A haunted doll teaches one little girl why children shouldn't play with undead things.

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The Whole Truth
2021 · dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
5.2horror · mystery · thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

When two siblings stumble on a strange hole in the wall of their grandparents' house, horrifying incidents reveal sinister secrets about their family.

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The Bride
2017 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.6mystery · horror · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...

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They Look Like People
2016 · dir. Perry Blackshear
🍅 92%5.8drama · horror · mystery

Mystery with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Forbidden Empire does

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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Resolution
2013 · dir. Justin Benson
🍅 81%6.4horror · thriller · mystery

Both lean on twists more than on horror

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

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A Dark Song
2016 · dir. Liam Gavin
🍅 91%6.2horror · fantasy · mystery

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

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Häxan
1922 · dir. Benjamin Christensen
🍅 93%7.6documentary · horror · history

The same two preoccupations: mystic, and witchcraft

The difference: Made in the 1920s, in a different era of the craft

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Juliana Rojas
🍅 96%6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Dread-soaked adventure in both cases

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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The Little Stranger
2018 · dir. Lenny Abrahamson
🍅 64%5.5mystery · horror

Both lean on unease more than on science fiction

In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at lonely Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house is now in decline. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life?

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The Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%5.8thriller · mystery · horror

Thriller built on tension, twice over

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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