Movies like The Orphanage
Discover a curated list of captivating movies similar to The Orphanage. Explore films such as A Nightmare on Elm Street, Shutter Island, and Dead Silence, around the themes of orphanage, dead children, missing child. Other notable keywords include orphan and female protagonist.
#1
A Nightmare on Elm Street
Synopsis:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devis…
Starring:
Johnny Depp,
Heather Langenkamp,
Robert Englund
#2
Shutter Island
Synopsis:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Starring:
Mark Ruffalo,
Jackie Earle Haley,
Ben Kingsley
Plot:
surprise ending,
neo noir,
mental asylum,
cave,
memory,
filicide,
plot twist,
psycho thriller,
delusion,
containment
...
#3
Dead Silence
Synopsis:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find out the truth, Jamie goes to the town of Raven's Fair, where Shaw used to perform and is buried. But Jamie is in for more than he expected.
Starring:
Ryan Kwanten,
Amber Valletta,
Donnie Wahlberg
#4
The Ring
Synopsis:
It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better …
Starring:
Naomi Watts,
Martin Henderson,
Daveigh Chase
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#5
Suspiria
Synopsis:
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.
Starring:
Chloë Grace Moretz,
Tilda Swinton,
Mia Goth
#6
Freddy vs. Jason
Synopsis:
In an attempt to free himself from a state of forgotten limbo, evil dream-demon Freddy Krueger devises a plan to manipulate un-dead mass murderer Jason Voorhees into slicing-and-dicing his way through the teenage population of Springwood. But when the master of dreams loses control of his monster, a brutal fight to the death is the only way out.
Starring:
Robert Englund,
Lochlyn Munro,
Brendan Fletcher
#7
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Synopsis:
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Sarah and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
Starring:
Gil Bellows,
Austin Abrams,
Dean Norris
#8
It
Synopsis:
In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.
Starring:
Jack Dylan Grazer,
Nicholas Hamilton,
Jake Sim
Similar plot
#9
It Chapter Two
Synopsis:
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
Starring:
James McAvoy,
Jessica Chastain,
James Ransone
#10
Hereditary
Synopsis:
When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
Starring:
Ann Dowd,
Gabriel Byrne,
Toni Collette
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#11
Ghost Ship
Synopsis:
After discovering a passenger ship missing since 1962 floating adrift on the Bering Sea, salvagers claim the vessel as their own. Once they begin towing the ghost ship towards harbor, a series of bizarre occurrences happen and the group becomes trapped inside the ship, which they soon learn is inhabited by a demonic creature.
Starring:
Julianna Margulies,
Gabriel Byrne,
Desmond Harrington
#12
The Shining
Synopsis:
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson,
Tony Burton,
Scatman Crothers
Plot:
labyrinth,
hotel,
identical twins,
typewriter,
snow,
isolation,
snowstorm,
surrealism,
domestic violence,
based on novel
...
Movie in categories
#13
The Conjuring
Synopsis:
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
Starring:
Vera Farmiga,
Patrick Wilson,
Joey King
#14
Hellboy
Synopsis:
Hellboy comes to England, where he must defeat Nimue, Merlin's consort and the Blood Queen. But their battle will bring about the end of the world, a fate he desperately tries to turn away.
Starring:
Sophie Okonedo,
Daniel Dae Kim,
David Harbour
Plot:
demon,
based on comic,
superhero,
magic,
sorceress,
death,
wizard,
reboot,
based on graphic novel,
violence
...
With the same actors
#15
Bride of Chucky
Synopsis:
Chucky hooks up with another murderous doll, the bridal gown-clad Tiffany, for a Route 66 murder spree with their unwitting hosts.
Starring:
Jennifer Tilly,
Brad Dourif,
Katherine Heigl
#16
As Above, So Below
Synopsis:
When a team of explorers ventures into the catacombs that lie beneath the streets of Paris, they uncover the dark secret that lies within this city of the dead.
Starring:
Perdita Weeks,
Ben Feldman,
Edwin Hodge
Plot:
catacomb,
found footage,
paris france,
archeologist,
hell,
underground tunnel,
treasure,
dead body,
demon,
underground
...
#17
A Quiet Place
Synopsis:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Starring:
John Krasinski,
Emily Blunt,
Millicent Simmonds
#18
The Grudge
Synopsis:
An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Starring:
KaDee Strickland,
Bill Pullman,
Grace Zabriskie
Plot:
housewife,
pet cat,
bus,
male frontal nudity,
supernatural horror,
2000s,
east asia,
asia,
remake,
part of trilogy
...
#19
Insidious
Synopsis:
A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Starring:
Lin Shaye,
Patrick Wilson,
Leigh Whannell
#20
Insidious: Chapter 2
Synopsis:
The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.
Starring:
Lin Shaye,
Patrick Wilson,
Leigh Whannell