50 Movies Like Crimson Peak (2015) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View Crimson Peak details →If you loved Crimson Peak (2015) by Guillermo del Toro, here are 50 movies that share its content DNA. iRankMovies measures real similarity using cosine similarity across eight weighted dimensions — genre (50%), tone (12%), pace (10%), structure (8%), era (7%), theme (6%), audience (4%) and narrative perspective (3%) — not just the rating. The closest matches according to our analysis are Session 9, Midsommar, The Innocents. Every title is ranked by how closely it matches and backed by the iRank Score, a composite of IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDb across 12,000+ analysed titles.
The Best Movies Similar to Crimson Peak
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with Crimson Peak in terms of theme, narrative tone, and cinematic style. Every recommendation goes beyond genre — we evaluate the type of conflict, pacing, dramatic context, and the experience they create for viewers.
Session 9
2001 · Brad Anderson
Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
Midsommar
2019 · Ari Aster
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where t
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
The Innocents
1961 · Jack Clayton
In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed.
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
Jacob's Ladder
1990 · Adrian Lyne
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around hi
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
Suspiria
2018 · Luca Guadagnino
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the night
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
Three Colors: Red
1994 · Krzysztof Kieślowski
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two for
In common: Drama · Mystery · Romance
Where the Crawdads Sing
2022 · Olivia Newman
Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enfor
In common: Drama · Mystery · Romance
Return to Silent Hill
2026 · Christophe Gans
When James receives a mysterious letter from his lost love Mary, he is drawn to Silent Hill—a once-familiar town now consumed by darkness. As he searches for her, James faces monstrous creatures and u
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
Red Riding Hood
2011 · Catherine Hardwicke
Valerie is in love with a brooding outsider, Peter, but her parents have arranged for her to marry another man. Unwilling to lose each other, Valerie and Peter plan to run away together when Valerie's
In common: Drama · Horror
The Gift
2000 · Sam Raimi
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plag
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
After.Life
2009 · Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo
Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
What Lies Beneath
2000 · Robert Zemeckis
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
The Lodge
2020 · Severin Fiala
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them in
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
The Skin I Live In
2011 · Pedro Almodóvar
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
A Tale of Two Sisters
2003 · Kim Jee-woon
Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin t
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1992 · David Lynch
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experienc
In common: Drama · Horror · Mystery
Jigsaw
2017 · Michael Spierig
Law enforcement finds itself chasing the ghost of a man dead for over a decade, embroiled in a diabolical new game that's only just begun.
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Ritual
2017 · David Bruckner
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Spiral: From the Book of Saw
2021 · Darren Lynn Bousman
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the c
In common: Horror · Mystery
Entrapment
1999 · Jon Amiel
Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up falling in love.
In common: Drama · Mystery · Romance
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992 · Francis Ford Coppola
Count Dracula, a 15th-century prince, is condemned to live off the blood of the living for eternity. Young lawyer Jonathan Harker is sent to Dracula's castle to finalise a land deal, but when the Coun
In common: Horror · Romance
Meet the Fockers
2004 · Jay Roach
Hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife Dina head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet the parents of their son-in-law-to-be, Greg Focker. Unlike their happily matched offspring, the fut
In common: Romance
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
2016 · André Øvredal
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key
In common: Horror · Mystery
Barbarian
2022 · Zach Cregger
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better jud
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Ring
2002 · Gore Verbinski
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watch
In common: Horror · Mystery
It Follows
2015 · David Robert Mitchell
A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Saw X
2023 · Kevin Greutert
Between the events of 'Saw' and 'Saw II', a sick and desperate John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure in hopes of a miracle cure for his cancer, only to discover
In common: Horror · Mystery
Last Shift
2014 · Anthony DiBlasi
Rookie police officer Jessica Loren has been assigned the last shift at a closing police station and must wait for a hazmat crew to collect biomedical evidence. Ordered not to leave the station under
In common: Horror · Mystery
1408
2007 · Mikael Håfström
A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Oddity
2024 · Damian McCarthy
After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · André Øvredal
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bell
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Babadook
2014 · Jennifer Kent
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
In common: Drama · Horror
Cujo
1983 · Lewis Teague
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
In common: Drama · Horror
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2007 · Tim Burton
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit
In common: Drama · Horror
Carrie
2013 · Kimberly Peirce
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.
In common: Drama · Horror
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · Pier Paolo Pasolini
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
In common: Drama · Horror
mother!
2017 · Darren Aronofsky
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
In common: Drama · Horror
Before Sunset
2004 · Richard Linklater
Nine years later, Jesse travels across Europe giving readings from a book he wrote about the night he spent in Vienna with Celine. After his reading in Paris, Celine finds him, and they spend part of
In common: Drama · Romance
Leaving Las Vegas
1995 · Mike Figgis
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-i
In common: Drama · Romance
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993 · Lasse Hallström
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't leave the house, and his mentally impaired younger br
In common: Drama · Romance
Waves
2019 · Trey Edward Shults
A controlling father’s attempts to ensure that his two children succeed in high school backfire after his son experiences a career-ending sports injury. Their familial bonds are eventually placed unde
In common: Drama · Romance
The Theory of Everything
2014 · James Marsh
The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jan
In common: Drama · Romance
Up in the Air
2009 · Jason Reitman
Corporate downsizing expert Ryan Bingham spends his life in planes, airports, and hotels, but just as he’s about to reach a milestone of ten million frequent flyer miles, he meets a woman who causes h
In common: Drama · Romance
Damage
1992 · Louis Malle
The life of a respected British politician at the height of his career crumbles when he becomes obsessed with his son's lover.
In common: Drama · Romance
Fifty Shades Freed
2018 · James Foley
Believing they have left behind shadowy figures from their past, newlyweds Christian and Ana fully embrace an inextricable connection and shared life of luxury. But just as she steps into her role as
In common: Drama · Romance
Titanic
1997 · James Cameron
101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and Fabrizio De Rossi w
In common: Drama · Romance
Our Fault
2025 · Domingo González
Jenna and Lion's wedding brings about the long-awaited reunion between Noah and Nick after their breakup. Nick's inability to forgive Noah stands as an insurmountable barrier. He, heir to his grandfat
In common: Drama · Romance
My Fault: London
2025 · Dani Girdwood
18-year-old Noah moves from America to London, with her mother who's recently fallen in love with William, a wealthy British businessman. Noah meets William’s son, bad-boy Nick, and soon discovers the
In common: Drama · Romance
Dangerous Liaisons
1988 · Stephen Frears
In 18th century France, Marquise de Merteuil asks her ex-lover Vicomte de Valmont to seduce the future wife of another ex-lover of hers in return for one last night with her. Yet things don’t go as pl
In common: Drama · Romance
Fifty Shades Darker
2017 · James Foley
When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find
In common: Drama · Romance
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Breaking Bad
2008 · Michelle MacLaren
Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live. He becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
2023 · Kazutaka Yamanaka
After the party of heroes defeated the Demon King, they restored peace to the land and returned to lives of solitude. Generations pass, and the elven mage Frieren comes face to face with humanity’s m
The Chosen
2019 · Tyler Thompson
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