50 Movies Like Old (2021) You Need to Watch Next
Updated August 2026
View Old details →If you loved Old (2021) by M. Night Shyamalan, 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 Immaculate, Shutter, Malignant. 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 Old
Selected for their real similarity in content, these are the movies that share the most with Old 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.
Immaculate
2024 · Michael Mohan
An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home har
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Shutter
2004 · Banjong Pisanthanakun
When Jane and Tun run over a girl in a car accident, they speed away immediately from the crime scene. However, Tun, a photographer, soon discovers strange shadows in his photos, which unsettles them.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Malignant
2021 · James Wan
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities with a mysterious tie to her past.
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Ninth Gate
1999 · Roman Polanski
A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning th
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
2012 · MJ Bassett
Heather Mason and her father have been on the run, always one step ahead of dangerous forces that she doesn't fully understand. Now on the eve of her 18th birthday, plagued by horrific nightmares and
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Escape Room
2019 · Adam Robitel
Six strangers find themselves in circumstances beyond their control, and must use their wits to survive.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
The Grudge
2004 · Takashi Shimizu
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.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
When Evil Lurks
2023 · Demián Rugna
When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exor
In common: Horror · Thriller
Knock at the Cabin
2023 · M. Night Shyamalan
While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her two fathers are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limi
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Case 39
2009 · Christian Alvart
In her many years as a social worker, Emily Jenkins believes she has seen it all, until she meets 10-year-old Lilith and the girl's cruel parents. Emily's worst fears are confirmed when the parents tr
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions
2021 · Adam Robitel
Six people unwittingly find themselves locked in another series of escape rooms, slowly uncovering what they have in common to survive... and discovering they've all played the games before.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Brahms: The Boy II
2020 · William Brent Bell
After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Ghostland
2018 · Pascal Laugier
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reun
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Gothika
2003 · Mathieu Kassovitz
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murde
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Hereditary
2018 · Ari Aster
Following the death of the Leigh family matriarch, Annie and her children uncover disturbing secrets about their heritage. Their daily lives are not only impacted, but they also become entangled in a
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It
2021 · Michael Chaves
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren encounter what would become one of the most sensational cases from their files. The fight for the soul of a young boy takes them beyond anything they'd
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
The Others
2001 · Alejandro Amenábar
Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Exhuma
2024 · Jang Jae-hyun
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Wolf Man
2025 · Leigh Whannell
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, t
In common: Horror · Thriller
Marrowbone
2017 · Sergio G. Sánchez
A young man and his three younger siblings are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Smile 2
2024 · Parker Finn
About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fam
In common: Horror · Mystery
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Horror · Mystery
The Snowman
2017 · Tomas Alfredson
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · Scott Cooper
West Point, New York, 1830. When a cadet at the burgeoning military academy is found hanged with his heart cut out, the top brass summons former New York City constable Augustus Landor to investigate.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Men
2022 · Alex Garland
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to b
In common: Horror · Thriller
Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Tim Burton
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 attri
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Thing
2011 · Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickl
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Taking of Deborah Logan
2014 · Adam Robitel
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Devil
2010 · John Erick Dowdle
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Stonehearst Asylum
2014 · Brad Anderson
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Ghost Ship
2002 · Steve Beck
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 biza
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Watcher
2022 · Chloe Okuno
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 · Lee Cronin
The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns int
In common: Horror · Mystery
The Substance
2024 · Coralie Fargeat
A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself.
In common: Horror · Thriller
Evil Dead Rise
2023 · Lee Cronin
A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imag
In common: Horror · Thriller
I Know What You Did Last Summer
2025 · Jennifer Kaytin Robinson
When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
House of Wax
2005 · Jaume Collet-Serra
A group of unwitting teens are stranded near a strange wax museum and soon must fight to survive and keep from becoming the next exhibit.
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Clown in a Cornfield
2025 · Eli Craig
Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Get Out
2017 · Jordan Peele
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interr
In common: Horror · Mystery · Thriller
Smile
2022 · Parker Finn
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
In common: Horror · Mystery
Strange Darling
2024 · JT Mollner
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
In common: Horror · Thriller
Drag Me to Hell
2009 · Sam Raimi
After denying a woman the extension she needs to keep her home, loan officer Christine Brown sees her once-promising life take a startling turn for the worse. Christine is convinced she's been cursed
In common: Horror · Thriller
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
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
2009 · Tom Six
During a stopover in Germany in the middle of a carefree road trip through Europe, two American girls find themselves alone at night when their car breaks down in the woods. Searching for help at a ne
In common: Horror
Thrash
2026 · Tommy Wirkola
When a Category 5 hurricane decimates a coastal town, the storm surge brings devastation, chaos, and something far more frightening onto shore: hungry sharks.
In common: Horror · Thriller
The Sadness
2021 · Rob Jabbaz
A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to en
In common: Horror · Thriller
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