50 Movies Like The Craft (1996) You Need to Watch Next
A Catholic school newcomer falls in with a clique of teen witches who wield their powers against all who dare to cross them -- be they teachers, rivals or meddlesome parents.
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If you loved The Craft (1996) by Andrew Fleming, 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 Frankenstein, Interview with the Vampire, The Exorcism of God. 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.
50 Movies Similar to The Craft
Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
In common: Drama · Fantasy · Horror
Interview with the Vampire
1994 · Neil Jordan
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
In common: Drama · Fantasy · Horror
The Exorcism of God
2022 · Alejandro Hidalgo
An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a secret that’s eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to f
In common: Drama · Fantasy
Nosferatu
1922 · F. W. Murnau
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Doctor Sleep
2019 · Mike Flanagan
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who posse
In common: Fantasy · Horror
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
The Seventh Seal
1957 · Ingmar Bergman
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the
In common: Drama · Fantasy
It's a Wonderful Life
1946 · Frank Capra
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan compan
In common: Drama · Fantasy
The Life of Chuck
2025 · Mike Flanagan
In this extraordinary story of an ordinary man, Charles 'Chuck' Krantz experiences the wonder of love, the heartbreak of loss, and the multitudes contained in all of us.
In common: Drama · Fantasy
The Lovely Bones
2009 · Peter Jackson
After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge
In common: Drama · Fantasy
Ginger Snaps
2000 · John Fawcett
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wound
In common: Drama · Fantasy · Horror
King Kong
1933 · Merian C. Cooper
Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Dracula Untold
2014 · Gary Shore
Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in ord
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Sleepwalkers
1992 · Mick Garris
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Renfield
2023 · Chris McKay
Having grown sick and tired of his centuries as Dracula's lackey, Renfield finds a new lease on life — and maybe even redemption — when he falls for feisty, perennially angry traffic cop Rebecca Quinc
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Death Note
2017 · Adam Wingard
Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Gremlins 2: The New Batch
1990 · Joe Dante
Young sweethearts Billy and Kate move to the Big Apple, land jobs in a high-tech office park and soon reunite with the friendly and lovable Gizmo. But a series of accidents creates a whole new generat
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Dracula
2025 · Luc Besson
In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immorta
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
2013 · Tommy Wirkola
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and mu
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · Timur Bekmambetov
President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
2024 · Tim Burton
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidental
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · Robert Zemeckis
In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabo
In common: Fantasy
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
2018 · Ari Sandel
Be careful what you wish for. With their after school junk business, best friends Sonny and Sam hope to find treasure in other people’s trash. But when cleaning out the old Stine house, they open a lo
In common: Fantasy
Trick 'r Treat
2007 · Michael Dougherty
Four interwoven stories that occur on Halloween: an everyday high school principal has a secret life as a serial killer; a college virgin might have just met the one guy for her; a group of teenagers
In common: Fantasy · Horror
The Last Voyage of the Demeter
2023 · André Øvredal
The crew of the merchant ship Demeter attempts to survive the ocean voyage from Carpathia to London as they are stalked each night by a merciless presence onboard the ship.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
Nosferatu
2024 · Robert Eggers
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
In common: Fantasy · Horror
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
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
Secret Obsession
2019 · Peter Sullivan
Newlywed Jennifer is brutally attacked at a dark rest stop. While healing from her injuries, she can’t recall anything from her past, including the ordeal. Her husband, Russell , is just thankful she’
In common: Drama · Horror
The Shallows
2016 · Jaume Collet-Serra
While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requi
In common: Drama · Horror
A Quiet Place
2018 · John Krasinski
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
In common: Drama · Horror
The Host
2006 · Bong Joon Ho
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.
In common: Drama · Horror
Apocalypse Z: The Beginning of the End
2024 · Carles Torrens
When a kind of rabies that transforms people into aggressive creatures spreads across the planet, Manel isolates himself at home with his cat, relying on his wits to survive; but soon they must go out
In common: Drama · Horror
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)
2011 · Tom Six
Inspired by the fictional Dr. Heiter, disturbed loner Martin dreams of creating a 12-person centipede and sets out to realize his sick fantasy.
In common: Drama · Horror
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
It Chapter Two
2019 · Andy Muschietti
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
In common: Drama · Horror
Bird Box
2018 · Susanne Bier
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
In common: Drama · Horror
Martyrs
2008 · Pascal Laugier
A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tortured her as a child leads her and her best friend, also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell o
In common: Drama · Horror
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
Rosemary's Baby
1968 · Roman Polanski
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
In common: Drama · Horror
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 · Fantasy · Horror
Candyman
1992 · Bernard Rose
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
In common: Drama · Horror
It
2017 · Andy Muschietti
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.
In common: Drama · Horror
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
Audition
2000 · Takashi Miike
Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interv
In common: Drama · Horror