Movies like Forbidden Empire: 20 to watch next
If you loved Forbidden Empire (2014) — a thriller, adventure and mystery film directed by Oleg Stepchenko — these 20 movies are the closest matches.
The first picks are what fans of Forbidden Empire most often go on to watch; the rest share its genres and themes like monster, mystic and church. 9 of them are streaming in India right now — each entry shows where.
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The Watchers 2024★ 6.3
Shares: Fantasy, Mystery
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
Stream in India on Netflix
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Tales from the Darkside: The Movie 1990★ 6.2
Shares: Thriller, Fantasy
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Nocebo 2022★ 6.0
Shares: Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Satanic Hispanics 2022★ 5.8
Shares: Thriller, Fantasy
When police raid a house in El Paso, they find it full of dead Latinos, and only one survivor. He’s known as The Traveler, and when they take him to the station for questioning, he tells them those lands are full of magic and talks about the horrors he’s encountered in his long time on this earth, about portals to other worlds, mythical creatures, demons and the undead. Stories about Latin American legends.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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A Dark Song 2016★ 6.3
Shares: Fantasy, Mystery
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.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Dark Harvest 2023★ 6.1
Shares: Fantasy, Thriller
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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The Entity 1982★ 6.9
Shares: Mystery, Thriller
A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Gogol. The Beginning 2017★ 6.2
Shares: Mystery, Adventure, Thriller
1829: Nikolay Gogol, troubled Third Section clerk, burns his own books. Epileptic seizures plague him. Investigator Yakov Guro discovers Gogol's visions hold crime-solving clues. Together, they tackle a baffling case in Dikanka, where everyone hides a dark secret.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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In the Lost Lands 2025★ 6.3
Shares: Adventure, Fantasy
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.
Stream in India on Lionsgate Play, Lionsgate Play Apple TV Channel, Lionsgate Play Amazon Channel
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Haunted 1995★ 6.1
Shares: Mystery, Fantasy
Professor David Ash exposes false spiritulists and mediums. He is invited to Edbrook to resolve the fears and torments within its secretive family. Soon after arriving Ash begins to doubt his own senses, and watching the strange behaviour of its residents does not make his task any easier. In time, he finds there's more to Edbrook than even he can debunk.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Home Sweet Home: Rebirth 2025★ 5.9
Shares: Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery
When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Underworld: Rise of the Lycans 2009★ 6.5
Shares: Fantasy, Thriller
A prequel to the first two Underworld films, this fantasy explains the origins of the feud between the Vampires and the Lycans. Aided by his secret love, Sonja, courageous Lucian leads the Lycans in battle against brutal Vampire king Viktor. Determined to break the king's enslavement of his people, Lucian faces off against the Death Dealer army in a bid for Lycan independence.
Stream in India on Sony Liv, Sonyliv Amazon Channel
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Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon 2022★ 6.4
Shares: Mystery, Fantasy, Thriller
A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Gogol. Viy 2018★ 6.2
Shares: Mystery, Adventure
A mysterious Dark Horseman slays young girls near the village of Dikanka, and he has already butchered 11 ladies. Nikolai Gogol, a scribe from Saint Petersburg has to take charge of the investigation, but the closer he gets to solving the case, the more fits he has, causing macabre visions. When he learns the next victim is his beloved, Liza, he doubts that he can protect her and resist the murderer. Fortunately, he meets somebody who can help him: Khoma Brut, the witch hunter, martial artist and philosopher. Together they spend three dreadful nights in an old chapel reading the funeral service for Ulyana, the witch, and calling upon the ghastly evil spirit Viy.
Stream in India on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
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Castle Freak 1996★ 6.1
Shares: Thriller, Mystery
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
Stream in India on Tubi TV
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I Still See You 2018★ 6.4
Shares: Thriller, Fantasy, Mystery
Ten years after an apocalyptic event left the world haunted by ghosts, Veronica 'Ronnie' Calder receives a threatening message from beyond the grave. Joining forces with a mysterious classmate, Kirk, Ronnie descends into a shadow world that blurs the bounds of the living and the dead—and begins a desperate race against time to stop a cunning killer.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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Underworld: Evolution 2006★ 6.6
Shares: Fantasy, Thriller
As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the Death Dealers (an elite vampire special forces unit that hunts werewolves), and Michael, the werewolf hybrid, work together in an effort to unlock the secrets of their respective bloodlines.
Stream in India on Netflix, Sony Liv
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The Witch 2016★ 7.0
Shares: Fantasy, Mystery
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Not on subscription streaming in India right now
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The Silence 2019★ 6.0
Shares: Thriller, Fantasy
With the world under attack by deadly creatures who hunt by sound, a teen and her family seek refuge outside the city and encounter a mysterious cult.
Stream in India on Netflix
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It 2021★ 7.3
Shares: Mystery, Thriller
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 ever seen before, to mark the first time in U.S. history that a murder suspect would claim demonic possession as a defense.
Stream in India on Netflix, JioHotstar