Movies like Dark Nuns (2025)

Name: Dark Nuns
Released: 2025

10 films to watch after Dark Nuns, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

Desperation drives two nuns to perform an exorcism no nun should attempt. With a possessed child at the mercy of evil and the opposition of the Catholic Church, they take on the dangerous forbidden rituals themselves, putting their immortal souls in grave danger. They must confront the terrifying cost of their sacrilegious actions, but one goal remains: the boy must be saved at all costs.

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The Priests (2015)

Fit 64%

Shares Mystery, Thriller and Horror with Dark Nuns.

To save a girl in danger, a priest and deacon jump into a mysterious case.
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The Possessed (2021)

Fit 63%

Shares Horror and Thriller with Dark Nuns.

A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. Inspired by actual events.
3

The Cellar (2022)

Fit 62%

Shares Horror and Mystery with Dark Nuns.

When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
4

Blood on Satan's Claw (1971)

Fit 59%

Shares Horror with Dark Nuns.

After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior.
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Shadow of God (2025)

Fit 57%

Shares Horror with Dark Nuns.

While performing an unauthorized exorcism on his father, an elite exorcist suspects the entity he's doing battle with might be a holy being – perhaps even God.
6

City of the Living Dead (1980)

Fit 57%

Shares Horror and Mystery with Dark Nuns.

A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
7

Pyewacket (2017)

Fit 53%

Shares Horror and Thriller with Dark Nuns.

A frustrated, angry teenage girl awakens something in the woods when she naively performs an occult ritual to invoke a witch to kill her mother.
8

Night of Dark Shadows (1971)

Fit 44%

Shares Drama, Horror, Mystery and Thriller with Dark Nuns.

Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by spirits of past residents.
9

Metamorphosis (2019)

Fit 41%

Shares Horror and Thriller with Dark Nuns.

An evil spirit that changes faces infiltrates one family placing one brother in danger while the other tries to save him.
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The City of the Dead (1960)

Fit 40%

Shares Mystery and Horror with Dark Nuns.

In Whitewood, Massachusetts, a presumed witch places a curse on the town before she is burned at the stake. 300 years later, a college student arrives and checks into the mysterious Raven's Inn to research the town's history with witchcraft.