15 Movies Like Acolytes
Loved Acolytes? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Obsession
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Disclosure Day
If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
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 into a living nightmare.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
In the Grey
A covert team of elite operatives are living in the shadows. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, they're sent to take it back—an impossible heist that erupts into a deadly game of strategy, deception and survival.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
The Punisher: One Last Kill
As Frank Castle searches for meaning beyond revenge, an unexpected force pulls him back into the fight.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War
Jack Ryan is reluctantly pulled back into espionage when an international covert mission unravels a deadly conspiracy. Racing against time, he joins CIA allies Mike November & James Greer and sharp MI6 officer Emma Marlowe to battle a rogue black-ops unit in a high-stakes, deeply personal fight.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Backrooms
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Hokum
When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Graphic Desires
When reclusive Franklin cheats on his partner with a mysterious girl he meets on a dating app, it becomes the start of a deadly obsession.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Seven Snipers
When a former elite sniper is hunted down by the ruthless warlord who once held her captive, she must fight to the death to protect the daughter she has raised in hiding, on a remote Australian farm.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
The Furious
After Wang Wei's daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network and he receives no help from the corrupt police, Wei sets out to find her himself. His only ally is Navin, a relentless journalist whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. Fueled by a furious vengeance, the unlikely duo ruthlessly battle the kidnappers in this explosive martial arts showdown.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Scary Movie
Twenty-six years after outrunning a suspiciously familiar masked killer, the Core Four are back in the killer's crosshairs and no horror movie IP is safe.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Chum
A newlywed couple joins friends on a Mediterranean yacht excursion, only to find themselves caught between a predatory shark and a psychopathic killer in their midst-transforming a sun-drenched escape into a fight for survival.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
Over Your Dead Body
A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to "reconnect", but each has secret intentions to kill the other.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.
The Shawshank Redemption
Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Acolytes.