15 Movies Like When Darkness Falls
Loved When Darkness Falls? 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.

Fargo
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to be a snap and nobody's going to get hurt... until people start dying. Enter Police Chief Marge, a coffee-drinking, parka-wearing - and extremely pregnant - investigator who'll stop at nothing to get her man. And if you think her small-time investigative skills will give the crooks a run for their ransom... you betcha!
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked When Darkness Falls.

Thanksgiving
After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the holiday. Picking off residents one by one, what begins as random revenge killings are soon revealed to be part of a larger, sinister holiday plan.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked When Darkness Falls.

Spiral: From the Book of Saw
Working in the shadow of an esteemed police veteran, brash Detective Ezekiel “Zeke” Banks and his rookie partner take charge of a grisly investigation into murders that are eerily reminiscent of the city’s gruesome past. Unwittingly entrapped in a deepening mystery, Zeke finds himself at the center of the killer’s morbid game.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked When Darkness Falls.

Silent Night, Deadly Night
After witnessing his parents' brutal murder on Christmas Eve, Billy transforms into a Killer Santa, delivering a yearly spree of calculated, chilling violence. This year, his blood-soaked mission collides with love, as a young woman challenges him to confront his darkness.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked When Darkness Falls.

Lilya 4-ever
In a struggling post-Soviet community, Lilya a teenage girl is abandoned when her mother moves to the United States with her boyfriend. Facing neglect and poverty, she meets Andrei, who offers her a job in Sweden, giving her hope for a better life — and a journey that will change everything.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to When Darkness Falls.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish industrialist Hans-Erik Wennerström. Nevertheless, he is hired by Henrik Vanger in order to solve a cold case, the disappearance of Vanger's niece
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to When Darkness Falls.

The Girl Who Played with Fire
Mikael Blomkvist, publisher of Millennium magazine, has made his living exposing the crooked and corrupt practices of establishment Swedish figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with a meticulously researched thesis about sex trafficking in Sweden and those in high office who abuse underage girls, Blomkvist immediately throws himself into the investigation.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to When Darkness Falls.

Beck 11 - The Cartel
It's a dark night in Stockholm. A chef is murdered in his own kitchen and Martin Beck gets on the case.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to When Darkness Falls.

In the Blood
When her husband goes missing during their Caribbean vacation, a woman sets off on her own to take down the men she thinks are responsible.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked When Darkness Falls.

The Lodge
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 inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked When Darkness Falls.

The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca
Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm. However, Wall-Enberg talks him into doing a break-in at Las Palmas cathedral in Mallorca. Once persuaded, he can't resist the temptation and travels to Mallorca as well. However, Wall-Enberg obviously can't be trusted. Sickan is framed, caught and put in jail. While being escorted home to Sweden again, Vanheden and Harry sets up a plan to break him free. Sickan, once free, wants payback. The gang discover that an antiques dealer called Germann has something to do with the whole thing and that she's also collaborating with Wall-Enberg. The gang then decide to take a closer look at her and her antiques and they discover that there's a heist being planned against the cathedral in Palma.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to When Darkness Falls.

Border
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to When Darkness Falls.

P2
A businesswoman finds herself locked with a unhinged security guard in a parking garage after getting stuck working late on Christmas Eve.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked When Darkness Falls.

Filth
A bigoted junkie cop suffering from borderline personality disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way in a bid to secure promotion.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked When Darkness Falls.

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must prove her innocence. In doing this she plays against powerful enemies and her own past.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to When Darkness Falls.