Movies Like Cigarette Burns (2005)

Cigarette Burns is a 2005 horror, tv movie film from John Carpenter with a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Coming Soon and Empire of Light.

Horror TV Movie

Coming Soon

2008

Two projectionists discover a disturbing film featuring the lynching of a woman. Not only are they troubled by the content of the movie, but strange events befall them following the viewing.

6.3

MagicScore

Empire of Light

2022

The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.

6.6

MagicScore

The Funeral

1996

After the funeral of one of their own, a criminal family decides to embark on an emotionally unnerving journey in an attempt to exact bloody revenge.

6.8

MagicScore

Passion Play

2011

An angel under the thumb of a ruthless gangster is saved by a trumpet player down on his luck.

4.8

MagicScore

Heaven's Lost Property Final – The Movie: Eternally My Master

2014

Ikaros is an Angeloid and falls out of the sky. Tomoki Sakurai is a boy who believes the most important thing is to live a peaceful life. The two live tougher. Tomoki Sakurai has never seen Ikaros smile. Tomoki Sakurai sees Nymph and Astraea laugh after they got free from the master’s rule. He hopes Ikaros can laugh like an ordinary girl. This movie wraps up the story of Tomoki Sakurai and his relationship with the Angeloid from the sky, Ikaros.

7.5

MagicScore

Heaven's Lost Property the Movie: The Angeloid of Clockwork

2011

Sakurai Tomoki goes on a trip to a hot spring, and is soon up to his usual perverted antics. In addition, he's about to receive his first love confession! However, his desire to pass his days peacefully is challenged once again by another Angeloid. Compared with the hostile Angeloids he had encountered in the past, this new Type Zeta Angeloid is by far the most powerful!

7.0

MagicScore

Greta

2019

A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow might not be all that she seems.

6.6

MagicScore

A Slight Case of Murder

1999

In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator, who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli, a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit, and Stapelli's wife, Patricia, are roped into the case.

6.3

MagicScore

Premutos: The Fallen Angel

1997

Premutos is the first of the fallen Angels, even before Lucifer. His Goal is to rule the world, the living and the dead. His son should pave the way for him and appears arbitrary throughout human history and is then recognized as some kind of monster. In the present time, a young man living in Germany begins to suffer from visionary flashbacks - of the lives he lived in the past as Premutos' son! He remembers how he appeared in the middle age, when mankind suffered from pestilence and during WWII in Russia. On his (earthly) father's birthday, a case containing some strange old book and a yellow potion is found in their garden, which was hidden by some peasant in 1943, who experimented with witchery in order to re-animate his deceased wife. Whe the young man gets in touch with the book and some of the yellow potion, he mutates into a monster and awakens an army of zombies, ready to bring back the fallen Angel Premutos and to disturb the little birthday party

5.1

MagicScore

#10

Cinema Paradiso

1988

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

8.4

MagicScore

#11

Don't Tempt Me

2001

Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.

5.5

MagicScore

#12

Fallen

1998

Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.

6.8

MagicScore

#13

Top Five

2014

Though he began in stand-up comedy, Andre Allen hit the big-time as the star of a trilogy of action-comedies about a talking bear but now he wants to be taken seriously. His passion project about the Haitian Revolution, a movie called Uprize, was panned by the NY Times film critic. A couple days before the wedding to his reality star fiancée, he's forced to spend the day with Chelsea Brown, a profile writer for the New York Times. Unexpectedly, he opens up to her, and as they wind their way across New York, he tries to get back in touch with his comedic roots.

6.1

MagicScore

#14

The Ninth Gate

1999

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

6.5

MagicScore

#15

The Salton Sea

2002

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.

6.5

MagicScore

#16

The Dead Zone

1983

Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.

7.0

MagicScore

#17

Shrew's Nest

2014

Spain, 1950s. Montse's agoraphobia keeps her locked in a sinister apartment in Madrid and her only link to reality is the little sister she lost her youth raising. But one day, a reckless young neighbor, Carlos, falls down the stairwell and drags himself to their door. Someone has entered the shrew's nest... perhaps he'll never leave.

6.9

MagicScore

#18

The Pit and the Pendulum

1961

In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.

6.8

MagicScore

#19

Cinemania

2002

This documentary about the culture of intense cinephilia in New York City reveals the impassioned world of five obsessed movie buffs. These human encyclopedias of cinema see two to five films a day, and from 600 to 2,000 films per year. This is the story of their lives, their memories, their unbending habits and the films they love.

6.8

MagicScore

#20

Frailty

2002

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

7.0

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Cigarette Burns?

The top films similar to Cigarette Burns by MovieMagicScore are Coming Soon (6.3), Empire of Light (6.6), The Funeral (6.8). Each shares horror/tv movie themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Cigarette Burns worth watching?

Cigarette Burns holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.3/10 from 136 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Cigarette Burns?

Cigarette Burns (2005) is a horror, tv movie film directed by John Carpenter, starring Norman Reedus, Udo Kier, Christopher Redman.

Where can I find more recommendations like Cigarette Burns?

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About movies like Cigarette Burns

This ranked list pairs Cigarette Burns (2005), a horror and tv movie film from John Carpenter, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Norman Reedus take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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