Best Indonesian mystery movies

After dying from a strange illness that she suffered for three years, a mother returns home to pick up her children.

A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.

Hoping to find answers to her estranged father's mysterious illness, a young woman visits his old villa and uncovers a horrifying truth from the past.

A big-city detective investigates a series of gruesome murders along the Indonesia-Malaysia border — forcing her to confront ghosts from her past.

After moving from their home to an apartment building, a new terror awaits Rini’s family.

Revisiting the orphanage where they grew up, three men and their families discover a horrific supernatural presence lingering in their former home.

When photos of her at a party cause her to lose a scholarship, a student investigates whether something devastating happened to her that night.

Two years after escaping from demonic terror, a young woman is still haunted by unnatural vision. The dangers that await her and her friends are increasingly threatening.

A father on vacation wakes up separated from his family and races through the woods to find them.

A successful sculptor's life is turned upside down when he starts to receive mysterious messages from someone asking for his help. As he digs deeper, he discovers a boy is being abused and has to choose between saving the boy or losing everything.

Six students were terrorized by a mysterious dancer while running a community service program in a remote village. Apparently, one of them violates the most fatal rule in the village.

Sri accepts a generous job offer and tasked to perform a cleansing ritual for Dela Atmojo, an unconscious girl who is suffering from the hex of 1000-days. The terror begins when her coworker neglects to finish the ritual. Failing to perform until the 1000th day will result in their demise.

Mila must return a mystical bracelet to the "Dancing Village," unaware that Badarawuhi - a mysterious, mythical being who rules the village - awaits her.

Working in an orphanage, Alia meets teen Nadia, who says she hears a strange voice in the walls. When they try to find the source, things go very wrong.

With only 24 hours left to live, a private investigator follows a trail of confounding clues to uncover the disappearance of his childhood friend.

An anthropologist named Cathy travels to Bali with her lover to conduct research on black magic. There, they encounter the queen of the Leák cult, a shapeshifting witch who feasts on blood and soon makes Cathy carry out her evil deeds.

Two sisters travel to Semarang to help manage a mysterious hotel where they encounter a dark secret and a deadly curse.

Short on cash and a place to live, a woman agrees to let an old upper-class couple takes care of her and her unborn child, not knowing they have a more sinister plan that involves their only son.

After the bizarre death of their father, two siblings must uncover the root cause of their mother's sudden paranormal terror to save her.

As Risa's ability to see ghosts continues to disrupt her life, her uncle's peculiar behavior leads her to discover a haunting mystery at his new house.

Risa is shocked that her three best friends are ghosts. An evil spirit kidnaps Risa's sister. Risa asks Peter, Wiliam, and Janshen for help.

Apartment 610 holds a dark and terrifying secret: anyone who enters it will die within four days. Can Alma and her sister, Mia, escape the curse?

A police and a journalist uncover series of murders that lead into one problem: A treasure many parties were fighting for and caused many casualties.

Founded by the power couple, Ali and Sofia Khan, The Light is a training center that claims to be a self-betterment organization, focused on helping youths take charge of their life for a brighter future. But when three best friends join this organization, they soon realize that dark shadows lurk behind The Light and must find a way to escape.

Soon after getting married, couple Maya and Andi begin to experience eerie disturbances from unseen malevolent forces.

A happy family whose lives complement each other. While celebrating his wedding anniversary with his family, a rich businessman was suddenly surprised by the appearance of a mysterious woman who claimed to be his biological child, Tika. Until finally the division in the family was inevitable. Behind all that, there is a big secret about Tika's identity.

Risa must have a normal life like other girl. Risa closes her sixth sense. She cannot see Peter and friends now but strange events starting to happen.

Tales of supernatural sci-fi phenomena unfold in this collection of seven mind-bending, interconnected stories imagined by writer-director Joko Anwar.

A film editor who must save his film crew from a mysterious cult by following the group's conditions, namely completing their own filmmaking. But he did not know that the cult he was facing was a terrifying cult that he could not trust.

After witnessing her parent’s death, May develops a condition that renders her unconscious every time she steps on land. Her grandfather, Tuha, shelters her in a lake house. Branded cursed by her village, May is determined to reclaim her life on solid ground.

After nine celebrities accept an invitation to visit a remote island, they find themselves trapped with a mysterious killer hunting them down.

Jefri and Sarah are an adulterous couple now desperately trying to create an alibi after the corpse of Sofia, the lawful wife they murdered, mysteriously disappears from the morgue. Arya Pradana, a police investigator, uses all his logic to uncover the truth. Has the corpse come back to life to take revenge on her killers?

During a haunting visit with her family, a grieving wife tries to uncover the disturbing reasons behind her mother-in-law's deteriorating condition.

Years after a woman tragically takes her own life and drowns her baby, a couple expecting a child finds themselves terrorized by a sinister ghost.

Nadia, the sole survivor of her family's tragic fate, grapples with the looming threat of her father's sacrifice as she faces a life on the edge.

While visiting an old family home, a married couple unintentionally breaks local taboos that invite a series of tormenting events.

When the police halt their search, a troubled mother works with a podcaster to find her missing daughter but faces a dark force that haunts her.

A group of medical volunteers who are sent to a remote village to help residents affected by a deadly epidemic while keeping many secrets related to Pamali.

Elang, who lived in the flat, is often haunted by images of bizarre murders involving a killer with a rabbit costume. His efforts to solve the mystery and save the lives of the people he presumed in danger, has in turn trapped him in a downward spiral and he became a suspect himself. In proving his innocence, he will be forced to unveil a horrible and long-buried secret.

Two decades after the terrifying events in Jatijajar, the evil spirit Jin Ummu Sibyan returns—this time in the village of Giritirto. After a heated argument following a football match, a group of kids unknowingly unleashes the ancient terror with a careless curse at dusk. Possession follows, and the nightmare begins again.

A victim of bullying at her high school, a student takes her own life before returning as an evil spirit bent on revenge.

After adopting Ana, Sylvia realizes that she did not only bring Ana home, but also Asih, the ghost who has been Ana's foster mother.

Five different stories of surreal mysteries on supernatural and inexplicable events. All connected by supernatural events and eerie mysteries. Each segment presents a terrifying story set in various locations, from a school and a hospital to a haunted forest.

After two years of not hearing from her brother who was studying in another city, Tia received constant promptings to look for her brother or that her father, Yusuf, had died. Armed with a photo, Tia's search leads her to a mysterious boarding house near her brother's campus.

After moving into her family's abandoned house, horror comic artist Ilmira struggles to complete her latest work while battling financial hardship. But when eerie figures from her past stories come to life—especially the haunting Hooded Woman—her reality spirals into a nightmare, forcing her to confront a buried childhood trauma.

A teenager named Alex has to deal with the police because of his actions to take revenge for the bullying he experienced. Although initially Alex was the victim of bullying from his own friends at school, his heartache made him a psycho. His decision to take revenge on Lola, who is still his half-brother, actually drives him crazy. So that finally the police can reveal all of his crimes. Not only is it the cause of Lola's insanity, Alex also turns out to be the main suspect in the murder of his mother, the person who has always loved him.

Some rich gangster creep rapes a gal. He's imbued with black magic powers by some other guy. Stuff happens leading up to the greatest endgame of all time.

Sophie and her family returned to her childhood home that she had not visited in a long time. However, they experienced terror of disturbances. They also tried to find out what really happened.

Ambar is a young mother who is forced to work in a sand mine after her husband mysteriously vanishes. But what she faces is not just the harshness of life, but also the intangible horrors that evoke old wounds and trauma.

Victim of atrocities by motorbike gangs in Cirebon, VINA did not accept that her death was called a single accident. Her spirit enters to reveal the facts. Before 7 Days, what actually happened?

After her husband's mysterious death, Lastini believes a dark entity is possessing her daughter, Arum. With only five days before Arum's leap-year birthday, Lastini and her two other children journey across Java to seek help from spiritual healers. As the demon's grip tightens, they race against time to save Arum and find their way back home.

The Witness tells the story about the girl "Angel Williams" who is having nightmares about a boy who is commiting suicide. One day Angel is invited by her family to a dinner in their house because Angel is quite busy so she missed their family reunions. A unknown man appears on the house and killed her guards,maids,sister,mother and father. Leaving her as "The Witness".When she manage to escape while the killer is finding her,she was shot into her back. She survived and she must investigate the happenings several years ago.

Called home to visit their dying uncle, two siblings discover his eerie resistance to death when a series of supernatural events haunts them.

A reporter and his cameraman investigate Nina, a young woman who is in pasung because she has a mental disorder that turns out to be something mystical.

The supernatural terror centers on a small family consisting of Adrian and his wife Sandra, along with their two children, Niki and Kinan, who are on vacation out of town.

Where Siena is experiencing depression due to being able to see someone's death sign. Even in this situation, she tries to help the people of Remetuk Village who are shrouded in a suicide mystery.

Risa still has the ability to see ghosts even though she is no longer with her ghost friends. One day, when Risa attends a surprise proposal event for Riri prepared by Dimas, Riri’s lover, she feels an evil force approaching. Canting, the ghost that haunts the show, terrorizes Riri. While Riri experiences terror from Canting, Risa experiences terror in the form of repeated deaths.

A cursed mirror opens up a supernatural bridge to a demonic force that disturbs and terrorises young Maya and her family.

When they're not romancing their girls, the Warkop comedy trio forms a team to help people in need, which includes solving a child kidnapping case and finding themselves facing off against ghosts and the kuntilanak (the Indonesian version of a banshee).

After swearing an oath to marry the one who picks up her weaving stick, Dayang Sumba embarks on an unexpected romance with a royal staff member.

A ghost story originally made for television.

Telling the story of Olivia, a psychiatrist specializing in mental health, who tries to help Rendy, a police officer, dealing with a brutal massacre case carried out by Cantika against her child and husband. After going through several therapy sessions, Olivia's own psychological condition deteriorates. A terrifying entity has long possessed Cantika’s body and was the reason she slaughtered her entire family, and now it is causing Olivia’s past to resurface.

A lower-level fisherman is waiting for the birth of his wife's child after both of them have been through prolonged anxiety. They believe the myths about the stolen turtle eggs are able to maintain the wife's pregnancy. But they will be faced with regulation of turtle conservation and climate change in their area.

When he was killed by a dagger he made himself for seven years, Empu Bharata (BZ Kadaryono) cast a curse on the killer, Untung Pararean (Arthur Tobing), his own student. Throughout his life, Untung will be miserable and killed by a keris he made himself. At first, Untung lived happily, got a beautiful wife, Sri Kemuning (Wieke Widowati), the king's niece, for saving him from robbers. Lucky to be commander in chief. Then the curse started running. His wife is crooked. As a result, Untung is sickly and almost insane. Luckily there was a kyai who suddenly came and helped him. Somehow, his wife and children are at the place of Empu Barata's older brother, the Masked Face Warrior (Nizar Zulmi), who had mutilated Untung's face. At that time the cleric came again to help. Untung then looked for his wife and child with a black veil to cover his disfigured face. Here comes Wiro Sableng (Tony Hidayat), who has his own business.

The last minute records of a man

A collection of short movie compilation directed by Rizal Mantovani. In 9 episodes, MALAPATAKA tells the tales of the danger lurking for people who belittled the mystical beliefs in society.