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Movies that feel like Audition (2000)

If you loved Audition, the closest films we have are Funny Games (1997), Saw II (2005) and Antichrist (2009). All three share Audition's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Takashi Miikedreadunsettlingcontemplative
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Funny Games
1997 · dir. Michael Haneke
🍅 73%7.5drama · horror · thriller

Both are working the same pair: sadism, psychological thriller

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Audition does

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

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Saw II
2005 · dir. Darren Lynn Bousman
🍅 39%6.6horror

One thread runs through both: torture

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

The chilling and relentless Jigsaw killer returns to terrorize the city once again. When a gruesome murder victim emerges with unmistakable traces of Jigsaw's sinister methods, Detective Eric Matthews is thrust into a high-stakes investigation. To his surprise, apprehending Jigsaw seems almost too easy, but what he doesn't realize is that being caught is merely another piece of Jigsaw's intricate puzzle.

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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%6.5drama · horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: psychological thriller

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
1976 · dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini
🍅 71%5.8horror · drama

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sadism

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%7.4drama · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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Saw VI
2009 · dir. Kevin Greutert
🍅 39%6.1horror · thriller

Common ground: torture

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Audition

Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw's legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw's grand scheme is finally understood.

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Let the Right One In
2008 · dir. Tomas Alfredson
🍅 98%7.8horror · drama

Contemplative horror in both cases

When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.

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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%7.4horror · thriller

Both lean on dread more than on drama

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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Raw
2017 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 92%6.9horror · drama

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.

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🍅 86%7.3drama · horror

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%6.7drama · horror · thriller

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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The Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%5.8thriller · mystery · horror

Unsettling drama in both cases

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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