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Movies that feel likeBerberian Sound Studio (2012)

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

If you loved Berberian Sound Studio, the closest films we have are La Llorona (2019), The Pool (2018) and Speak No Evil (2022). All three share Berberian Sound Studio's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Lake Mungo (2009).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Peter Stricklanddreadunsettlingcontemplativetense
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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%★ 6.6thriller · horror · dramaRent or buy

Both land dread and unease at once

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%★ 5.2thriller · horror

Both lean on tension more than on horror

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Berberian Sound Studio does

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%★ 6.7horror · thriller · dramaRent or buy

The same preoccupation in both: italy

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%★ 6.2horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%★ 7.1horror · thriller

Unsettling drama in both cases

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%★ 5.3thriller · horror

Horror built on tension, twice over

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
★ 5.9horror · thrillerNetflix

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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Insidious: Out of the Further
2026 · dir. Jacob Chase
🍅 57%★ 6.2horror · thrillerRent or buy

From the 2020s, and it lands the same way

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, the purgatorial realm of lost souls at the heart of the Insidious universe. When something evil comes after her, Gemma discovers an ability that changes everything: she doesn't just enter The Further, she can bring what lives there back to the real world. Once the demons realize her power, our world becomes their playground.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Thriller in the same key

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Titane
2021 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 90%★ 6.4drama · thriller · horrorRent or buy

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

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Stoker
2013 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 70%★ 6.7drama · horror · thrillerMax

A streak of stillness through both

Following her father Richard's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker withdraws further into the quiet rural life she shares with her emotionally disturbed mother Evie. But her curiosity is stirred when her mysterious uncle Charlie, who she has never met, suddenly arrives unannounced. Told that the darkly charismatic Charlie will now be staying at the house, India's initial well-founded distrust of her uncle's motivations begins to waver as she finds herself becoming ever more deeply entranced by his sinister charms.

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