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Movies that feel like Day Watch (2006)

If you loved Day Watch, the closest films we have are Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012), Forbidden Empire (2014) and Blood Red Sky (2021). All three share Day Watch's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

A man who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

πŸ… 62% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.4 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Timur Bekmambetovdreamlikekineticepicdreadunsettlingtense

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Night Watch (2004)

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 Β· dir. Timur Bekmambetov
πŸ… 34%β˜… 5.9action Β· fantasy Β· horror

Timur Bekmambetov working the same nerve twice

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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Forbidden Empire
2014 Β· dir. Oleg Stepchenko
β˜… 5.2thriller Β· adventure Β· mystery

Both land dream logic and scale at once

The difference: Not nearly as kinetic as Day Watch

Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

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Blood Red Sky
2021 Β· dir. Peter Thorwarth
πŸ… 81%β˜… 6.1horror Β· thriller Β· action

Common ground: vampire

The difference: Missing the dream logic of Day Watch

A woman with a mysterious illness is forced into action when a group of terrorists attempt to hijack a transatlantic overnight flight. In order to protect her son she will have to reveal a dark secret, and unleash the inner monster she has fought to hide.

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Lake Mungo
2009 Β· dir. Joel Anderson
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.2horror Β· thriller

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

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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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 Β· dir. Issa LΓ³pez
πŸ… 97%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· horror

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Underworld: Blood Wars
2016 Β· dir. Anna Foerster
πŸ… 21%β˜… 5.8fantasy Β· action Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: vampire

The difference: Leans harder into science fiction than Day Watch does

Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

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Along with the Gods: The Last 49 Days
2018 Β· dir. Kim Yong-hwa
πŸ… 44%β˜… 7.1action Β· adventure Β· fantasy

Kinetic and tense in the same breath

As the deceased soul Ja-hong and his three afterlife guardians prepare for their remaining trials for reincarnation, the guardians soon come face to face with the truth of their tragic time on Earth 1,000 years earlier.

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The Most Dangerous Game
1932 Β· dir. Irving Pichel
πŸ… 100%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· adventure Β· horror

Kinetic action, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1930s, in a different era of the craft

When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff. While he is very gracious at first, Zaroff eventually forces Rainsford and two other shipwreck survivors, brother and sister Eve and Martin Towbridge, to participate in a sadistic game of cat and mouse in which they are the prey and he is the hunter.

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Ziam
2025 Β· dir. Kulp Kaljareuk
πŸ… 77%β˜… 4.9horror Β· thriller Β· action

Both lean on dread more than on horror

In a fight for survival against a horrifying army of zombies, a former Muay Thai fighter must use skill, speed and grit to save his girlfriend.

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Sinners
2025 Β· dir. Ryan Coogler
πŸ… 97%β˜… 7.5horror Β· action Β· thriller

Thriller with a pulse of unease, in both cases

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

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The Mummy
2017 Β· dir. Alex Kurtzman
πŸ… 15%β˜… 5.4fantasy Β· thriller Β· action

Epic adventure in both cases

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

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Julia's Eyes
2010 Β· dir. Guillem Morales
πŸ… 90%β˜… 6.7horror Β· thriller

Tense horror, and it commits to that

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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