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Movies that feel likeDead of Night (1945)

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

If you loved Dead of Night, the closest films we have are The Black Cat (1934), Un Chien Andalou (1929) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). All three share Dead of Night'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 Poison for the Fairies (1986).

🍅 96% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Charles Crichtondreadunsettlingtensedreamlike
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The Black Cat
1934 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 89%★ 6.9horror · thriller

Common ground: black and white

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Dead of Night for an angle of its own

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

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Un Chien Andalou
1929 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 100%★ 7.6fantasy · thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: dreams

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Dead of Night does

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · dir. Albert Lewin
🍅 94%★ 7.5drama · horror · fantasy

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Easier on the tension than Dead of Night

A handsome young man trades his soul so that his portrait ages while he stays eternally young.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 · dir. Robert Aldrich
🍅 91%★ 8horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: insanity

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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Viy
1967 · dir. Georgi Kropachyov
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · horror

Dreamlike horror, and it commits to that

The difference: 22 years apart, and the 1960s show

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

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The Uninvited
1944 · dir. Lewis Allen
🍅 95%★ 7.2mystery · horror · fantasy

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 · dir. Luigi Bazzoni
★ 6.6thriller · mystery · drama

Both are built on the same subject: dreams

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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Faust
1926 · dir. F. W. Murnau
🍅 91%★ 8.1fantasy · drama · horror

Unsettling horror in both cases

Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.

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Poison for the Fairies
1986 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2fantasy · horror

Both lean on dream logic more than on thriller

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.

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

Horror built on tension, twice over

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

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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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%★ 6.9fantasy · horrorRent or buy

Dread-soaked thriller, and it commits to that

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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Kwaidan
1965 · dir. Masaki Kobayashi
🍅 91%★ 7.9horror · fantasy · dramaMax

Both run unsettling where it counts

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

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