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Movies that feel like Don't Look Now (1973)

If you loved Don't Look Now, the closest films we have are Repulsion (1965), Candyman (1992) and Black Swan (2010). All three share Don't Look Now's tense and contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on fuboTV, Brew and Midnight Pulp and others, checked against today's data.

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

πŸ… 93% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 7.1 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Nicolas Roegtensecontemplativedreadunsettlingmelancholydreamlike

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Don't Look Up (2021)

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Repulsion
1965 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.6drama Β· thriller Β· horror

Both built around hallucination

The difference: Not nearly as melancholy as Don't Look Now

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

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Candyman
1992 Β· dir. Bernard Rose
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.7drama Β· horror Β· thriller

Both land tension and stillness at once

The difference: None of the melancholy that defines Don't Look Now

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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Black Swan
2010 Β· dir. Darren Aronofsky
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8drama Β· thriller Β· horror

Hallucination sits at the heart of each

The difference: A 2010s film, from a different era of filmmaking

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

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Rosemary's Baby
1968 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8drama Β· horror Β· thriller

Both keep circling back to husband wife relationship

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

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The Orphanage
2007 Β· dir. J. A. Bayona
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.4horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

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It Chapter Two
2019 Β· dir. Andy Muschietti
πŸ… 62%β˜… 6.5horror Β· thriller Β· drama

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

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The Devil's Backbone
2001 Β· dir. Guillermo del Toro
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.4fantasy Β· drama Β· horror

Both trade on dream logic more than on being drama

The difference: Plays it as fantasy more than Don't Look Now does

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa LucΓ­a orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

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The Shallows
2016 Β· dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.3horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Horror with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 Β· dir. Peter Strickland
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.2horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Thriller built on dread, twice over

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.

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It
2017 Β· dir. Andy Muschietti
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.3horror Β· thriller Β· drama

Unsettling drama in both cases

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 Β· dir. John Carpenter
πŸ… 61%β˜… 7.1horror Β· mystery Β· drama

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

An insurance investigator visits a small town while looking into the strange disappearance of a popular horror novelist. He soon finds that the impact of the author’s books is far more than inspirational.

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Bird Box
2018 Β· dir. Susanne Bier
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.6horror Β· thriller Β· drama

Tense thriller in both cases

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

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