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Movies that feel likeDon't Look Now (1973)

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

If you loved Don't Look Now, the closest films we have are The Witches (1990), The Haunting (1963) and Viy (1967). All three share Don't Look Now'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 Dead of Night (1945).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966)

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The Witches
1990 · dir. Nicolas Roeg
🍅 94%★ 6.8fantasy · family · horrorPeacock

Nicolas Roeg working the same nerve twice

The difference: Trades the tension of Don't Look Now for an angle of its own

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 88%★ 7.4horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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

Both land stillness and dream logic at once

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Don't Look Now does

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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Jacob's Ladder
1990 · dir. Adrian Lyne
🍅 71%★ 7.4drama · mystery · horrorParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: hallucination

After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.

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Repulsion
1965 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 96%★ 7.5drama · thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: hallucination

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

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

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

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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The Devil's Backbone
2001 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 93%★ 7.3fantasy · drama · horror

Both lean on tension more than on horror

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía 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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Lamb
2021 · dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson
🍅 86%★ 6.3drama · fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%★ 5.5horror · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: supernatural

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Altered States
1980 · dir. Ken Russell
🍅 85%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thriller

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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Dead of Night
1945 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%★ 7.5horror · thriller

Both lean on unease more than on horror

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.

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