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Movies that feel like Even the Wind Is Afraid (1968)

If you loved Even the Wind Is Afraid, the closest films we have are Session 9 (2001), Poison for the Fairies (1986) and Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971). All three share Even the Wind Is Afraid's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Philo, Night Flight Plus and Fandor Amazon Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Carlos Enrique Taboadatwistydreadunsettlingcontemplative

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)

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Session 9
2001 · dir. Brad Anderson
🍅 68%6.4horror · mystery · drama

Both land twists and dread at once

The difference: 33 years apart, and the 2000s show

Tensions rise within an asbestos cleaning crew as they work in an abandoned mental hospital with a horrific past that seems to be coming back.

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

Carlos Enrique Taboada directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: None of the twists that defines Even the Wind Is Afraid

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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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971 · dir. John D. Hancock
🍅 42%6.4horror · mystery · drama

The same mix in both: unease, then stillness

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

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The Last Wave
1977 · dir. Peter Weir
🍅 78%6.9drama · mystery · horror

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

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

Both trade on dread more than on being horror

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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The Devil's Advocate
1997 · dir. Taylor Hackford
🍅 65%7.5horror · drama · mystery

Unsettling drama in both cases

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

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Midsommar
2019 · dir. Ari Aster
🍅 83%7.1horror · drama · mystery

Mystery built on stillness, twice over

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

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

Twisty horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans thriller where Even the Wind Is Afraid does not

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 Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%5.8thriller · mystery · horror

Dread-soaked drama, and it commits to that

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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The Ring
2002 · dir. Gore Verbinski
🍅 72%7.1horror · mystery

Unsettling mystery in both cases

The difference: Missing the stillness of Even the Wind Is Afraid

Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.

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The Blair Witch Project
1999 · dir. Daniel Myrick
🍅 86%6.5horror · mystery

Mystery approached the same way

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

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Scream 2
1997 · dir. Wes Craven
🍅 83%6.3horror · mystery

Cut from the same horror cloth

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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