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Movies that feel like Flatliners (2017)

If you loved Flatliners, the closest films we have are Stoker (2013), The Ring Two (2005) and La Llorona (2019). All three share Flatliners' contemplative and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Hulu and others, checked against today's data.

Five medical students, hoping to understand the mystery of what lies beyond life, embark on a dangerous experiment. When their hearts are stopped for a short period of time, they have a near-death experience…

🍅 4% Rotten Tomatoes5.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Niels Arden Oplevcontemplativedreadunsettlingtense

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Stoker
2013 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 70%6.7drama · horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: death

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Following her father Richard's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker withdraws further into the quiet rural life she shares with her emotionally disturbed mother Evie. But her curiosity is stirred when her mysterious uncle Charlie, who she has never met, suddenly arrives unannounced. Told that the darkly charismatic Charlie will now be staying at the house, India's initial well-founded distrust of her uncle's motivations begins to waver as she finds herself becoming ever more deeply entranced by his sinister charms.

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The Ring Two
2005 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 21%5.4drama · horror · thriller

Contemplative and dread-soaked in the same breath

After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Aiden, she must dig into Samara's past even further.

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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%6.6thriller · horror · drama

Unsettling where it counts, tense underneath

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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Friday the 13th
2009 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 26%5.5horror · thriller

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Flatliners

A group of young adults visit a boarded up campsite named Crystal Lake where they soon encounter the mysterious Jason Voorhees and his deadly intentions.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

Contemplative drama in both cases

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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Titane
2021 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 90%6.5drama · thriller · horror

Thriller built on unease, twice over

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%6.6horror · thriller · drama

Both lean on tension more than on drama

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: death

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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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Run
2020 · dir. Aneesh Chaganty
🍅 88%6.7thriller · horror · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.

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Countdown
2019 · dir. Justin Dec
🍅 26%5.4horror · thriller

Horror built on unease, twice over

A young nurse downloads an app that tells her she only has three days to live. With time ticking away and a mysterious figure haunting her, she must find a way to save her life before time runs out.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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