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Movies that feel like Footprints on the Moon (1975)

If you loved Footprints on the Moon, the closest films we have are In the Mouth of Madness (1995), The Witch (2016) and The Nameless (1999). All three share Footprints on the Moon's tense and twisty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Howdy Amazon Channel, Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads and others, checked against today's data.

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?

6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luigi Bazzonitensetwistycontemplativedreadunsettlingdreamlike

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In the Mouth of Madness
1995 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 61%7.1horror · mystery · drama

Both land tension and twists at once

The difference: Leans fantasy where Footprints on the Moon does not

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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The Witch
2016 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 91%7horror · drama · mystery

The same mix in both: stillness, then dread

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

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.

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

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Footprints on the Moon

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

Dreams is the engine of both

The difference: None of the tension that defines Footprints on the Moon

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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Don't Look Now
1973 · dir. Nicolas Roeg
🍅 93%7.1thriller · drama · horror

Both trade on dream logic more than on being drama

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

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Crimson Peak
2015 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 72%6.5horror · mystery · romance

Mystery with a pulse of tension, in both cases

In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

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Sleepy Hollow
1999 · dir. Tim Burton
🍅 71%7.3fantasy · thriller · mystery

Twisty horror in both cases

Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.

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Long Weekend
1979 · dir. Colin Eggleston
🍅 89%6.5horror · mystery · thriller

Thriller built on dread, twice over

When a suburban couple goes camping for the weekend at a remote beach, they discover that nature isn't in an accommodating mood.

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Coma
1978 · dir. Michael Crichton
🍅 81%6.9thriller · mystery · horror

Unsettling mystery, and it commits to that

When relatively healthy patients begin having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas, a concerned doctor defies her male superiors when she suspects a secret plot.

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Last Night in Soho
2021 · dir. Edgar Wright
🍅 75%7horror · mystery · drama

Drama built on stillness, twice over

A young girl, passionate about fashion design, is mysteriously able to enter the 1960s where she encounters her idol, a dazzling wannabe singer. But 1960s London is not what it seems, and time seems to be falling apart with shady consequences.

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The Skin I Live In
2011 · dir. Pedro Almodóvar
🍅 81%7.6drama · horror · mystery

Both trade on tension more than on being horror

A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

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Repulsion
1965 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 96%7.6drama · thriller · horror

Dreamlike thriller, and it commits to that

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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