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Movies that feel like Horns (2013)

If you loved Horns, the closest films we have are Frailty (2002), The Lovely Bones (2009) and Jackie (2016). All three share Horns' contemplative and melancholy feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

In the aftermath of his girlfriend's mysterious death, a young man awakens to strange horns sprouting from his temples.

🍅 41% Rotten Tomatoes6.4 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alexandre Ajacontemplativedreamliketensemelancholy

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Frailty
2002 · dir. Bill Paxton
🍅 76%7.2drama · thriller · crime

Contemplative where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

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The Lovely Bones
2009 · dir. Peter Jackson
🍅 31%6.6fantasy · drama

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Horns

After being brutally murdered, 14-year-old Susie Salmon watches from heaven over her grief-stricken family -- and her killer. As she observes their daily lives, she must balance her thirst for revenge with her desire for her family to heal.

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Jackie
2016 · dir. Pablo Larraín
🍅 87%6.6drama

Fantasy built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Missing the dream logic of Horns

An account of the days of First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy, in the immediate aftermath of John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

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A Ghost Story
2017 · dir. David Lowery
🍅 91%6.8drama · fantasy · romance

Thriller with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into romance than Horns does

Recently deceased, a white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to console his bereft wife, only to find that in his spectral state he has become unstuck in time, forced to watch passively as the life he knew and the woman he loves slowly slip away.

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Lamb
2021 · dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson
🍅 86%6.3drama · fantasy · horror

Melancholy drama in both cases

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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Elle
2016 · dir. Paul Verhoeven
🍅 91%7.1drama · thriller

Tense thriller, and it commits to that

When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.

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Death Wish
2018 · dir. Eli Roth
🍅 18%6.3action · crime · thriller

Fantasy with a pulse of tension, in both cases

A mild-mannered father is transformed into a killing machine after his family is torn apart by a violent act.

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The Salesman
2016 · dir. Asghar Farhadi
🍅 96%7.7drama · thriller

Contemplative drama in both cases

Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.

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Nomadland
2021 · dir. Chloé Zhao
🍅 93%7.3drama

Fantasy built on melancholy, twice over

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.

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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
2010 · dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul
🍅 90%6.7drama · fantasy

Thriller built on dream logic, twice over

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.

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Wolf Children
2012 · dir. Mamoru Hosoda
🍅 95%8.1animation · family · drama

Both are drama through and through

After her werewolf lover unexpectedly dies in an accident, a woman must find a way to raise the son and daughter that she had with him. However, their inheritance of their father's traits prove to be a challenge for her.

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What Dreams May Come
1998 · dir. Vincent Ward
🍅 51%7drama · fantasy · romance

The same fantasy instincts

Chris Nielsen dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he died, his wife Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in Hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.

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