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Movies that feel like Legion (2010)

If you loved Legion, the closest films we have are Doctor Sleep (2019), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012) and Constantine (2005). All three share Legion's dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 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.

When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope for survival lies in a group of strangers trapped in an out-of-the-way, desert diner with the Archangel Michael.

πŸ… 20% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 5.3 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Scott Stewartkineticdreamlikedreadunsettlinghopeful
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Doctor Sleep
2019 Β· dir. Mike Flanagan
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.3horror Β· fantasy

The same preoccupation in both: supernatural

The difference: Critics rated this one higher still

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 Β· dir. Timur Bekmambetov
πŸ… 34%β˜… 5.9action Β· fantasy Β· horror

One thread runs through both: supernatural

The difference: Not nearly as hopeful as Legion

President Lincoln's mother is killed by a supernatural creature, which fuels his passion to crush vampires and their slave-owning helpers.

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Constantine
2005 Β· dir. Francis Lawrence
πŸ… 46%β˜… 7fantasy Β· action Β· horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: angel

John Constantine has literally been to Hell and back. When he teams up with a policewoman to solve the mysterious suicide of her twin sister, their investigation takes them through the world of demons and angels that exists beneath the landscape of contemporary Los Angeles.

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Dracula Untold
2014 Β· dir. Gary Shore
πŸ… 26%β˜… 6.2horror Β· action Β· fantasy

Kinetic where it counts, dreamlike underneath

Vlad Tepes is a great hero, but when he learns the Sultan is preparing for battle and needs to form an army of 1,000 boys, he vows to find a way to protect his family. Vlad turns to dark forces in order to get the power to destroy his enemies and agrees to go from hero to monster as he's turned into the mythological vampire, Dracula.

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Forbidden Empire
2014 Β· dir. Oleg Stepchenko
β˜… 5.2thriller Β· adventure Β· mystery

The same two preoccupations: demon, and dark fantasy

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Legion does

Early 18th century. Cartographer Jonathan Green undertakes a scientific voyage from Europe to the East. Having passed through Transylvania and crossed the Carpathian Mountains, he finds himself in a small village lost in impassible woods. Nothing but chance and heavy fog could bring him to this cursed place. People who live here do not resemble any other people which the traveler saw before that. The villagers, having dug a deep moat to fend themselves from the rest of the world, share a naive belief that they could save themselves from evil, failing to understand that evil has made its nest in their souls and is waiting for an opportunity to gush out upon the world.

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A Dark Song
2016 Β· dir. Liam Gavin
πŸ… 91%β˜… 6.2horror Β· fantasy Β· mystery

Common ground: angel

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Legion does

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

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Incantation
2022 Β· dir. Kevin Ko
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.2horror

Two things both keep coming back to: supernatural horror and horrified

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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Oculus
2014 Β· dir. Mike Flanagan
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.6horror

Both land dread and unease at once

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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Tumbbad
2018 Β· dir. Rahi Anil Barve
πŸ… 87%β˜… 8.2fantasy Β· horror

Both are built on the same subject: horrified

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Underworld: Blood Wars
2016 Β· dir. Anna Foerster
πŸ… 21%β˜… 5.8fantasy Β· action Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: dark fantasy

Vampire death dealer Selene fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and Vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

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Insidious: Chapter 3
2015 Β· dir. Leigh Whannell
πŸ… 56%β˜… 6.1horror Β· thriller

The same preoccupation in both: demon

A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family that reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

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Underworld: Awakening
2012 Β· dir. BjΓΆrn Stein
πŸ… 26%β˜… 6.3fantasy Β· action Β· horror

Action with a pulse of momentum, in both cases

Having escaped years of imprisonment, vampire warrioress Selene finds herself in a changed world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species. Now Selene must battle the humans and a frightening new breed of super Lycans to ensure the death dealers' survival.

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