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Movies that feel like Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)

If you loved Meshes of the Afternoon, the closest films we have are Ugetsu (1953), Vampyr (1932) and The Uninvited (1944). All three share Meshes of the Afternoon's twisty and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.

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If Meshes of the Afternoon hit the spot, these will too

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Ugetsu
1953 Β· dir. Kenji Mizoguchi
πŸ… 100%β˜… 8.1fantasy Β· drama Β· mystery

The same mix in both: twists, then dream logic

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Meshes of the Afternoon does

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

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Vampyr
1932 Β· dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.4horror Β· fantasy Β· mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: dreams

The difference: Sits closer to horror than Meshes of the Afternoon does

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

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The Uninvited
1944 Β· dir. Lewis Allen
πŸ… 95%β˜… 7.2mystery Β· horror Β· fantasy

Both lean on twists more than on mystery

A pair of siblings from London purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly priceβ€”and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave.

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I Walked with a Zombie
1943 Β· dir. Jacques Tourneur
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7mystery Β· horror Β· drama

Dreamlike fantasy, and it commits to that

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 Β· dir. Luigi Bazzoni
β˜… 6.6thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: dreams

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

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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Emerald Green
2016 Β· dir. Felix Fuchssteiner
β˜… 5.8fantasy Β· action Β· mystery

Mystery with a pulse of twists, in both cases

The difference: 73 years apart, and the 2010s show

Emerald Green is the stunning conclusion to Kerstin Gier's Ruby Red Trilogy, picking up where Sapphire Blue left off, reaching new heights of intrigue and romance as Gwen finally uncovers the secrets of the time-traveling society and learns her fate.

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Citizen Kane
1941 Β· dir. Orson Welles
πŸ… 99%β˜… 8.2mystery Β· drama

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

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The Five Venoms
1978 Β· dir. Chang Cheh
πŸ… 80%β˜… 7action Β· drama Β· mystery

Mystery of the same temperament

A dying master sends his last student to check up on five former pupils, who each know a special style of kung-fu.

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Innocence
2005 · dir. Lucile Hadžihalilović
πŸ… 71%β˜… 6.8drama Β· mystery

Both play mystery straight

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

At a peculiar all-girls academy, new arrivals, including Iris, are delivered in coffins. Guided by enigmatic teachers, the students dance through enchanted woods by day, while the night unveils sinister lessons that blur innocence and awakening.

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Next of Kin
1982 Β· dir. Tony Williams
πŸ… 100%β˜… 6.2horror Β· mystery

Both working the same mystery territory

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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Carnival of Souls
1962 Β· dir. Herk Harvey
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7horror Β· mystery Β· fantasy

Cut from the same fantasy cloth

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

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Saboteur
1942 Β· dir. Alfred Hitchcock
πŸ… 81%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· mystery

The mystery is handled with the same confidence

The difference: Not nearly as dreamlike as Meshes of the Afternoon

Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

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