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Movies that feel likeNosferatu (2024)

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

If you loved Nosferatu, the closest films we have are Frankenstein (2025), Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) and Tumbbad (2018). All three share Nosferatu's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Poison for the Fairies (1986).

🍅 85% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Robert Eggersdreadunsettlingdreamlike
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

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Frankenstein
2025 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 85%★ 7.4drama · fantasy · horrorNetflix

The same preoccupation in both: gothic horror

The difference: Leans harder into drama than Nosferatu does

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%★ 6.9fantasy · horrorRent or buy

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%★ 8.2fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Dreamlike horror, and it commits to that

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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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Dread-soaked fantasy in both cases

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%★ 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Fantasy built on dream logic, twice over

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%★ 6.4horrorPrime Video

Both lean on dread more than on horror

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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The Witch
2016 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 91%★ 7horror · fantasy · mysteryPrime Video

Robert Eggers working the same nerve twice

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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Interview with the Vampire
1994 · dir. Neil Jordan
🍅 66%★ 7.5horror · drama · fantasyMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: vampire

The difference: 30 years apart, and the 1990s show

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
2012 · dir. Timur Bekmambetov
🍅 34%★ 5.9action · fantasy · horrorMax

Common ground: vampire

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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Poison for the Fairies
1986 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2fantasy · horror

Unsettling fantasy in both cases

In 1965 Mexico City, Flavia, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Veronica, a young orphan girl who has a fascination with witchcraft. Veronica convinces Flavia that she is a real witch and forces her to be her assistant. The children's games gradually become more serious and Veronica demands more from Flavia.

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Dracula Untold
2014 · dir. Gary Shore
🍅 26%★ 6.2horror · action · fantasyPrime Video

Both work the same dream logic

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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