
Movies that feel likePossession (1981)
If you loved Possession, the closest films we have are Peeping Tom (1960), The Changeling (1980) and The Wicker Man (1973). All three share Possession'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 Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979).
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If Possession hit the spot, these will too

Both keep coming back to the same thing: obsession
The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Possession does

Both land dread and unease at once
The difference: Easier on the obsession than Possession


The same preoccupation in both: possession
The difference: 45 years apart, and the 2020s show

One thread runs through both: gore

Horror built on dread, twice over
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Both are built on the same subject: obsession
The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases


The same preoccupation in both: marriage crisis

Both work the same unease

The same preoccupation in both: the investigation
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair
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