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Movies that feel likePossession (1981)

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

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).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Andrzej Żuławskidreadunsettlingobsessive
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Peeping Tom
1960 · dir. Michael Powell
🍅 96%★ 7.6thriller · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: obsession

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than Possession does

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

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The Changeling
1980 · dir. Peter Medak
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror

Both land dread and unease at once

The difference: Easier on the obsession than Possession

After a tragic event happens, composer John Russell moves to Seattle to try to overcome it and build a new and peaceful life in a lonely big house that has been uninhabited for many years. But, soon after, the obscure history of such an old mansion and his own past begin to haunt him.

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The Wicker Man
1973 · dir. Robin Hardy
🍅 92%★ 7.5horrorPrime Video

Common ground: the investigation

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.

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Obsession
2026 · dir. Curry Barker
🍅 93%★ 7.8horror · thrillerPeacock

The same preoccupation in both: possession

The difference: 45 years apart, and the 2020s show

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

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Hellraiser
1987 · dir. Clive Barker
🍅 72%★ 6.9horror · thrillerPrime Video

One thread runs through both: gore

A hedonistic man finds a mysterious puzzle box that summons a group of gruesome beings known as the Cenobites. These otherworldly entities open the doors to a dominion where pain and pleasure are indivisible.

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The Fog
1980 · dir. John Carpenter
🍅 77%★ 6.8horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Horror built on dread, twice over

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.

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[REC]
2007 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 90%★ 7.4horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: obsession

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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Poltergeist
1982 · dir. Tobe Hooper
🍅 89%★ 7.3horrorMax

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The Freelings' suburban home becomes the center of paranormal activity that opens a portal to the 'other side'. With help, they must cross over to get their daughter back.

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The Devil's Advocate
1997 · dir. Taylor Hackford
🍅 65%★ 7.5horror · drama · mystery

The same preoccupation in both: marriage crisis

Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.

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Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 · dir. Werner Herzog
🍅 93%★ 7.3drama · horrorPrime Video

Both work the same unease

A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

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The Ninth Gate
1999 · dir. Roman Polanski
🍅 44%★ 6.7mystery · thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: the investigation

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

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