
Movies that feel likeRepulsion (1965)
If you loved Repulsion, the closest films we have are Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Tenant (1976) and The Last Wave (1977). All three share Repulsion's contemplative and paranoid feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is They Look Like People (2016).
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If Repulsion hit the spot, these will too

Roman Polanski working the same nerve twice
The difference: Easier on the dream logic than Repulsion

The same hand behind both of them: Roman Polanski
The difference: Takes it somewhere less dread-soaked than Repulsion does

Both are built on the same subject: paranoia
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Repulsion does

The same preoccupation in both: black and white
The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

The same mix in both: stillness, then dread

One thread runs through both: hallucination

Unsettling where it counts, dreamlike underneath

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia

Common ground: black and white

Both are built on the same subject: hallucination

Common ground: murder

Tense and paranoid in the same breath
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all contemplative movies βThe best-reviewed films that share Repulsionβs defining feeling.









