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Movies that feel likeSleep Tight (2011)

César, an unhappy concierge, maintains a peculiar relationship with the very diverse inhabitants of the upper-class apartment building where he works in Barcelona.

If you loved Sleep Tight, the closest films we have are [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) and Hush (2016). All three share Sleep Tight'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 Pulse (2001).

🍅 91% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jaume Balaguerótensedreadunsettlinglonely
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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%★ 5.3thriller · horror

Jaume Balagueró directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 · dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · romance

One thread runs through both: loneliness

The difference: Trades the tension of Sleep Tight for an angle of its own

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

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Hush
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 92%★ 6.6horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Tense where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.

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You're Next
2013 · dir. Adam Wingard
🍅 79%★ 6.6horror · thriller · mysteryPrime VideoStarz

Unsettling and lonely in the same breath

The difference: Sits closer to mystery than Sleep Tight does

When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

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The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · dir. Osgood Perkins
🍅 77%★ 5.9horror · mysteryPrime Video

Both are built on the same subject: loneliness

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Sleep Tight does

Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.

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Saint Maud
2020 · dir. Rose Glass
🍅 92%★ 6.6horror · mystery · thrillerPrime Video

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases

Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.

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Pulse
2001 · dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa
🍅 76%★ 6.6horror · thriller · mystery

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%★ 6.2horror · thriller

Thriller built on unease, twice over

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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The Nameless
1999 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 20%★ 5.8thriller · mystery · horror

The same hand behind both of them: Jaume Balagueró

The mutilated body of a six year old girl is found in a water hole. The girl is identified as the missing daughter of Claudia. However, only two peices of evidence could be used to identify her; a bracelet with her name on it near the crime scene, and the fact that her right leg was three inches longer than her left. All other methods of identification were removed from her body. Five years later Claudia, now addicted to tranquilizers, receives a phone call from someone claiming to be her daughter, asking for her mother to come find her before 'they' kill her. Other mysterious clues show up, further indicating that Claudia's daughter is indeed still alive, and very much in danger. Claudia, a run-down ex-cop, and a parapsychology reporter put together the clues to discover Angela's whereabouts

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Tense horror, and it commits to that

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

Both lean on dread more than on thriller

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%★ 7.4horror · thriller

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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