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Movies that feel like The Kingdom (1994)

If you loved The Kingdom, the closest films we have are Good Manners (2018), Next of Kin (1982) and The Sentinel (1977). All three share The Kingdom's dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

At The Kingdom, Denmark's most technologically advanced hospital, a number of strange and otherworldly events begin occurring, much to the dismay of its doctors and patients. A ghostly ambulance appears and disappears, the voice of a little girl calls to a patient in an elevator shaft, and a doctor's fetus begins growing at an alarming rate.

7.8 IMDbTMDB ↗dir. Lars von Triercontemplativedreamlikedreadunsettlingtwistydarkly funny

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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Juliana Rojas
🍅 96%6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Contemplative where it counts, dreamlike underneath

The difference: Missing the dark humor of The Kingdom

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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Next of Kin
1982 · dir. Tony Williams
🍅 100%6.2horror · mystery

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.

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The Sentinel
1977 · dir. Michael Winner
🍅 45%6.3horror · mystery · fantasy

Fantasy built on twists, twice over

As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building where she encounters a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants and attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.

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Footprints on the Moon
1975 · dir. Luigi Bazzoni
6.6thriller · mystery · drama

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Kingdom does

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?

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About Endlessness
2019 · dir. Roy Andersson
🍅 95%6.8drama · fantasy · comedy

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to comedy than The Kingdom does

A reflection on human life in all its beauty and cruelty, its splendor and banality, guided by a Scheherazade-esque narrator. Inconsequential moments have the same significance as historical events. Simultaneously an ode and a lament, presents a kaleidoscope of all that is eternally human, an infinite story of the vulnerability of existence.

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Ginger Snaps
2000 · dir. John Fawcett
🍅 90%6.8horror · fantasy

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.

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

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, 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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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
6.7comedy · drama

Darkly funny mystery in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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Even the Wind Is Afraid
1968 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
7.2mystery · horror · drama

Both lean on dread more than on drama

A group of college students, led by Claudia, decide to investigate a local tower that has figured prominently in disturbing reoccurring dreams Claudia has been having. They are suspended from school for their antics, but Claudia learns from one of the female staff members that the person in the dream is a student who killed herself years before and that the headmistress has seen her ghost.

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The Last Wave
1977 · dir. Peter Weir
🍅 78%6.9drama · mystery · horror

Unsettling horror in both cases

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

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

Twisty mystery, and it commits to that

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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I Walked with a Zombie
1943 · dir. Jacques Tourneur
🍅 85%7mystery · horror · drama

Fantasy built on stillness, twice over

A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.

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