
Movies that feel likeThe Lighthouse (2019)
If you loved The Lighthouse, the closest films we have are Room (2015), Requiem for a Dream (2000) and Perfect Days (2023). All three share The Lighthouse's contemplative and lonely feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Wall (2012).
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If The Lighthouse hit the spot, these will too

The same preoccupation in both: isolation
The difference: Easier on the dream logic than The Lighthouse

One thread runs through both: hallucination
The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Lighthouse does

The same mix in both: stillness, then loneliness

Both keep coming back to the same thing: isolation

Robert Eggers directing both, with the same fingerprints on each
The difference: Leans harder into horror than The Lighthouse does

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Dreamlike where it counts, tense underneath
The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Thriller with a pulse of tension, in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to mystery than The Lighthouse does

Common ground: a true story

Lonely fantasy, and it commits to that

Both are built on the same subject: black and white
The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

Contemplative drama in both cases
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