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Movies that feel like The Lure (2015)

If you loved The Lure, the closest films we have are Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017), Tale of Tales (2015) and Tumbbad (2018). All three share The Lure's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 9 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Amazon Prime Video, Shudder and ARROW and others, checked against today's data.

Two mermaid sisters, who end up performing at a nightclub, face cruel and bloody choices when one of them falls in love with a beautiful young man.

🍅 89% Rotten Tomatoes6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Agnieszka Smoczyńskadreadunsettlingstylishdreamlike
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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%6.9fantasy · horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Not nearly as stylish as The Lure

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: sister sister relationship

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Lure does

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomonte becomes obsessed with a flea and neglects his daughter.

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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%8.2fantasy · horror

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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November
2017 · dir. Rainer Sarnet
🍅 93%7.1drama · fantasy · romance

Dread-soaked fantasy in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Lure does

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her.

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Anna and the Apocalypse
2018 · dir. John McPhail
🍅 77%6.1horror · comedy · fantasy

Common ground: musical

A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven—at Christmas—forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash, and sing their way to survival. In a desperate race to reach their loved ones, they soon learn that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on are each other.

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The Mermaid: Lake of the Dead
2018 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
4.4horror · fantasy · romance

Both are built on the same subject: mermaid

An evil Mermaid falls in love with Marina's fiancé Roman and aims to keep him away from Marina in her Kingdom of Death under water. The Mermaid is a young woman who drowned a few centuries ago. Marina only has one week to overcome her fear of the dark water, to remain human in the deathly fight with the monsters and not to become one herself.

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Extra Ordinary
2019 · dir. Mike Ahern
🍅 98%6.4fantasy · comedy · horror

Both lean on unease more than on music

A driving instructor must use her other-worldly gifts to save a lonely man’s daughter from a rock star looking to use her for Satanic purposes.

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The Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

The same preoccupation in both: mermaid

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

Horror built on dread, twice over

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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Cazuza: Time Doesn't Stop
2004 · dir. Walter Carvalho
6.9drama · music · history

Stylish music, and it commits to that

Inspired by the moving book “Só as Mães São Felizes”, by Lucinha Araújo, Cazuza's mother, the film covers a little more than 10 years of the singer’s crazy and brief life – from the beginning of his career in the Circo Voador venue, in 1981, to the huge success and the apotheosis of his shows with the Barão Vermelho band, his solo career, his relations with his parents, friends, lovers and passions, and the courage he had to face his final years, with HIV, until his death, in 1990.

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

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

The difference: Made in the 1980s, in a different era of the craft

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

Both lean on unease more than on horror

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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