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Movies that feel like The Phantom Carriage (1921)

If you loved The Phantom Carriage, the closest films we have are Faust (1926), The Phantom of the Opera (1925) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). All three share The Phantom Carriage's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

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Faust
1926 · dir. F. W. Murnau
🍅 91%8.1fantasy · drama · horror

The same two preoccupations: death, and silent film

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.

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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%7.5horror

The same preoccupation in both: phantom

The difference: Missing the stillness of The Phantom Carriage

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray
1945 · dir. Albert Lewin
🍅 94%7.5drama · horror · fantasy

Contemplative and dreamlike in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

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Kwaidan
1965 · dir. Masaki Kobayashi
🍅 91%7.9horror · fantasy · drama

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

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

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Phantom Carriage 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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The Mummy
1932 · dir. Karl Freund
🍅 90%6.9horror · fantasy

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

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Viy
1967 · dir. Georgi Kropachyov
🍅 88%7.2drama · fantasy · horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

A seminary student on monastery holiday kills an old witch in a remote village. The hag then transforms into a beautiful young woman whose dying wish is for him to watch over her wake for three nights. With terrors occurring and his faith waning, he reads prayers on the overnight watch and tries to survive the supernatural encounters.

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Un Chien Andalou
1929 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 100%7.6fantasy · horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: death

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

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

Unsettling fantasy, and it commits to that

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

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

Dreamlike horror 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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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949 · dir. Clyde Geronimi
🍅 89%6.8horror · fantasy · animation

Fantasy built on dread, twice over

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.

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