
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.
If The Phantom Carriage hit the spot, these will too

The same two preoccupations: death, and silent film

The same preoccupation in both: phantom
The difference: Missing the stillness of The Phantom Carriage

Contemplative and dreamlike in the same breath
The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases
The difference: Leans harder into romance than The Phantom Carriage does

Both lean on dream logic more than on fantasy

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Both keep coming back to the same thing: death

Unsettling fantasy, and it commits to that

Drama built on stillness, twice over

Dreamlike horror in both cases

Fantasy built on dread, twice over
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