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Movies that feel like The Sadness (2021)

If you loved The Sadness, the closest films we have are What We Become (2015), [REC]⁴ Apocalypse (2014) and [REC]² (2009). All three share The Sadness' 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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Shudder and others, checked against today's data.

A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable.

🍅 88% Rotten Tomatoes6.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Rob Jabbazdreadunsettlingtense
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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
5.5horror · thriller

Both keep coming back to the same thing: virus

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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[REC]⁴ Apocalypse
2014 · dir. Jaume Balagueró
🍅 65%5.3thriller · horror

The same preoccupation in both: virus

Ángela Vidal, the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don't know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.

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[REC]²
2009 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 67%6.5thriller · horror

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The action continues from [REC], with the medical officer and a SWAT team outfitted with video cameras are sent into the sealed off apartment to control the situation.

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Death Whisperer
2023 · dir. Taweewat Wantha
5.8horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

When a remote village is plagued by a deadly curse, one brother must fight to save his family from a terrifying supernatural threat.

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When Evil Lurks
2023 · dir. Demián Rugna
🍅 96%6.9horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of dread, in both cases

When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.

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Hokum
2026 · dir. Damian McCarthy
7.3horror · thriller

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents' ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.

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The Pool
2018 · dir. Ping Lumpraploeng
🍅 96%5.3thriller · horror

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

Left alone to clean up a 6-meter-deep deserted pool, Day falls asleep on an inflatable raft. When he wakes, the water level has sunk so low that he can't climb out on his own. Stuck in the pool, Day screams for help, but the only thing that hears him is a creature from a nearby crocodile farm.

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Julia's Eyes
2010 · dir. Guillem Morales
🍅 90%6.7horror · thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Julia, a woman suffering from a degenerative sight disease, finds her blind sister Sara hung in a basement. Despite all signs pointing to suicide, Julia decides to investigate what she intuitively feels is a murder case.

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Lake Mungo
2009 · dir. Joel Anderson
🍅 92%6.2horror · thriller

Thriller built on unease, twice over

After 16-year-old Alice Palmer drowns at a local dam, her family experiences a series of strange, inexplicable events centered in and around their home. Unsettled, the Palmers seek the help of a psychic and parapsychologist, who discovers that Alice led a secret, double life. At Lake Mungo, Alice's secret past emerges.

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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%6.3horror · thriller

The shared currency is tension

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%5.5horror · thriller

Both working the same horror territory

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%6.6horror · thriller · drama

Both know what they want from thriller

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Sadness does

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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