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Movies that feel likeThe Witches (1990)

While staying at a hotel in England with his grandmother, Helga, a young boy named Luke inadvertently spies on a convention of witches. The Grand High Witch reveals a plan to turn all children into mice via a magical formula. When they discover the eavesdropper, the witches test the formula on him. Now, with the help of Helga and hotel manager Mr Stringer, Luke the mouse must fight back against the witches.

If you loved The Witches, the closest films we have are Poison for the Fairies (1986), Don't Look Now (1973) and Tale of Tales (2015). All three share The Witches' dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is November (2017).

πŸ… 94% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Nicolas Roegdreamlikedreadunsettling
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Poison for the Fairies
1986 Β· dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
β˜… 7.2fantasy Β· horror

The same mix in both: dream logic, then dread

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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Don't Look Now
1973 Β· dir. Nicolas Roeg
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· drama Β· horror

Nicolas Roeg working the same nerve twice

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than The Witches does

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

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Tale of Tales
2015 Β· dir. Matteo Garrone
πŸ… 84%β˜… 6.4romance Β· fantasy Β· horror

Common ground: witch

The difference: 25 years apart, and the 2010s show

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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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 Β· dir. Issa LΓ³pez
πŸ… 97%β˜… 6.9fantasy Β· horrorRent or buy

Fantasy with a pulse of unease, in both cases

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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Viy
1967 Β· dir. Georgi Kropachyov
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1drama Β· fantasy Β· horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: witch

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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November
2017 Β· dir. Rainer Sarnet
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1drama Β· fantasy Β· romance

Dreamlike horror in both cases

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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Return
1985 Β· dir. Andrew Silver
β˜… 4.8horror Β· fantasy Β· romance

Family built on dread, twice over

After reading an article about hypnotic regression, a woman whose maternal grandfather died when she was only three years old contacts the hypnotic subject named in the article believing that he is the reincarnation of her grandfather, and hoping that she can learn the truth about how he died.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street
1984 Β· dir. Wes Craven
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.4horrorMax

The same preoccupation in both: halloween

Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen, must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

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Doctor Sleep
2019 Β· dir. Mike Flanagan
πŸ… 79%β˜… 7.3horror Β· fantasyParamount+

Both are built on the same subject: hotel

Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".

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Tumbbad
2018 Β· dir. Rahi Anil Barve
πŸ… 87%β˜… 8.2fantasy Β· horrorPrime Video

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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Kwaidan
1965 Β· dir. Masaki Kobayashi
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.9horror Β· fantasy Β· dramaMax

Both lean on dream logic more than on horror

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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Oculus
2014 Β· dir. Mike Flanagan
πŸ… 75%β˜… 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

Dread-soaked family in both cases

A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.

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