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Movies that feel like Thirst (2009)

If you loved Thirst, the closest films we have are Gerald's Game (2017), Berberian Sound Studio (2012) and The Endless (2017). All three share Thirst'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 Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Peacock Premium and others, checked against today's data.

A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.

🍅 81% Rotten Tomatoes7.1 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Park Chan-wookcontemplativedreadunsettlingtensewistful

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Gerald's Game
2017 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 91%6.5horror · thriller · drama

Both land stillness and dread at once

When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 · dir. Peter Strickland
🍅 85%6.2horror · drama · thriller

Unsettling where it counts, tense underneath

The difference: Not nearly as wistful as Thirst

In the 1970s, a British sound technician is brought to Italy to work on the sound effects for a gruesome horror film. His nightmarish task slowly takes over his psyche, driving him to confront his own past.

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The Endless
2017 · dir. Aaron Moorhead
🍅 91%6.5science fiction · horror · thriller

Wistful horror, and it commits to that

The difference: None of the stillness Thirst is built on

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

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La Llorona
2019 · dir. Jayro Bustamante
🍅 96%6.6thriller · horror · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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

Thriller with a pulse of dread, 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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Speak No Evil
2022 · dir. Christian Tafdrup
🍅 83%6.6horror · thriller · drama

Unsettling drama in both cases

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

Horror built on tension, 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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Kill List
2011 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 79%6.4horror · thriller · crime

The same preoccupation in both: priest

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Thirst does

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%6.5drama · horror · thriller

Thriller with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

The difference: Reviewed a good deal more coolly

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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30 Days of Night
2007 · dir. David Slade
🍅 51%6.6horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: vampire

This is the story of an isolated Alaskan town that is plunged into darkness for a month each year when the sun sinks below the horizon. As the last rays of light fade, the town is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires bent on an uninterrupted orgy of destruction. Only the small town's husband-and-wife Sheriff team stand between the survivors and certain destruction.

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The Orphanage
2007 · dir. J. A. Bayona
🍅 87%7.4horror · drama · thriller

Drama built on dread, twice over

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

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Titane
2021 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 90%6.5drama · thriller · horror

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.

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