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Movies that feel likeTigers Are Not Afraid (2017)

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.

If you loved Tigers Are Not Afraid, the closest films we have are Tumbbad (2018), November (2017) and Poison for the Fairies (1986). All three share Tigers Are Not Afraid's dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Good Manners (2018).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.9 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Issa Lópezdreamlikedreadunsettling
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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%★ 8.2fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Both land dream logic and dread at once

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

Fantasy built on unease, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Tigers Are Not Afraid 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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Poison for the Fairies
1986 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2fantasy · horror

Dreamlike horror in both cases

The difference: 31 years apart, and the 1980s show

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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Tale of Tales
2015 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · horror

Both lean on dread more than on fantasy

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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Oculus
2014 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 75%★ 6.6horrorNetflixPrime Video

Common ground: ghost

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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Good Manners
2018 · dir. Juliana Rojas
🍅 96%★ 6.7fantasy · horror · mystery

Unsettling horror, and it commits to that

Clara, a lonely nurse from the outskirts of São Paulo, is hired by mysterious and wealthy Ana as the nanny for her unborn child. The two women develop a strong bond, but soon Clara discovers a terrifying secret about the child.

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Ghostland
2018 · dir. Pascal Laugier
🍅 52%★ 6.4horrorPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

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Kill, Baby... Kill!
1966 · dir. Mario Bava
★ 6.8horrorPrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: ghost

The difference: Trades the dream logic of Tigers Are Not Afraid for an angle of its own

A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.

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Nosferatu
2024 · dir. Robert Eggers
🍅 85%★ 7.1horror · fantasyHulu

Dread-soaked fantasy, and it commits to that

A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

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Viy
1967 · dir. Georgi Kropachyov
🍅 88%★ 7.1drama · fantasy · horror

Both work the same unease

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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Doctor Sleep
2019 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 79%★ 7.3horror · fantasyParamount+

Fantasy in the same key

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

Both play horror straight

A handsome young man trades his soul so that his portrait ages while he stays eternally young.

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