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Movies that feel like Un Chien Andalou (1929)

If you loved Un Chien Andalou, the closest films we have are Dead of Night (1945), Faust (1926) and The Mummy (1932). All three share Un Chien Andalou's dreamlike and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Peacock Premium and Criterion Channel and others, checked against today's data.

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

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If Un Chien Andalou hit the spot, these will too

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Dead of Night
1945 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%7.5horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: dreams

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

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Faust
1926 · dir. F. W. Murnau
🍅 91%8.1fantasy · drama · horror

The same preoccupation in both: death

The difference: Not nearly as tense as Un Chien Andalou

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.

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The Mummy
1932 · dir. Karl Freund
🍅 90%6.9horror · fantasy

Dreamlike where it counts, dread-soaked underneath

The difference: Missing the tension of Un Chien Andalou

An ancient Egyptian priest named Imhotep is revived when a British archaeological expedition finds his mummy and one of the researchers accidentally reads an ancient life-giving spell. Imhotep escapes from the field site and searches for the reincarnation of the soul of his lover.

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The Phantom Carriage
1921 · dir. Victor Sjöström
🍅 100%8drama · fantasy · horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: death

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Un Chien Andalou does

An alcoholic, abusive ne'er-do-well is shown the error of his ways through a legend that dooms the last person to die on New Year's Eve before the clock strikes twelve to take the reins of Death's chariot and work tirelessly collecting fresh souls for the next year.

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The Black Cat
1934 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 89%6.9horror · thriller

The same mix in both: unease, then tension

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

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Vampyr
1932 · dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer
🍅 98%7.4horror · fantasy · mystery

Common ground: dreams

Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.

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King Kong
1933 · dir. Merian C. Cooper
🍅 97%7.9adventure · fantasy · horror

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has seen before. Alongside his leading lady Ann Darrow and his first mate Jack Driscoll, they arrive on an island and discover a legendary creature said to be neither beast nor man. Denham captures the monster to be displayed on Broadway as King Kong, the eighth wonder of the world.

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949 · dir. Clyde Geronimi
🍅 89%6.8horror · fantasy · animation

Both lean on unease more than on thriller

The difference: 20 years apart, and the 1940s show

The Wind in the Willows: Concise version of Kenneth Grahame's story of the same name. J. Thaddeus Toad, owner of Toad Hall, is prone to fads, such as the newfangled motor car. This desire for the very latest lands him in much trouble with the wrong crowd, and it is up to his friends, Mole, Rat and Badger to save him from himself. - The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: Retelling of Washington Irving's story set in a tiny New England town. Ichabod Crane, the new schoolmaster, falls for the town beauty, Katrina Van Tassel, and the town Bully Brom Bones decides that he is a little too successful and needs "convincing" that Katrina is not for him.

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Altered States
1980 · dir. Ken Russell
🍅 87%6.9horror · science fiction · thriller

One thread runs through both: surreal

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%7.3horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

A British estate agent travels to Transylvania to meet the mysterious Count Dracula, who is interested in leasing a London castle. After Dracula enslaves the agent and drives him to insanity, the pair return to London together, where Dracula, a secret bloodsucker, begins preying on socialites.

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The Phantom of the Opera
1925 · dir. Rupert Julian
🍅 90%7.5horror

Fantasy with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

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