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Movies that feel likeUnder the Shadow (2016)

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

If you loved Under the Shadow, the closest films we have are Overlord (2018), A War (2015) and Incantation (2022). Most of the picks below share Under the Shadow's contemplative and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Beanpole (2019).

πŸ… 99% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Babak Anvaricontemplativedreadunsettlingbleak
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Overlord
2018 Β· dir. Julius Avery
πŸ… 82%β˜… 6.6horror Β· war Β· science fictionParamount+

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

The difference: Trades the stillness of Under the Shadow for an angle of its own

On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.

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A War
2015 Β· dir. Tobias Lindholm
πŸ… 90%β˜… 7drama Β· war

Both land stillness and bleakness at once

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dread-soaked than Under the Shadow does

Company commander Claus Michael Pedersen and his men are stationed in Helmand, Afghanistan. Meanwhile back in Denmark, with a husband at war and three children missing their father, everyday life is a struggle for Claus' wife Maria. During a routine mission, the soldiers are caught in heavy Taliban crossfire. In order to save his men, Claus makes a decision that ultimately sees him return to Denmark accused of a war crime.

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Incantation
2022 Β· dir. Kevin Ko
πŸ… 79%β˜… 6.3horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

Inspired by the true story of a family who believed they were possessed by spirits. This film follows a woman who must protect her child from a curse.

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La Llorona
2019 Β· dir. Jayro Bustamante
πŸ… 96%β˜… 6.6thriller Β· horror Β· dramaRent or buy

Drama built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Under the Shadow does

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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Bird Box
2018 Β· dir. Susanne Bier
πŸ… 64%β˜… 6.6horror Β· thriller Β· dramaNetflix

War with a pulse of unease, in both cases

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

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Raw
2017 Β· dir. Julia Ducournau
πŸ… 92%β˜… 6.9horror Β· drama

Contemplative drama in both cases

Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.

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Sobibor
2018 Β· dir. Konstantin Khabenskiy
πŸ… 73%β˜… 6.4war Β· dramaPrime Video

Both lean on bleakness more than on war

The film is based on a real story that happened in 1943 in the Sobibor concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. The main character of the movie is the Soviet-Jewish soldier Alexander Pechersky, who at that time was serving in the Red Army as a lieutenant. In October 1943, he was captured by the Nazis and deported to the Sobibor concentration camp, where Jews were being exterminated in gas chambers. But, in just 3 weeks, Alexander was able to plan an international uprising of prisoners from Poland and Western Europe. This uprising resulted in being the only successful one throughout the war, which led to the largest escape of prisoners from a Nazi concentration camp.

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Beanpole
2019 Β· dir. Kantemir Balagov
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.2drama Β· warRent or buy

Bleak horror in both cases

1945, Leningrad. World War II has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women, Iya and Masha, search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.

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Veronica
2017 Β· dir. Paco Plaza
πŸ… 86%β˜… 6.2horrorNetflix

One thread runs through both: supernatural

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a sΓ©ance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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The Eye
2002 Β· dir. Oxide Pang
πŸ… 63%β˜… 6.6horror

Horror with a pulse of dread, in both cases

A blind concert violinist gets a cornea transplant allowing her to see again. However, she gets more than she bargained for when she realizes her new eye can see ghosts. She sets out to find the origins of the cornea and discover the fate of its former host.

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Berberian Sound Studio
2012 Β· dir. Peter Strickland
πŸ… 85%β˜… 6.2horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

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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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 Β· dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
β˜… 4.7horror

The same horror instincts

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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