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Movies that feel like Under the Shadow (2016)

If you loved Under the Shadow, the closest films we have are Bird Box (2018), A Quiet Place (2018) and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007). All three share Under the Shadow's contemplative and dread feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 12 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads and fuboTV and others, checked against today's data.

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.

πŸ… 99% Rotten Tomatoesβ˜… 6.8 IMDb β†—TMDB β†—dir. Babak Anvaricontemplativedreadunsettlingbleak
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If Under the Shadow hit the spot, these will too

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

The same mix in both: stillness, then dread

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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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A Quiet Place
2018 Β· dir. John Krasinski
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5horror Β· drama Β· science fiction

Unsettling where it counts, bleak underneath

The difference: Plays it as science fiction more than Under the Shadow does

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

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πŸ… 86%β˜… 7.3drama Β· horror

Both trade on stillness more than on being drama

The difference: None of the bleakness that defines Under the Shadow

The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.

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Let the Right One In
2008 Β· dir. Tomas Alfredson
πŸ… 98%β˜… 7.8horror Β· drama

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.

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The Babadook
2014 Β· dir. Jennifer Kent
πŸ… 98%β˜… 6.8drama Β· horror

War built on unease, twice over

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

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mother!
2017 Β· dir. Darren Aronofsky
πŸ… 68%β˜… 6.6horror Β· drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

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The Eyes of My Mother
2016 Β· dir. Nicolas Pesce
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.2drama Β· horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

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Carrie
2013 Β· dir. Kimberly Peirce
πŸ… 51%β˜… 5.8drama Β· horror

Unsettling war, and it commits to that

An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl is the object of relentless bullying at school and an oppressively religious mother at home.

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It Chapter Two
2019 Β· dir. Andy Muschietti
πŸ… 62%β˜… 6.5horror Β· thriller Β· drama

The same preoccupation in both: 1980s

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

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The Shallows
2016 Β· dir. Jaume Collet-Serra
πŸ… 78%β˜… 6.3horror Β· drama Β· thriller

Cut from the same drama cloth

While surfing on a secluded beach, Nancy finds herself in the feeding grounds of a great white shark. Though stranded only 200 yards from shore, survival proves to be the ultimate test of wills, requiring all of her ingenuity, resourcefulness, and fortitude.

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Bone Tomahawk
2015 Β· dir. S. Craig Zahler
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.1drama Β· horror Β· western

Both are horror through and through

During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappearβ€”only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.

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

Drama approached the same way

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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