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Movies that feel likeFunny Games (1997)

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

If you loved Funny Games, the closest films we have are Thesis (1996), Audition (2000) and Candyman (1992). All three share Funny Games' dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Berberian Sound Studio (2012).

🍅 73% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.5 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Michael Hanekecontemplativedreadunsettlingtense
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Thesis
1996 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 86%★ 7.4horror · thriller

Two things both keep coming back to: psychopath and serial killer

The difference: Takes it somewhere less contemplative than Funny Games does

While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.

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Audition
2000 · dir. Takashi Miike
🍅 81%★ 7.1horror · drama

Common ground in both: sadism and psychological thriller

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife from a colleague. Taking advantage of their position as a film company, they stage an audition. Interviewing a series of women, Shigeharu is enchanted by the quiet Asami. But soon things take a twisted turn as Asami isn’t what she seems to be.

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Candyman
1992 · dir. Bernard Rose
🍅 79%★ 6.8drama · horror · thrillerPrime VideoPeacock

The same mix in both: stillness, then dread

The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.

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Ring
1998 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 98%★ 7.2horror · thriller

Both land unease and tension at once

The difference: Reviewed even better

A mysterious video has been linked to a number of deaths, and when an inquisitive journalist finds the tape and views it herself, she sets in motion a chain of events that puts her own life in danger.

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Nightwatch
1994 · dir. Ole Bornedal
🍅 63%★ 7.1horror · thriller

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Martin, a law student, takes up a job as a nightwatchman at a mortuary to fund his studies. But the mortuary harbours a dark secret, and he has to find the truth before he is implicated in a serial murder case.

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Stoker
2013 · dir. Park Chan-wook
🍅 70%★ 6.7drama · horror · thrillerMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: psychopath

Following her father Richard's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker withdraws further into the quiet rural life she shares with her emotionally disturbed mother Evie. But her curiosity is stirred when her mysterious uncle Charlie, who she has never met, suddenly arrives unannounced. Told that the darkly charismatic Charlie will now be staying at the house, India's initial well-founded distrust of her uncle's motivations begins to waver as she finds herself becoming ever more deeply entranced by his sinister charms.

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

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

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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Creep
2014 · dir. Patrick Brice
🍅 91%★ 6.3horror · thrillerNetflixPrime Video

One thread runs through both: serial killer

Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: "$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated." Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.

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

Thriller built on unease, twice over

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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Silent Night, Deadly Night
1984 · dir. Charles E. Sellier Jr.
🍅 55%★ 5.8thriller · horrorPrime Video

Horror with a pulse of tension, in both cases

After a man dressed as Santa Claus brutally murders Billy Chapman's parents, little Billy then endures the cruelty of a sadistic nun at his orphanage. Years later, when adult Billy has to fill in for an absent in-store Santa, his childhood trauma brings him to the breaking point.

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The Ring Two
2005 · dir. Hideo Nakata
🍅 21%★ 5.4drama · horror · thrillerParamount+

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

After the ordeal with Samara, Rachel and Aiden move to a rural town. But soon Rachel learns about the death of a girl in a similar fashion. To save Aiden, she must dig into Samara's past even further.

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Titane
2021 · dir. Julia Ducournau
🍅 90%★ 6.4drama · thriller · horrorRent or buy

Dread-soaked thriller in both cases

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

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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