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Movies that feel likeHour of the Wolf (1968)

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

If you loved Hour of the Wolf, the closest films we have are The Passion of Anna (1969), Viy (1967) and Kwaidan (1965). All three share Hour of the Wolf's contemplative and dreamlike feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Poison for the Fairies (1986).

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The Passion of Anna
1969 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 7.6drama

Both are Ingmar Bergman's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Trades the dread of Hour of the Wolf for an angle of its own

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

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

Contemplative and dread-soaked in the same breath

The difference: Easier on the loneliness than Hour of the Wolf

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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Kwaidan
1965 · dir. Masaki Kobayashi
🍅 91%★ 7.9horror · fantasy · dramaMax

Both land unease and dream logic at once

The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than Hour of the Wolf does

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

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The Legend of Hell House
1973 · dir. John Hough
🍅 72%★ 6.6horror · mystery

Both are built on the same subject: isolation

A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic, and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove or disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.

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

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

The difference: Made in the 1940s, in a different era of the craft

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

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Scenes from a Marriage
1974 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
★ 8.3drama · romanceMax

Ingmar Bergman working the same nerve twice

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death
1971 · dir. John D. Hancock
🍅 50%★ 6.4horror · mystery · drama

Common ground: isolation

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

Newly released from a mental ward, Jessica hopes to return to life the way it was before her nervous breakdown. But when Jessica moves to a country house with her husband and a close friend, she finds a mysterious girl living in there. Jessica's terror and paranoia resurface as evil forces surround her.

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

Two things both keep coming back to: nightmare and insanity

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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A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014 · dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
🍅 96%★ 6.9horror · romance

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

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Cat People
1942 · dir. Jacques Tourneur
🍅 92%★ 7.2mystery · horror · romance

Horror built on loneliness, twice over

A Serbian émigré in Manhattan believes that, because of an ancient curse, any physical intimacy with the man she loves will turn her into a feline predator.

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Poison for the Fairies
1986 · dir. Carlos Enrique Taboada
★ 7.2fantasy · horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

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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Onibaba
1964 · dir. Kaneto Shindō
🍅 90%★ 7.8horrorMax

One thread runs through both: black and white

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they learn that Kichi has died, but his wife soon begins an affair with a neighbor who survived the war, Hachi. The mother disapproves and, when she can't steal Hachi for herself, tries to scare her daughter-in-law with a mysterious mask from a dead samurai.

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