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Movies that feel likeNosferatu (1922)

The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.

If you loved Nosferatu, the closest films we have are Faust (1926), The Phantom Carriage (1921) and Dracula (1931). All three share Nosferatu's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Dark Song (2016).

🍅 97% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. F. W. Murnaudreadunsettlingdreamlikemelancholy
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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

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

F. W. Murnau directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Trades the melancholy of Nosferatu for an angle of its own

Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.

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

The same mix in both: dread, then unease

The difference: Takes it somewhere less melancholy than Nosferatu 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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Dracula
1931 · dir. Tod Browning
🍅 96%★ 7.3horrorPrime VideoPeacock

Both are working the same pair: transylvania, vampire

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

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Lamb
2021 · dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson
🍅 86%★ 6.3drama · fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Dreamlike where it counts, melancholy underneath

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Nosferatu does

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

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Night of the Living Dead
1968 · dir. George A. Romero
🍅 95%★ 7.8horrorMaxPeacock

The same two preoccupations: grief, and halloween

The difference: Made in the 1960s, in a different era of the craft

A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.

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Don't Look Now
1973 · dir. Nicolas Roeg
🍅 93%★ 7.1thriller · drama · horror

Common ground: supernatural

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

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Pet Sematary
1989 · dir. Mary Lambert
🍅 55%★ 6.5horrorParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: coffin

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 88%★ 7.4horror

Both are built on the same subject: halloween

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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

The same preoccupation in both: castle

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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A Dark Song
2016 · dir. Liam Gavin
🍅 91%★ 6.2horror · fantasy · mystery

One thread runs through both: grief

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

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Un Chien Andalou
1929 · dir. Luis Buñuel
🍅 100%★ 7.6fantasy · thriller · horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

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

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

Fantasy with a pulse of unease, 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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