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Movies that feel likeRepulsion (1965)

Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.

If you loved Repulsion, the closest films we have are Rosemary's Baby (1968), The Tenant (1976) and Dead of Night (1945). All three share Repulsion's tense feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

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Rosemary's Baby
1968 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 97%β˜… 8drama Β· horror Β· thrillerParamount+

Roman Polanski working the same nerve twice

The difference: Easier on the dream logic than Repulsion

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

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The Tenant
1976 Β· dir. Roman Polanski
πŸ… 85%β˜… 7.5thriller Β· mystery Β· drama

The same hand behind both of them: Roman Polanski

The difference: Takes it somewhere less dread-soaked than Repulsion does

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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Dead of Night
1945 Β· dir. Charles Crichton
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.5horror Β· thriller

Both are built on the same subject: black and white

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

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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Kwaidan
1965 Β· dir. Masaki Kobayashi
πŸ… 91%β˜… 7.9horror Β· fantasy Β· dramaMax

The same mix in both: stillness, then dread

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Repulsion 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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Don't Look Now
1973 Β· dir. Nicolas Roeg
πŸ… 93%β˜… 7.1thriller Β· drama Β· horror

The same preoccupation in both: hallucination

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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Viy
1967 Β· dir. Georgi Kropachyov
πŸ… 88%β˜… 7.1drama Β· fantasy Β· horror

Unsettling where it counts, dreamlike underneath

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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Black Swan
2010 Β· dir. Darren Aronofsky
πŸ… 85%β˜… 8drama Β· thriller Β· horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: paranoia

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."

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The Manchurian Candidate
1962 Β· dir. John Frankenheimer
πŸ… 96%β˜… 7.9thriller Β· drama

Common ground: black and white

Near the end of the Korean War, a platoon of U.S. soldiers is captured by communists and brainwashed. Following the war, the platoon is returned home, and Sergeant Raymond Shaw is lauded as a hero by the rest of his platoon. However, the platoon commander, Captain Bennett Marco, finds himself plagued by strange nightmares and soon races to uncover a terrible plot.

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They Look Like People
2016 Β· dir. Perry Blackshear
πŸ… 92%β˜… 5.8drama Β· horror Β· mystery

One thread runs through both: paranoia

Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.

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What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
1962 Β· dir. Robert Aldrich
πŸ… 91%β˜… 8horror Β· thriller

Common ground: murder

A former vaudeville child star viciously torments her paraplegic sister in their decaying Hollywood mansion.

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Speak No Evil
2024 Β· dir. James Watkins
πŸ… 83%β˜… 6.8horror Β· thrillerStarz

Tense and paranoid in the same breath

When an American family is invited to spend the weekend at the idyllic country estate of a charming British family they befriended on vacation, what begins as a dream holiday soon warps into a snarled psychological nightmare.

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The Parallax View
1974 Β· dir. Alan J. Pakula
πŸ… 87%β˜… 7.1crime Β· drama Β· thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

An ambitious reporter gets in trouble while investigating a senator's assassination which leads to a vast conspiracy involving a multinational corporation behind every event in the world's headlines.

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