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Movies that feel likeThe Bar (2017)

In downtown Madrid, a series of mysterious gunshots trap a motley assortment of people in a decrepit bar.

If you loved The Bar, the closest films we have are The Day of the Beast (1995), Sightseers (2012) and Better Watch Out (2017). All three share The Bar'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 Housebound (2014).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Álex de la Iglesiadreadunsettlingtensewittyplayfuldarkly funny
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If The Bar hit the spot, these will too

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The Day of the Beast
1995 · dir. Álex de la Iglesia
🍅 77%★ 7.3horror · comedy · actionPrime Video

The same hand behind both of them: Álex de la Iglesia

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than The Bar does

When a rogue priest discovers the exact date the Antichrist will be born, he enlists a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic for an urban spree of gore, sacrilege and twisted humor to prevent the Apocalypse.

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Sightseers
2012 · dir. Ben Wheatley
🍅 86%★ 6.5comedy · romance · horror

One thread runs through both: dark comedy

The difference: Trades the tension of The Bar for an angle of its own

Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.

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Better Watch Out
2017 · dir. Chris Peckover
🍅 89%★ 6.5horror · thriller · comedyPrime VideoPeacock

Dread-soaked and unsettling in the same breath

On a quiet suburban street tucked within a 'safe neighborhood', a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from strangers breaking into the house, only to discover that this is far from a normal home invasion.

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Housebound
2014 · dir. Gerard Johnstone
🍅 95%★ 6.7horror · comedy · thrillerPrime Video

The same mix in both: tension, then wit

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she's forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.

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Send Help
2026 · dir. Sam Raimi
🍅 92%★ 6.7horror · thriller · comedyHulu

Playful horror in both cases

Two colleagues become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash. On the island, they must overcome past grievances and work together to survive, but ultimately, it's a battle of wills and wits to make it out alive.

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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight
2020 · dir. Bartosz M. Kowalski
🍅 67%★ 4.9comedy · horrorNetflix

Dread-soaked comedy, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

Addicted to technology, a group of teens attends a rehabilitation camp in the forest, but a sinister force there intends to take them offline forever.

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All My Friends Are Dead
2020 · dir. Jan Belcl
★ 5.9comedy · drama · thrillerNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: dark comedy

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Bar does

A group of friends at a New Year’s Eve party go through a whirlwind of events that exposes secrets, breaks hearts — and leads to a shocking outcome.

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The Hunt
2020 · dir. Craig Zobel
🍅 57%★ 6.6action · thriller · horrorRent or buy

Thriller with a pulse of dark humor, in both cases

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

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Men & Chicken
2015 · dir. Anders Thomas Jensen
★ 6.7comedy · drama

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Men & Chicken is a black comedy about two outcast brothers who, by getting to know their unknown family, discover a horrible truth about themselves and their relatives.

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The Golden Glove
2019 · dir. Fatih Akin
🍅 54%★ 6.7crime · thriller · horror

Horror built on unease, twice over

A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

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The Babysitter
2017 · dir. McG
★ 6.4comedy · horrorNetflix

Playful thriller in both cases

When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that will stop at nothing to keep him quiet.

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What We Become
2015 · dir. Bo Mikkelsen
★ 5.5horror · thriller

Horror built on tension, twice over

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive.

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