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Movies that feel likeUn Chien Andalou (1929)

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

If you loved Un Chien Andalou, the closest films we have are Dead of Night (1945), Faust (1926) and The Phantom Carriage (1921). All three share Un Chien Andalou's dreamlike and dread 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).

🍅 100% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Luis Buñueldreamliketensedreadunsettling
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Dead of Night
1945 · dir. Charles Crichton
🍅 96%★ 7.5horror · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: dreams

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

The same preoccupation in both: death

The difference: Takes it somewhere less tense than Un Chien Andalou does

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: death

The difference: Easier on the tension than Un Chien Andalou

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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The Black Cat
1934 · dir. Edgar G. Ulmer
🍅 89%★ 6.9horror · thriller

The same mix in both: tension, then dread

After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.

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The Devil's Backbone
2001 · dir. Guillermo del Toro
🍅 93%★ 7.3fantasy · drama · horror

Dreamlike where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Sits closer to drama than Un Chien Andalou does

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge.

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

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

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

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

Horror built on dread, twice over

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

Common ground: dreams

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

Unsettling thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: 57 years apart, and the 1980s show

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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Tumbbad
2018 · dir. Rahi Anil Barve
🍅 87%★ 8.2fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

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Altered States
1980 · dir. Ken Russell
🍅 85%★ 6.9horror · science fiction · thriller

One thread runs through both: surreal

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of human consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from Native American shamans, he explores these altered states of cognizance and finds that memory, time, and reality itself are states of mind.

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Tigers Are Not Afraid
2017 · dir. Issa López
🍅 97%★ 6.9fantasy · horrorRent or buy

Both lean on dread more than on horror

When her mother suddenly disappears with no one to care for her, young Estrella ends up on the street and joins a gang of children, triggering a dangerous and tragic chain of events.

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