Movies like The Company of Wolves
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The Company of Wolves (1984)
21K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Angela Carter's fairy tales. Young Rosaleen dreams of a village in the dark woods, where Granny tells her cautionary tales in which innocent maidens are tempted by wolves who are hairy on the inside. As Rosaleen grows into womanhood, will the wolves come for her too?
Style:
gothic, fairy tale, sexy, dark, cult classic, modern fairy tale, retro, surreal, dark fantasy, scary ...
Plot:
werewolf, surrealism, little red riding hood, legends and myths, grandmother, woman in danger, wolf, dangerous animal, coming of age, girl, folk horror, beast, dangerous attraction, teenage girl, dream, haunted by the past, danger, imaginary, mind game, stalking, sexuality, mental disorder, monster, youth, death of sister ...
Time:
18th century, year 1984, 80s, 20th century, 1700s
Place:
ireland, england, europe
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Most similar movies to The Company of Wolves
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out atmospheric, weird, serious and dark films with plots about blood, macabre, supernatural, transformation, folk horror, monster and death mostly in Horror, Fantasy and Drama genres. Some movies like The Company of Wolves: Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Gothic (1986), Viy (1967), The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973), The Brothers Grimm (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Living with her tyrannical stepfather in a new home with her pregnant mother, 10-year-old Ofelia feels alone until she explores a decaying labyrinth guarded by a mysterious faun who claims to know her destiny. If she wishes to return to her real ...
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, surreal, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience:
kids, teen fantasy, date night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
monster, fantasy world, imagination, creature, mythology, macabre, legends and myths, magical, young heroes, imaginary, good versus evil, maze ...
Time:
1940s, 2000s, year 1944, 20th century, year 2006
Place:
spain, south america, europe, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a ...
Style:
fairy tale, allegory, surreal, sexual, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
innocence, teenage girl, folk horror, wedding night, surrealism, menstruation, folklore, magic realism, older man younger woman relationship, supernatural, female protagonist, vampire ...
Time:
19th century, year 1970, near future
Place:
central europe, eastern europe, europe, czech republic
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord ...
Style:
gothic, surreal, sexy, gothic horror, creepy ...
Plot:
insanity, demon, surrealism, mad scientist, seance, goth, mind game, obsession, drug, haunted house, hallucination, writers ...
Time:
19th century, 1810s, regency period
Similarity:
100%
11K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Style:
scary, dark fantasy, gothic horror, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
witch, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, church, supernatural, supernatural ability, evil dead, corpse, danger, escapades, cossack, medieval ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, year 1967, 19th century
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, kiev ukraine, russia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Poland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Set in pre- World War II era. A young man is on a strange train to see his dying father in a sanatorium. But the place is going to ruin and recalls a lot of memories from the past. He is beset by soldiers from the past, colonial black mercenaries, ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, dark, cerebral ...
Plot:
surrealism, alternate dimension, alternate reality, metaphysics, nightmare, female nudity, renaissance, magic realism, time travel, macabre, trippy, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1973, 20th century
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse ...
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, gothic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, adult
Plot:
supernatural, magic, medieval, fantasy world, curses spells and rituals, witch, wizard, snow white, legends and myths, danger, brothers, fairy ...
Time:
18th century, 19th century, year 2005, 1810s, 2000s ...
Place:
europe, frankfurt germany, hamburg germany, germany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of ...
Style:
sexy, creepy, surreal, suspense, mysterious ...
Plot:
voodoo, superstition, black magic, zombie, anthropologist, hallucination, nightmare, surrealism, buried alive, torture, supernatural, religion ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1978, year 1985
Place:
haiti, boston, caribbean
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a wealthy man agrees to be married to his son. The daughter and her aunt then travel out to the French countryside to meet with the family, unaware that ...
Style:
sexy, serious, atmospheric, stylized, controversial ...
Plot:
werewolf, rape, surrealism, bestiality, erotica, zoophilia, nudity, sodomy, female masturbation, orgasm, bare breasts, sexual desire ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
eastern europe, france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, surreal ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, horror for children
Plot:
nightmare, children, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, boy, visceral, supernatural, dream world, transformation, serial killer, supernatural ability, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and Brigitte (Emily Perkins), in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds ...
Style:
gothic, dark, scary, dark comedy, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
werewolf, coming of age, halloween, blood, teenager, transformation, gory, goth, full moon, dark humor, goth girl, high school ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
united kingdom, canada, ontario canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A terror is stalking the land: people are disappearing daily, their bodies appearing covered in savage gashes coupled with precise surgical cuts. The legend of the 'Werewolf of Allariz' spreads across the land like wildfire. When Barbara ...
Style:
gothic horror, suspenseful, psychological, serious, scary ...
Plot:
werewolf, serial killer, supernatural, stalking, dangerous attraction, vampire, lycanthropy, transformation, trial, mind game, dangerous animal, legends and myths ...
Time:
1850s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
23K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
anthology, disturbing, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot:
samurai, ghost, supernatural, supernatural horror, marriage, folk horror, macabre, japanese mythology, naval battle, promise, visceral, snow ...
Time:
19th century, 17th century, 13th century, 11th century, 12th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, kyoto japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based somewhat more authentically on the Grimm Brothers' story of a young woman who is unliked by her stepmother, the film includes the talking mirror, a poisoned apple, and some ruffian gold (not diamond) miners (and they aren't dwarfs or ...
Style:
dark, gothic, fairy tale, modern fairy tale, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
witch, medieval, folk horror, snow white, black magic, good versus evil, nobility, stepmother, betrayal, miner, woods, fantasy world ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 90s, 18th century, 19th century
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the fairytales by Giambattista Basile.
Style:
fairy tale, dark fantasy, disturbing, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
witch, medieval, beautiful scenery, magic, violence, castle, fantasy world, ogre, brutality, fight scenes, monster, circus ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
italy, southern italy
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Satan-worshiper Prince Prospero invites the local nobility to his castle for protection against an oncoming plague, the Red Death. He orders his guests to attend a masked ball and, amidst an atmosphere of debauchery and depravity, notices the entry ...
Style:
gothic, grindhouse, suspense, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, macabre, edgar allan poe, medieval, supernatural, revenge, life & death, plague, good versus evil, folk horror, brutality, masquerade ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, victorian era
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France, West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius (Welles). He manages to keep them (as well as his nephew and niece) prisoners even ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, phantasmagoric, slasher, experimental ...
Plot:
sailor, surrealism, greed, male nudity, dream world, mythology, crucifix, magic realism, parallel universe, ghost, haunted house, estate ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style:
creepy, gothic, cult classic, dark, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, bullying, coming of age, loneliness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, friendship, boy, child vampire, fall in love, new neighbor ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2008, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
persia, united kingdom, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small town in Japan, Kirie comes upon her boyfriend's father silently videotaping a snail. Later, the mans obsession with spirals becomes more and more bizarre, ending in his suicide in a washing machine which turn his body into a spiral. ...
Style:
dark fantasy, creepy, surreal, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
supernatural, curse, obsession, small town, surrealism, darkness, insanity, transformation, body horror, mental disorder, danger, curses spells and rituals ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, scary, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, immortality, goth, loneliness, dark hero, vampirism, monster as victim, blood, bonding, vampire bite, child vampire ...
Time:
19th century, 18th century, georgian era, 20th century, 1870s ...
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, paris france, san francisco, france ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. Penny Dreadful is a frightening psychological thriller ...
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, dark fantasy, gothic horror, scary ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, witch, fear, vampire, werewolf, psychotherapy, deadly creature, sex scene, victorian england, imaginary, sex, supernatural ability ...
Time:
victorian era, 1890s, 19th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
67%
17K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Nazis take over an ancient fortress that contains a mysterious entity that wreaks havoc and death upon them.
Style:
gothic, surreal, gothic horror, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
world war two, nazi, demon, ss, magic, supernatural, monster, surrealism, fortress, jewish man, vampire, devil ...
Time:
year 1941, 1940s, 80s
Place:
germany, romania, transylvania, black sea, bucharest ...
Similarity:
100%
36K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.
Style:
surreal, disturbing, psychedelic, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
isolation, imagination, heroin, mental illness, drug addiction, surrealism, addiction, abandoned house, imaginary friend, mentally challenged, death by overdose, talking doll ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, austin texas, texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Catherine Bomarzini returns to the family castle in Italy after her father's death and gets caught in the web of a mysterious love triangle: a man who is at times repulsive, at others enchanting; and a creature of the night whose gentle eyes ...
Style:
gothic, sexy, atmospheric, suspenseful, fairy tale ...
Plot:
curse, werewolf, transformation, rape, true love, female nudity, castle, dangerous attraction, raped by monster, afterlife, ghost, beauty and the beast ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
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117K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Lawrence Talbot, an American man on a visit to Victorian London to make amends with his estranged father, gets bitten by a werewolf and, after a moonlight transformation, leaves him with a savage hunger for flesh.
Style:
gothic, dark, gothic horror, period piece, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
werewolf, deadly creature, macabre, supernatural, transformation, childhood trauma, medieval, beast, gory, blood, death, violent ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1890s, 2010s, edwardian era ...
Place:
europe, tower bridge london, london, england, scotland
Similarity:
67%
12K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Romanticized adaptation of Bram Stoker's 1897 classic. Set in 1913 England, the bloodsucking, but handsome, charming and seductive, Count Dracula seeks an immortal bride.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, sexy, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
vampire, dracula, supernatural, macabre, female vampire, blood, nobleman, vampire human love, countryside, gangster, betrayal, greed ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, 1910s, year 1979, 1800s ...
Place:
cornwall, europe, united kingdom, england, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ghoulish Count Dracula lures a naive estate agent, Jonathan Harker, to his decaying Transylvanian castle with the promise of easy money. But when he spies a portrait of the man's beautiful young wife Lucy, the vampire becomes obsessed and sets ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, dark, bleak, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
vampire, blood, castle, melancholy, plague, nosferatu, death, rat, medieval, loneliness, insanity, solitude ...
Time:
19th century, year 1979, 1850s, 1800s, 20th century ...
Place:
romania, transylvania, europe, germany, black sea ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Julie, the youngest daughter of a bankrupt merchant, sacrifices her life in order to save her father. She goes to an enchanted castle in the woods and meets Netvor, a bird-like monster. As Netvor begins to fall in love with Julie, he must suppress ...
Style:
fairy tale, gothic horror, atmospheric, romantic, dark fantasy ...
Plot:
beauty and the beast, monster, curse, loneliness, ruins, father, mansion, sister, daughter, maiden, father daughter relationship, strong female character ...
Place:
czechoslovakia, czech republic, eastern europe, europe, central europe
Similarity:
100%
14K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A group of people stop by a mansion during a storm and discover two magical toy makers, and their haunted collection of dolls.
Style:
scary, slasher, atmospheric, tense, creepy ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children
Plot:
evil doll, doll, toys, killer doll, supernatural, youth, macabre, objects come to life, ghost, danger, haunted house, monster ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california
Similarity:
83%
410K
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
New York detective Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of mysterious deaths in which the victims are found beheaded. But the locals believe the culprit to be none other than the ghost of the legendary Headless Horseman.
Style:
gothic, dark, scary, atmospheric, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick, teens, horror for children
Plot:
supernatural, witch, ghost, murder, investigation, supernatural horror, magical, witchcraft, small town, horseman, goth, legends and myths ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 19th century, 90s, year 1999 ...
Place:
new york, new york state, britain, america, madagascar
Similarity:
67%
348K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, satanic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch, supernatural, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, religion, wilderness, black magic, paganism, family bonds, isolation, sacrifice ...
Time:
17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place:
new england, america, new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
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