Movies like When Animals Dream

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When Animals Dream (2014)
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When Animals Dream (2014)
Original name: Når dyrene drømmer
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The young woman, Marie, is an outsider in the small coastal community where she has grown up. The townspeople live in fear of her and not least her mother, who is wheelchair bound, suffering from a mysterious illness. When Marie discovers her body changing – long hair growing on her chest and back – she begins searching for answers concerning her family’s hidden past. Something that will have great consequences for herself and her family – and the choices she has to make.
Style: atmospheric, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, sexy, suspense, dark, social, art house, spooky ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, on the run, female werewolf, transformation, deadly creature, vengeance, teenager, female warrior, nordic, moon, feminist, fear, supernatural being, body horror, terror, arthouse horror, violence, murder, illness, funeral, humiliation, body transformation, small community, impossible love, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: denmark
Keyword: attack

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Most similar movies to When Animals Dream

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, scary, suspense and atmospheric films with plots about supernatural, danger, monster, murder, deadly, death and werewolf mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like When Animals Dream: Wolves (2014), Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004), Wildling (2018), Wer (2013), Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wolves (2014)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The coming-of-age story of Cayden Richards. Forced to hit the road after the murder of his parents, Cayden wanders lost without purpose... Until he meets a certifiable lunatic named Wild Joe who sets him on a path to the ominous town of Lupine Ridge ...
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, scenic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, lycanthropy, good versus evil, adoption, murder, female nudity, rivalry, deadly creature, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, paternity revealed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Romasanta: The Werewolf Hunt (2004)
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, vampire, supernatural, stalking, transformation, trial, lycanthropy, mind game, dangerous attraction, dangerous animal, legends and myths ...
Time: 1850s
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 14K
Wildling (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, spooky, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, teenage girl, puberty, forest, captive, mysterious past, legend, freedom, wilderness, tragic event, survival, single parent ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in 19th Century Canada, Brigette and her sister Ginger take refuge in a Traders' Fort which later becomes under siege by some savage werewolves. And an enigmatic Indian hunter decides to help the girls, but one of the girls has been bitten ...
Style: scary, gothic, dark, period piece, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, female werewolf, transformation, mythical creature, wilderness, sister, snow, curses spells and rituals, danger, winter, beast ...
Time: 19th century, 1810s, regency period, georgian era, 1800s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Movie in collections
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 10K
Wer (2013)
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A defense attorney begins to suspect that her client, who is charged with the murders of a vacationing family, might be more than meets the eye.
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: werewolf, deadly creature, found footage, superhuman powers, murder, who done it, supernatural, danger, legal, dedicated lawyer, medical examination, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to ...
Style: scary, suspense, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: werewolf, beast, female werewolf, masturbation, supernatural, murder, gory, hospital, teenage life, creature feature, on the run, danger ...
Time: year 2004
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.5
 15K
Howl (2015)
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.
Style: suspense, tense, terrifying, minimal cast, spooky ...
Plot: werewolf, trapped, train, deadly creature, monster, full moon, forest, train conductor, murder, transformation, sole survivor, betrayal ...
Place: england, london
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25%
 3.7
 1K
Wolvesbayne (2009)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film is pretty much a "by the numbers" thriller that follows Russel Bayne (London) - who is bitten by a werewolf and quickly finds himself in the middle of a supernatural war between vampires, werewolves, and human hunters. To make ...
Style: suspense, bleak, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, good versus evil, curses spells and rituals, deadly creature, danger, rivalry, escapades, transformation, feud, murder, ancient ...
Time: 19th century, 1880s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 6.8
 52K
Ginger Snaps (2000)
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, scary, dark comedy, dark, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, werewolf, halloween, teenager, transformation, obsession, gory, goth, high school, sisters, full moon, goth girl ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: ontario canada, united kingdom, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
 46K
Byzantium (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two mysterious women seek refuge in a run-down coastal resort. Clara meets lonely Noel, who provides shelter in his deserted guesthouse, Byzantium. Schoolgirl Eleanor befriends Frank and tells him their lethal secret. They were born 200 years ago ...
Style: gothic, dark, dark fantasy, serious, bleak ...
Plot: vampire, prostitution, supernatural, fall in love, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, immortality, dangerous attraction, supernatural romance, female vampire, murder, deadly creature ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
 46K
Saint Maud (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes ...
Style: scary, disturbing, suspense, bleak, psychological ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: obsession, supernatural, mental illness, terminal illness, nurse, loneliness, nightmare, occult, religion, narration, terror, possession ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 1K
Wolf Girl (2001)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, Romania
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Tara Talbot is afflicted with the rare genetic condition hypertrichosis: she is covered head to toe in hair. She lives her life in Harley Dune's Travelling Freak Show, on display as the 'Terrifying Wolf Girl', but underneath she is ...
Style: semi serious, suspense, disturbing, queer horror, offbeat
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, social misfits, bully, experiment gone awry, small town, danger, dangerous animal, social relations, teenage life, lesbian, disfigurement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.0
 297K
The Witch (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
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: disturbing, dark, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: witch, supernatural, religion, folk horror, witchcraft, family bonds, wilderness, black magic, insanity, curses spells and rituals, satan, isolation ...
Time: 17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place: new england, america, new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.1
 249
The Big Bad (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: As a broken woman obsessed with revenge desperately searches for the monster who destroyed her family, she unexpectedly finds herself in a surreal and frightening world.
Style: suspenseful, scary, surreal, serious, bleak ...
Plot: witch, werewolf, zombie, revenge, danger, obsession, vengeance, supernatural, rivalry, gory, riddles and clues, woman ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.8
 111K
The Wolfman (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
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, suspense, dark, period piece, gothic horror ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: werewolf, deadly creature, supernatural, transformation, beast, gory, blood, monster, mythology, alternate reality, death, macabre ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 2010s, year 2000, year 2010 ...
Place: europe, london, tower bridge london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Nightmare Cinema (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the ...
Style: anthology, suspense, slasher, psychological, psychological horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghost, supernatural, murder, hospital, demonic possession, alien invasion, demon, child in peril, child murder, graphic violence, teenage boy, curses spells and rituals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 7K
Amer (2009)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Searing memories and carnal desires rule the mind of Ana, a young woman in thrall to her own fantasies whose visions and obsessions draw her toward deeper eroticism -- and deeper danger, in this modern take on a Giallo.
Style: surreal, retro, experimental, slasher, psychological ...
Plot: danger, murder, haunted by the past, woman in danger, haunted house, estate, arthouse horror, macabre, moving, ghost, strong female lead, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Company of Wolves (1984)
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 ...
Style: gothic, fairy tale, sexy, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: werewolf, legends and myths, surrealism, woman in danger, beast, dangerous animal, little red riding hood, grandmother, wolf, dangerous attraction, dream, girl ...
Time: 18th century, year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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In the Mouth of Madness (1994)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: With the disappearance of hack horror writer Sutter Cane, all Hell is breaking loose...literally! Author Cane, it seems, has a knack for description that really brings his evil creepy-crawlies to life. Insurance investigator John Trent is sent to ...
Style: surreal, psychological, lovecraft, atmospheric, gothic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: insanity, investigation, hallucination, paranoia, gory, supernatural, small town, mind game, mental illness, writers, fear, monster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, distant future
Place: new england, new hampshire, england, europe, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fifteen-year old John Cleaver is dangerous, and he knows it. He’s obsessed with serial killers, but really doesn’t want to become one. Terrible impulses constantly tempt him, so for his own sake, and the safety of those around, he lives by rigid ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: serial killer, murder, teenager, small town, murderer, investigation, violence, stalking, mental disorder, adolescence, fear, serial murder ...
Place: minnesota, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 127K
Let Me In (2010)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Style: suspense, gothic, atmospheric, melancholic, biting ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: vampire, loneliness, first love, gory, blood, childhood, supernatural, friendship, adolescence, children, boy, coming of age ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, year 2000, 20th century, year 1983 ...
Place: new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Lurking Man (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Supernatural Drama about an addictive woman who is given a chance at redemption if she accepts Death's offer.
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: death, addiction, good versus evil, supernatural being, demon, supernatural power, supernatural, youth, paranormal investigation, obsessive quest, hunting, killings ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 2.7
 289
Dead Voices (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Two sisters film a documentary about spiritual mediums. After their first failed attempt with a faux medium, they come across Mike, a seemingly legitimate communicator with the dead. Mike reveals a disturbing mystery, Sara's fiancée, Lucas, ...
Style: psychotronic, disturbing, bleak, scary, suspense ...
Plot: clairvoyant, found footage, supernatural power, supernatural, characters in danger, fear, monster, chase, exorcism, creature, werewolf, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Village of Shadows (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When Lucas Frantz invites his friends to visit his hometown Village de Ruiflec, they head in two cars to spend the weekend. The driver Hugo Kerimba, Marion Valeyre, Stan and his girlfriend Katia Brezinsky follows the car of Lucas, David Fontana, his ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: village, danger, supernatural, buddies, estrangement, missing person, trapped, survival, ghost, murder, haunting, unknown ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.3
 17K
The Deep House (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: While diving in a remote French lake, a couple of YouTubers who specialize in underwater exploration videos discover a house submerged in the deep waters. What was initially a unique finding soon turns into a nightmare when they discover that the ...
Style: suspense, scary, slasher, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, diver, scuba diving, satanic ritual, paranormal, lake, underwater, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, paranormal phenomena, found footage ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Howling: Reborn (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On the eve of his high school graduation, unremarkable Will Kidman finally bonds with the girl he has long yearned for, reclusive Eliana Wynter. But he also discovers a dark secret from his past... that he is about to become a werewolf. Now, in an ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, sentimental, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, good versus evil, teenage life, youth, high school life, deadly creature, teenage love, danger, self discovery, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.5
 6K
Thale (2012)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Norwegian folklore turns out to be real when Leo and Elvis encounter a girl called Thale in a basement. A regular cleaning job turns into a struggle for survival, while they're trying to figure out what or who Thale is. Could Thale be a ...
Style: scary, rough, suspenseful, fairy tale, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: supernatural, creature, deadly creature, folklore, survival, folk horror, wrong place wrong time, danger, confined, gory, isolation, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small ...
Style: scary, suspense, psychological, dark, demonic ...
Plot: macabre, supernatural, possession, occult, ghost, demon, supernatural horror, ouija board, spiritualism, teenager, witchcraft, survival ...
Time: year 2016, 60s, year 1967
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.4
 252K
The Lighthouse (2019)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Style: suspense, minimal cast, psychological, mysterious, lovecraft ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: isolation, hallucination, lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, drunkenness, symbolism, island, nightmare, fight, storm, madness, violence ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s, victorian era, 2010s, year 2019 ...
Place: nova scotia, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.2
 16K
The Cursed (2021)
Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In the late nineteenth century, brutal land baron Seamus Laurent slaughters a Roma clan, unleashing a curse on his family and village. In the days that follow, the townspeople are plagued by nightmares, Seamus’s son Edward goes missing, and a boy ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic, disturbing ...
Plot: werewolf, supernatural, creature, gypsy, monster, folk horror, paranormal phenomena, revenge, violence, fear, death, supernatural power ...
Time: 19th century, 2020s, 1800s
Place: france, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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