Movies like Outer Dark
If Outer Dark's mix of despair, melancholy and appalachia stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Outer Dark's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Sleepy Hollow
1999 · Directed by Tim Burton · 105 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: gothic · Also fantasy and thriller
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a…
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Candyman
1992 · Directed by Bernard Rose · 100 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: melancholy · Also drama and horror
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
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Antichrist
2009 · Directed by Lars von Trier · 104 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: guilt · Also drama and horror
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
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The Revenant
2015 · Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu · 157 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: survival, tragic
In the 1820s, a frontiersman, Hugh Glass, sets out on a path of vengeance against those who left him for dead after a bear mauling.
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Spell
2020 · Directed by Mark Tonderai · 91 min6.4
Why you'll like itShares: appalachia · Also thriller and horror
A father survives a plane crash in rural Appalachia, but becomes suspicious of the elderly couple who take him in to nurse him back to health with the ancient remedies.