Movies like Animale (2024)
The best movies like Animale (2024) are Teddy (2020), Wildling (2018) and The Beast (2023). If Animale hooked you with its fantasy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedNine Days (2021)6.8/10 from 306 votes
- Newest40 Acres (2025)Released 2025
- In FrenchTeddy (2020)Also in French
Teddy (2020)
In a rural French town, twenty-something Teddy is scratched by an unknown beast and slowly undergoes frightening changes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWildling (2018)
A young woman held in captivity discovers the realities of truth and lies in the outside world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beast (2023)
On vacation with his family in the countryside, a young city boy is forced to participate in wild boar hunts in the cornfields. Naive and fearful, he lives in constant fear of a mysterious beast that adults say would live in the countryside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Lamb (2021)
An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Vourdalak (2023)
The Marquis d’Urfé finds refuge in the home of a strange family after becoming lost in a hostile forest while working as an emissary for the King of France.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHatching (2022)
12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFréwaka (2025)
Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCold Skin (2017)
A young man who arrives at a remote island finds himself trapped in a battle for his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGaia (2021)
In the depths of an ancient forest, something has been growing. Something older than humanity itself, and perhaps greater too. When a park ranger discovers a man and his son living wild, she stumbles onto a secret that is about to change the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBorder (2018)
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnwelcome (2023)
Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and to what extremes will she go to protect her unborn child?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSiberia (2020)
Clint is a dead man who lives alone in a frozen tundra. However, this isolation cannot bring either evasion or peace. One night, he begins a journey where he must confront his dreams, memories, and visions, crossing the darkness into the light.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisMedusa (2021)
By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Starve Acre (2024)
When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Swarm (2021)
A single mother breeds locusts as high-protein foods but has trouble getting them to reproduce until she finds they have a taste for blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhen Animals Dream (2014)
Teenage Marie lives on a small island with her father and catatonic mother. Virtually friendless and sullen, Marie begins to experience frightening changes in her body that mark her as a dangerous threat.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNo Such Thing (2002)
A young journalist journeys to Iceland to find her missing fiancé only to encounter a mythical creature who longs to die.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Head Hunter (2019)
On the outskirts of a kingdom, a quiet but fierce medieval warrior protects the realm from monsters and the occult. His gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago. Driven by a thirst for revenge, he travels wild expanses on horseback. When his second chance arrives, it’s in a way far more horrifying than he ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlackout (2023)
Small town artist Charley is a tortured man whose drinking binges blur with his sneaking suspicion that he might be a werewolf. He distances himself from those he loves and sinks deeper into solitude, as his flashes of memory of his grisly nighttime acts manifest themselves through his artwork.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Witch Hunt (2021)
In a modern America where witches are real and witchcraft is illegal, a sheltered teenager must face her own demons and prejudices as she helps two young witches avoid law enforcement and cross the southern border to asylum in Mexico.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFeed (2022)
A group of social media experts are hired to help an old family business to strive. But they soon find themselves stuck on a tiny island in a lake in which an ancient Swedish witch is said to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPiggy (2022)
A bullied overweight teenager sees a glimpse of hope when her tormentors are brutally abducted by a mesmerizing stranger.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVincent Must Die (2023)
Vincent finds himself under attack for no apparent reason overnight. When the phenomenon intensifies, he must run and change his way of life completely.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMedusa (2020)
After being bitten by a lethal snake, a young woman experiences changes in her senses and appearance, as she sheds her old self and slowly turns into a deadly weapon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBefore I Wake (2016)
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTuesday (2024)
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVesper (2022)
After the collapse of Earth's ecosystem, Vesper, a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive with her paralyzed Father, meets a mysterious Woman with a secret that forces Vesper to use her wits, strength and bio-hacking abilities to fight for the possibility of a future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNine Days (2021)
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSavaged (2014)
After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like this40 Acres (2025)
Hailey Freeman and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to safeguard their farm, as they make one last stand against a vicious militia hell-bent on taking their 40 Acres.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Animale?
The closest matches to Animale are Teddy (2020), Wildling (2018) and The Beast (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Animale?
People who watched Animale most often go on to Teddy (2020), Wildling (2018) and The Beast (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like Animale?
Nine Days (2021), rated 6.8/10 by 306 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Animale?
40 Acres (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Animale?
Yes: Teddy (2020), The Beast (2023) and The Vourdalak (2023).
How are movies similar to Animale chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Animale, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.