Movies like Faust (1926)
The best movies like Faust (1926) are Dante's Inferno (1911), Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). If Faust 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 ratedThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)7.9/10 from 1,851 votes
- NewestDracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)Released 2002
- In GermanDie Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)Also in German
Dante's Inferno (1911)
The classic tale of Dante's journey through hell, loosely adapted from the Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré. This historically important film stands as the first feature from Italy and the oldest fully-surviving feature in the world, and boasts beautiful sets and special effects that stand above other cinema of the era.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDie Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924)
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDie Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Phantom Carriage (1921)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDestiny (1921)
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman poisons herself in order to join him and is met by Death, who gives her three opportunities to prove that love is stronger than death, thereby freeing her beloved from his fate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Unknown (1927)
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Absolute CinemaMovies like this7th Heaven (1927)
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Student of Prague (1913)
Prague, Bohemia, 1820. Balduin, a penniless student, falls in love with Countess Margit, a wealthy noblewoman whom he has saved from drowning.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
In 15th-century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Page of Madness (1926)
An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life. Crushed by guilt and powerless to change what has happened, he remains at the clinic as a janitor. Soon, their daughter arrives to inform him of her upcoming wedding, and with her arrival come painful memories and tormenting visions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Avenging Conscience (1914)
Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Increasingly convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man's conscience awakens; paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Tartuffe (1926)
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNosferatu (1922)
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Golem: How He Came into the World (1920)
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisVariety (1925)
Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSalomé (1923)
Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
The Scarlet Letter (1927)
In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Wildcat (1921)
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Laugh (1924)
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Seashell and the Clergyman (1928)
Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Daughter Of Destiny (1928)
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Pandora's Box (1929)
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Throw of Dice (1929)
Two neighboring kings addicted to gambling, Ranjit and his cousin Sohat, vie for the same beautiful young woman, Sunita, daughter of the hermit Kanwa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWoman in the Moon (1929)
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Man Who Laughs (1928)
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it uses dance to tell the story of a sinister but intriguing immigrant who preys upon young English women.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHäxan (1922)
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Faust?
The closest matches to Faust are Dante's Inferno (1911), Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Faust?
People who watched Faust most often go on to Dante's Inferno (1911), Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924).
What is the highest-rated movie like Faust?
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), rated 7.9/10 by 1,851 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Faust?
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there German movies like Faust?
Yes: Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924), Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) and Destiny (1921).
How are movies similar to Faust chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Faust, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.