Movies like Les Lettres de l'Angoisse (2021)
The best movies like Les Lettres de l'Angoisse (2021) are Extraordinary Tales (2015), Circle (2015) and Night Watch (1973). If Les Lettres de l'Angoisse hooked you with its horror and animation, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBatman: Under the Red Hood (2010)7.8/10 from 1,808 votes
- Newestundertone (2026)Released 2026
- In FrenchThe Summit of the Gods (2021)Also in French
Extraordinary Tales (2015)
Five tales by Edgar Allan Poe come to life thanks to a pictorical style animation, five tales that exude madness, pestilence, murder and torture.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & animation
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCircle (2015)
In a massive, mysterious chamber, fifty strangers awaken to find themselves trapped with no memory of how they got there. Organized in an inward-facing circle and unable to move, they quickly learn that every two minutes, one of them must die…executed by a strange device in the center of the room.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Watch (1973)
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBatman: Hush (2019)
A mysterious new villain known only as Hush uses a gallery of villains to destroy Batman's crime-fighting career as well as Bruce Wayne's personal life, which has been further complicated by a relationship with Selina Kyle/Catwoman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Car (1977)
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Medusa Touch (1978)
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBatman: The Doom That Came to Gotham (2023)
Explorer Bruce Wayne accidentally unleashes an ancient evil, and returns to Gotham after being away for two decades. There, Batman battles Lovecraftian supernatural forces and encounters allies and enemies such as Green Arrow, Ra's al Ghul, Mr. Freeze, Killer Croc, Two-Face and James Gordon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGhostwatch (1992)
On Halloween 1992, the BBC broadcasts an investigation into the supernatural, hosted by TV chat-show legend Michael Parkinson. Parky (assisted by Mike Smith, Sarah Greene and Craig Charles) and a camera crew attempt to discover the truth behind the most haunted house in Britain. This groundbreaking live television experiment does not go as planned, however.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Summit of the Gods (2021)
A photojournalist's obsessive quest for the truth about the first expedition to Mt. Everest leads him to search for an esteemed climber who went missing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisundertone (2026)
The host of a popular paranormal podcast becomes haunted by terrifying recordings mysteriously sent her way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Batman vs. Dracula (2005)
Gotham City is terrorized not only by recent escapees Joker and Penguin, but by the original creature of the night, Dracula! Can Batman stop the ruthless vampire before he turns everyone in the city, including The Caped Crusader, Joker and Penguin, into his mindless minions?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both animation & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Cellar (2022)
When Keira Woods' daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country, she soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family's souls forever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Return of Doctor X (1939)
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaléfique (2003)
Four prisoners discover a handwritten book of black magic in their cell, and decide to use it to escape.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBatman: Under the Red Hood (2010)
One part vigilante, one part criminal kingpin, Red Hood begins cleaning up Gotham with the efficiency of Batman, but without following the same ethical code.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & animation
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Hound of the Baskervilles (1983)
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNext of Kin (1982)
After Linda inherits a retirement home, she witnesses a series of strange events which seem connected to a dark and unspeakable evil.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHouse on Haunted Hill (1959)
Frederick Loren invites five strangers to the party of a lifetime and offers each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in the reportedly haunted house. Armed with a gun for protection, each guest arrives in a hearse and will either leave in it much richer…Or dead.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Beast with Five Fingers (1947)
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurnt Offerings (1976)
A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Les Lettres de l'Angoisse?
The closest matches to Les Lettres de l'Angoisse are Extraordinary Tales (2015), Circle (2015) and Night Watch (1973). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Les Lettres de l'Angoisse?
Start with Extraordinary Tales (2015), the closest match to Les Lettres de l'Angoisse.
What is the highest-rated movie like Les Lettres de l'Angoisse?
Batman: Under the Red Hood (2010), rated 7.8/10 by 1,808 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Les Lettres de l'Angoisse?
undertone (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like Les Lettres de l'Angoisse?
Yes: The Summit of the Gods (2021) and Maléfique (2003).
How are movies similar to Les Lettres de l'Angoisse chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Les Lettres de l'Angoisse, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.