Movies like Shane of the Many Sorrows
The best movies like Shane of the Many Sorrows are Dark Harvest (2023), Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025) and Dr. Caligari (1989). If Shane of the Many Sorrows hooked you with its fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Crow (1994)7.5/10 from 4,780 votes
- NewestR.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (2025)Released 2025
Dark Harvest (2023)
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025)
When a city is overrun with a demonically-possessed crowd, a cop must find the source of evil to save his family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDr. Caligari (1989)
Mrs. Van Houten has shown signs of losing touch with reality, and her husband discusses possible treatment with Dr. Caligari, who says Mrs. Van Houten has a disease of the libido.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn the Lost Lands (2025)
A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPriest (2011)
In an alternate world, humanity and vampires have warred for centuries. After the last Vampire War, the veteran Warrior Priest lives in obscurity with other humans inside one of the Church's walled cities. When the Priest's niece is kidnapped by vampires, the Priest breaks his vows to hunt them down. He is accompanied by the niece's boyfriend, who is a wasteland sheriff, and a former Warrior Priestess.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMona Lisa and the Blood Moon (2022)
A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSucker Punch (2011)
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to collect five mystical items, blurring the lines between reality and imagination.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Crow (1994)
Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven, watched over by a hypnotic crow, returns from the grave to exact revenge.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Knight's War (2025)
A fearless knight braves a deadly realm to save the Chosen One’s soul. Facing witches, demons, and brutal foes, he discovers her return could ignite chaos and doom humanity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNorthfork (2003)
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisR.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (2025)
When his brother disappears and everyone forgets he existed, Sam must unravel the mystery before Finn is gone forever.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGretel & Hansel (2020)
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNosferatu (2024)
A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBeetlejuice (1988)
A newly dead New England couple seeks help from a deranged demon exorcist to scare an affluent New York family out of their home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Watchers (2024)
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBegotten (1991)
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark Tower (2017)
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMandy (2018)
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStarve 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisValhalla Rising (2010)
Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHere Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
Boxer Joe Pendleton, flying to his next fight, crashes...because a Heavenly Messenger, new on the job, snatched Joe's spirit prematurely from his body. Before the matter can be rectified, Joe's body is cremated; so the celestial Mr. Jordan grants him the use of the body of wealthy Bruce Farnsworth, who's just been murdered by his wife. Joe tries to remake Farnsworth's unworthy life in his own clean-cut image, but then falls in love; and what about that murderous wife?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisAl sur de la Navidad (2016)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
The Crimson Permanent Assurance (1983)
A group of down-and-out accountants mutiny against their bosses and sail their office building onto the high seas in search of a pirate's life.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMords-les ! (2020)
Follow Brigitte Fontaine as she wanders in the streets of Morlaix.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Chuzalongo (2024)
At the end of the 19th century, a boy appears in an Andean village. Nicanor, the village priest, discovers that the child’s blood causes the crops to bear fruit magically, but for the boy to live, he must be fed human blood.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Let the Moon Be My Moon (2024)
A forlorn filmmaker reinterprets his missteps as a surreal motovlog, reflecting upon displacement and identity. A.D. Calvo directs himself in this meta docufiction hybrid using a blend of affective memoir and personal memento mori.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Avatara Purusha 2 (2024)
In a battle of mantras, Dharka and Brahma vie for the Trishanku Mani. But when Jois is found dead, the disturbed Ashta Dhigbandana alerts Dharka to the stone`s presence in the house. Now, a junior artist posing as the long-lost son must fight to save the family from the real son`s dark magic
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Once Upon a Princess (2024)
Amidst French Revolution chaos, Princess Agnes seeks refuge in Bohemian castle. Doubt surrounds her royal identity until a pea beneath her mattress unveils the truth.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
The Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Yue Hong 2 (2021)
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Shane of the Many Sorrows?
The closest matches to Shane of the Many Sorrows are Dark Harvest (2023), Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025) and Dr. Caligari (1989). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Shane of the Many Sorrows?
Start with Dark Harvest (2023), the closest match to Shane of the Many Sorrows.
What is the highest-rated movie like Shane of the Many Sorrows?
The Crow (1994), rated 7.5/10 by 4,780 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Shane of the Many Sorrows?
R.L. Stine's Pumpkinhead (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Shane of the Many Sorrows?
Yes: Dark Harvest (2023), Home Sweet Home: Rebirth (2025) and Dr. Caligari (1989).
How are movies similar to Shane of the Many Sorrows chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Shane of the Many Sorrows, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.