Movies like Leptirica (1973)
The best movies like Leptirica (1973) are The Addiction (1995), The Hunger (1983) and Ganja & Hess (1973). If Leptirica hooked you with its horror and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedLet the Right One In (2008)7.5/10 from 3,412 votes
- NewestFear Street: 1994 (2021)Released 2021
The Addiction (1995)
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Hunger (1983)
Five-thousand-year-old vampire Miriam promises her lovers the gift of eternal life. When John, her cellist companion for centuries, discovers that he has suddenly begun growing old, he attempts to seek out the help of Dr. Sarah Roberts, a researcher on the mechanisms of aging.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGanja & Hess (1973)
After being stabbed with an ancient, germ-infested knife, a doctor finds himself with an insatiable desire for blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHabit (1997)
It's autumn in New York. Sam has broken up with his girlfriend and his father has recently died. World-weary and sloppy drunk, he finds temporary solace in the arms of Anna, a mysterious vampire who draws him away from his friends and into a web of addiction and madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisDracula (1974)
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Velvet Vampire (1971)
A married couple accept the invitation of mysterious vixen Diane LeFanu to visit her in her secluded desert estate. Tensions arise when the couple, unaware at first that Diane is a centuries-old vampire, realize that they are both objects of the pale temptress' seductions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Let the Right One In (2008)
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaughters of Darkness (1971)
Ostend, Belgium. In a decadent seaside hotel, Stefan and Valerie, a newlywed couple, meet the mysterious Countess Báthory and Ilona, her secretary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe White Reindeer (1952)
A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMartin (1978)
A young man, convinced he's a vampire, goes to live with his elderly and hostile cousin in a small Pennsylvanian town, where he tries to suppress his bloodlust.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTrouble Every Day (2001)
Newlyweds Shane and June arrive in Paris for their honeymoon. In the process of trying to find a cure for his strange, bloodthirsty disease, Shane stumbles upon the story of a doctor and his flesh eating wife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lair of the White Worm (1988)
When an archaeologist uncovers a strange skull in a foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further inexplicable occurrences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Are the Night (2010)
One night, 18 year old Lena is bitten by Louise, leader of a female vampire trio that are as deadly as they are beautiful. Her newfound vampiric lifestyle is a blessing and a curse at the same time. At first, she enjoys the limitless freedom, the luxury, the parties. But soon the murderous blood lust of her comrades in arms proves too much for her, and she falls dangerously in love with Tom, a young undercover cop.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVampyr (1932)
Allan Gray, a young man fascinated by the supernatural, goes to a small village where he feels a sinister force descending upon him. There, Allan meets an old man who asks him to protect his two daughters, for one of them has been bitten by a vampire.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRufus (2012)
Rufus is a shy and lonely boy determined to make a new start. Sure he has some quirks. So what if he likes the taste of blood? It's not like he's addicted. When a cunning vampire hunter slips into town searching for the fountain of youth, Rufus fears his darkest secret is about to be revealed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
The Moth Diaries (2011)
Rebecca is a young girl who, haunted by her father’s suicide, enrolls in an elite boarding school for girls. Before long, her friendship with the popular Lucy is shattered by the arrival of a dark and mysterious new student named Ernessa, whom Rebecca suspects may be responsible for the rising body count at the school.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThirst (1979)
The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to join them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCronos (1993)
Faced with his own mortality, an ingenious alchemist tried to perfect an invention that would provide him with the key to eternal life. It was called the Cronos device. When he died more than 400 years later, he took the secrets of this remarkable device to the grave with him. Now, an elderly antiques dealer has found the hellish machine hidden in a statue and learns about its incredible powers. The more he uses the device, the younger he becomes...but nothing comes without a price. Life after death is just the beginning as this nerve-shattering thriller unfolds and the fountain of youth turns bloody.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisLet Me In (2010)
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFascination (1979)
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic women arrive and the criminal begins to realize the women are hiding a sinister secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHungry Wives (1972)
An unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Transfiguration (2016)
When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStake Land (2010)
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up to Mister, a death dealing, rogue vampire hunter, to get Martin safely north to Canada, the continent's New Eden.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInterview with the Vampire (1994)
A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curious reporter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWerewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)
Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFear Street: 1994 (2021)
After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Return to Salem's Lot (1987)
Anthropologist Joe Weber takes his son on a trip to the New England town of Salem's Lot, unaware of its vampire population. When the inhabitants reveal their secret, they seek Weber to write a bible for them.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Leptirica?
The closest matches to Leptirica are The Addiction (1995), The Hunger (1983) and Ganja & Hess (1973). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Leptirica?
People who watched Leptirica most often go on to The Addiction (1995), The Hunger (1983) and Ganja & Hess (1973).
What is the highest-rated movie like Leptirica?
Let the Right One In (2008), rated 7.5/10 by 3,412 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Leptirica?
Fear Street: 1994 (2021) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Leptirica chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Leptirica, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.