Movies like When Animals Dream (2014)
The best movies like When Animals Dream (2014) are Shelley (2016), Handling the Undead (2024) and Let the Right One In (2008). If When Animals Dream hooked you with its mystery and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLet the Right One In (2008)7.5/10 from 3,411 votes
- NewestMārama (2026)Released 2026
Shelley (2016)
Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHandling the Undead (2024)
On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisLet 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 thisViking Wolf (2022)
After witnessing a grotesque murder at a party in her new town, a teenager starts having strange visions and bizarre desires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisWithout Name (2017)
A land surveyor working in an unnamed woodland area is disturbed and beguiled by a strange silhouette that moves amongst the trees.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Midsommar (2019)
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisValley of Shadows (2017)
A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
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 & 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 & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Nightmare (2015)
After a massive party one evening, 17-year-old Tina begins experiencing nightmares in which she is haunted by an unusual creature.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRaw (2017)
Stringent vegetarian Justine encounters a decadent, merciless, and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. She soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEvolution (2016)
11-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt the phases of evolution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAmong the Living (2014)
Three teenagers skip school in order to explore an abandoned film studio lot where they catch sight of a woman being dragged by a masked man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisAnimale (2024)
Camargue, France - Nejma trains hard to win the local bullfighting competition. When she is mauled after a celebration, she starts to notice disturbing changes. News of a rogue bull on the loose terrifies the community, killing young men.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGinger Snaps 2: Unleashed (2004)
Brigitte has escaped the confines of Bailey Downs but she's not alone. Another werewolf is tailing her closely and her sister's specter haunts her. An overdose of Monkshood - the poison that is keeping her transformation at bay - leads to her being incarcerated in a rehabilitation clinic for drug addicts where her only friend is an eccentric young girl by the name of Ghost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Circle (2015)
An otherworldly evil is slipping into a small town in Sweden. Six unrelated girls have been chosen to fight this evil. Together they must overcome their differences in order to save themselves and the world.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
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 drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTeddy (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 thisWe Are What We Are (2013)
The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family matriarch forces daughters Iris and Rose to assume special responsibilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Dark (2018)
A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
They Look Like People (2016)
Suspecting that people are transforming into malevolent shape-shifters, Wyatt flees to New York City to seek out his estranged childhood friend Christian.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHagazussa (2018)
In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGinger Snaps (2000)
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously heal but something is not quite right. Now Brigitte must save her sister and save herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTethered (2022)
Miles from civilization, a blind teenager and the hunter he befriends are tormented by a mysterious creature lurking in the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Cub (2014)
Over-imaginative 12 year-old Sam heads off to the woods to summer scout camp with his pack convinced that he will encounter a monster...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMārama (2026)
1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRaging Grace (2023)
An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGood Boy (2026)
Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like When Animals Dream?
The closest matches to When Animals Dream are Shelley (2016), Handling the Undead (2024) and Let the Right One In (2008). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after When Animals Dream?
People who watched When Animals Dream most often go on to Shelley (2016), Handling the Undead (2024) and Let the Right One In (2008).
What is the highest-rated movie like When Animals Dream?
Let the Right One In (2008), rated 7.5/10 by 3,411 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like When Animals Dream?
Mārama (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to When Animals Dream chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside When Animals Dream, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.