Movies like The Alchemist Cookbook (2016)
The best movies like The Alchemist Cookbook (2016) are Kombucha (2025), The Lighthouse (2019) and Something in the Dirt (2022). If The Alchemist Cookbook hooked you with its drama and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Lighthouse (2019)7.5/10 from 5,916 votes
- NewestKombucha (2025)Released 2025
Kombucha (2025)
Trapped in a fluorescent-lit cubicle farm, an aspiring musician thinks the free break room kombucha is a perk - until it begins to change him. What starts with suspicious smiles and team-building ends in a bile-drenched metamorphosis.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
The Lighthouse (2019)
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSomething in the Dirt (2022)
When neighbors John and Levi witness supernatural events in their LA apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Voices (2014)
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHe Never Died (2015)
When Jack learns his long-lost daughter was taken by a crime syndicate, he confronts his demons and wages a brutal fight to save her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Cleanse (2018)
The story of a heartbroken man who attends a spiritual retreat, only to discover that the course releases more than everyday toxins and traumatic experiences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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
The Babadook (2014)
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVidar the Vampire (2017)
A Christian farmer searching for a higher purpose to life, falls into sin and wakes up as the Prince of Darkness in the city of Stavanger, Norway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
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 thisKinds of Kindness (2024)
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman determined to find a specific someone with a special ability, who is destined to become a prodigious spiritual leader.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Endless (2017)
Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDeerskin (2019)
A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSeven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss (2020)
A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a deranged cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
The Devil's Candy (2016)
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEndless (2016)
A lonesome man at the threshold of death finds himself trapped in a place called the Endless.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
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 thisDeathgasm (2015)
Two teenage boys unwittingly summon an ancient evil entity known as The Blind One by delving into black magic while trying to escape their mundane lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Comes at Night (2017)
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhat We Do in the Shadows (2014)
Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cleansing (2019)
Set in a small isolated village in 14th century Wales, Alice is a sixteen year old girl who is accused of being a witch and causing the plague that has ravaged the village, taking the lives of many, including Alice's own father. When it is revealed that Alice has been hiding her mother's infection, she is forced to watch The Cleanser, an ominous masked figure, brutally dispatch her mother. The town preacher and de-facto leader Tom has eyes for Alice, and subjects her to five torturous trials after she spurns his advances. Escaping the night before her execution, with the help of her mother's friend Mary, she flees into the forest and discovers the secluded hut of a mysterious healer, with his own troubled past and demons to face. He nurses her back to health, and teaches her how to exact revenge upon those that persecuted her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Men (2022)
In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to find a place to heal. But someone — or something — from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her, and what begins as simmering dread becomes a fully-formed nightmare, inhabited by her darkest memories and fears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thismother! (2017)
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lobster (2015)
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into animals and sent off into The Woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Show (2021)
A man goes on a mission to locate a stolen artifact for a client, which leads him to a haunted town full of vampires, sleeping beauties, and Voodoo gangsters.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHypochondriac (2022)
Will, a young Hispanic gay potter, is one gregarious guy. His boss is terrible, but he's got a great boyfriend and a great job. Unfortunately, behind that veneer is a dark past of violence and mental illness that he is desperate to keep hidden. When his bipolar mother comes out of the woodwork after ten years of silence, he begins exhibiting unexplainable symptoms and spirals into an obsession, determined to solve this mystery of his own. A young potter’s life devolves into chaos as he loses function of his body while being haunted by the physical manifestation of his childhood trauma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Lace Crater (2015)
Opting to sleep in the allegedly-haunted guest house while spending a weekend in the Hamptons with friends, Ruth, a lonely young woman in her mid-twenties who's had too much to drink, strikes up a conversation that leads to a sexual encounter with Michael, a burlap-draped ghost that casually appears before her. Through this inter-paranormal relation, Ruth contracts an STD with alarming effects.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls (2023)
Onyx joins a group of fellow occultists to attend a dark ritual at the mansion of their idol, Bartok. Suspecting Bartok’s nefarious intentions, Onyx is suddenly immersed in a world of monsters, mystery, and mayhem.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990)
A young boy tells three stories of horror to distract a witch who plans to eat him.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Alchemist Cookbook?
The closest matches to The Alchemist Cookbook are Kombucha (2025), The Lighthouse (2019) and Something in the Dirt (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Alchemist Cookbook?
People who watched The Alchemist Cookbook most often go on to Kombucha (2025), The Lighthouse (2019) and Something in the Dirt (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Alchemist Cookbook?
The Lighthouse (2019), rated 7.5/10 by 5,916 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Alchemist Cookbook?
Kombucha (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Alchemist Cookbook?
Yes: Kombucha (2025), The Lighthouse (2019) and Something in the Dirt (2022).
How are movies similar to The Alchemist Cookbook chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Alchemist Cookbook, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.