Movies like Starve Acre (2024)
The best movies like Starve Acre (2024) are Rabbit Trap (2025), Enys Men (2023) and A Dark Song (2016). If Starve Acre hooked you with its horror and drama, 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 5,912 votes
- NewestGaua (The Night) (2025)Released 2025
Rabbit Trap (2025)
When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door intent on infiltrating their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisEnys Men (2023)
A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Dark Song (2016)
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFréwaka (2025)
Care worker Shoo, who is haunted by a personal tragedy, is sent to a remote village to care for an agoraphobic woman, who fears both her neighbours and the Na Sídhe – sinister folkloric entities she believes abducted her decades before.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Power (2021)
London, 1974. As Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val is forced to work the night shift, finding herself in a dark, near empty building. Within these walls lies a deadly secret, forcing Val to face both her own traumatic past and deepest fears.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisLamb (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 & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRelic (2020)
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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 & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe 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 thisThe Witch (2016)
In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMen (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 & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark and the Wicked (2020)
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 fantasy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGaua (The Night) (2025)
Spain, Basque Country, 17th century. At night and through the mountains, Kattalin escapes from her farmhouse and, while wandering through the deep forest, she senses a presence that stalks her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHatching (2022)
12 year old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHereditary (2018)
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Damned (2025)
A 19th-century widow has to make an impossible choice when, during an especially cruel winter, a foreign ship sinks off the coast of her Icelandic fishing village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisApostle (2018)
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThere's Something Wrong with the Children (2023)
Margaret and Ben take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie and Thomas and their two young children. Eventually, Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisLuzifer (2021)
Johannes, an innocent, Kaspar Hauser-like man with the heart of a child, lives secluded in an alpine hut together with his eagle and his devout mother. Daily life in this isolated world is governed by prayer and ritual. But suddenly, modern objects and disruptive noises intrude between nature and worship. A tourist development threatens to poison their paradise and awaken the devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Moon Garden (2023)
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother's voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
When Evil Lurks (2023)
When brothers Pedro and Jimi discover that a demonic infection has been festering in a nearby farmhouse, they attempt to evict the victim from their land. Failing to adhere to the proper rites of exorcism, their reckless actions inadvertently trigger an epidemic of possessions across their rural community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBaghead (2023)
Following the death of her estranged father, Iris learns she has inherited a run-down, centuries-old pub. She travels to Berlin to identify her father’s body and meet with The Solicitor to discuss the estate. Little does she know, when the deed is signed she will become inextricably tied to an unspeakable entity that resides in the pub’s basement – Baghead – a shape-shifting creature that can transform into the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLord of Misrule (2023)
When the daughter of the town's new priest goes missing during the harvest festival, a desperate search begins, uncovering the town's dark history and resurfacing tales of a mysterious, malevolent spirit that demands sacrifice.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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: Fans watch both · both fantasy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPossum (2018)
A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShe Will (2022)
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Alchemist Cookbook (2016)
Self-made chemist Sean, a recluse living in an old trailer in the woods, suffers from pill-popping delusions of fortune. When his manic attempts at cracking the ancient secret of alchemy go awry he unleashes something far more sinister and dangerous.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Starve Acre?
The closest matches to Starve Acre are Rabbit Trap (2025), Enys Men (2023) and A Dark Song (2016). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Starve Acre?
People who watched Starve Acre most often go on to Rabbit Trap (2025), Enys Men (2023) and A Dark Song (2016).
What is the highest-rated movie like Starve Acre?
The Lighthouse (2019), rated 7.5/10 by 5,912 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Starve Acre?
Gaua (The Night) (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Starve Acre?
Yes: Rabbit Trap (2025), Enys Men (2023) and A Dark Song (2016).
How are movies similar to Starve Acre chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Starve Acre, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.