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10 Best Movies Like Dark Woods

If you loved Dark Woods, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Water and Fire

Water and Fire

2013★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Woods for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A pretty young girl falls for an enigmatic, shy man who sweeps her off her feet. She becomes pregnant but is not allowed to tell him. His advisers are adamant. Back home, they have...

#2
Hollywood Dirt

Hollywood Dirt

2017★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Woods for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Hollywood arrives in force to Quincy, the small town where the secret Crown Cola billionaire's live. They want to film about the billionaire's and how they made their fortunes. Sum...

#3
The Rules of the Game

The Rules of the Game

1939★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Woods for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The Marquis de la Chesnaye and his wife host a weekend gala where a variety of complicated romantic and social entanglements between guests and servants lead to tragedy, all agains...

#4
Violette

Violette

2013★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Woods for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two ...

#5
Dossier 51

Dossier 51

1978★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Woods for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'....

#6
Fortitude

Fortitude

2020★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Dark Woods for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He struggles with feverish visions c...