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10 Best Movies Like Somnium

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

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#1
The Alphabet

The Alphabet

1969★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Somnium for fans of Animation. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A woman's dark and absurdist nightmare vision comprising a continuous recitation of the alphabet and bizarre living representations of each letter....

#2
Paperhouse

Paperhouse

1988★ 6.5

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

A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book....

#3
Dream Scenario

Dream Scenario

2023★ 6.7

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

Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a n...

#4
Naked Lunch

Naked Lunch

1991★ 7.0

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

Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bil...

#5
Candy

Candy

2006★ 7.1

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

A poet falls in love with an art student, who gravitates to his bohemian lifestyle — and his love of heroin. Hooked as much on one another as they are on the drug, their relationsh...

#6
The Wanderers

The Wanderers

1979★ 7.0

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

The streets of the Bronx are owned by '60s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history...

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