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10 Best Movies Like When the Lights Go Out

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

#1
Strange Object

Strange Object

2020★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Lights Go Out for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

An archival investigation into the imperial image-making of the RAF ‘Z Unit’, which determined the destruction of human, animal and cultural life across Somaliland, as well as Afri...

#2
Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes

1990★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Lights Go Out for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat....

#3
Re-Elected

Re-Elected

2020★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Lights Go Out for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Friends battle former U.S. presidents when they come back from the dead as zombies on the Fourth of July....

#4
The Tailor of Panama

The Tailor of Panama

2001★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Lights Go Out for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections t...

#5
Head Over Heels 2

Head Over Heels 2

2012★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Lights Go Out for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Alice owns a network of sex shops and workaholic who, in trying to reconcile the harsh routine of work and family life, suffers nervous breakdown, she is forced by her husband to g...

#6
Appleseed

Appleseed

2004★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to When the Lights Go Out for fans of Animation. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In a utopian society created at the end of the third world war, a female warrior who has been plucked from the badlands begins to see cracks in this new facade. And what does this ...