Skip to content More like this
Movies like Midsommar (2019) Finished Midsommar and want that feeling again? These are ranked by what it is actually about — its themes, its pacing, the kind of person at the centre of it — rather than the genre it was filed under. Every match says what it shares with Midsommar, and what it does not.
What did you love about Midsommar? Pick up to 3, and the matches below will be ranked around them. Optional — leave it blank for the closest overall.
Cultural appropriation Rural Folk horror Cultural disconnect Group think Foreign land Isolated community Atmospheric horror Your best matches Ranked against what Midsommar is actually about, not its genre labels.
69% Reverina match Top pick 2025 · Film · Horror · Romance
Good match
Why it matches Watched for the same thing: folk horror and folk horror Shares its unsettling and angry register Builds as slowly More matches Each with the traits it shares with your pick.
Joker 2019 · 2h 2m
Built around the same moral ambiguity Centres on the same outsider figure Algorithm anchor-3 · considered 139 candidates
Carries the same emotional weight What's different Not built around moral ambiguity or isolation Not about trauma or cultural appropriation Commitment 1h 42m
Short Long
Where it streams Hulu Kanopy Why this ranked above the others
Reads closest to it overall of everything considered when ranked against Midsommar.
Add to watchlist Not for me
2012 · Series · Animation · Drama
Good match
Why it matches Also atmospheric horror and psychological horror at heart Built around the same isolation Also about trauma Centres on the same outsider figure What's different Not built around moral ambiguity or cultural disconnect Does not promise cultural clash or atmospheric tension A series rather than a single film Where it streams Crunchyroll Crunchyroll Amazon Channel Why this ranked above the others
The best-reviewed of the set when ranked against Midsommar.
Add to watchlist Not for me
1976 · Film · Horror · Thriller
Good match
Why it matches Built around the same isolation and moral ambiguity Centres on the same outsider figure Shares its melancholic and unsettling register Builds as slowly What's different Not about trauma or cultural appropriation Not really psychological horror or atmospheric horror Why this ranked above the others
The closest tonal match of the set when ranked against Midsommar.
Add to watchlist Not for me
Also psychological horror at heart Told the same way, single protagonist The Shining 1980 · 2h 24m
Also atmospheric horror and psychological horror at heart Built around the same isolation Backrooms 2026 · 1h 51m
Also atmospheric horror and psychological horror at heart Built around the same isolation FROM 2022
Watched for the same thing: folk horror and folk horror Built around the same isolation Nosferatu 2024 · 2h 13m
Centres on the same innocent figure Shares its melancholic and unsettling register The Others 2001
Built around the same isolation Also psychological horror at heart Hokum 2026 · 1h 48m
Watched for the same thing: atmospheric tension Also psychological horror at heart Weapons 2025 · 2h 9m
Told the same way, single protagonist Shares its melancholic and angry register The Game 1997 · 2h 9m
Centres on the same outsider figure Shares its unsettling and angry register
Long
Hulu
Kanopy
Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll Amazon Channel
