Movies like The Devil's Backbone
If The Devil's Backbone's mix of spain, orphanage and spanish civil war (1936-39) stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Devil's Backbone's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Pit and the Pendulum
1961 · Directed by Roger Corman · 80 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: spain, gothic horror · Also horror and drama
In the sixteenth century, Francis Barnard travels to Spain to clarify the strange circumstances of his sister's death after she had married the son of a cruel Spanish Inquisitor.
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The Sixth Sense
1999 · Directed by M. Night Shyamalan · 107 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: ghost, ghost child · Also thriller and drama
Following an unexpected tragedy, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe meets a nine year old boy named Cole Sear, who is hiding a dark secret.
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FX's A Christmas Carol
2019 · Directed by Nick Murphy · 173 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: ghost · Also drama and fantasy
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
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Undercover
2024 · Directed by Arantxa Echevarría · 119 min7.1
Why you'll like itAlso a Spanish-language drama
Basque Country, Spain, late nineties. A young policewoman manages to infiltrate the ruthless terrorist gang ETA.