Movies like The Devils
24 films close to The Devils (1971) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
convent (nunnery), nunsploitation, torture · Drama, History
inquisition, torture · Horror, Drama, History
surrealism, chaos · Drama, Horror
blasphemy, satire, surrealism · Drama
Also Ken Russell · satire · Drama · with Oliver Reed
hysteria, 17th century, chaos · Horror
based on novel or book, psychological horror · Horror, Drama
based on novel or book, sexual obsession, surrealism · Horror
hysteria, torture · Horror, History
Also Ken Russell · based on novel or book · Horror
17th century, inquisition · Drama, History
surrealism · Horror, Drama, History
based on novel or book, surrealism · Drama
inquisition · Drama, Horror
based on novel or book · Drama, Horror
convent (nunnery), nun · Horror
surrealism · Horror, Drama
based on novel or book · Horror, Drama
grim · Drama, Horror
based on novel or book · Drama, Horror
based on play or musical · Drama
surrealism · Drama, Horror
based on novel or book · Drama, Horror
hysteria, based on novel or book, surrealism · Horror
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.