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10 Best Movies Like Freaks

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

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#1
Tideland

Tideland

2005★ 6.5

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

Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination....

#2
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon

2022★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Freaks for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A young woman with psychokinetic powers breaks out of a Louisiana asylum and makes her way to New Orleans, where she falls into the city’s netherworld of misfits and miscreants....

#3
Fast Color

Fast Color

2019★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Freaks for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home....

#4
The Butterfly Effect

The Butterfly Effect

2004★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Freaks for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. H...

#5
War of the Worlds

War of the Worlds

2005★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Freaks for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, ...

#6
The Island

The Island

2005★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Freaks for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be c...

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