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10 Best Movies Like Near Dark

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

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#1
The Killer Inside Me

The Killer Inside Me

2010★ 5.8

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

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but th...

#2
Withnail & I

Withnail & I

1987★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Near Dark for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office...

#3
The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water

2001★ 5.5

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

A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal....

#4
Miami Connection

Miami Connection

1987★ 5.2

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

In a world where ninjas dream of being rock stars and rock stars dream of being ninjas, a martial arts rock band goes up against a band of motorcycle ninjas who have tightened thei...

#5
United Red Army

United Red Army

2007★ 6.3

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

Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mountains to conduct a training camp. Ideology devolves into despotism, and the URA's leader...

#6
Nomads

Nomads

1986★ 4.9

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

One night, in a Los Angeles hospital, Dr. Flax attends to a seriously injured man who, apparently crazed, whispers mysterious and disconcerting words in French into her ear....