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10 Best Movies Like Sleeping with the Dead

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

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#1
Twin Peaks

Twin Peaks

1989★ 8.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sleeping with the Dead for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for...

#2
Love at First Fight

Love at First Fight

2014★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sleeping with the Dead for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Arnaud, facing an uncertain future and a dearth of choices in a small French coastal town, meets and falls for the apocalyptic-minded Madeleine, who joins an army boot camp to lear...

#3
Alice

Alice

1990★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sleeping with the Dead for fans of Fantasy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realize...

#4
The Gendarme Takes Off

The Gendarme Takes Off

1970★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sleeping with the Dead for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't e...

#5
Iris

Iris

2014★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sleeping with the Dead for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

IRIS pairs legendary 87-year-old documentarian Albert Maysles with Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-year-old style maven who has had an outsized presence on th...

#6
Days of Heaven

Days of Heaven

1978★ 7.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sleeping with the Dead for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In 1916, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a...