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10 Best Movies Like Witchfinder General

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

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#1
The Court Jester

The Court Jester

1955★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Witchfinder General for fans of Music. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England....

#2
The Eternal Daughter

The Eternal Daughter

2022★ 6.0

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

An artist and her elderly mother confront long-buried secrets when they return to a former family home, now a hotel haunted by its mysterious past....

#3
The Tingler

The Tingler

1959★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Witchfinder General for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on...

#4
The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris

The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris

1915★ 6.9

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

Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid journalist Philippe Guérande and his p...

#5
Pity

Pity

2018★ 6.3

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

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the li...

#6
Wise Blood

Wise Blood

1979★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Witchfinder General for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his o...