15 Movies Like Dark Horse
Loved Dark Horse? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
Queen of Hearts
Anne, a brilliant and dedicated advocacy lawyer specialising in society’s most vulnerable, children and young adults, lives what appears to be the picture-perfect life with her doctor-husband, Peter, and their twin daughters. When her estranged teenage stepson, Gustav, moves in with them, Anne’s escalating desire leads her down a dangerous rabbit hole which, once exposed, unleashes a sequence of events destined to destroy her world.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dark Horse.
The Last Viking
After serving fourteen years for robbery, Anker is released from prison and reunites with his mentally ill brother Manfred, who alone knows where the stolen money is hidden but has forgotten its location, sending them on a journey to recover the loot and confront who they are.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
The Hunt
A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
My Girl
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dark Horse.
Another Round
Four stagnant high school teachers decide to test out a theory that maintaining a constant level of intoxication will improve their overall lives.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
Checkered Ninja 3
In this 3rd installment Alex’s interest for Ninja missions is starting to vanish. He’ll rather spend his time with his friends and Checkered Ninja feels he is overlooked and is eager to engage in a new mission. The result of this is that Alex, by accident, ends up having a conflict with Marco, the bad boy boyfriend of Jessica, entangling him in a conflict he hasn’t asked for and he is pressured by Checkered Ninja to defend himself.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
Speak No Evil
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
The Idiots
A group of people gather at a Copenhagen suburban home to break all the limitations and to bring out the 'inner idiot' in themselves.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
St. Vincent
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dark Horse.
Frances Ha
An aspiring dancer moves to New York City and becomes caught up in a whirlwind of flighty fair-weather friends, diminishing fortunes and career setbacks.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dark Horse.
Swinger
Munch-Fals’ script follows Adam, who has so far been spoiled by life – a good job, a lovely wife, an expensive villa, an independent son – but still it isn’t good enough. Even the swinger weekend trips he has been taking with his wife have become a joyless routine, and his youthful optimism and appetite for life are distant memories. Then, one day, at another swingers’ club, he does what swingers don’t do – he falls in love.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
The Promised Land
Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Dark Horse.
Mr. Church
A unique friendship develops when a little girl and her dying mother inherit a cook - Mr. Church. What begins as an arrangement that should only last six months, instead spans fifteen years.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dark Horse.
Class Act
Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is ajuvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only the school bully would stop trying to rough him up. And Blade definitely likes being thought of as important instead of as trouble.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Dark Horse.