Can anyone please recommend any other films with the same look and feel? I'm sorry for not putting it more elegantly. I think that Saraband for Dead Lovers, Pandora and The Flying Dutchman, to mention a couple of my favourites, are in the same vein, but any other suggestions? Thanks
shareI thought of "The Song of Bernadette" with Jennifer Jones. I can not remember if it was in color. It is in a religious vein with a tinge of doubt and denial.
If you like Deborah Kerr there is "Tea and Sympathy" a dark bitter sweet romance drama. Also, "The Innocents" labeled as horror but would be considered dark drama (eerie, gives you the chills) by today's standards.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. -Groucho Marx
Does it have to be in color? What about a moody atmospheric film?
-The Innocents
-The Others
-The Picture of Dorian Grey (1939)
-The Woman in Black
-The Unknown (1927)
-Bianca Nieves
-The Thing (1980)
-Gravity
-The House of the Seven Gables (1940)
-Dragonwyck (1946)
-Eye of the Devil (1966)
-The Sixth Sense
-Unbreakable
THE THING came out in '82; DORIAN GRAY in the mid 40s.
Perfect suggestion. Being an Australian, I have seen it many times. I prefer the original print to the directors cut. Thanks
shareMatka Joanna od aniolów - Polish masterpiece
shareOf course nothing has quite the same feel as Black Narcissus, but my suggestions would be "The Seventh Veil" and "The Purple Plain". The latter is one of my mom's all time favorites and is up on Youtube.
shareIf you like this movie, and are looking for another one that is weird, goes to exotic locales, and has love and nuns, check out "Green Dolphin Street."
shareWatch "Seance on a Wet Afternoon' 1964, and 'Madeleine' 1950 with Anne Todd, "The List of Adrian Messenger", "Laura", and "Shadow of a Doubt" and "My Cousin Rachel"- these are incredibly well done and have distinct moods and certain a Darkness to them.
shareGreat recommendations. Have seen them all. I hope I'm not running out of movies to watch.
shareThere was also another older movie, black and white, that had a woman married to a wealthy man, (she's a bit younger), and he is a widower, and I believe his dead wife haunts her...? They live in large but somewhat isolated house. I haven't seen it since I was 12 maybe, one of those afternoon old movies I watched whilst sick with bronchitis. It had a subtle, (and sometimes more overt), feeling of mystery, suspense, danger. It had some big stars, I thought perhaps Gene Tierney, but I think I am confusing it with Laura, (which I LOVE). I remember the new wife pausing near the stairs and staring at the portrait of her husband's dead wife.
If that sounds familiar to anyone, please post. =) I love some of the new suggestions I've found on this thread!
Sounds like Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca.
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