Movies Like Rose of Nevada: Haunting Time-Travel Films Lost at Sea and Memory

Mark Jenkin’s Bait is the closest companion to Rose of Nevada, with its Cornish fishing community, economic tension, rough coastal texture, and handmade visual style.

Martin Ward is a cove fisherman, without a boat. His brother Steven has repurposed their father’s vessel as a tourist tripper, driving a wedge between the brothers. With their childhood home now a getaway for London money, Martin is displaced to the estate above the picturesque harbour. As his struggle to restore the family to their traditional place creates increasing friction with tourists and locals alike, a tragedy at the heart of the family changes his world. Bait is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 29m runtime, released in 2019 with an average rating of 7.0 by 98 people.

Enys Men shares Rose of Nevada’s eerie Cornish atmosphere, slow-building dread, and sense of time bending around land, sea, memory, and isolation.

A wildlife volunteer on an uninhabited island off the British coast descends into a terrifying madness that challenges her grip on reality and pushes her into a living nightmare. Enys Men is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 30m runtime, released in 2023 with an average rating of 5.5 by 64 people.

The Lighthouse fits through its storm-battered setting, maritime madness, and two men trapped in a strange psychological spiral where reality feels dangerously unstable.

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. The Lighthouse is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 49m runtime, released in 2019 with an average rating of 7.5 by 5,558 people. The movie made an estimated total of $18,262,464 in the box office.

I Know Where I'm Going! brings a romantic, mystical island mood, where weather, folklore, and fate interrupt a woman’s planned journey across the sea.

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever. I Know Where I'm Going! is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 31m runtime, released in 1945 with an average rating of 7.1 by 166 people.

The Wicker Man connects through folk-horror unease, a remote community with its own rules, and a growing feeling that old beliefs still control the present.

Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents. The Wicker Man is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 33m runtime, released in 1973 with an average rating of 7.3 by 1,637 people. The movie made an estimated total of $885,371 in the box office.

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir offers a gentler coastal ghost story, mixing romance, memory, and the sea’s pull on people who feel caught between worlds.

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 45m runtime, released in 1947 with an average rating of 7.5 by 355 people.

A Field in England matches the strange historical dislocation of Rose of Nevada, turning the past into a feverish, uncanny place full of dread and confusion.

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field. A Field in England is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 30m runtime, released in 2013 with an average rating of 6.2 by 292 people. The movie made an estimated total of $600,000 in the box office.

Picnic at Hanging Rock fits through its haunting mystery, vanishing characters, and dreamlike mood where landscape becomes a force that no one can fully explain.

In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging Rock. Despite rules against it, Miranda and several other girls venture off. It's not until the end of the day that the faculty realizes the girls and one of the teachers have disappeared mysteriously. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a movie from Australia in English, with a total 1h 47m runtime, released in 1975 with an average rating of 7.2 by 885 people. The movie made an estimated total of $5,125,000 in the box office.

The Fog is a perfect pick for fans of ghostly coastal legends, as a seaside town is haunted by the sins and shipwrecks of its past.

Strange things begin to occur as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town's founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die. The Fog is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 30m runtime, released in 1980 with an average rating of 6.7 by 1,755 people. The movie made an estimated total of $21,448,830 in the box office.

Triangle mirrors Rose of Nevada through sea-bound time loops, dread, and a voyage that turns into a nightmare of identity, fate, and repetition.

When Jess sets sail on a yacht with a group of friends, she cannot shake the feeling that there is something wrong. Triangle is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 39m runtime, released in 2009 with an average rating of 6.9 by 2,996 people. The movie made an estimated total of $1,594,955 in the box office.

Timecrimes fits the time-slip side of Rose of Nevada, with ordinary people pulled into a puzzle where choices trap them inside their own consequences.

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences. Timecrimes is a movie from Spain in Spanish, with a total 1h 32m runtime, released in 2007 with an average rating of 7.0 by 1,460 people. The movie made an estimated total of $553,198 in the box office.

La Jetée is a landmark time-travel film about memory, longing, and doomed return, making it a poetic match for Rose of Nevada’s haunted past.

A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war. La Jetée is a movie from France in French, with a total 29m runtime, released in 1962 with an average rating of 7.9 by 1,005 people.

The Endless connects through its eerie time loops, isolated community, and characters who slowly realize that escape may not mean what they think it means.

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought. The Endless is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 52m runtime, released in 2017 with an average rating of 6.3 by 1,290 people. The movie made an estimated total of $956,425 in the box office.

Coherence fits through its low-key sci-fi strangeness, identity confusion, and ordinary people facing a reality that quietly fractures around them.

Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead. Coherence is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 29m runtime, released in 2014 with an average rating of 7.2 by 3,419 people. The movie made an estimated total of $139,745 in the box office.

Primer is for viewers drawn to Rose of Nevada’s time-travel mystery, offering a dense, grounded puzzle about invention, obsession, and impossible consequences.

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them. Primer is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 17m runtime, released in 2004 with an average rating of 6.8 by 2,427 people. The movie made an estimated total of $545,436 in the box office.

The Blood on Satan's Claw adds classic British folk horror, with rural superstition, possession, and old evil rising through a tight, fearful community.

After a landsman in 18th century England discovers a corpse covered in fur buried in a field, the town becomes infected by "the devil's skin," leading the local children to engage in demonic rituals and criminal behavior. The Blood on Satan's Claw is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 36m runtime, released in 1971 with an average rating of 6.2 by 166 people.

Witchfinder General fits the folk-horror branch of the topic, using historical cruelty, rural dread, and moral decay to create a grimly powerful atmosphere.

England, 1645. The cruel civil war between Royalists and Parliamentarians that is ravaging the country causes an era of chaos and legal arbitrariness that allows unscrupulous men to profit by exploiting the absurd superstitions of the peasants; like Matthew Hopkins, a monster disguised as a man who wanders from town to town offering his services as a witch hunter. Witchfinder General is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 27m runtime, released in 1968 with an average rating of 6.5 by 266 people. The movie made an estimated total of $1,500,000 in the box office.

The Witch shares the sense of a family and community under spiritual pressure, where isolation, folklore, and fear slowly destroy trust.

In 1630, a farmer relocates his family to a remote plot of land on the edge of a forest where strange, unsettling things happen. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, each family member's faith, loyalty and love are tested in shocking ways. The Witch is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 32m runtime, released in 2016 with an average rating of 7.0 by 7,655 people. The movie made an estimated total of $40,423,945 in the box office.

Midsommar suits fans of unsettling folk rituals, grief, and outsiders entering a community whose beauty hides something ancient and terrifying.

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities. Midsommar is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 2h 27m runtime, released in 2019 with an average rating of 7.2 by 8,093 people. The movie made an estimated total of $48,498,408 in the box office.

The White Reindeer blends folklore, desire, and supernatural transformation, making it a striking choice for viewers who like mythic, wintry folk horror.

A newly-married woman becomes frustrated as her husband, a reindeer herder for an Arctic village, spends much of his time away. Desperate for affection, she visits a shaman who offers a potion that makes her irresistibly desirable, with unexpected and deadly results. The White Reindeer is a movie from Finland in Finnish, with a total 1h 8m runtime, released in 1952 with an average rating of 6.6 by 84 people.

Marketa Lazarová fits through its harsh historical world, primal atmosphere, and hypnotic storytelling that feels closer to myth than conventional drama.

Mikolás and his brother Adam end up with a young German hostage of noble blood during a robbery. While their clan prepares for the wrath of the German king, Mikolás is sent to pressure his neighbor Lazar into a defense pact. Persuasion fails and he abducts Lazar's daughter Marketa on the eve of her initiation as a nun in an act of vengeance. Marketa Lazarová is a movie from Czechoslovakia in Czech, with a total 2h 46m runtime, released in 1967 with an average rating of 7.8 by 157 people.

Captain Clegg offers smugglers, coastal secrets, and ghostly local legends, making it a fun vintage cousin to Rose of Nevada’s haunted maritime mood.

A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse. Captain Clegg is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 23m runtime, released in 1962 with an average rating of 6.3 by 73 people.

Doomwatch connects through an isolated island community, ecological unease, and the feeling that something has gone wrong beneath the surface of local life.

The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent. Doomwatch is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 32m runtime, released in 1972 with an average rating of 6.1 by 25 people.

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand matches the mournful seaside supernatural tone, using love, death, and isolation to create a strange coastal ghost story.

After a failed marriage, Anna retreats to the haunting, eerie climes of the Isle of Jersey, where she finds fulfillment in an affair with lighthouse keeper Hugh. However, when tragedy strikes, the inconsolable Anna longs for the arms of her lover... who unexpectedly returns from the dead, with a few macabre changes awaiting them both. Neither the Sea Nor the Sand is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 32m runtime, released in 1972 with an average rating of 5.5 by 22 people.

November fits through its black-and-white folk strangeness, rural superstition, and weird, wintry world where the supernatural feels completely woven into daily life.

In a poor Estonian village, a group of peasants use magic and folk remedies to survive the winter, and a young woman tries to get a young man to love her. November is a movie from Estonia in Estonian, with a total 1h 55m runtime, released in 2017 with an average rating of 7.1 by 177 people. The movie made an estimated total of $19,084 in the box office.

Lamb shares a quiet, rural eeriness, mixing grief, nature, and folklore into a strange story about family, longing, and the uncanny.

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them. Lamb is a movie from Iceland in Icelandic, with a total 1h 46m runtime, released in 2021 with an average rating of 6.4 by 1,045 people. The movie made an estimated total of $3,200,000 in the box office.

The Wailing is a larger, wilder folk-horror mystery, but it shares the fear of a community slowly losing control to forces it cannot understand.

A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter. The Wailing is a movie from South Korea in Korean, with a total 2h 36m runtime, released in 2016 with an average rating of 7.4 by 2,056 people. The movie made an estimated total of $49,851,770 in the box office.

The Spirit of the Beehive fits through childhood mystery, silence, memory, and an atmosphere where the real world feels haunted by unseen emotional wounds.

In 1940, in the immediate aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, a young girl living on the Castilian plain is haunted after attending a screening of James Whale's 1931 film Frankenstein and hearing from her sister that the monster is not dead, instead existing as a spirit inhabiting a nearby barn. The Spirit of the Beehive is a movie from Spain in Spanish, with a total 1h 38m runtime, released in 1973 with an average rating of 7.6 by 397 people.

Valerie and Her Week of Wonders offers dreamlike folk fantasy, strange rites, and a slippery sense of time and identity that suits this list beautifully.

Valerie, a Czechoslovakian teenager living with her grandmother, is blossoming into womanhood, but that transformation proves secondary to the effects she experiences when she puts on a pair of magic earrings. Now seeing the world around her in a different light, Valerie must endure her sexual awakening while attempting to discern reality from fantasy as she encounters lecherous priest Gracian, a vampire-like stranger and otherworldly carnival folk. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a movie from Czechoslovakia in Czech, with a total 1h 13m runtime, released in 1970 with an average rating of 6.9 by 306 people.

The Shout matches through its eerie British strangeness, unreliable storytelling, and a mysterious outsider whose presence seems to warp reality itself.

A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host. The Shout is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 26m runtime, released in 1978 with an average rating of 6.0 by 127 people.

Don't Look Now connects through grief, premonition, water, and a haunting European mood where the past keeps appearing in disturbing new forms.

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife. Don't Look Now is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 50m runtime, released in 1973 with an average rating of 6.9 by 1,182 people.

The Innocents fits through its elegant ghost-story atmosphere, psychological ambiguity, and a house where memory, innocence, and haunting become impossible to separate.

In a mid-19th century Essex country house, a young governess for two children becomes convinced that the house and grounds are haunted by ghosts and that the children are being possessed. The Innocents is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 40m runtime, released in 1961 with an average rating of 7.5 by 665 people. The movie made an estimated total of $1,200,000 in the box office.

The Others is another atmospheric ghost story about isolation, family, and time’s hidden wounds, making it an accessible match for Rose of Nevada fans.

Grace is a woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions. The Others is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 41m runtime, released in 2001 with an average rating of 7.6 by 7,192 people. The movie made an estimated total of $210,002,906 in the box office.

The Devil's Backbone blends ghost story, history, and grief, using a haunted place to expose the emotional scars left by violence and loss.

Spain, 1939. In the last days of the Spanish Civil War, the young Carlos arrives at the Santa Lucía orphanage, where he will make friends and enemies as he follows the quiet footsteps of a mysterious presence eager for revenge. The Devil's Backbone is a movie from Spain in Spanish, with a total 1h 48m runtime, released in 2001 with an average rating of 7.3 by 1,358 people. The movie made an estimated total of $6,582,065 in the box office.

The Orphanage suits the topic through its seaside-adjacent melancholy, missing-child mystery, and deeply emotional approach to ghosts, memory, and unfinished love.

A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend. The Orphanage is a movie from Belgium in Spanish, with a total 1h 45m runtime, released in 2007 with an average rating of 7.2 by 3,125 people. The movie made an estimated total of $78,638,987 in the box office.

The Banshees of Inisherin shares a remote coastal setting, harsh community rhythms, and the feeling that isolation can twist ordinary lives into tragedy.

Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them. The Banshees of Inisherin is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 54m runtime, released in 2022 with an average rating of 7.5 by 3,374 people. The movie made an estimated total of $49,300,000 in the box office.

Local Hero is lighter than Rose of Nevada, but its Scottish coastal village, outsiders, and changing local economy make it a warm thematic companion.

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected. Local Hero is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 51m runtime, released in 1983 with an average rating of 6.8 by 401 people. The movie made an estimated total of $5,900,000 in the box office.

The Secret of Roan Inish fits through Celtic folklore, island life, family mystery, and the sea’s deep connection to memory and belonging.

Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate. The Secret of Roan Inish is a movie from Ireland in English, with a total 1h 43m runtime, released in 1994 with an average rating of 6.7 by 96 people. The movie made an estimated total of $6,160,000 in the box office.

The Weight of Water connects through maritime history, emotional obsession, and a story where the past resurfaces with dangerous force.

A newspaper photographer researches an 1873 double homicide and finds her own life paralleling that of a witness who survived the tragic ordeal. The Weight of Water is a movie from Canada in English, with a total 1h 53m runtime, released in 2001 with an average rating of 5.5 by 191 people. The movie made an estimated total of $109,130 in the box office.

Dead Calm is a tense ocean thriller about isolation, survival, and psychological threat aboard a boat, perfect for the sea-bound side of the topic.

An Australian couple takes a sailing trip in the Pacific to get over the recent loss of their son. While on the open sea, they come across a sinking ship with one survivor who is not at all what he seems. Dead Calm is a movie from Australia in English, with a total 1h 36m runtime, released in 1989 with an average rating of 6.6 by 825 people. The movie made an estimated total of $7,825,000 in the box office.

The Boat fits through its minimal maritime nightmare, trapping one man on a mysterious vessel that seems to have a will of its own.

A lone fisherman on his daily run finds himself lost in a thick fog which proves impossible to navigate. The worst is yet to come when his encounter with a seemingly abandoned sailboat becomes a fight for survival against an enemy unknown. The Boat is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 29m runtime, released in 2019 with an average rating of 5.5 by 143 people. The movie made an estimated total of $98,559 in the box office.

The Isle shares the isolated island mood, ghostly secrets, and misty period atmosphere that make coastal stories feel both romantic and dangerous.

1840 and another ship crashes on the rocks of an almost deserted island in Scotland. Three sailors survive the wreck and make it to shore where the few locals take them in as they wait for the mainland boat to come for them. But the sailors' survival story has only just started as they uncover the strange past of the once vibrant island. The Isle is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 1h 36m runtime, released in 2019 with an average rating of 4.8 by 99 people.

The Vanishing uses a remote lighthouse, male tension, and maritime isolation to build a grim mystery rooted in guilt, greed, and survival.

Three lighthouse keepers on an uninhabited island off the coast of Scotland discover something that isn't theirs to keep. The Vanishing is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 48m runtime, released in 2019 with an average rating of 5.8 by 787 people.

The Deep brings a true survival-at-sea story, focusing on cold water, endurance, and one man’s impossible fight against the ocean.

Based on an astonishing true incident that took place on the frigid seas off Iceland in 1984, The Deep fashions a modern-day everyman myth about the sole survivor of a shipwreck, whose superhuman will to survive made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero. The Deep is a movie from Iceland in Icelandic, with a total 1h 35m runtime, released in 2012 with an average rating of 6.3 by 127 people.

The Mercy fits through its real-life sailing tragedy, psychological pressure, and the haunting cost of being alone at sea with impossible expectations.

In 1968, Donald Crowhurst, an amateur sailor, endangers the fate of his family and business, and his own life, blinded by his ambition to compete in the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race, attempting to become the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the world without making any stopover. The Mercy is a movie from United States of America in English, with a total 1h 42m runtime, released in 2018 with an average rating of 5.9 by 299 people. The movie made an estimated total of $4,536,348 in the box office.

The Souvenir connects more through mood than plot, offering a textured British story about memory, identity, art, and emotional disorientation.

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man. The Souvenir is a movie from United Kingdom in English, with a total 2h 0m runtime, released in 2019 with an average rating of 6.1 by 282 people. The movie made an estimated total of $2,087,678 in the box office.

Last and First Men suits viewers drawn to Rose of Nevada’s meditative sci-fi side, using narration, ruins, and time to create cosmic melancholy.

As the end approaches inexorably, the last humans, living millions of years into the future, send a message to the humanity of the present that is both a plea for help and a warning, but also an epic tale of evolution, decline and hope. Last and First Men is a movie from Iceland in English, with a total 1h 12m runtime, released in 2020 with an average rating of 6.3 by 137 people.

Under the Skin shares an eerie British atmosphere, alienation, and a hypnotic sense of people moving through a world that feels quietly unreal.

Man and Woman are reunited after a long time. Sorrow and desire cannot break the silence. But that's okay: when words don't come, it's the body that speaks. Under the Skin is a movie from Brazil in Portuguese, with a total 19m runtime, released in 2013 with an average rating of 6.3 by 17 people.

The Turin Horse fits the slow-cinema branch of the list, using wind, repetition, rural hardship, and apocalyptic dread to create a bleak trance.

A look at the monotonous daily struggle of a father and daughter in a windswept, desolate landscape. Over six days, their routine of eating boiled potatoes and tending a failing horse crumbles, symbolizing a slow descent into darkness, emptiness, and the end of existence. The Turin Horse is a movie from Hungary in Hungarian, with a total 2h 35m runtime, released in 2011 with an average rating of 7.6 by 421 people. The movie made an estimated total of $162,088 in the box office.

Solaris is a major match for memory-driven sci-fi, where love, grief, and identity return in uncanny forms that challenge reality itself.

A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions. Solaris is a movie from Soviet Union in Russian, with a total 2h 47m runtime, released in 1972 with an average rating of 7.8 by 1,838 people.