If you loved The Impossible, try The Orphanage

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by J. A. Bayona, and they both carry the gut punch mood tag, and they sit in Drama / Thriller territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Impossible, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What The Orphanage is

A seaside mansion, winter, creaking floorboards. A family returns to the mother's childhood home, now an orphanage, where a son finds an invisible friend. Bayona makes the familiar feel ominously strange.

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