Movies Like Peg O' My Heart

If you liked Peg O' My Heart (2025), a horror and mystery movie directed by Nick Cheung Ka-fai, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
★ 6.7/10Also horror
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
2
Ghostland (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also horror
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house…
3
Barbarian (2022)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and mystery
In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she…
4
Stir of Echoes (1999)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
5
Gothika (2003)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and mystery
After a car crash, criminal psychologist Dr. Miranda Grey regains consciousness only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. She's been accused of murdering her husband…
6
Paranormal Activity (2009)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and mystery
After a young, middle-class couple moves into what seems like a typical suburban house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be demonic, but is certainly the most active in the middle of…
7
The Bone Collector (1999)
★ 6.8/10Also mystery
Lincoln Rhyme was the department's top homicide detective and leading expert in criminal forensics until an injury left him paralyzed, depressed, and incapable of working. But when a gruesome murder in Manhattan leaves…
8
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
★ 7.4/10Also horror
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson, traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger, who was burned alive…
9
Smile (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and mystery
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
10
Dressed to Kill (1980)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and horror
After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing…
11
Unknown (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also mystery
A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, (not even his wife), believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.
12
Mirrors (2008)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and mystery
An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.
13
Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mystery
A demonic force has chosen Freddy Krueger as its portal to the real world. Can Heather Langenkamp play the part of Nancy one last time and trap the evil trying to enter our world?
14
Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also mystery and horror
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
15
Come True (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also horror
Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
16
No One Gets Out Alive (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and mystery
An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
17
Dark Harvest (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror
In a small Midwestern town, a deadly annual ritual unfolds when the mythical nightmare, Sawtooth Jack, rises from the cornfields and challenges the town’s teenage boys in a bloody battle of survival.
18
Black Box (2026)
★ 5.9/10Also horror
Vero Airlines Flight 298 from New Orleans to Seattle becomes the center of a chilling supernatural mystery.
19
Final Destination 2 (2003)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and mystery
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it…
20
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
★ 6.9/10Also mystery and horror
An Oxford Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.