Movies Like Fréwaka

If you liked Fréwaka (2025), a drama and fantasy movie directed by Aislinn Clarke, 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
The Witch (2016)
★ 7/10Also horror and fantasy
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…
2
Starve Acre (2024)
★ 6/10Also horror and drama
When their son starts acting strangely, a couple unwittingly allow dark and sinister forces into their home, awakening a long-dormant ancient evil rooted deep in the countryside.
3
Midsommar (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and drama
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…
4
The Surrender (2025)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
5
Baby Blues (2008)
★ 6/10Also drama and horror
On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
6
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
7
The Babadook (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
8
A Quiet Place (2018)
★ 7.4/10Also horror and drama
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
9
His House (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and drama
After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.
10
Castle Freak (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror
John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.
11
Begotten (1991)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and horror
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
12
Intruders (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.
13
Fear Street: 1994 (2021)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and drama
After a series of brutal slayings, a teen and her friends take on an evil force that's plagued their notorious town for centuries.
14
Ginger Snaps (2000)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and fantasy
The story of two outcast sisters, Ginger and Brigitte, in the mindless suburban town of Bailey Downs. On the night of Ginger's first period, she is savagely attacked by a wild creature. Ginger's wounds miraculously…
15
Pearl (2022)
★ 7.2/10Also horror and drama
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions…
16
Southbound (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and horror
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister…
17
A Dark Song (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and fantasy
A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.
18
Presence (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and drama
A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in…
19
The Watchers (2024)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and horror
A young artist gets stranded in an extensive, immaculate forest in western Ireland, where, after finding shelter, she becomes trapped alongside three strangers, stalked by mysterious creatures each night.
20
Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also horror and fantasy
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…