Movies Like Develop

If you liked Develop (2024), a movie directed by Emily James, 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 Uninvited (2009)
★ 6.5/10
Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father…
2
Pet Sematary (1989)
★ 6.7/10
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
3
Other Mommy (2026)
★ 5.8/10
Young Bela forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home that looks uncannily like her own mother, drawing her into a terrifying and increasingly dark world.
4
Insidious: Out of the Further (2026)
★ 7.7/10
Gemma, a young mother raising her daughter in the house she grew up in, discovers she can travel into The Further, where she possesses an ability to bring what lives there back to the real world.
5
Hereditary (2018)
★ 7.3/10
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
6
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2023)
★ 6.3/10
Seventeen-year-old Lea spends her summer break tanning in her backyard, and drifting between tiptoeing around her needy mother, and aimlessly trailing her best friend and boys from school. This monotony is interrupted…
7
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
★ 6.5/10
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
8
Night at the Museum (2006)
★ 6.6/10
Chaos reigns at the natural history museum when night watchman Larry Daley accidentally stirs up an ancient curse, awakening Attila the Hun, an army of gladiators, a Tyrannosaurus rex and other exhibits.
9
Martyrs Lane (2022)
★ 6.1/10
Leah, 10, has terrible nightmares. Her mother seems distant somehow, lost in her thoughts. A small, nightly visitor brings Leah comfort, but soon Leah will realize that her little visitor offers knowledge that might be…
10
Totally Killer (2023)
★ 6.8/10
When the infamous "Sweet Sixteen Killer" returns 35 years after his first murder spree to claim another victim, 17-year-old Jamie accidentally travels back in time to 1987, determined to stop the killer before he can…
11
Tuesday (2024)
★ 6.8/10
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
12
Life-Size (2000)
★ 6.6/10
Sad and lonely after the death of her mother, Casey would do anything to see her again. But when a series of mystic mishaps mistakenly brings her fashion doll “Eve” to life instead, it changes Casey’s world forever!
13
The Eyes of My Mother (2016)
★ 6.2/10
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
14
Bring Her Back (2025)
★ 7.3/10
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
15
Death of a Unicorn (2025)
★ 6.4/10
A father and daughter accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.
16
My Girl (1991)
★ 7.4/10
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J…
17
Where’s Poppa? (1970)
★ 6/10
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears…
18
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
★ 6.9/10
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the…
19
'night, Mother (1986)
★ 7.4/10
A mother and daughter spend a night together after the daughter reveals that she will kill herself by the end of it.
20
Carrie (1976)
★ 7.3/10
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent…