Movies Like Fears We Bury

If you liked Fears We Bury (2025), a drama and science fiction movie directed by Ethan Wilson, 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
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions…
2
Southbound (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
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…
3
Flatliners (1990)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and science fiction
Five medical students experiment with "near death" experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
4
The Return (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and science fiction
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
5
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.
6
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.
7
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.
8
The Devil Conspiracy (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and science fiction
A powerful biotech company has breakthrough technology allowing them to clone history’s most influential people with just a few fragments of DNA. Behind this company is a cabal of Satanists that steals the shroud of…
9
Crawlers (2020)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and science fiction
On Saint Patrick's day—a night of wild parties and drunken revelry—three unlikely friends band together to save a college town from a vicious horde of body-snatching aliens.
10
Slash/Back (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also science fiction and horror
In a remote Arctic community, a group of Inuit girls fight off an alien invasion, all while trying to make it to the coolest party in town.
11
Arcadian (2024)
★ 6/10Also horror and science fiction
In the near future, on a decimated Earth, Paul and his twin sons face terror at night when ferocious creatures awaken. When Paul is nearly killed, the boys come up with a plan for survival, using everything their…
12
Extinction (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and science fiction
And suddenly, overnight, the world came to a halt. Two men, two survivors, one kid, and hatred that separates them. A place forgotten by everyone, including the creatures that inhabit the Earth... until now.
13
The Thing (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and science fiction
When paleontologist Kate Lloyd travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as…
14
Stake Land (2010)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror
Martin was a normal teenage boy before the country collapsed in an empty pit of economic and political disaster. A vampire epidemic has swept across what is left of the nation's abandoned towns and cities, and it's up…
15
Year 10 (2024)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and science fiction
After the fall of civilization, the few survivors have been driven to cannibalism. A young man must confront a violent tribe that has murdered his father and stolen the medicine that keeps his girlfriend alive.
16
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…
17
The Congress (2013)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and science fiction
An aging, out-of-work actress accepts one last job, though the consequences of her decision affect her in ways she didn't consider.
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
Swan Song (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and science fiction
In the near future, Cameron Turner is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Presented with an experimental solution to shield his wife and son from grief, he grapples with altering their fate in this thought-provoking…
20
Megaboa (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and science fiction
On a trip to Colombia, a group of college students encounter a fifty-foot boa constrictor, hungry for blood.