Movies Like Burning Rope

If you liked Burning Rope (2025), a horror and drama movie directed by Juan Belardi, 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 Perfection (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and drama
When troubled musical prodigy Charlotte seeks out Elizabeth, the new star pupil of her former school, the encounter sends both musicians down a sinister path with shocking consequences.
2
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.
3
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.
4
Black Swan (2010)
★ 7.7/10Also drama and horror
A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake."
5
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.
6
Before I Wake (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
7
Ghost Stories (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and drama
Professor Philip Goodman devotes his life to exposing phony psychics and fraudulent supernatural shenanigans. His skepticism soon gets put to the test when he receives news of three chilling and inexplicable cases…
8
The Keeping Hours (2017)
★ 7/10Also drama and horror
A supernatural love story that centers on two parents whose life together falls apart after their son dies. The man, now a successful lawyer, and the woman, now married and an author, get a chance at reconciliation ten…
9
Stoker (2013)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror
Following her father Richard's death in an unexplained road accident, reclusive teenager India Stoker withdraws further into the quiet rural life she shares with her emotionally disturbed mother Evie. But her curiosity…
10
The Echo (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and drama
An ex-prisoner moves to an old apartment, where one gets to see in the middle of a domestic problem between a police officer, his wife and his daughter. When he tries to intervene, he will be caught in a mysterious…
11
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.
12
Birth/Rebirth (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
13
The Gift (2000)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and drama
Annie Wilson, young widow and mother of three, makes her living foretelling others' futures⁠—though her own has become cloudier than even she can see. Threatened by a client's violent husband and plagued by visions of…
14
Frankenstein (2025)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and horror
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
15
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…
16
The Skeleton Key (2005)
★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror
A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.
17
Night of Dark Shadows (1971)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
Recently married, Quentin and Tracy Collins have just moved into Collinwood, a New England estate that has long been in the Collins family and which Quentin has just inherited. They soon find themselves plagued by…
18
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.
19
What Lies Beneath (2000)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and horror
Norman and Claire Spencer are a seemingly happily married couple who uncover a terrible secret… a secret so disturbing it threatens to destroy them.
20
Possum (2018)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror
A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.