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Movies Like ESPECTRO

If you liked ESPECTRO (2026), a movie directed by Afonso Araújo, 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. 1What They Had

    What They Had (2018)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A woman must fly back to her hometown when her Alzheimer's-stricken mother wanders into a blizzard. The return home forces her to confront her past.

  2. 2Knox Goes Away

    Knox Goes Away (2024)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A contract killer, after being diagnosed with a fast-moving form of dementia, is presented with the opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of his estranged adult son. But to do so, he must race against the…

  3. 3You're Not You

    You're Not You (2014)

    ★ 7.4/10

    When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a…

  4. 4The Father

    The Father (2020)

    ★ 8.1/10

    A man refuses all assistance from his daughter as he ages and, as he tries to make sense of his changing circumstances, he begins to doubt his loved ones, his own mind and even the fabric of his reality.

  5. 5Iris

    Iris (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10

    True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.

  6. 6Safe House

    Safe House (1998)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the…

  7. 7Some Kind of Heaven

    Some Kind of Heaven (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    Behind the gates of a palm-tree-lined fantasyland, three residents and one interloper at America's largest retirement community strive to find happiness.

  8. 8Away from Her

    Away from Her (2007)

    ★ 7/10

    Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets…

  9. 9Dick Johnson Is Dead

    Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10

    With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by…

  10. 10I'll See You in My Dreams

    I'll See You in My Dreams (2015)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A sudden loss disrupts Carol’s orderly life, propelling her into the dating world for the first time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not one, but two unexpected…

  11. 11Wrestling Ernest Hemingway

    Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives. When they meet in a park Frank is able to start a conversation after several…

  12. 12Still Alice

    Still Alice (2014)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a devastating diagnosis, Alice and her family find their bonds tested.

  13. 13Other People

    Other People (2016)

    ★ 6.4/10

    David, a struggling comedy writer fresh off from breaking up with his boyfriend, moves from New York City to Sacramento to help his sick mother. Living with his conservative father and much-younger sisters for the…

  14. 14The Thing with Feathers

    The Thing with Feathers (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Following the death of his wife, a young father's hold on reality crumbles, and a strange presence begins to stalk him from the shadowy recesses of the apartment he shares with his two young sons.

  15. 15The Trouble with Angels

    The Trouble with Angels (1966)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Mary and her friend, Rachel, are new students at St. Francis Academy, a boarding school run by the iron fist of Mother Superior. The immature teens grow bored and begin playing pranks on both the unsuspecting nuns and…

  16. 16Blackbird

    Blackbird (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.

  17. 17Jules

    Jules (2023)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A flying saucer lands in the backyard of an elderly suburbanite with memory problems, who forms a bond with the scared alien inside.

  18. 18My Life Without Me

    My Life Without Me (2003)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.

  19. 19Saint Maud

    Saint Maud (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up…

  20. 20Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special

    Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special (2020)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Faced with a holiday cheer crisis, the North Pole knows there's only one person who can save the day: Santa's great friend Mariah Carey. The Queen of Christmas creates a fabulous and star-studded spectacular to make…

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