Movies Like PopoBawa

If you liked PopoBawa (2026), a horror and drama movie directed by J. Aury White, 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
Basilisk: The Serpent King (2006)
★ 6.2/10Also horror and fantasy
Two millennia ago, a Lybian king has a basilisk (snake-shaped dragon), which petrifies people, subjected to the same fate with a golden scepter during a solar eclipse. Both these and several victims are dug up by…
2
Quicksand (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and drama
A married couple on the brink of divorce becomes trapped in quicksand while hiking through a Colombian rainforest. It’s a struggle for survival as they battle the elements of the jungle and must work together in order…
3
The Thinning: New World Order (2018)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and horror
Blake Redding is trapped in this dark room wanting to protect his love so the only thing he will do is escape like no failed student has done before.
4
Angels Fallen: Warriors of Peace (2024)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy and horror
When an Iraq War veteran receives a calling from a higher power, he embarks on a mission to stop a fallen angel from raising an army of the dead to take over the world.
5
All That Money Can Buy (1941)
★ 7/10Also drama and fantasy
Farmer Jabez Stone, about to lose his land, agrees to sell his soul to the devil, known as Mr. Scratch, who gives Jabez seven years to enjoy the fruits of his sale before he collects. Over that time, Jabez pays off his…
6
Celia (1989)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and fantasy
In 1950s Australia, young Celia is growing up with a sense of isolation and mistrust of the world that surrounds her. Her mother and father won't let her play with the kids next door because their parents are…
7
Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and drama
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…
8
The Canterville Ghost (1996)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and drama
When a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She…
9
Children of the Damned (1964)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror
Six children are found spread through out the world that not only have enormous intelligence, but identical intelligence and have a strange bond to each other.
10
Night of the Demon (1957)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and horror
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was killed in a freak accident the day before. It turns out that the…
11
Hilda and the Mountain King (2021)
★ 7.6/10Also fantasy and drama
When Hilda wakes up in the body of a troll, she must use her wits and courage to get back home, become human again — and save the city of Trolberg.
12
The Queen of Spades (1949)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and fantasy
A czarist captain stops at nothing to learn the secrets of a countess rumored to have sold her soul to the devil in order to always win at cards.
13
Cranston Academy: Monster Zone (2020)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and horror
An intelligent 15-year-old high school student is unexpectedly transferred to a boarding school where he opens a portal of monsters from another dimension.
14
Van Helsing: The London Assignment (2004)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and horror
It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate a series of horrific, and decidedly supernatural murders, being committed by the mad scientist Dr…
15
Repeat Performance (1947)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and fantasy
On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult…
16
Nightbooks (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and horror
Alex, a boy obsessed with scary stories, is trapped by a witch in her modern, magical New York City apartment. His original hair-raising tales are the only thing keeping him safe as he desperately tries to find a way…
17
House of Usher (1960)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and drama
Convinced that his family is tainted by generations of evil, Roderick Usher is hellbent on stopping his sister Madeline’s wedding to prevent the cursed Usher bloodline from expanding. When her fiancé Philip Winthrop…
18
The Bad Seed (1956)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and horror
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a…
19
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and drama
A nurse in the Caribbean turns to voodoo in hopes of curing her patient, a mindless woman whose husband she's fallen in love with.
20
The Old Dark House (1932)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and horror
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.