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Movies Like The Man I Love

If you liked The Man I Love (2026), a drama and horror movie directed by Kai Tan, 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. 1The Surrender

    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.

  2. 2Julia

    Julia (1977)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and history

    At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission to smuggle funds into Nazi Germany.

  3. 3Panther

    Panther (1995)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and history

    In this sprawling, fictionalized history of the Black Panthers, 1960s Oakland becomes a war zone as the Panthers battle for the right to exist.

  4. 4Radium Girls

    Radium Girls (2020)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and history

    Young women toiling in a factory are exposed to hazardous material which takes a disastrous toll on their health.

  5. 5Blackwater Lane

    Blackwater Lane (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and horror

    An American school teacher in England drives past an abandoned car late one night, unaware that the driver was the victim of a murder. As she comes to terms with the realization, seemingly supernatural events start to…

  6. 6Intruders

    Intruders (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror

    Anna suffers from agoraphobia so crippling that when a trio of criminals break into her house, she cannot bring herself to flee. But what the intruders don't realize is that agoraphobia is not her only psychosis.

  7. 7Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

    Werewolf: The Beast Among Us (2012)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror

    Set in a 19th century village, a young man studying under a local doctor joins a team of hunters on the trail of a wolf-like creature.

  8. 8Baby Blues

    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.

  9. 9Plan A

    Plan A (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and history

    Germany 1945, Max, a Jewish Holocaust survivor, meets a radical group of Jewish resistance fighters, who, like him, lost all hope for their future after they were robbed of their existence and their entire families…

  10. 10I Saw the TV Glow

    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…

  11. 11Mr. Turner

    Mr. Turner (2014)

    ★ 6.6/10Also history and drama

    Eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner lives his last 25 years with gusto and secretly becomes involved with a seaside landlady, while his faithful housekeeper bears an unrequited love for him.

  12. 12The Last Thing Mary Saw

    The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and drama

    Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy.

  13. 13Oslo

    Oslo (2021)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and history

    The true story of negotiations between implacable enemies — the secret back-channel talks, unlikely friendships and quiet heroics of a small but committed group of Israelis, Palestinians and one Norwegian couple that…

  14. 14Fireworks

    Fireworks (1947)

    ★ 6/10Also horror and drama

    A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.

  15. 15Savaged

    Savaged (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and horror

    After thugs brutalize a deaf-mute woman, the spirit of an Apache warrior takes over her lifeless body and sets out on a bloodthirsty quest for revenge.

  16. 16Alien: Specimen

    Alien: Specimen (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror

    During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.

  17. 17Belfast

    Belfast (2021)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and history

    Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a…

  18. 18Suffragette

    Suffragette (2015)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and history

    Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement, women who were forced underground to pursue a dangerous game of cat and mouse with an increasingly brutal State.

  19. 19Caged

    Caged (2021)

    ★ 6.2/10Also horror and drama

    An African American male is imprisoned and placed in solitary confinement after being found guilty of murdering his wife, as he's haunted by internal demons and his dead wife, and pushed to the breaking point by an…

  20. 20Munich - The Edge of War

    Munich - The Edge of War (2021)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and history

    At the tense 1938 Munich Conference, former friends who now work for opposing governments become reluctant spies racing to expose a Nazi secret.

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