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Movies Like mother!

If you liked mother! (2017), a horror and drama movie directed by Darren Aronofsky, 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. 1Presence

    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…

  2. 2Rosemary's Baby

    Rosemary's Baby (1968)

    ★ 7.8/10Also drama and horror

    A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.

  3. 3Blackwater Lane

    Blackwater Lane (2024)

    ★ 6/10Also thriller and drama

    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…

  4. 4Watcher

    Watcher (2022)

    ★ 6.5/10Also horror and thriller

    As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.

  5. 5The 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.

  6. 6Antichrist

    Antichrist (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama and horror

    A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

  7. 7Abandoned

    Abandoned (2022)

    ★ 5.8/10Also horror and thriller

    After a young couple moves into a remote farmhouse with their infant son, the woman's struggles with postpartum psychosis begin to intensify... as the house reveals secrets of its own.

  8. 8You're Not Alone

    You're Not Alone (2020)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller and horror

    After the premature death of her estranged husband, Emma (Winter) regains custody of their young daughter Isla (Jones) and hopes to rebuild their relationship after many years apart. But when an evil entity begins to…

  9. 9The Entity

    The Entity (1982)

    ★ 6.9/10Also horror and thriller

    A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.

  10. 10The Shining

    The Shining (1980)

    ★ 8.2/10Also horror and thriller

    Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the…

  11. 11It Comes at Night

    It Comes at Night (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror

    Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives…

  12. 12Bone Lake

    Bone Lake (2025)

    ★ 5.9/10Also horror and thriller

    A couple’s romantic vacation at a secluded lakeside estate is upended when they are forced to share the mansion with a mysterious and attractive couple. In this darkly hilarious and seductive horror story, a dream…

  13. 13Nocturnal Animals

    Nocturnal Animals (2016)

    ★ 7.4/10Also drama and thriller

    Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics…

  14. 14Byzantium

    Byzantium (2013)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller

    Residents of a coastal town learn, with deadly consequences, the secret shared by the two mysterious women who have sought refuge at a local boarding house, the Byzantium.

  15. 15Castle Freak

    Castle Freak (1996)

    ★ 6.1/10Also thriller and drama

    John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature.

  16. 16Midsommar

    Midsommar (2019)

    ★ 7.1/10Also horror and drama

    Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets…

  17. 17Intrusion

    Intrusion (2021)

    ★ 6/10Also drama and thriller

    When a husband and wife move to a small town, a home invasion leaves the wife traumatized and suspicious that those around her might not be who they seem.

  18. 18Before I Wake

    Before I Wake (2016)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror

    An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.

  19. 19Possum

    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.

  20. 20Muse

    Muse (2017)

    ★ 5.8/10Also thriller and horror

    Samuel Salomon, a literature professor, has been off work for almost a year after the tragic death of his girlfriend. Samuel has been suffering from a recurring nightmare in which a woman is brutally murdered in a…

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