Movies Like Bates Motel

If you liked Bates Motel (1987), a horror and drama movie directed by Richard Rothstein, 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 Boy (2015)
★ 5.8/10Also drama and horror
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.
2
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…
3
Carrie (2002)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and tv movie
An awkward, telekinetic teenage girl's lonely life is dominated by relentless bullying at school and an oppressive religious fanatic mother at home. When her tormentors pull a humiliating prank at the senior prom, she…
4
Gerald's Game (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also horror and drama
When her husband's sex game goes wrong, Jessie (who is handcuffed to a bed in a remote lake house) faces warped visions, dark secrets and a dire choice.
5
The Devil's Rejects (2005)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and horror
The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.
6
It Chapter Two (2019)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and drama
27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.
7
Bug (2007)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and horror
In Oklahoma, Agnes, a lonely waitress living in an isolated and dilapidated roadside motel, meets Peter, a quiet and mysterious man with whom she establishes a peculiar relationship.
8
Boom! (1968)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and horror
Secluding herself in an island mansion in the Mediterranean with her servants and nurses, the wealthy Flora "Sissy" Goforth prepares for her impending death -- and she isn't the only one who's waiting. Known for his…
9
Sometimes They Come Back (1991)
★ 5.9/10Also horror and tv movie
Desperate for a job to help him support his family, Jim Norman takes a position teaching high school in the town where his brother was murdered in front of him by teenage bullies twenty-seven years before. The teens…
10
Nefarious (2023)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and drama
On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three…
11
Mārama (2026)
★ 6.3/10Also horror and drama
1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.
12
Candyman (1992)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and horror
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
13
mother! (2017)
★ 6.9/10Also horror and drama
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
14
Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and tv movie
Story about the remarkable friendship between a reclusive writer and illustrator and a chaotic homeless man, whom he gets to know during a campaign to release two charity workers from prison.
15
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.
16
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.
17
Needful Things (1993)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and horror
A mysterious new shop opens in a small town which always seems to stock the deepest desires of each shopper, with a price far heavier than expected.
18
The Ritual (2025)
★ 5.8/10Also horror and drama
Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.
19
The Devil's Advocate (1997)
★ 7.5/10Also horror and drama
Aspiring Florida defense lawyer Kevin Lomax accepts a job at a New York law firm. With the stakes getting higher every case, Kevin quickly learns that his boss has something far more evil planned.
20
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…