Movies Like The Border of the Dream

If you liked The Border of the Dream (1957), a drama and thriller movie directed by Esteban Sanz, 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
Before I Wake (2016)
★ 6.5/10Also drama and horror
An orphaned child's dreams—and nightmares—manifest physically as he sleeps.
2
Don't Leave the Kids Alone (2026)
★ 6.8/10Also horror and drama
A mother moves into a new house with her two children. One night she must leave the siblings home alone. What begins as a blast of carefree play soon turns into a claustrophobic horror story.
3
Nocebo (2022)
★ 6/10Also mystery and thriller
A fashion designer suffers from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband until help arrives in the form of a Filipino caregiver who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying…
4
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)
★ 6.7/10Also horror and thriller
A psychiatrist, familiar with the knife-wielding dream demon Freddy Krueger, helps teens at a mental hospital battle the killer who is invading their dreams.
5
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…
6
The Parts You Lose (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also drama and thriller
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
7
The Return (2006)
★ 6/10Also horror and drama
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying…
8
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.
9
Death's Roulette (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and mystery
Seven strangers wake up in a mansion in the middle of nowhere to discover they are part of a twisted game. They will have 60 minutes to choose one person to die; otherwise, all of them will be murdered. As the clock…
10
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.
11
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.
12
The Mothman Prophecies (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also drama and horror
Reporter John Klein is plunged into a world of impossible terror when fate draws him to the sleepy West Virginia town of Point Pleasant, whose residents are being visited by a great winged shape that sows hideous…
13
Repulsion (1965)
★ 7.4/10Also drama and thriller
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married…
14
Intruders (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also drama and thriller
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.
15
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.
16
The Orphanage (2007)
★ 7.2/10Also horror and drama
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
17
Vacation of Terror II: Diabolical Birthday (1991)
★ 6.1/10Also horror and thriller
Julio is back, quietly running an antique shop, when a chance encounter with singer Mayra and her younger sister brings him face to face with the evil doll again!
18
Watcher (2022)
★ 6.5/10Also horror and mystery
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.
19
Suburbicon (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also thriller and drama
In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect…
20
The Exorcism of God (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also horror and drama
An American priest working in Mexico is considered a saint by many local parishioners. However, due to a botched exorcism, he carries a secret that’s eating him alive until he gets an opportunity to face his demon one…