Movies like Mother, May I? (2023)
The best movies like Mother, May I? (2023) are Mom (2025), Mother's Baby (2025) and Orphan (2009). If Mother, May I? hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedObsession (2026)8.2/10 from 6,582 votes
- NewestConfinement (2026)Released 2026
Mom (2025)
Struggling with postnatal depression and feeling misunderstood by her husband, Meredith begins to experience terrifying visions foreshadowing an ultimate tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMother's Baby (2025)
A woman navigates the complex journey of motherhood while confronting her deepest fears and anxieties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Orphan (2009)
After losing their baby, a married couple adopt 9-year old Esther, who may not be as innocent as she seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisObsession (2026)
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisUnsane (2018)
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invitation (2016)
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI'll Play Mother (2025)
After the death of their birth mother, two young children are placed in the care of prospective adopter parents, however, it's not long before the new family begin to question if something more sinister is at play.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Prodigy (2019)
A mother concerned about her young son's disturbing behavior thinks something supernatural may be affecting him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGoodnight Mommy (2015)
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisClinical (2017)
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHereditary (2018)
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMind Body Spirit (2023)
Anya, an aspiring yoga influencer, as she embarks on a ritual practice left behind by her estranged grandmother. What starts as a spiritual self-help guide quickly evolves into something much more sinister. As Anya becomes obsessed with the mysterious power of the practice, she unwittingly unleashes an otherworldly entity that begins to take control of her life -- and her videos. Now Anya must race to unlock the truth, before her descent into madness threatens to consume her mind, body and spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Others (2001)
Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGoodnight Mommy (2022)
When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMa (2019)
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisOrphan: First Kill (2022)
After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip, she is put against a mother who will protect her family from the murderous “child” at any cost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrace (2009)
In the wake of a horrific car accident that kills her husband, Michael, expectant mother Madeline Matheson discovers that her daughter, Grace, has died in the womb. Ignoring her doctor's warnings that the fetus must be removed from her body, a grief-stricken Matheson demands to carry the child to term -- even if it endangers her own life to do so. Curiously, little Grace emerges undead -- and with a craving for human blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou Should Have Left (2020)
In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other (2025)
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thismother! (2017)
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGet Out (2017)
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYou Are Not Me (2024)
After an absence of three years, Aitana makes a surprise return home with Gabi, her Brazilian partner, and their son. The reception from her parents is surprisingly cold. Only her wheelchair-bound brother is pleased to see her. But what affects Aitana most of all is the presence of a stranger her age sleeping in her bed, wearing her clothes, living in her house, and being treated by her parents as if she were their daughter. From that moment on, torn by jealousy, suspicion, and misunderstanding, Aitana tries to find out what is happening and who the intruder is until she discovers an unexpected and disturbing truth darker than she would ever have thought possible.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Fear of Rain (2021)
A teenage girl living with schizophrenia begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her parents try desperately to help her live a normal life, without exposing their own tragic secrets, and the only person who believes her is Caleb – a boy she isn’t even sure exists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dead Thing (2025)
A young woman lost in a series of meaningless connections falls in love with a charismatic and sensitive man, who hides a dark secret that turns her affair into a dangerous obsession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Bad Seed (2018)
A widower suspects that his seemingly perfect adolescent daughter is a heartless killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMidnighters (2018)
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHidden (2009)
Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Bad Seed Returns (2022)
Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests sending her off to boarding school. Meanwhile, a new girl at school seems to know Emma’s secrets, leaving Emma no choice but to slip back to her old ways and take care of her enemies by any means necessary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEstranged (2015)
Due to a near-fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long-term memory, a temporarily wheelchair-bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by her bohemian boyfriend, the apparent cause of the accident. Unable to remember her family or her own childhood, she sets out, with the help of her boyfriend, to find the reason for her leaving all those years ago and quickly discovers her relatives may not be as loving as she’d thought
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisConfinement (2026)
Pregnant and recently widowed, Stella is taken in by her late husband’s estranged family. But beneath their generosity lies something deeply unsettling, leaving Stella fighting for her life as their obsession with her unborn child turns deadly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mother, May I??
The closest matches to Mother, May I? are Mom (2025), Mother's Baby (2025) and Orphan (2009). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mother, May I??
People who watched Mother, May I? most often go on to Mom (2025), Mother's Baby (2025) and Orphan (2009).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mother, May I??
Obsession (2026), rated 8.2/10 by 6,582 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mother, May I??
Confinement (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mother, May I??
Yes: Mom (2025), Orphan (2009) and Obsession (2026).
How are movies similar to Mother, May I? chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mother, May I?, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.