Movies like Older Gods (2023)
The best movies like Older Gods (2023) are Apostle (2018), Saint Clare (2025) and The Ritual (2025). If Older Gods hooked you with its horror and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedRosemary's Baby (1968)7.8/10 from 4,581 votes
- NewestThe Holy Boy (2025)Released 2025
Apostle (2018)
In 1905, a man travels to a remote island in search of his missing sister who has been kidnapped by a mysterious religious cult.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaint Clare (2025)
In a small town a solitary woman is haunted by voices that lead her to assassinate ill intended people and get away with it, until her last kill sucks her down a rabbit hole riddled with corruption, trafficking and visions from the beyond.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ritual (2025)
Two priests, one in crisis with his faith and the other confronting a turbulent past, must overcome their differences to perform a risky exorcism.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisImmaculate (2024)
An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaint Maud (2020)
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Holy Boy (2025)
A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDancing Village: The Curse Begins (2024)
Mila must return a mystical bracelet to the "Dancing Village," unaware that Badarawuhi - a mysterious, mythical being who rules the village - awaits her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Hereditary (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 & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisConsecration (2023)
After the alleged suicide of her priest brother, Grace travels to the remote Scottish convent where he fell to his death. Distrusting the Church's account, she uncovers murder, sacrilege and a disturbing truth about herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Still Say Grace (2020)
The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ritual (2017)
A group of university friends reunite for a hiking trip in Sweden, but are stalked by a menacing presence when they're diverted through the woods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSennentuntschi: Curse of the Alps (2010)
1975, Swiss Alps: In a remote mountain village, a beautiful and mysterious woman shows up. Only the village policeman takes care of the strange woman and tries to find out who she is. There are hints that she came from the Höhenalp Alp, where herdsmen do unthinkable things to get the company of women. Many dark truths are revealed that should better have remained hidden. A tragedy of lust, insanity and murder is brought to a seemlingly pure and perfect world. It is the beginning of a nightmare of religious insanity, hypocrisy, abuse and belief in demons, who destroys a young family and brings a whole village to destruction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlma & the Wolf (2025)
After a violent animal attack, paranoia spreads through Spiral Creek. But when Deputy Ren Accord gets too close, his son vanishes, and reality begins to fracture.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisKill List (2011)
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRabbit Trap (2025)
When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to their door intent on infiltrating their lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMidsommar (2019)
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, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBag of Lies (2024)
Desperate to save his dying wife, Matt turns to The Bag, an ancient relic with dark magic. The cure demands a chilling ritual and strict rules. As his wife heals, Matt's sanity unravels, facing terrifying consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies 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 thisOpus (2025)
A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Surrounded by the star's cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the middle of his twisted plan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisRelic (2020)
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRevelations (2025)
A pastor who believes in divine revelation and a detective haunted by visions pursue a missing person case — exposing their own demons in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRosemary's Baby (1968)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like this7 Witches (2017)
As their big day approaches Cate and Cody should be celebrating, they've got their family with them, they've rented an island for the big day, but unbeknownst to them their wedding falls on the day when a 100 year old curse comes to fruition. Instead of celebrating they find themselves fighting for their lives as a coven of witches rise for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Last Exorcism (2010)
After years of performing “exorcisms” and taking believers’ money, Reverend Marcus travels to rural Louisiana with a film crew so he can dispel what he believes is the myth of demonic possession. The dynamic reverend is certain that this will be another routine “exorcism” on a disturbed religious fanatic but instead comes upon the blood-soaked farm of the Sweetzer family and a true evil he would have never thought imaginable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Nuns (2025)
Desperation drives two nuns to perform an exorcism no nun should attempt. With a possessed child at the mercy of evil and the opposition of the Catholic Church, they take on the dangerous forbidden rituals themselves, putting their immortal souls in grave danger. They must confront the terrifying cost of their sacrilegious actions, but one goal remains: the boy must be saved at all costs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNocebo (2022)
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 truth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight of the Hunted (2023)
When an unsuspecting woman stops at a remote gas station in the dead of night, she's made the plaything of a sociopath sniper with a secret vendetta. To survive, she must not only dodge his bullets and fight for her life, but also figure out who wants her dead and why.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNight Watch (1973)
A woman recovering from a nervous breakdown tries to convince her husband and and the local London police that she has witnessed a murder in the abandoned house next door.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisManiac (1963)
When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Car (1977)
The Utah community of Santa Ynez is being terrorized by a mysterious black coupe that appears out of nowhere and begins running people down. After the car kills off the town sheriff, Captain Wade Parent is determined to stop the murderous driver.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Older Gods?
The closest matches to Older Gods are Apostle (2018), Saint Clare (2025) and The Ritual (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Older Gods?
People who watched Older Gods most often go on to Apostle (2018), Saint Clare (2025) and The Ritual (2025).
What is the highest-rated movie like Older Gods?
Rosemary's Baby (1968), rated 7.8/10 by 4,581 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Older Gods?
The Holy Boy (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Older Gods?
Yes: Apostle (2018), Saint Clare (2025) and The Ritual (2025).
How are movies similar to Older Gods chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Older Gods, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.