Movies like Mothers in Arms (1998)
The best movies like Mothers in Arms (1998) are A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019), Killing Daddy (2014) and No One Would Tell (2018). If Mothers in Arms hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Mothers in Arms
Quick picks
- Highest ratedMothers' Instinct (2024)6.8/10 from 725 votes
- NewestOther Mommy (2026)Released 2026
A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)
The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKilling Daddy (2014)
When Cassie's father finds himself vulnerable and bedridden, she believes she has the perfect revenge for her mother's death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisNo One Would Tell (2018)
Single mom Laura Collins has had a history of rocky relationships, so when her daughter Sarah begins dating the popular and charismatic Rob, Laura is thrilled with what she sees. But it soon becomes clear that Rob has a darker, possessive side. Then Sarah goes missing.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBreaking In (2018)
Shaun Russell takes her son and daughter on a weekend getaway to her late father's secluded, high-tech vacation home in the countryside. The family soon gets an unwelcome surprise when four men break into the house to find hidden money. After managing to escape, Shaun must now figure out a way to turn the tables on the desperate thieves and save her captive children.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSerial Mom (1994)
Beverly is the perfect happy homemaker, along with her doting husband and two children, but this nuclear family just might explode when her fascination with serial killers collides with her ever-so-proper code of ethics.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Deadly American Marriage (2025)
A chilling 911 call. A gruesome scene. What really happened inside a family's quiet suburban home? Murder or self-defense? Told from both sides, this documentary explores Jason Corbett's brutal death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMothers' Instinct (2024)
Housewives Alice and Celine are best friends and neighbours who seem to have it all. However, when a tragic accident shatters the harmony of their lives, guilt, suspicion and paranoia begin to unravel their sisterly bond.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Babadook (2014)
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDrop (2025)
Violet, a widowed mother on her first date in years, arrives at an upscale restaurant where she is relieved that her date, Henry, is more charming and handsome than she expected. But their chemistry begins to curdle as Violet begins being irritated and then terrorized by a series of anonymous drops to her phone.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Thousand and One (2023)
Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life together. As the years go by, their family grows and Terry becomes a smart yet quiet teenager, but the secret that has defined their lives threatens to destroy the home they have so improbably built.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Eyes of My Mother (2016)
A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToo Late for Tears (1949)
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGunpowder Milkshake (2021)
To protect an 8-year-old girl, a dangerous assassin reunites with her mother and her lethal associates to take down a ruthless crime syndicate and its army of henchmen.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPresence (2025)
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 unimaginable ways.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOther Mommy (2026)
Young Bela forms a relationship with a sinister entity in her home that looks uncannily like her own mother, drawing her into a terrifying and increasingly dark world.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBed Rest (2023)
After struggling to start a family, Julie Rivers becomes pregnant and moves into a new home with her husband. She's ordered to mandatory bed rest, and begins seeing ghostly happenings throughout the house.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChina Moon (1994)
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After she shoots her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but his partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlackwater Lane (2024)
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 affect the gothic manor she lives in with her husband.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBrightburn (2019)
What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaturn (2025)
Clara, moves in with her family to an exclusive community. While Clara and her husband take part in a bizarre welcome dinner, their daughter Sofía is kidnapped. Clara decides to investigate on her own accord, just to realize that the truth is far more perverse than she could have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
the piety (TBA)
"Amidst grief and family estrangement, a teenager must break emotional barriers at his mother's funeral, triggering suffocation and guilt."
Why it matches: Similar story and style
I'm Not From Here (2024)
Elena's excitement for a day at the pool with her mother is shattered when she witnesses an episode of violence between her parents. Elena plays alone while her mother deals with the consequences; however, a tough confrontation leads them to put an end to the situation.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Fag End (2024)
"Fag End" is an astute representation of the metaphorical death of a mother. The movie revolves around a girl named 'Tania', a victim of smoking and alcohol abuse, going through the process of In vitro fertilization. When it comes to alcohol and smoking, an abuser is overlapped with the tendencies of both alcoholism and chain smoking wherein one is subjected to intense cravings, followed by untoward mental as well as physical detention. Things go downhill one morning, as she relapsed the night before and she suffers a miscarriage. Does it not leave us with the raucous screams of the unborn?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Sorry For Not Saying I Love You (2025)
Rosa and Maria are mother and daughter who have a troubled relationship. Despite not showing affection, Rosa makes courageous decisions to ensure that her daughter, Maria, follows a different path from her own in all areas of life. The movie takes us on an exploration of the lives of two generations of black women from the same family, revealing a plot of love, conflicts and mutual understanding.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Maman (2025)
Marie-Hélène, my mother, is retiring and takes with her her memories, her anxieties and the mental burden of having raised three children while working full time. As she works her last shift as a home nurse, her thoughts jostle and harmonize in a whirlwind similar to a panic attack.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Sanda (1990)
Sanda spends all her time working in a plastic factory, raising her two small children and catering to an indifferent husband, leaving little room for herself. A chance encounter with another man may offer her an escape from her daily chores.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Contemplating Motherhood (TBA)
Taking a moment away from the noise of life, thoughts of THE decision creep into the quiet. As Woman slips into the murky bath waters of her own mind, she is forced to explore every imagined road of motherhood. Does she or doesn’t she? She emerges from her bath, none the wiser. Pruney but no epiphany. Contemplating Motherhood was awarded the Mister Tibbs, Phoebe Francis Brown Film Fund.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Night Feeds (2025)
A psychological body horror following a sleep-deprived new mother fearing for her baby's safety as she cycles through night and day, nightmare and reality seamlessly. But when help is offered... can she trust it?
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mothers in Arms?
The closest matches to Mothers in Arms are A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019), Killing Daddy (2014) and No One Would Tell (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mothers in Arms?
Start with A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019), the closest match to Mothers in Arms.
What is the highest-rated movie like Mothers in Arms?
Mothers' Instinct (2024), rated 6.8/10 by 725 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mothers in Arms?
Other Mommy (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Mothers in Arms chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mothers in Arms, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.