Movies like Dolly (2026)
The best movies like Dolly (2026) are Nightborn (2026), The Ruse (2025) and Ghostland (2018). If Dolly hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGhostland (2018)7.4/10 from 2,787 votes
- NewestBreeder (2026)Released 2026
Nightborn (2026)
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ruse (2025)
An in-home caregiver fears for her life after being assigned to a mysterious elderly patient in a remote seaside home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Ghostland (2018)
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies 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: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Strangers (2008)
After a 4 a.m. knock at the door and haunting voices, Kristen McKay and James Hoyt’s remote getaway becomes a psychological night of terror as three masked strangers invade. Now they must go far beyond what they thought themselves capable of if they hope to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBring Her Back (2025)
Following the death of their father, a brother and sister are sent to live with a foster mother, only to learn that she is hiding a terrifying secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDon't Breathe (2016)
A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMama (2013)
Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisInside (2007)
Months after a tragic accident, Sarah, a young pregnant woman, must spend Christmas Eve alone in her house before giving birth the next day. But in the middle of the night, a creepy visitor knocks at her door willing to do anything to get what they want, setting off a night of pure terror.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Seasoning House (2012)
The Seasoning House - where young girls are prostituted to the military. An orphaned deaf mute is enslaved to care for them. She moves between the walls and crawlspaces, planning her escape. Planning her ingenious and brutal revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFrom a House on Willow Street (2017)
After a young woman is kidnapped, her captors soon come to realize that in fact they may be the ones in danger and this young woman has a dark secret inside her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOrphan (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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMikey (1992)
Mikey just needs a good stable home. He's bounced from foster home to foster home his whole life. He finally lands himself with a new loving family, but their perfect little child is not what he appears to be. His previous caretakers all died of mysterious "accidents" that weren't really accidents at all. Mikey is a cold blooded killer, and it doesn't take long for him to aim his sights on his new adoptive family and anyone else who stands in his way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMatriarch (2018)
A pregnant woman and her husband are taken in by a farmer and his wife after crashing their car in the Scottish countryside. Once inside, they realize their hosts’ daughter is a missing child from the news years earlier. Things take a sinister twist when the farmer and his wife inform the couple they intend to keep their baby once born.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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 horror
The Monster (2016)
Stranded on a desolate road at night, a troubled mother and her daughter are stalked by a terrifying woodland creature while confronting the trauma of their fractured relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHive (2026)
A strict, anxious teenager loses the child she’s babysitting and must brave a sinister force hiding in plain sight among the children in the playground. As her world unravels and her grip on reality starts to slip, she must outwit a world where nothing is as it seems to make it out alive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Beldham (2025)
At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPush (2025)
A pregnant realtor must survive a night of terror when a deranged client shows up at her open house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Breeder (2026)
An eccentric poodle breeder lures a broke college student to her remote ranch with a promise of research funding. But, as he soon learns, there’s a catch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The 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: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Inheritance (2024)
Billionaire Charles Abernathy, on the eve of his 75th birthday, invites his four estranged children back home out of fear that tonight someone – or something – is coming to kill him. To ensure his family will help protect him from whatever’s coming, Abernathy puts each of their inheritances on the line – they’ll get nothing if he’s found dead by dawn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisHush (2016)
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Front Room (2024)
Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda after her mother-in-law moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSting (2024)
After raising an unnervingly talented spider in secret, 12-year-old Charlotte must face the truth about her pet and fight for her family's survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Lodge (2020)
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDream Home (2010)
A woman will go to whatever lengths necessary to obtain her dream home with a view of the sea. This includes driving down the property value and decreasing the occupancy rate by killing her potential neighbors.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like this616 Wilford Lane (2021)
After a tragedy, David moves his two teen daughters to a charming town and into a dream life. However, the family finds that some things follow you, no matter how hard you try to outrun them. Born out of a true story comes this crime caper wrapped inside a paranormal thriller with a violent end!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Dolly?
The closest matches to Dolly are Nightborn (2026), The Ruse (2025) and Ghostland (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Dolly?
People who watched Dolly most often go on to Nightborn (2026), The Ruse (2025) and Ghostland (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Dolly?
Ghostland (2018), rated 7.4/10 by 2,787 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Dolly?
Breeder (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Dolly?
Yes: The Ruse (2025), Ghostland (2018) and Other Mommy (2026).
How are movies similar to Dolly chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Dolly, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.