Movies like The Cottage (2008)
The best movies like The Cottage (2008) are Us and Them (2017), Cherry Tree Lane (2010) and Mother's Day (2010). If The Cottage hooked you with its horror and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedStrange Darling (2024)6.9/10 from 1,101 votes
- NewestStrange Darling (2024)Released 2024
Us and Them (2017)
Working class Danny aims to kick start a revolution by turning the tables on the establishment with a deadly game of chance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Cherry Tree Lane (2010)
Prosperous professional couple Mike and Christine are settling in for a standard evening of wine, TV and low-level marital hostility when a ring on their doorbell changes everything. Turns out their son Sebastian is in a little trouble with some local boys, who are quite prepared to camp out and wait for him to get home ... the resulting culture-clash chamber drama is raw, revealing and nerve-splittingly tense.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMother's Day (2010)
Crazed members of a sadistic family return to their childhood home to terrorize the new owners.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMalevolence (2004)
It's ten years after the kidnapping of Martin Bristol. Taken from a backyard swing at his home at the age of six, he is forced to witness unspeakable crimes of a deranged madman. For years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery...until now.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBotched (2007)
Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & crime
SnoozefestMovies like thisBlood Hunt (2017)
Everything seems uneventful for Dean and Claire, as they head out into beautiful rural Australia for a weekend away. Their biggest problem is what to do about Claire being accepted into an interstate University. The couple come across Knuck and things start to spiral out of control. Heath and Jarred only stoke the fire and both Claire and Dean's greatest fears are made reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Storm Warning (2007)
A couple becomes lost in a massive storm and seek refuge at a nearby farmhouse, only to be captured by deranged killers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeverance (2006)
Seven employees of an international weapons manufacturer are treated to a team-building weekend at the company’s newly built luxury spa lodge. Things quickly go awry as the colleagues find their corporate weekend sabotaged by a deadly enemy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLondon to Brighton (2006)
After a violent confrontation leaves a wealthy man bleeding to death, two distressed women seek refuge in a rundown London bathroom, setting off a desperate hunt as both the victim's seeking son and a ruthless pimp race to track them down.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSome Guy Who Kills People (2011)
A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWilderness (2006)
Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they must fight for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKidnapped (2010)
Three hooded Eastern-European criminals burst into a home in a Madrid gated community, holding the family hostage in its own home, and forcing the father to empty his credit cards. But the family fights back - brutally.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoghouse (2009)
A group of men, heading to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce, soon discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFunny Games (2008)
When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and torture the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHow to Be a Serial Killer (2009)
HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil. Mike leads Bart through the ethics of serial killing as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing corp
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Bunks (2013)
When two trouble-making brothers scam their way into an idyllic summer camp, they find themselves leading a rag tag cabin of boys into breaking every rule in the book.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Tortured (2010)
An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDonkey Punch (2008)
Three hot girls, four guys, and one mega-swanky yacht collide for a serious night of drugs and sexual deviancy. One debaucherous act goes too far though, turning this teen joy ride into a weekend of bloody bedlam.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisBereavement (2010)
In 1989, six year old Martin Bristoll was kidnapped from his backyard swing in Minersville Pennsylvania. Graham Sutter, a psychotic recluse, kept Martin imprisoned on his derelict pig farm, forcing him to witness and participate in unspeakable horrors. Chosen at random, his victim's screams were drowned out by the rural countryside. For five years, Martin's whereabouts have remained a mystery, until 17 year old Allison Miller comes to live with her Uncle, Jonathan. While exploring her new surroundings, Allison discovers things aren't quite right at the farmhouse down the road. Her curiosity disturbs a hornet's nest of evil and despair that once torn open, can never be closed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Loved Ones (2010)
When Brent turns down his classmate Lola's invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last House on the Left (2009)
When athletic teen Mari Collingwood opts to hang out with her friend Paige in town rather than spend an evening in with her parents vacationing at the family's remote lake house, it marks the beginning of a night no one is going to forget.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Entitled (2011)
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course of one long night, Paul and his accomplices hold the rich kids hostage awaiting the ransom with little idea of the secrets that will surface between the fathers when they are forced to choose between their children and their money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & crime
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEden Lake (2008)
When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKilling Ground (2017)
A couple's camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Clinic (2010)
While traveling across country with her fiancé, Beth wakes alone in an isolated clinic to a mother's worst nightmare. Just how far will she go to save her child?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lost (2006)
A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both crime & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisFrank and Penelope (2022)
A tale of love and violence when a man on his emotional last legs finds a savior seductively dancing in a run-down strip club. And a life most certainly headed off a cliff suddenly becomes redirected - as everything is now worth dying for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHideout (2021)
Evading police at a remote farmhouse after fumbling a robbery, four criminals discover that the family living there is not who they appear to be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & crime
Bloody Hell (2020)
A man with a mysterious past flees the country to escape his own personal hell... only to arrive somewhere much worse. In an effort to survive this new horror, he turns to his personified conscience.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrange Darling (2024)
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Cottage?
The closest matches to The Cottage are Us and Them (2017), Cherry Tree Lane (2010) and Mother's Day (2010). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Cottage?
People who watched The Cottage most often go on to Us and Them (2017), Cherry Tree Lane (2010) and Mother's Day (2010).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Cottage?
Strange Darling (2024), rated 6.9/10 by 1,101 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Cottage?
Strange Darling (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Cottage?
Yes: Us and Them (2017), Cherry Tree Lane (2010) and Mother's Day (2010).
How are movies similar to The Cottage chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Cottage, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.