Movies like And I'll Huff and I'll Puff and I'll Blow Your House In (2026)

The Spiral (2026)

On a stormy night in Rome, Anna arrives at her daughter Alice’s apartment with a devastating confession: their entire family history is built on a lie. Twenty years earlier, after a horrific accident that nearly cost Alice her leg, Anna claims she made a pact with a mysterious Stranger to save her. But the miracle came at a price. What she believed was a single desperate bargain has in fact unleashed a spiraling chain reaction — a domino effect of increasingly dark events that have haunted their lives ever since. Now, the Stranger has come to collect. And Anna is convinced that only Alice can break the spiral and set things right. But at what cost?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror

The Nest (2019)

Samuel, a boy who lives with his mother Elena in Villa dei Laghi, an isolated manor surrounded by woods, feels trapped in the family routine, growing up seemingly protected, but unsatisfied and restless.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror

The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Euphoria (2018)

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

The Unhealer (2021)

A botched faith healing bestows supernatural Shaman powers on a bullied teenager. When his lifelong tormentors pull a prank that kills someone he loves, he uses his powers for revenge and goes on a bloody rampage to settle the score.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Night 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 horror

The First Day of My Life (2023)

In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without them.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

The Negotiator (2025)

Baghdad, 2005. After Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena is kidnapped by insurgents, veteran SISMI negotiator Nicola Calipari is tasked with rescuing her, but interference from US forces in Iraq compromises his mission.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

I'm Not Scared (2003)

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it...

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

The Possessed (2021)

A man with the ability to exorcise demons fights to protect his loved ones after a sudden surge in demonic possessions. After discovering his nephew's girlfriend has the same supernatural gift, they join forces for the ultimate confrontation. Inspired by actual events.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Everybody's Fine (1990)

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Monkey’s Magic Merry Go Round (2026)

After a mysterious bout of amnesia, a beloved children’s television host struggles to piece together his fractured memories, only to find his once-cheerful puppet co-stars behaving with sinister intent. As reality unravels, the line between performance and nightmare begins to blur.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Skater Girl (2021)

Prerna, a teenager growing up in rural India, comes of age when she’s introduced to the sport of skateboarding. As a result, she has to fight the odds to follow her dreams and compete in the national championship.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Finally Dawn (2024)

A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust into this almost infinite night during which she discovers herself.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Burnt Offerings (1976)

A family moves into a large old mansion in the countryside which seems to have a mysterious and sinister power over its new residents.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

One & Two (2015)

In an isolated farmhouse, located in the middle of nowhere and surrounded by a mysterious wooden wall, Zac and Eva, two siblings gifted with extraordinary abilities, endure every day the wrath of their strict father while witnessing how a cruel sickness lurks their beloved mother.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

Eradication (2022)

When an unknown disease wipes out most of the world’s population, a man with unique blood is isolated for study. Fearing for his wife’s safety, he breaks his quarantine – into a world overrun by monstrous Infected and a shadowy agency hunting them down.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

Familia (2024)

Luigi looks after his mother and his little brother since their abusive father Franco left when he was 10. Now a young man brimming with rage, he joins a far-right gang in search of belonging just as Franco shows up again in their life.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)

A high-rise apartment populated by models, nightclub dancers and call girls becomes the focus of a mysterious serial killer. When a young model named Jennifer and her friend Marilyn move into one of the victims' former apartments, Jennifer becomes the next target and the pair try to identify the killer.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

TalhotBlond (2012)

Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

FaceTape (2026)

A junkie decides to come clean from abusing an analog VR drug called FaceTape only to find his life outside of his addiction is far from stable.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & horror

The Clouds are Two Thousand Meters Up (2025)

After the sudden death of his wife, Guan discovers her unfinished novel—a tale intertwining the endangered clouded leopard and the Rukai tribe’s sacred origin myth, which tells of their descent from the elusive animal. Grief-stricken and seeking connection, he sets out on a surreal journey into dreamlike scenes—a maze of the subconscious, mist-shrouded forests, ancient tree hollows, and symbolic inner landscapes.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

A Floresta (2023)

Artur and Beatriz decide to take a retreat in a house isolated in the forest, with the aim of improving their relationship, which is on the verge of breaking up, when a mysterious woman who watches them becomes a threat to the couple.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

Goldmine (2026)

Singer Lorelai's father suffers a heart attack and is placed on VR life support. She enters his virtual reality to revive him through shared memories, but becomes trapped in an Old Western VR world.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Immersion (2024)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

The First Law (2023)

Lucas and Mateo are brothers and have a distant and somewhat conflictive relationship. What seems to be just another morning becomes the beginning of a new stage in their lives. When they wake up, they notice that their mother is not at home and they wait for her to return, but that moment will never come.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Autumn (2023)

In a small Portuguese town, a family is turned upside down when their son leaves to study in London. Over a year, we see a daughter's coming of age, a father's mid-life crisis, a son's emancipation and a mother coping with an "empty nest"

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Dente (2023)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

When the sun hits (2026)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Memory Home (2024)

Upon moving into a new apartment, a young woman finds herself surrounded by strange events. Curious about the reasons behind the occurrences, the young woman is sucked into memories and daydreams, remembrances and forgetfulness, places and non-places.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama