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Movies like Palette

The best movies like Palette are The Surrender (2025), The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and The House That Jack Built (2018). If Palette hooked you with its horror and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. The Surrender (2025)

    A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.

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

  2. The 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 · both drama & horror

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  3. The House That Jack Built (2018)

    Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.

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

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  4. Dementia (1955)

    In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.

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

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  5. Baby Blues (2008)

    On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.

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

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  6. The Transfiguration (2016)

    When troubled teen Milo, who has a fascination with vampire lore, meets the equally alienated Sophie, the two form a bond that begins to blur Milo's fantasy into reality.

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

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  7. We Go On (2016)

    Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom takes out an advert offering $30,000 in reward money to the first person who can show him evidence of an angel, a demon, or prove that ghosts exist - anything to prove to him that we go on after our deaths. He narrows the responses down to three viable candidates - a scientist, a medium, and a worldly entrepreneur. Along with his protective mother, he embarks on an adventure through Los Angeles that will spiral into an unthinkable nightmare.

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

  8. The 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & drama

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  9. The Return (2006)

    Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's murder, and it seems that she is the killer's next target. Determined to solve the mystery and escape her apparent fate, Joanna follows her visions to the victim's hometown and finds that some secrets just do not stay buried.

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

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  10. The Entity (1982)

    A single mom is raped by an invisible force. Her psychiatrist believes the experience stems from childhood trauma, while she knows something supernatural is at play.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  11. 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

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  12. Maniac (2012)

    As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  13. The Hand (1981)

    Jon Lansdale is a comic book artist who loses his right hand in a car accident. The hand was not found at the scene of the accident, but it soon returns by itself to follow Jon around, and murder those who anger him.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

  14. Crimes of the Future (2022)

    With his partner Caprice, celebrity performance artist Saul Tenser publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances. An investigator from the National Organ Registry obsessively tracks their movements, which is when a mysterious group is revealed... Their mission — to use Tenser's notoriety to shed light on the next phase of human evolution.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  15. Never Let Go (2024)

    As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  16. Play Dead (2022)

    Criminology student Chloe fakes her own death to break into a morgue, in order to retrieve a piece of evidence that ties her younger brother to a crime gone wrong. Once inside, she discovers that a sadistic coroner is using the corpses for his sick and twisted business, and when he realises that Chloe still has a pulse, a terrifying game of cat and mouse ensues.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  17. Nightmare Cinema (2018)

    A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

  18. Maniac (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 horror

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  19. Race with the Devil (1975)

    Two couples vacationing together in an R.V. from Texas to Colorado are terrorized after they witness a murder during a Satanic ritual.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  20. Curve (2016)

    Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror

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  21. Bodyhackers (TBA)

    An environmental activist Denver Blake has decided to expose a cosmetics corporation that he believes is exploiting the insecurities caused by societal beauty standards. However, when he falls in love with Renée, a former ballerina obsessed with constantly improving her beauty, he becomes drawn into a mesmerizing underworld of plastic surgery.

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

  22. The Seventh Seal (1957)

    When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  23. SMALL PRINT (2024)

    While working late at night on experimental deepfake technology in a highly secure research facility, Daniel is pursued by something that looks almost identical to him…

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

  24. Could This Be Love? (2007)

    Lucas, a wealthy, 43 year-old divorced businessman, is irresistibly attracted to Elsa, a 38 year old renowned sculptor from whom he has commissioned a piece to decorate the reception at his office.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  25. Interview Record of New Artists (2026)

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  26. A Perfect Murder (1998)

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  27. Miss Hokusai (2015)

    A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own mark in the world.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  28. Begotten (1991)

    Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror

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  29. Glastage (2007)

    Rosalie, an aging art historian, falls in love with a troubled bisexual artist half her age. Their relationship becomes pure torture for them both.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  30. Pierrot le Fou (1965)

    Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like Palette?

The closest matches to Palette are The Surrender (2025), The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and The House That Jack Built (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Palette?

Start with The Surrender (2025), the closest match to Palette.

What is the highest-rated movie like Palette?

The Seventh Seal (1957), rated 8.1/10 by 3,512 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Palette?

Interview Record of New Artists (2026) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Palette?

Yes: The Surrender (2025), The Eyes of My Mother (2016) and The House That Jack Built (2018).

How are movies similar to Palette chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Palette, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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