Movies like The Good Mother (2013)
The best movies like The Good Mother (2013) are A Mother's Nightmare (2012), Danika (2006) and Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020). If The Good Mother hooked you with its drama and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedGone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos (2021)7.8/10 from 241 votes
- NewestThe Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)Released 2023
A Mother's Nightmare (2012)
A seductive teen becomes vindictive when her boyfriend tries to end the relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDanika (2006)
Traumatized since childhood by her brother's accidental death, Danika Merrick hallucinates a bank robbery and quits her job. Despite support from her three children and loving husband, Danika continues to experience unnerving visions. She seeks help from therapist Evelyn Harris but pervasive reports of violent incidents involving children make Danika fear for her own family, and she grows increasingly paranoid, worrying she may be going insane.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDisappearance at Clifton Hill (2020)
Following the death of her mother, a young woman returns home to Niagara Falls and becomes entangled in the memory of a kidnapping she claims to have witnessed as a child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhite Rabbit (2013)
A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Daughter's Nightmare (2014)
A college student suspects that a nurse may harm her lonely, widowed mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Black Butterfly (2017)
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Sister's Nightmare (2013)
Police officer Jane Rydert's life goes into a tailspin the day her older sister, Cassidy, shows up at her door after sixteen years of confinement in a psychiatric hospital.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Nancy (2018)
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHollow in the Land (2017)
With their father in prison for murder, siblings Alison and Brandon are instantly considered suspects when a string of killings plagues their town, and they must fight to clear their names.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisGone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos (2021)
The story of Jennifer Dulos, the wealthy Connecticut mother-of-five who mysteriously vanished on May 24, 2019. Jennifer believed that she had found her Prince Charming in Fotis Dulos, but by the time of her disappearance, their 13-year marriage had disintegrated and they were engaged in a bitter divorce and a contentious custody dispute for their five children. When she disappeared without a trace after dropping off her children at school, the police turned the spotlight on Fotis, who claimed that Jennifer had staged her own disappearance a la Gone Girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Moment of Clarity (2020)
After his girlfriend Georgia is murdered by European mobsters, Sam flees to Paris to hide out. Years later, he sees a woman in a Hollywood film who he's certain is Georgia. In L.A. to investigate, he encounters Kat who impulsively decides to help him on his quest. But when Sam meets the mystery actress face to face his life spins out of control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeyond the Night (2019)
When a soldier's son reveals damning information about a local gangster's missing daughter, a war of attrition wreaks havoc on their forgotten coal mining town.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Devil's Pond (2003)
After a brief courtship, Julianne marries her handsome boyfriend, Mitch. To celebrate their honeymoon, the couple travel to a remote cabin on a small island. When they arrive, however, Mitch becomes aggressive and physically abusive, and Julianne soon realizes he's not the ideal husband she once thought he was. Knowing that Mitch doesn't plan on ever letting her leave the island, Julianne, who is afraid of water, must find a way to escape.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMothers' Instinct (2019)
When a sudden tragedy uproots the lives of two women and their families, they begin to question the relationships they once held so dear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe White Orchid (2018)
A social services investigator helps a local sheriff solve the brutal murder of a beautiful blonde known only as The White Orchid.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisIntrigo: Death of an Author (2018)
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisKnives and Skin (2019)
In the wake of a high school student's mysterious disappearance, a collective awakening seems to overcome the town's teenage girls, gathering in force until it can no longer be contained.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy True Fairytale (2021)
Angie Goodwin, 17, along with her best friends, Sarah and Andre, go through a horrific car crash. While her friends miraculously survive, Angie disappears. She decides to fulfill her childhood fantasy & embarks on a mysterious journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
My Life as a Dead Girl (2015)
When runaway teenager Chelsea is mistakenly killed by her friend Brittany's pimp, Brittany returns to what remains of the family Chelsea left years ago. Brittany's doing her best to get by under her assumed identity, until the truth begins to emerge. Then the vengeful pimp shows up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Winter Ridge (2018)
Tearing himself away from the bedside of his coma-bound wife, a police Sergeant investigates a series of age-related murders, only to discover that time can be far more destructive and cruel than the idealistic killer........
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisTaken Back: Finding Haley (2012)
Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlowers in the Attic (2014)
After the sudden death of their father, four children face cruel treatment from their ruthless grandmother.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Wife's Nightmare (2014)
Liz, just returned home after a mental breakdown, has to welcome a relative stranger into her home when Caitlin, a young, vivacious woman, claims to be her husband's daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023)
Based on a true story. 15-year-old Kara Robinson was kidnapped, assaulted and held captive for 18 hours. With her survival instincts kicking in, she plots a daring escape from the serial killer and leads police to his apartment.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSeeds of Yesterday (2015)
The Sheffield family reveal and go through some home truths as their middle child inherits the Foxworth mansion. The family's ghosts looming over, and more tragedies are in store as the curse lives on.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Sister's Secret (2018)
Twin sisters secretly swap places on their thirtieth birthday. The harmless prank becomes a nightmare when one of them is murdered.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Assault (2014)
After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight for justice. Based on the true story of the Steubenville, Ohio rape case.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGarage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017)
Jenn buys an old reel-to-reel recorder at a garage sale only to find that it includes the sound of a man pleading for his life. When the former owner of the recorder, a retired therapist, is found murdered in a patient’s apartment, Jenn’s investigation leads to other patients whose love lives are more entangled than she was first led to believe.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLast Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)
There is excitement in the air when a Hollywood crew comes to Lawrenceton to film a movie about the town’s sleuthy librarian, Aurora Teagarden. However, when the film’s leading lady is found murdered in her dressing room, Aurora enlists her Real Murders Club members to help gather clues. At the same time, she experiences mounting concern that Aida is becoming attracted to the film’s director who, like everyone else working on the set that day, is considered a suspect. And this time around Martin is especially worried about Aurora’s safety after learning that the film’s screenwriter, who has a romantic history with her, emerges as the prime suspect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Neighbor in the Window (2020)
A suburban wife finds herself and the security of her family threatened by another seemingly friendly neighborhood mom.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both thriller & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Good Mother?
The closest matches to The Good Mother are A Mother's Nightmare (2012), Danika (2006) and Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Good Mother?
People who watched The Good Mother most often go on to A Mother's Nightmare (2012), Danika (2006) and Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Good Mother?
Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos (2021), rated 7.8/10 by 241 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Good Mother?
The Girl Who Escaped: The Kara Robinson Story (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Good Mother?
Yes: A Mother's Nightmare (2012), Danika (2006) and Disappearance at Clifton Hill (2020).
How are movies similar to The Good Mother chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Good Mother, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.