Movies like The Baby (1973)
The best movies like The Baby (1973) are Bad Ronald (1974), When a Stranger Calls (1979) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972). If The Baby hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedRosemary's Baby (1968)7.8/10 from 4,585 votes
- NewestEradication (2022)Released 2022
Bad Ronald (1974)
When awkward teen Ronald Wilby accidentally kills a young girl whose sister rejected his affections, his overbearing mother decides to hide him from the law by creating a concealed room in their home for him to live.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhen a Stranger Calls (1979)
A student babysitter has her evening disturbed when the phone rings. So begins a series of increasingly terrifying and threatening calls that lead to a shocking revelation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972)
Mrs Rosie Forrest, aka 'Auntie Roo', has a holiday tradition of inviting orphans to her mansion for a party. But Roo isn't completely sane; she lost her husband and is obsessed with her deceased daughter, whose corpse she still keeps in the house. When Katy Coombs sneaks into the party with her brother, Christopher, the deranged biddy abducts the young girl with the hopes of replacing her daughter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Killing Kind (1974)
A young man returns home to his mother's boardinghouse after serving a prison sentence for a gang rape he was forced to participate in. He seeks revenge on his lawyer and the girl who framed him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Omen (1976)
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Mephisto Waltz (1971)
A frustrated pianist himself, music journalist Myles Clarkson is thrilled to interview virtuoso Duncan Ely. Duncan, however, is terminally ill and not much interested in Myles until noticing that Myles' hands are ideally suited for piano. Suddenly, he can't get enough of his new friend, and Myles' wife, Paula, becomes suspicious of Duncan's intentions. Her suspicions grow when Duncan dies and Myles mysteriously becomes a virtuoso overnight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRosemary's Baby (1968)
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI Don't Want to Be Born (1976)
A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary one. The child is seemingly possessed by the Devil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Don't Look Now (1973)
While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAn Eye for an Eye (1973)
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the kids who watch his show about the abuse they get from their parents, he starts visiting the parents and murdering them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Ben (1972)
A lonely boy becomes good friends with Ben, a rat. This rat is also the leader of a pack of vicious killer rats, killing lots of people.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFlowers in the Attic (1987)
After the death of her husband, a mother takes her kids off to live with their grandparents in a huge, decrepit old mansion. However, the kids are kept hidden in a room just below the attic, visited only by their mother who becomes less and less concerned about them and their failing health, and more concerned about herself and the inheritence she plans to win back from her dying father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJennifer (1978)
Ostracized at a snooty private school because of her rural, poor background, a scholarship student is tormented to the point where her only remaining recourse is revenge, using the only method she knows: her psychic control over snakes!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Mafu Cage (1978)
Two strange sisters live in a crumbling mansion, where they keep a pet ape, which belonged to their late father, locked in a cage. While one of the sisters seems to be keeping her head on straight, as it were, the other appears to be sinking further and further into barbarism and insanity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
All the Kind Strangers (1974)
An LA photographer, driving through backwoods country, spots a young boy walking on the side of the road and offers him a ride home. After reaching the isolated house, he discovers that the boy and his siblings are keeping a woman prisoner as their "mom" and now he is expected to be their "dad"...or else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Bad Seed (1956)
Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSee No Evil (1971)
In the English countryside, Sarah Rexton, recently blinded in a horse riding accident, moves in with her uncle's family and gallantly adjusts to her new condition, unaware that a killer stalks them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlice, Sweet Alice (1976)
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Road Builder (1971)
The dreary existence of middle-aged spinster Maura Prince takes an unexpected turn with the arrival of young handyman Billy Jarvis, but there may be more to him than meets the eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Screaming Woman (1972)
A wealthy former mental patient goes home to her estate to rest and recuperate. While walking the grounds one day she hears the screams of a woman coming from underneath the ground. Her family, however, refuses to believe her story, and sees the incident as an opportunity to prove the woman's mind has snapped so they can take control of her money.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Orphan (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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCarrie (1976)
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWait Until Dark (1967)
After a flight back home, Sam Hendrix returns with a doll he innocently acquired along the way. As it turns out, the doll is actually stuffed with heroin, and a group of criminals led by the ruthless Roat has followed Hendrix back to his place to retrieve it. When Hendrix leaves for business, the crooks make their move -- and find his blind wife, Susy, alone in the apartment. Soon, a life-threatening game begins between Susy and the thugs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWho Can Kill a Child? (1976)
A couple of English tourists arrive at the island of Almanzora, off the Spanish Mediterranean coast, where they discover that there are no adults in a small fishing village, only some children who stare at them and smile mysteriously.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTwisted Nerve (1968)
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Other (1972)
A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToys Are Not for Children (1972)
Emotionally stunted child-like woman Jamie Godard not only suffers from an unhealthy fixation on her long absent father, but also has an obsession with all the toys he gave her as a little girl. After getting a job at a toy store, Jamie decides to marry co-worker Charlie Belmond. When the marriage doesn't work out, Jamie runs away to New York City and becomes a prostitute who specializes in servicing perverted old men who want to play daddy with her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane (1976)
13-year-old Rynn Jacobs lives in a New England beach town. Whenever the landlady inquires after Rynn's father, she claims that he's not available. But when the landlady's son, Frank, won't leave Rynn alone, she teams up with a neighbor Mario to maintain the dark family secret that she's been keeping to herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Shout (1978)
A traveller by the name of Crossley forces himself upon a musician and his wife in a lonely part of Devon, and uses the aboriginal magic he has learned to displace his host.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEradication (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 & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Baby?
The closest matches to The Baby are Bad Ronald (1974), When a Stranger Calls (1979) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Baby?
People who watched The Baby most often go on to Bad Ronald (1974), When a Stranger Calls (1979) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Baby?
Rosemary's Baby (1968), rated 7.8/10 by 4,585 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Baby?
Eradication (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Baby?
Yes: Bad Ronald (1974), When a Stranger Calls (1979) and Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1972).
How are movies similar to The Baby chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Baby, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.