Movies like Clinical (2017)
The best movies like Clinical (2017) are Dementia (2015), Mother, May I? (2023) and Mom (2025). If Clinical hooked you with its thriller and horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFear of Rain (2021)6.9/10 from 578 votes
- NewestMom (2025)Released 2025
Dementia (2015)
After being diagnosed with dementia, an elderly war veteran is forced by his estranged family to hire a live-in nurse, only to find she harbors a sinister secret.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMother, May I? (2023)
Emmett enters into a nightmarish game of therapy with his wife Anya, who has inexplicably taken on the persona of his estranged and recently-deceased mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMom (2025)
Struggling with postnatal depression and feeling misunderstood by her husband, Meredith begins to experience terrifying visions foreshadowing an ultimate tragedy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDelirium (2018)
A man recently released from a mental institute inherits a mansion after his parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe it is haunted.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ward (2011)
Kristen, a troubled young woman, is captured by the police after burning down a farmhouse and is locked in the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital. Soon, she begins to suspect that the place has a dark secret at its core and she's determined to find out what it is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisSon (2021)
When a young boy contracts a mysterious illness, his mother must decide how far she will go to protect him from terrifying forces in her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dead Center (2019)
When a mysterious "John Doe" wakes up in a morgue and wanders into a psychiatric ward, a devoted doctor and curious medical examiner must slowly uncover dark and sinister secrets about the man that reveal a more horrifying truth than they could have ever imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisEstranged (2015)
Due to a near-fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long-term memory, a temporarily wheelchair-bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by her bohemian boyfriend, the apparent cause of the accident. Unable to remember her family or her own childhood, she sets out, with the help of her boyfriend, to find the reason for her leaving all those years ago and quickly discovers her relatives may not be as loving as she’d thought
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisYou Should Have Left (2020)
In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPatient Seven (2016)
Dr. Marcus, a renowned psychiatrist, has selected 6 severe mentally ill and dangerous patients from the Spring Valley Mental Hospital to interview as part of research for his new book. As Dr. Marcus interviews each patient, one by one the horrors they have committed begin to unfold. However, Dr. Marcus soon learns that there is one patient who ties them all together - Patient Seven.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMidnighters (2018)
Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves entangled in a Hitchcockian web of deceit and madness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnsane (2018)
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDismissed (2017)
A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMara (2018)
Criminal psychologist Kate Fuller is assigned to the murder of a man who has seemingly been strangled in his sleep by his wife and the only witness is their eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. As Kate digs into the mystery of an ancient demon which kills people in their sleep, she experiences the same petrifying symptoms as all previous victims and spirals through a chilling nightmare to save herself and Sophie before she dares fall asleep again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Super (2018)
A man becomes the superintendent of a large New York City apartment building where people mysteriously go missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBacktrack (2015)
Troubled psychotherapist Peter Bowers is suffering from nightmares and eerie visions. When he uncovers a horrifying secret that all of his patients share, he is put on a course that takes him back to the small hometown he fled years ago. There he confronts his demons and unravels a mystery 20 years in the making.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisDark Souls (2010)
A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated and becomes pale and unresponsive. Similar attacks begin to happen, and Johanna’s father takes it on himself to find out the truth. He embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy, and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Deadly Reunion (2019)
Ten years after graduation, a mini-reunion is organized by Tom and Jill Miller at their home, inviting only the special friends that were in their clique and one fringe member, Bobby Zwick, whom they had done a terrible wrong. Bobby said all was forgiven, but he was not telling the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
The Lazarus Effect (2015)
Medical researcher Frank, his fiancee Zoe and their team have achieved the impossible: they have found a way to revive the dead. After a successful, but unsanctioned, experiment on a lifeless animal, they are ready to make their work public. However, when their dean learns what they've done, he shuts them down. Zoe is killed during an attempt to recreate the experiment, leading Frank to test the process on her. Zoe is revived -- but something evil is within her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisFear of Rain (2021)
A teenage girl living with schizophrenia begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her parents try desperately to help her live a normal life, without exposing their own tragic secrets, and the only person who believes her is Caleb – a boy she isn’t even sure exists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOut of the Shadows (2017)
A newly married detective and his pregnant wife move into their dream home unaware of its dark history. When his wife claims their baby is being tormented by a supernatural force and seeks the help of a renegade demonologist, he must investigate the past to save his family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Candyman (2021)
A Chicago artist's sanity starts to unravel, unleashing a terrifying wave of violence when he begins to explore the macabre history of the Candyman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Disappointments Room (2016)
A mother and her young son release unimaginable horrors from the attic of their rural dream home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Deaths of Ian Stone (2008)
Deaths tells the story of an all-American guy who is murdered each day by horrifying pursuers, only to wake up in slightly different lives to experience the terror of being murdered again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlive (2018)
A severely injured man and woman awake in an abandoned sanitarium only to discover that a sadistic caretaker holds the keys to their freedom and the horrific answers as to their true identity.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAlyce Kills (2011)
After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart… along with anyone else who gets in her way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAyla (2017)
A man haunted by the mysterious death of his 4-year-old sister brings her back to life thirty years later as an adult woman, with dire consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Painless (2012)
While searching for a solution to his serious health condition, David, a renowned neurosurgeon, discovers a sinister secret hidden in the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLavender (2016)
A photographer struggling with memory loss discovers her pictures may indicate something sinister is hitting close to home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Butterfly Room (2012)
A reclusive and butterfly-obsessed elderly lady suffering from bipolar disorder develops a disturbing relationship with a mysterious but seemingly innocent youngster.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Clinical?
The closest matches to Clinical are Dementia (2015), Mother, May I? (2023) and Mom (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Clinical?
People who watched Clinical most often go on to Dementia (2015), Mother, May I? (2023) and Mom (2025).
What is the highest-rated movie like Clinical?
Fear of Rain (2021), rated 6.9/10 by 578 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Clinical?
Mom (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Clinical?
Yes: Dementia (2015), Mother, May I? (2023) and Mom (2025).
How are movies similar to Clinical chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Clinical, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.