Movies like Kindred (2020)
The best movies like Kindred (2020) are Shelley (2016), Death of Me (2020) and Malicious (2018). If Kindred hooked you with its drama and mystery, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedHereditary (2018)7.3/10 from 9,088 votes
- NewestGood Boy (2026)Released 2026
Shelley (2016)
Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisDeath of Me (2020)
A couple on holiday on a remote South Pacific island awaken one morning with a hang over and no recollection of what transpired. When playing back a video of the previous night, they see they participated in a local ritual that somehow ends with him murdering her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisMalicious (2018)
A young college professor and his pregnant wife unwittingly release a malevolent entity with murderous intentions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisBirth/Rebirth (2023)
A single mother and a childless morgue technician are bound together by their relationship to a little girl they have reanimated from the dead.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDaughter (2023)
A young woman is kidnapped and inducted into a bizarre family as their new surrogate daughter. As she navigates through this twisted dynamic, awful secrets about the past are revealed, leading to even darker implications about the future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & mystery
The Kindred (2021)
After her father’s suicide, a young mother investigates what led to his death. But when she is haunted by spirits and unearths an unsolved mystery from 30 years ago, she discovers a dark family history that could prove deadly for her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisResurrection (2022)
A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Lodge (2020)
When a father is forced to abruptly depart for work, he leaves his children, Aidan and Mia, at their holiday home in the care of his new girlfriend, Grace. Isolated and alone, a blizzard traps them inside the lodge as terrifying events summon specters from Grace's dark past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisShe Will (2022)
Veronica, an aging film star, retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse Desi to recover from a double mastectomy. While there, mysterious forces give Veronica the power to enact revenge within her dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe 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: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Moor (2024)
Claire is approached by the father of her murdered childhood friend to help investigate the haunted moor he believes is his son's final resting place.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beach House (2020)
A romantic getaway for two troubled college sweethearts turns into a struggle for survival when unexpected guests – and the surrounding environment – exhibit signs of a mysterious infection.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Messenger (2015)
The Messenger is the story of Jack’s last melt down: a story of frustration and guilt, love and betrayal, family and blame. Unwillingly becoming embroiled in the unfinished business of Mark, a journalist brutally murdered in the local park and his television presenter wife, Sarah, to whom he’s desperate to say one last goodbye, Jack finds himself getting closer to Sarah, obsessed with passing on Mark’s message. Discovering hidden secrets and lies finally pushes the fragile Jack over the edge but there is hope when his estranged sister, Emma, gets in touch. Jack starts to remember the past they shared together and as the memories come flooding back, he confronts the truth about the death of his father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & drama
Goodnight Mommy (2015)
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHereditary (2018)
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Blackcoat's Daughter (2017)
Two young women at a prestigious prep school are assailed by an evil, invisible power when they're stranded over winter break.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisRelic (2020)
When elderly mother Edna inexplicably vanishes, her daughter rushes to the family's decaying home, finding clues of her increasing dementia scattered around the house in her absence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnything for Jackson (2020)
A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPossum (2018)
A disgraced children's puppeteer returns to his childhood home and is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured him his entire life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Comes at Night (2017)
Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSeparation (2021)
A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Babadook (2014)
A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisViolation (2020)
A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on a vicious crusade of revenge.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisWe Are What We Are (2013)
The Parkers, reclusive people who cling to ancient customs, find their secret lives threatened when a torrential downpour and the death of the family matriarch forces daughters Iris and Rose to assume special responsibilities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe 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: Fans watch both · both drama & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLost Child (2018)
An army veteran discovers an abandoned boy lurking in the woods behind her childhood home. After taking in the boy, she searches for clues to his identity, and discovers local folklore about a malevolent life-draining spirit that comes in the form of a child: The Tatterdemalion.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Moon Garden (2023)
A comatose five-year-old girl journeys through a dark industrial dreamscape, following her mother's voice on a transistor radio to find her way back to consciousness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & drama
Good Boy (2026)
Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure. He wakes to find himself imprisoned in the basement of a remote Yorkshire house, inhabited by a very strange family. But what unfolds is not what he could possibly expect.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRaging Grace (2023)
An undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a careworker for a seemingly terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she’s strived for and holds dear.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Kindred?
The closest matches to Kindred are Shelley (2016), Death of Me (2020) and Malicious (2018). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Kindred?
People who watched Kindred most often go on to Shelley (2016), Death of Me (2020) and Malicious (2018).
What is the highest-rated movie like Kindred?
Hereditary (2018), rated 7.3/10 by 9,088 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Kindred?
Good Boy (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Kindred?
Yes: Death of Me (2020), Malicious (2018) and Birth/Rebirth (2023).
How are movies similar to Kindred chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Kindred, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.