Movies like Mom (2025)
The best movies like Mom (2025) are Confinement (2026), Mother, May I? (2023) and Goodnight Mommy (2015). If Mom 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 ratedHereditary (2018)7.3/10 from 9,088 votes
- NewestConfinement (2026)Released 2026
Confinement (2026)
Pregnant and recently widowed, Stella is taken in by her late husband’s estranged family. But beneath their generosity lies something deeply unsettling, leaving Stella fighting for her life as their obsession with her unborn child turns deadly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Mother, 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 thisGoodnight 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMother's Baby (2025)
A woman navigates the complex journey of motherhood while confronting her deepest fears and anxieties.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
The Other (2025)
Unable to conceive, a couple seeks to build a family with a young orphan, survivor of tragic childhood. But their act of love turns to horror when they realize the violence in their foster's past has returned to destroy the new family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGrace (2009)
In the wake of a horrific car accident that kills her husband, Michael, expectant mother Madeline Matheson discovers that her daughter, Grace, has died in the womb. Ignoring her doctor's warnings that the fetus must be removed from her body, a grief-stricken Matheson demands to carry the child to term -- even if it endangers her own life to do so. Curiously, little Grace emerges undead -- and with a craving for human blood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisI'll Play Mother (2025)
After the death of their birth mother, two young children are placed in the care of prospective adopter parents, however, it's not long before the new family begin to question if something more sinister is at play.
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 thisMotherly (2022)
Kate and her daughter Beth live alone in an isolated farmhouse in the woods, but when Kate slowly begins to suspect that something sinister is happening, her motherly instincts are put to the test.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDementia (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 thisClinical (2017)
A psychiatrist tries to put her life back together after a violent attack by seeking to repair the life of a new patient, but he has his own terrifying history.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
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 thisGoodnight Mommy (2022)
When twin brothers arrive home to find their mother’s demeanor altered and face covered in surgical bandages, they begin to suspect the woman beneath the gauze might not be their mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rule of Jenny Pen (2025)
Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's residents with deadly consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOrphan: First Kill (2022)
After escaping from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Leena Klammer travels to America by impersonating Esther, the missing daughter of a wealthy family. But when her mask starts to slip, she is put against a mother who will protect her family from the murderous “child” at any cost.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Front Room (2024)
Everything goes to hell for newly-pregnant Belinda after her mother-in-law moves in. As the diabolical guest tries to get her claws on the child, Belinda must draw the line somewhere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSleep (2023)
A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Afflicted (2011)
A story of incomprehensible abuse delivered by an explosively violent mother of four. Journey through the mind of a child that experiences a living hell, defined and defended by the twisted religious beliefs of her mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Estranged (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 thisPush (2025)
A pregnant realtor must survive a night of terror when a deranged client shows up at her open house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
825 Forest Road (2025)
After a family tragedy, Chuck Wilson hopes to start a new life in Ashland Falls with his wife Maria and little sister Elizabeth, but he quickly discovers that the town has a dark history of being haunted by a ghostly woman who drives residents to suicide.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Beldham (2025)
At the edge of postpartum psychosis, new mother Harper moves in with her own mother at their family's rural farmhouse. Soon she finds herself hunted by a threatening monster who has designs on her child.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies 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 & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRun Rabbit Run (2024)
Sarah is a fertility doctor with a firm understanding of the cycle of life. When she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter Mia, she must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMother (2016)
A pregnant woman, who is taking care of her son with development problems, is at her breaking point when a caregiver from the Philippines steps into her life. Diana suspects that she’s using voodoo against her after the quick improvements of her son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Call (2020)
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLet Her Out (2016)
Twenty-three years after her hooker mother tried to kill her in the womb Helen remains damaged psychological goods. A mindset that gets worse when she suffers a traumatic head injury in an accident. Awakening in hospital, it’s discovered Helen has a tumour growth in her brain causing her to experience dark visions, disembodied voices and the omnipresence of a strange young woman. Soon, lost in a walking nightmare, in which nothing is what it seems, and her vicious actions barely remembered, it becomes crystal clear that whatever is inside her cracked psyche will stop at nothing to get out.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisNightborn (2026)
In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ruse (2025)
An in-home caregiver fears for her life after being assigned to a mysterious elderly patient in a remote seaside home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mom?
The closest matches to Mom are Confinement (2026), Mother, May I? (2023) and Goodnight Mommy (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mom?
People who watched Mom most often go on to Confinement (2026), Mother, May I? (2023) and Goodnight Mommy (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mom?
Hereditary (2018), rated 7.3/10 by 9,088 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mom?
Confinement (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mom?
Yes: Confinement (2026), Mother, May I? (2023) and The Other (2025).
How are movies similar to Mom chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mom, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.