Movies like Goodnight Mommy (2022)
The best movies like Goodnight Mommy (2022) are Goodnight Mommy (2015), Hereditary (2018) and The Lodge (2020). If Goodnight Mommy hooked you with its horror and thriller, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedGet Out (2017)7.6/10 from 19,641 votes
- NewestMom (2025)Released 2025
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 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 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 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 thisWatcher (2022)
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night House (2021)
Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. She tries as best she can to keep it together — but then nightmares come. Disturbing visions of a presence in the house calling to her, beckoning her with a ghostly allure. Against the advice of her friends, she begins digging into her husband's belongings, yearning for answers. What she finds are secrets both strange and disturbing — a mystery she's determined to unravel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bad Seed Returns (2022)
Several years after the murderous events of the first movie left her father dead, Emma is now living with her aunt Angela and navigating high school. Angela’s husband begins to suspect that Emma may not be as innocent as she appears and suggests sending her off to boarding school. Meanwhile, a new girl at school seems to know Emma’s secrets, leaving Emma no choice but to slip back to her old ways and take care of her enemies by any means necessary.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisSaint Maud (2020)
Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up hints of a dark past, it becomes clear there is more to sweet Maud than meets the eye.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Portrait (2023)
After her husband is devastated by a tragic accident, a devoted wife obsesses over a mysterious portrait that resembles him as he was; but when it starts to terrorize her, she must decide if it's possessed or if she's losing her mind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Monstrous (2022)
Laura, traumatized by an abusive relationship, runs away from her former husband with her seven-year-old son Cody. But in their new, idyllic and remote sanctuary, they find they have another, bigger and more terrifying monster to deal with…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
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 thisMatriarch (2018)
A pregnant woman and her husband are taken in by a farmer and his wife after crashing their car in the Scottish countryside. Once inside, they realize their hosts’ daughter is a missing child from the news years earlier. Things take a sinister twist when the farmer and his wife inform the couple they intend to keep their baby once born.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & 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 & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFalse Positive (2021)
After months of trying and failing to get pregnant, Lucy and Adrian finally find their dream fertility doctor in the illustrious Dr. Hindle. But after becoming pregnant with a healthy baby girl, Lucy begins to notice something sinister through Hindle's gleaming charm, and she sets out to uncover the unsettling truth about him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies 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 mystery & horror
The Goat and Her Three Kids (2022)
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisFrom Black (2023)
A young mother who's crushed by guilt and shame after the disappearance of her young son five years previously, is offered a bizarre opportunity to learn the truth and set things right. Is she willing to pay the terrifying price for a chance to hold her boy again?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisGet Out (2017)
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both mystery & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies like thisI See You (2019)
When a 12-year-old boy goes missing at a local park, a detective investigates the case to help the boy's family find answers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Worth the HypeMovies 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 thisSpeak No Evil (2022)
A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThere's Something Wrong with the Children (2023)
Margaret and Ben take a weekend trip with longtime friends Ellie and Thomas and their two young children. Eventually, Ben begins to suspect something supernatural is occurring when the kids behave strangely after disappearing into the woods overnight.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
SnoozefestMovies like thisMoloch (2022)
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Rental (2020)
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thismother! (2017)
A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & mystery
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUs (2019)
Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisSilence of the Prey (2024)
In a desperate bid to secure a future for her child, an undocumented immigrant mother takes a caretaker job. Unbeknownst to her, the elderly man conceals a horrifying truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Goodnight Mommy?
The closest matches to Goodnight Mommy are Goodnight Mommy (2015), Hereditary (2018) and The Lodge (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Goodnight Mommy?
People who watched Goodnight Mommy most often go on to Goodnight Mommy (2015), Hereditary (2018) and The Lodge (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like Goodnight Mommy?
Get Out (2017), rated 7.6/10 by 19,641 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Goodnight Mommy?
Mom (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Goodnight Mommy?
Yes: Hereditary (2018), The Lodge (2020) and Resurrection (2022).
How are movies similar to Goodnight Mommy chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Goodnight Mommy, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.