Movies like The Kindred (2021)
The best movies like The Kindred (2021) are Lair (2021), Oracle (2023) and From Black (2023). If The Kindred hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAnything for Jackson (2020)6.7/10 from 313 votes
- NewestThe Piper (2023)Released 2023
Lair (2021)
A fractured family are forced to face their demons, metaphorically and literally, as they unwittingly become embroiled in a man's attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural in order to overturn a friend's murder conviction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Oracle (2023)
A young woman accepts a job on a property with a traumatic history. Upon her arrival, she soon realizes that the nightmares of her childhood are connected to the evil in the house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisThe Secret of Sinchanee (2021)
An industrial tow truck driver suffering from insomnia returns to his childhood home after the untimely death of his father, to discover that a paranormal presence has been living in the house and haunting the sacred land it was built on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Piper (2023)
When a composer must finish her late mentor's concerto, she discovers that playing its music summons deadly consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisAt the Devil's Door (2014)
When ambitious young real estate agent Leigh is asked to sell a house with a checkered past, she crosses paths with a disturbed girl whom she learns is the runaway daughter of the couple selling the property. When Leigh tries to intervene and help her, she becomes entangled with a supernatural force that soon pulls Leigh's artist sister Vera into its web - and has sinister plans for both of them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisCircle (2020)
A woman reconnects with figures from her past in Central Park in an attempt to save her granddaughter's life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Other Side of the Door (2016)
Grieving over the loss of her son, a mother struggles with her feelings for her daughter and her husband. She seeks out a ritual that allows her say goodbye to her dead child, opening the veil between the world of the dead and the living. Her daughter becomes the focus of terror. She must now protect against the evil that was once her beloved son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisStill/Born (2018)
Still/Born follows Mary, a new mother who lost one of her twins in childbirth. As she struggles with the loss of one of her children, she starts to suspect something sinister is after her surviving child – a supernatural entity that has chosen her child and will stop at nothing to take it from her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisSinister 2 (2015)
A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThings Heard & Seen (2021)
A young woman discovers that both her husband and their new home harbor sinister secrets after they leave Manhattan for small-town life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Accursed (2021)
Hana spends twenty years suppressing a maleficent curse that was placed upon her bloodline, only to have a family member knowingly release it forcing her to kill or to be killed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAged (2023)
After taking a temporary job as a caregiver, a young woman realizes her employer and the house have a dangerous, dark past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
We Are Still Here (2015)
After the death of their college age son, Anne and Paul Sacchetti relocate to the snowswept New England hamlet of Aylesbury, a sleepy village where all is most certainly not as it seems. When strange sounds and eerie feelings convince Anne that her son's spirit is still with them, they invite an eccentric, New Age couple to help them get to the bottom of the mystery.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ghost Within (2023)
A young woman revisits her family home desperate to discover her sister Evie's murderer 20 years before. After a series of terrifying encounters with Evie's ghost at 09:09pm, Margot knows she must fight to learn the truth once and for all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Puppetman (2023)
The Puppetman, a convicted killer on death row, always maintained his innocence saying that it was an evil force controlling his body as he slaughtered his victims. Now Michal, the killer's daughter, begins to suspect that there may be some truth to her father's claim when those around her begin to die in brutal ways. She must try and break the curse of The Puppetman before all her loved ones are killed.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisOculus (2014)
A woman tries to exonerate her brother's murder conviction by proving that the crime was committed by a supernatural phenomenon.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisReborn (2018)
A stillborn baby girl is abducted by a deranged morgue attendant and brought back to life by electro-kinetic power. On her sixteenth birthday, traumatized Tess escapes captivity and sets out to find her birth mother leaving a trail of horrifying violent destruction and chilling chaos behind her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisKindred (2020)
When her boyfriend Ben suddenly dies in an accident, mother-to-be Charlotte collapses upon receiving the news. She wakes up in Ben’s family home, a crumbling old manor house in the middle of nowhere with Ben’s overbearing mother and his controlling stepbrother who are determined to care for her. Grief-stricken and increasingly haunted by visions possibly brought on by the pregnancy, Charlotte begins to doubt the family's intentions and her suspicions grow that they may be trying to control her and her unborn baby.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
They Live in the Grey (2022)
While investigating a child abuse case, Claire discovers that the family is being tormented by a supernatural entity. In order to save the family, she must confront her own fears and use her emerging clairvoyance to stop the malevolent force.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dark Within (2020)
A disturbed man with unknown psychic abilities tries to unravel the mystery of his parent's disappearance while battling his own demons.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Anything 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 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisCopiii: The 1st Entry (2013)
A newlywed couple encounter the remains of an ancient curse, only to reawaken its dark legacy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Old People (2022)
A woman who's returned home with her two kids to attend her sister's wedding must suddenly defend their lives against older people on a killing spree.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Return (2020)
After the death of his father, a brilliant college student returns to his family home where he learns that the horrors from his childhood aren't as dead and gone as he once thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIsabelle (2019)
A young couple's dream of starting a family shatters as they descend into the depths of paranoia and must struggle to survive an evil presence that wants nothing more than their very own lives.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisConjuring: The Beyond (2022)
A sleep study goes awry when participants start to go missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
I Know You're in There (2016)
When his mother commits suicide, Tom Redding discovers he has a long lost sister that cannot move or talk. Together they travel to their dead mother's isolated home, where Tom hopes to document her illness, only to be driven to the brink of madness by a supernatural evil.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Kindred?
The closest matches to The Kindred are Lair (2021), Oracle (2023) and From Black (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Kindred?
People who watched The Kindred most often go on to Lair (2021), Oracle (2023) and From Black (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Kindred?
Anything for Jackson (2020), rated 6.7/10 by 313 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Kindred?
The Piper (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Kindred?
Yes: Lair (2021), Oracle (2023) and From Black (2023).
How are movies similar to The Kindred chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Kindred, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.