Movies like Sacred Mother (2021)
The best movies like Sacred Mother (2021) are Veneciafrenia (2022), Saint Catherine (2024) and Torment (2025). If Sacred Mother hooked you with its horror, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Sacred Mother
Quick picks
- Highest ratedPearl (2022)7.2/10 from 2,830 votes
- NewestHowl If You're Horny (2026)Released 2026
- In SpanishVeneciafrenia (2022)Also in Spanish
Veneciafrenia (2022)
When a group of young Spanish tourists travel to Venice for a bachelorette party, they are met by angry locals who are not keen on foreigners and soon they find themselves fighting for their lives.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaint Catherine (2024)
An orphaned girl is rescued from a satanic ritual and taken to Saint Catherine Institute for homeless youth. There she will learn new skills while facing demons that stalk her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTorment (2025)
An exhausted security guard is transferred to a morgue and, on their first night, discovers that the shadows and silences hide a torment from which there may be no return.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Dreadful (2026)
In medieval England, Anne and her domineering mother-in-law Morwen struggle to survive on the outskirts of society. But when a man from Anne's past returns from war, a curse begins to take shape through a mysterious knight and threatens to destroy them all.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisPlay Dead (2025)
A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCurve (2016)
Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Angry Black Girl and Her Monster (2023)
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVicious (2025)
When Polly receives a mysterious box, it comes with one rule: place inside something she needs, something she hates, and something she loves. If she doesn’t obey, it will consume everything—and everyone—she’s ever known.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Wailing (2024)
Andrea, in search of her biological family, feels stalked by an invisible threat. Other women before them have suffered the same fate. Twenty years earlier, on the other side of the world, Camille, fascinated by Marie, tries to warn her of a threat hanging over her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisExorcismo Documentado (2012)
While a sixteen year old girl is possessed by an evil spirit, her mother tries to find help, but everything goes wrong with horrible consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Last Matinee (2020)
In 1993, spectators at the last screening of a horror film at a downtown cinema fall one by one into the hands of a sadistic and ruthless killer.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStrange Darling (2024)
Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Boy Behind the Door (2020)
Bobby tries to save himself and his best friend when they are kidnapped on their way home from school.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Exorcist (2022)
Ophelia, a young nun recently arriving in the town of San Ramon, is forced to perform an exorcism on a pregnant woman in danger of dying. Just when she thinks her possession has ended, she discovers that the evil presence hasn't disappeared yet. The director of the award-winning Here Comes the Devil and Late Phases adds a new twist to possession movies in one of this year's Latin American horror surprises.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPearl (2022)
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions collide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural (1974)
A notorious bank robber kills his wife and flees the police, only to be captured by a mysterious group of figures in an abandoned town. His beautiful daughter, Lila Lee, receives a letter stating that her father is near death and that he needs to see her. Sneaking away at night from her minister guardian, Lila embarks on a terrifying journey...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJugaremos en el bosque (2024)
After the death of his son, Javier hopes that restoring his family's abandoned ranch will allow him and his wife Mariana, who attempted suicide, a new beginning, but his grandmother refuses.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Haunting of Alcatraz (2020)
Alcatraz. 1937. A young prison guard working the night shift experiences a string of chilling disturbances culminating in the bizarre death of an inmate at the most famous prison in the world
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwo Witches (2023)
A matriarchal witch passes on her sinister inheritance to her grand-daughter, triggering the most horrific curses.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVirus: 32 (2022)
A virus is unleashed and a chilling massacre runs through the streets of Montevideo.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNowhere To Escape (2022)
A girl who studies psychology begins to have symptoms of a mental disorder due to her overload of research work. She thinks all people around her are zombies, and her only goal is to find her boyfriend. When she is about to find him, a huge zombie appears...
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Fake Friend (2024)
One year after a disastrous graduation party, Oscar is invited to estranged friend Chris's home to catch up. But as soon as he arrives with girlfriend Emma, things seem off. Can the two mend their long-festering wounds? Or is their friendship dead... forever?
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Lucifer, My Love (2022)
A man's life becomes threatened after he goes on a date with a woman who's in love with the Devil.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Frenchy (TBA)
Bethany and Sam are friends with a brewing romance that is long overdue. With the making of a student film together over Halloween, this romance becomes realised. However, with this new proximity to Sam, Bethany begins to peel away the layers of a potentially very troubled person.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Higher Knowledge (2024)
Three graduate students work tirelessly to solve their professor's final equation, before they meet his grisly fate.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Howl If You're Horny (2026)
Howl If You're Horny, a student dissertation film, explores queerness and mise en scene with a metaphorical relationship between being trapped within the closet and the werewolf exterior. Queer suppression and desire is explored within a dream sequence where posters, which were once in his room, come alive. He must decide if he wants to keep surviving or to live his first day as a human.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Wake Up (2023)
A young man finds himself being chased down by a monster in his nightmares.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Powhatan Rat Man (2021)
A few interns at the Powhatan Historical Society scrap their assigned project to track down a mysterious cryptid instead.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Crow's Rest (2025)
With the ghosts of his past back to haunt him in the wake of a mysterious death, Detective Brian Lancaster struggles with his sobriety while searching for the truth surrounding his sister’s fatal drowning as a child.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
Cheaders Creek (2022)
When Peloso, a mob lieutenant, is accused of stealing 20,000 from Leito, a mob boss, he is sent into the woods with Leito's top goon, Vinnie "The Scissor" as punishment.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both horror
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Sacred Mother?
The closest matches to Sacred Mother are Veneciafrenia (2022), Saint Catherine (2024) and Torment (2025). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Sacred Mother?
Start with Veneciafrenia (2022), the closest match to Sacred Mother.
What is the highest-rated movie like Sacred Mother?
Pearl (2022), rated 7.2/10 by 2,830 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Sacred Mother?
Howl If You're Horny (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Sacred Mother?
Yes: Veneciafrenia (2022), Torment (2025) and The Wailing (2024).
How are movies similar to Sacred Mother chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Sacred Mother, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.