Movies like Good Boy (2022)
The best movies like Good Boy (2022) are Good Boy (2020), NightMare (2022) and Unwelcome (2023). If Good Boy 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 ratedThe Invisible Man (2020)7.1/10 from 6,560 votes
- NewestMatch (2025)Released 2025
Good Boy (2020)
When Maggie gets an emotional support dog to help quell some of her anxiety, she finds him to be even more effective than she imagined... because unbeknownst to her, he kills anyone who adds stress to her life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNightMare (2022)
A woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment’s terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisUnwelcome (2023)
Londoners Maya and Jamie escape their urban nightmare to the tranquility of rural Ireland only to discover malevolent, murderous goblins lurking in the gnarled, ancient wood at the foot of their new garden. When heavily pregnant Maya’s relationship with a local family turns sour, who – or what – will come to her rescue and to what extremes will she go to protect her unborn child?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisMatch (2025)
After Paola is matched with a handsome online suitor, she arrives for a first date to discover a house full of dark and terrifying secrets.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Viking Wolf (2022)
After witnessing a grotesque murder at a party in her new town, a teenager starts having strange visions and bizarre desires.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisInfluencer (2023)
While struggling on a solo backpacking trip in Thailand, social media influencer Madison meets CW, who travels with ease and shows her a more uninhibited way of living. But CW's interest in her takes a darker turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWolf Man (2025)
With his marriage fraying, Blake persuades his wife Charlotte to take a break from the city and visit his remote childhood home in rural Oregon. As they arrive at the farmhouse in the dead of night, they're attacked by an unseen animal and barricade themselves inside the home as the creature prowls the perimeter. But as the night stretches on, Blake begins to behave strangely, transforming into something unrecognizable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHidden (2009)
Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Invitation (2016)
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is up to something.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Monitor (2011)
Oslo, Norway. After living a traumatic experience, Anna and her son Anders move into a huge apartment building. Feeling constantly terrified and insecure, Anna buys a babycall to monitor Anders while he sleeps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisInfluencers (2025)
In the picturesque landscapes of Southern France, a young woman's chilling fascination with murder and identity theft sends her life into a whirlwind of chaos.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGreta (2019)
A young woman returns a lonely widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers the widow might not be all that she seems.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhere’s Rose (2022)
When a little girl is found after going missing, only her older brother recognizes the evil force that has returned in her place.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Mother'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 Ones Below (2016)
A young affluent couple expecting their first child hits it off with the new couple that moves in downstairs, until a dinner party between them ends in a shocking accident.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMa (2019)
Sue Ann is a loner who keeps to herself in her quiet Ohio town. One day, she is asked by Maggie, a new teenager in town, to buy some booze for her and her friends, and Sue Ann sees the chance to make some unsuspecting, if younger, friends of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisLittle Bites (2024)
Mindy, a young widow and mother who tries to protect her daughter Alice from a flesh eating monster named Agyar. Mindy has been secretly sacrificing her own life by allowing the creature to feast on her body as she keeps Alice hidden away at her grandmother’s house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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 & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTitane (2021)
A woman with a metal plate in her head from a childhood car accident embarks on a bizarre journey, bringing her into contact with a firefighter who's reunited with his missing son after 10 years.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Bride (2017)
This is a story of a small town girl named Nastya. Her newly married husband Ivan drives her to his hometown to meet his family. Upon their arrival Nastya feels she made a wrong decision: she is surrounded by weird people and she sees creepy photos all around the house. Ivan disappears while his family prepares Nastya for a mysterious traditional Russian wedding ceremony. She struggles to calm herself down hoping all this will end and they will live happily ever after. Only if she stays alive...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisAlone with You (2022)
As a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment begins to feel more like a tomb when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Vicious (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: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Invisible Man (2020)
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Neon Demon (2016)
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
Popcorn FlickMovies like this1BR (2019)
When Sarah lucks into a sweet one-bedroom at Asilo Del Mar Apartments in Los Angeles, she thinks she's hit the jackpot. It's got plenty of space, friendly tenants, group BBQs and even a cute neighbour next door. All is not what it seems: loud noises start keeping her awake at night; her cat is missing; everyone seems to be a little too helpful and friendly, except for the weirdo, Lester. Soon, Sarah learns she didn't choose this apartment — it chose her.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLifechanger (2018)
A murderous shapeshifter sets out on a blood-soaked mission to make things right with the woman he loves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisKnocking (2021)
After suffering a traumatic incident, Molly moves into a new apartment to begin her path to recovery, but it’s not long after her arrival that a series of persistent knocks and screams begin to wake her up at night.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both thriller & horror
SnoozefestMovies like thisTentacles (2021)
A young Los Angeles couple Tara and Sam fall head over heels into a new romance, entwining their lives—until their intimacy transforms into something terrifying.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisMy Valentine (2020)
A pop singer's artistic identity is stolen by her ex-boyfriend/manager and shamelessly pasted onto his new girlfriend/protégé. Locked together late one night in a concert venue, the three reconcile emotional abuses of the past...until things turn violent.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both horror & thriller
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both horror & thriller
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Good Boy?
The closest matches to Good Boy are Good Boy (2020), NightMare (2022) and Unwelcome (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Good Boy?
People who watched Good Boy most often go on to Good Boy (2020), NightMare (2022) and Unwelcome (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like Good Boy?
The Invisible Man (2020), rated 7.1/10 by 6,560 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Good Boy?
Match (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Good Boy chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Good Boy, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.