Movies that feel likemother! (2017)
If you loved mother!, the closest films we have are November (2017), Oculus (2014) and Frankenstein (2025). All three share mother!'s dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017).
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If mother! hit the spot, these will too
Folkloric dread seeps into a village on the edge of desperation
The difference: An Estonian folk tale of magic and longing, not domestic allegory
A marriage frays as the house itself seems to turn hostile
The difference: A straightforward haunted-mirror mystery, no biblical allegory
A creator's act of devotion spirals into something that consumes him
The difference: A gothic monster tale, not a marriage tested by strangers
Same director spirals a woman's identity into feverish, hallucinatory collapse
The difference: A ballet-world psychological descent, not an allegorical home invasion
Fairy-tale dread wraps around a very real, encroaching tragedy
The difference: Street children fleeing cartel violence, no domestic allegory
A cursed home slowly reveals the greed festering inside it
The difference: An Indian mythic treasure-hunt horror, greed-driven rather than allegorical
A home becomes a site of violent intrusion and psychological unraveling
The difference: A slasher-driven home invasion, more visceral than symbolic
Fable-like dread builds around motherhood pushed to obsessive extremes
The difference: Three interwoven royal fairy tales, no single collapsing household
Guilt curdles into a haunting that consumes an entire household
The difference: A murder-confession period piece, more linear than mother!'s spiral
Obsession and possession destroy a woman from the inside out
The difference: A gothic vampire romance, not a modern domestic allegory
Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath
The difference: Leans harder into fantasy than mother! does
A woman's sense of self dissolves as something feral takes over
The difference: A cannibalism coming-of-age tale, grounded rather than surreal
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