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Movies that feel likeThe Eyes of My Mother (2016)

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.

If you loved The Eyes of My Mother, the closest films we have are The Borderlands (2014), Lamb (2021) and Talk to Me (2023). All three share The Eyes of My 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 Absentia (2011).

🍅 78% Rotten Tomatoes★ 6.2 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Nicolas Pescecontemplativedreadunsettlingmelancholy
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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%★ 5.8horror

Dread-soaked where it counts, unsettling underneath

The difference: Easier on the stillness than The Eyes of My Mother

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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Lamb
2021 · dir. Valdimar Jóhannsson
🍅 86%★ 6.3drama · fantasy · horrorPrime Video

Both land stillness and melancholy at once

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than The Eyes of My Mother does

An Icelandic couple live with their herd of sheep on a beautiful but remote farm. When they discover a mysterious newborn on their land, they decide to keep it and raise it as their own. This unexpected development and the prospects of a new family brings them much joy before ultimately destroying them.

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Talk to Me
2023 · dir. Michael Philippou
★ 7.1horrorMax

Both keep coming back to the same thing: death of mother

When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.

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The Babadook
2014 · dir. Jennifer Kent
🍅 98%★ 6.8drama · horrorRent or buy

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

A grieving single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children's book manifests in their home.

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The Innkeepers
2012 · dir. Ti West
🍅 81%★ 5.5horror · thrillerPrime Video

Horror built on dread, twice over

The difference: Leans harder into thriller than The Eyes of My Mother does

During the final days at the Yankee Pedlar Inn, two employees determined to reveal the hotel's haunted past begin to experience disturbing events as old guests check in for a stay.

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Absentia
2011 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 87%★ 5.8horror · mystery

Unsettling horror in both cases

Tricia's husband has been missing for seven years. Her younger sister Callie comes to live with her as the pressure mounts to finally declare him 'dead in absentia'. Tricia is reluctant, always holding out hope, but Callie is practical and wants her to move on. As Tricia sifts through the wreckage and tries to move on with her life, Callie finds herself drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house.

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Alone
2007 · dir. Banjong Pisanthanakun
★ 6.4horror · mystery · drama

Both lean on melancholy more than on drama

When Pim and Ploy, twins conjoined at the stomach, are separated, the operation leaves Pim the surviving sister, haunted by Ploy's vengeful ghost.

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The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 26%★ 5.3horrorMax

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

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The Haunting
1963 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 88%★ 7.4horror

The same preoccupation in both: black and white

The difference: 53 years apart, and the 1960s show

Dr. John Markway recruits three strangers for a sleep-disorder study at the eerie and isolated Hill House. It soon becomes clear his real interest lies in the mansion itself and its sinister history, as they are forced to confront the nature of its horror…

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2003 · dir. Marcus Nispel
🍅 37%★ 6.2horror

Unsettling drama, and it commits to that

After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.

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Antichrist
2009 · dir. Lars von Trier
🍅 53%★ 6.5drama · horror · thrillerRent or buy

The shared currency is stillness

A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.

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Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest
2020 · dir. Svyatoslav Podgaevsky
★ 4.7horror

Both working the same horror territory

A boy and his friends must save his infant sister from an evil witch who eats babies.

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