Movies like Family (2024)

10 films to watch after Family, ranked by how well they match its tone — not just its genre.

A 10-year-old girl begins to believe her parents are trying to kill her. Convinced a sinister spirit is to blame, she spirals into a haunting fantasy world that mirrors her deepest fears.

1

The Surrender (2025)

Fit 68%

Shares Drama and Horror with Family.

A fraught mother-daughter relationship is put to a terrifying test when the family patriarch dies, and the grieving mother hires a mysterious stranger to bring her husband back from the dead.
2

The Bad Seed (1956)

Fit 64%

Shares Drama and Horror with Family.

Air Force Colonel Kenneth Penmark and his wife, Christine, adore their daughter Rhoda, despite her secret tendency for selfishness. Christine keeps her knowledge of her daughter's darker side to herself, but when a schoolmate of Rhoda's dies mysteriously, her self-deception unravels.
3

The Other (1972)

Fit 61%

Shares Drama and Horror with Family.

A series of gruesome accidents plague a small American farming community in the summer of 1935, encircling two identical twin brothers and their family.
4

The Eyes of My Mother (2016)

Fit 57%

Shares Drama and Horror with Family.

A young, lonely woman is consumed by her deepest and darkest desires after tragedy strikes her quiet country life.
5

The People Under the Stairs (1991)

Fit 52%

Shares Horror with Family.

Trapped inside a fortified home owned by a mysterious couple, a young boy quickly learns the true nature of the homicidal inhabitants, and secret creatures hidden deep within the walls.
6

Fanny and Alexander (1982)

Fit 51%

Shares Drama with Family.

As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
7

The Truth About Emanuel (2013)

Fit 50%

Shares Drama with Family.

A troubled young woman becomes obsessed with her mysterious new neighbor, who bears a striking resemblance to the girl's dead mother.
8

Mārama (2026)

Fit 49%

Shares Horror and Drama with Family.

1859. When a young Māori woman is summoned from New Zealand to North Yorkshire, she uncovers her horrific colonial heritage and is compelled to confront and destroy the titled Englishman who devastated her family.
9

Unfriended (2014)

Fit 43%

Shares Horror with Family.

While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. At first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, they realize they are dealing with something out of this world, something that wants them dead.
10

Never Let Go (2024)

Fit 41%

Shares Horror with Family.

As an evil takes over the world beyond their front doorstep, the only protection for a mother and her twin sons is their house and their family’s protective bond.