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mother! (2017)

  • Drama
  • Horror
  • 121 min
  • 16 age guide
  • ★ 6.9/10 from 7,279 ratings

A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

Directed byDarren Aronofsky

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  1. 01

    The Whale

    Same director

    2022 · 117 min · Drama

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    A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • substantial genre overlap
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  2. 02

    Noah

    Same director

    2014 · 138 min · Adventure · Drama

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    A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • the same director
    • shared themes: bible and reflective
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  3. 03

    Presence

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 84 min · Drama · Horror · Thriller

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    A couple and their children move into a seemingly normal suburban home. When strange events occur, they begin to believe there is something else in the house with them. The presence is about to disrupt their lives in unimaginable ways.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • shared themes: death and husband wife relationship
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  4. 04

    The Surrender

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 95 min · Drama · Horror

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    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.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  5. 05

    Die My Love

    Strong story similarity

    2025 · 119 min · Drama

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    After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace struggles with loneliness, creative frustration, and unresolved emotional wounds. What begins as an attempt at renewal gradually turns into an intense psychological descent, placing strain on their relationship and exposing the fragile balance between love, identity, and motherhood.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: husband wife relationship and pregnancy
    • substantial genre overlap
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  6. 06

    It Comes at Night

    Strong story similarity

    2017 · 91 min · Drama · Horror · Mystery

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    Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong shared themes: madness and nightmare
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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  7. 07

    Nocturnal Animals

    Strong story similarity

    2016 · 116 min · Drama · Thriller

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    Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family vacation turns violent.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: ambiguous and writer
    • a closely matched era
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  8. 08

    Midsommar

    Strong story similarity

    2019 · 147 min · Drama · Horror · Mystery

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    Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
    • a closely matched era
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  9. 09

    Blue Valentine

    Strong story similarity

    2010 · 112 min · Drama · Romance

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    Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • shared themes: pregnancy and shocking
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  10. 10

    Antichrist

    Strong story similarity

    2009 · 104 min · Drama · Horror · Thriller

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    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.

    Why it connects

    • strong story and style similarity
    • strong genre and movie-style overlap
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How these movie recommendations work

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