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10 Best Movies Like How to Be Alone

If you loved How to Be Alone, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
The Rule of Jenny Pen

The Rule of Jenny Pen

2025★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Be Alone for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child's puppet to abuse the home's resident...

#2
Never Let Go

Never Let Go

2024★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Be Alone for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

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....

#3
Peeping Tom

Peeping Tom

1960★ 7.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Be Alone for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reaction...

#4
Eraserhead

Eraserhead

1977★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Be Alone for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child....

#5
Come Play

Come Play

2020★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Be Alone for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Oliver, a lonely autistic boy, seeks solace and refuge in his ever-present cell phone and tablet. When a mysterious creature uses the boy's devices against him, his parents must fi...

#6
Curve

Curve

2016★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to How to Be Alone for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death....

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