Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 20, 2026

10 Best Movies Like The Nightmare

If you loved The Nightmare, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
What We Become

What We Become

2015★ 5.5

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

A family of four is quarantined in their home as a virulent strand of the flu spreads into town and they are forced to the extreme to escape alive....

#2
Woman in Love

Woman in Love

2011★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Nightmare for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie....

#3
Lesson of the Evil

Lesson of the Evil

2012★ 6.7

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

Seiji Hasumi is a popular English teacher in a private high school. He is also a violent and sociopathic killer who concocts an extreme plan to deal with the rise of bullying and b...

#4
The Sweet Hereafter

The Sweet Hereafter

1997★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Nightmare for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A small mountain community in Canada is devastated when a school bus accident leaves more than a dozen of its children dead. A big-city lawyer arrives to help the survivors' and vi...

#5
The Last Family

The Last Family

2016★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Nightmare for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Beksiński is a gentle man with arachnophobia, despite his hardcore sexual fantasies and his fondness for painting disturbing dystopian works. Beksiński is a family man who wants on...

#6
Little Nikita

Little Nikita

1988★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to The Nightmare for fans of Drama. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

An FBI agent works to uncover an all-American family as Soviet sleeper agents, and gets caught up in friendship with their oblivious teenage son....