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Movies Like This Is Not a Film

If you liked This Is Not a Film (2012), a movie directed by Mihalis Gkatzogias and Alki Politi, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Dalíland

    Dalíland (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10

    In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.

  2. 2Black Mirror

    Black Mirror (2011)

    ★ 7.8/10

    A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified…

  3. 3Everybody’s Everything

    Everybody’s Everything (2019)

    ★ 8.4/10

    The story of artist Lil Peep from his birth in Long Island and meteoric rise as a genre blending pop star & style icon, to his death due to an accidental opioid overdose in Arizona at just 21 years of age.

  4. 4Final Portrait

    Final Portrait (2017)

    ★ 6/10

    Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him…

  5. 5I'm Thinking of Ending Things

    I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Nothing is as it seems when a woman experiencing misgivings about her new boyfriend joins him on a road trip to meet his parents at their remote farm.

  6. 6Nightfall

    Nightfall (1956)

    ★ 6.9/10

    An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.

  7. 7Hell Hath No Fury

    Hell Hath No Fury (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for…

  8. 8A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

    A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)

    ★ 6.7/10

    When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with…

  9. 9180° South

    180° South (2010)

    ★ 7.2/10

    The film follows adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia.

  10. 10In the Realms of the Unreal

    In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In the Realms of the Unreal is a documentary about the reclusive Chicago-based artist Henry Darger. Henry Darger was so reclusive that when he died his neighbors were surprised to find a 15,145-page manuscript along…

  11. 11Koyaanisqatsi

    Koyaanisqatsi (1983)

    ★ 7.9/10

    Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having on humans and the earth. The visual tone poem contains neither dialogue nor a vocalized narration: its tone is set by…

  12. 12Mythica: A Quest for Heroes

    Mythica: A Quest for Heroes (2014)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Stuck in a life of indentured servitude, Marek dreams of becoming a wizard. When she meets the beautiful priestess Teela in need of help, she offers her assistance and provides a motley troupe. Together they go in…

  13. 13Dorian Gray

    Dorian Gray (2009)

    ★ 6/10

    Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of…

  14. 14Midnight in Paris

    Midnight in Paris (2011)

    ★ 7.5/10

    While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

  15. 15The Art of Getting By

    The Art of Getting By (2011)

    ★ 6.6/10

    George, a lonely and fatalistic teen who's made it all the way to his senior year without ever having done a real day of work, is befriended by Sally, a popular but complicated girl who recognizes in him a kindred…

  16. 16Tulip Fever

    Tulip Fever (2017)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An artist falls for a married young woman while he's commissioned to paint her portrait. The two invest in the risky tulip market in hopes to build a future together.

  17. 17Interstate 60

    Interstate 60 (2002)

    ★ 7.4/10

    An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

  18. 18The Danish Girl

    The Danish Girl (2015)

    ★ 7.5/10

    When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and…

  19. 19Unthinkable

    Unthinkable (2010)

    ★ 6.8/10

    The government gets wind of a plot to destroy America involving a trio of nuclear weapons for which the whereabouts are unknown. It's up to a seasoned interrogator and an FBI agent to find out exactly where the nukes…

  20. 20I Came By

    I Came By (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.

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