Movies Like La Mécanique du Rasoir
If you liked La Mécanique du Rasoir (2006), a movie directed by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 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.
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Deerskin (2019)
★ 6.5/10A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.
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Salomé (2013)
★ 6.1/10After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé…
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They Drive by Night (1940)
★ 6.9/10Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success…
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Frontier(s) (2007)
★ 6.2/10A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.
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I Stand Alone (1999)
★ 7.4/10After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, the Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with…
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Grindhouse (2007)
★ 7/10Grindhouse combines Robert Rodriguez's Planet Terror, a horror comedy about a group of survivors who battle zombie-like creatures, and Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof, an action thriller about a murderous stuntman who…
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The Crush (1993)
★ 6.7/10A precocious and obsessive teenager develops a crush on a naive writer with harrowing consequences.
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Caught (1949)
★ 6.6/10Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig, but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life…
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Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
★ 7.5/10A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
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Saint Maud (2020)
★ 6.5/10Having recently found God, self-effacing young nurse Maud arrives at a plush home to care for Amanda, a hedonistic dancer left frail from a chronic illness. When a chance encounter with a former colleague throws up…
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Sex and Death 101 (2007)
★ 6.2/10A guy's life is turned around by an email, which includes the names of everyone he's had sex with and ever will have sex with. His situation gets worse when he encounters a femme fatale who targets men guilty of sex…
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Sorcerer (1977)
★ 7.5/10Four men from different countries flee to an impoverished South American village, Povernir, to hide from their pasts. When an oil well explodes, chaos and barbarism roam the streets. Desperate to leave, they agree to…
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Lola Montès (1955)
★ 6.9/10Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
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Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)
★ 6.1/10Mary Lou Maloney, Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, is killed during her coronation ceremony due to a prank gone wrong by her jilted boyfriend, Billy Nordham. Thirty years later, teen Vicki Carpenter is in the…
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Bluebeard (1963)
★ 6.4/10Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds…
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Crash (1996)
★ 6.5/10A car crash victim inexplicably finds himself aroused by car accidents and becomes involved with an underground subculture of like-minded souls.
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Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022)
★ 7.3/10A 1950s London cleaning lady falls in love with an haute couture dress by Christian Dior and decides to gamble everything for the sake of this folly.
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Deep Water (2022)
★ 5.8/10A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers.
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Woman of Straw (1964)
★ 6.2/10Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
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Seriously Single (2020)
★ 6.8/10While her free-living bestie urges her to embrace singlehood, a commitment-craving social media expert can't stop following the life of a former love.