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Movies Like Career Suicide

If you liked Career Suicide (2004), a movie directed by alex kang and Dan Huber, 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. 1After.Life

    After.Life (2009)

    ★ 6.3/10

    Following a terrible car crash, a woman awakes to find an enigmatic mortician preparing her for burial.

  2. 2Curve

    Curve (2016)

    ★ 6.9/10

    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.

  3. 3Defending Your Life

    Defending Your Life (1991)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Is there love after death? After he dies suddenly, the hapless advertising executive Daniel Miller finds himself in Judgment City, a gleaming way station where the newly deceased must prove they lived a life of…

  4. 4Sometimes I Think About Dying

    Sometimes I Think About Dying (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way…

  5. 5Switch

    Switch (1991)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship…

  6. 6The Double

    The Double (2014)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.

  7. 7Saint Maud

    Saint Maud (2020)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Having 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…

  8. 8Secretary

    Secretary (2002)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.

  9. 9I Bury the Living

    I Bury the Living (1958)

    ★ 6.2/10

    The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he risks his sanity to play God once…

  10. 10Carnival of Souls

    Carnival of Souls (1962)

    ★ 7/10

    Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is…

  11. 11Eternity

    Eternity (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10

    In an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity, Joan is faced with the impossible choice between the man she spent her life with and her first love, who died young and has waited decades…

  12. 12Play Dead

    Play Dead (2025)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A woman wakes up injured in a basement surrounded by corpses. To survive, she pretends to be dead while a grotesque ritual unfolds in the house above.

  13. 13The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  14. 14Just Mercy

    Just Mercy (2019)

    ★ 7.8/10

    The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence…

  15. 15Alien: Specimen

    Alien: Specimen (2019)

    ★ 6.2/10

    During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.

  16. 16Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

    ★ 8.2/10

    An ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a…

  17. 17The Resurrected

    The Resurrected (1991)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality.

  18. 18Girl, Interrupted

    Girl, Interrupted (1999)

    ★ 7.6/10

    Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the…

  19. 19The Void

    The Void (2016)

    ★ 6/10

    In the middle of a routine patrol, officer Daniel Carter happens upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital staffed by a skeleton crew, only…

  20. 20Just Before I Go

    Just Before I Go (2015)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Ted Morgan has been treading water for most of his life. After his wife leaves him, Ted realizes he has nothing left to live for. Summoning the courage for one last act, Ted decides to go home and face the people he…

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