Movies Like Portal
If you liked Portal (2015), a movie directed by Mark Ashmore, 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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Easy Rider (1969)
★ 7/10Wyatt and Billy, two Harley-riding hippies, complete a drug deal in Southern California and decide to travel cross-country in search of spiritual truth.
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Death at a Funeral (2007)
★ 6.9/10A myriad of outrageous calamities befalls an eccentric English clan with more than a few skeletons in its closets when the family's patriarch dies an unexpected death.
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Flashback (2021)
★ 5.9/10Frederick Fitzell is living his best life—until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy, a girl who vanished in high school. After reaching out to old friends with whom he used to take a mystery drug called Mercury…
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The Doom Generation (1995)
★ 6.5/10Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embarks on a sex- and violence-filled journey through a United States of psychos and quickie marts.
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Postcards from the Edge (1990)
★ 6.6/10A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
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Midnight Express (1978)
★ 7.4/10Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made…
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Trainspotting (1996)
★ 8/10Heroin addict Mark Renton stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends --Sick Boy, Begbie, Spud and Tommy. He also has an underage girlfriend, Diane, along for the ride. After cleaning…
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Frankenhooker (1990)
★ 6.3/10A medical school dropout loses his fiancée in a tragic lawnmower incident and decides to bring her back to life. Unfortunately, he was only able to save her head, so he goes to the red light district in the city and…
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Thirteen (2003)
★ 6.7/10When 13-year-old Tracy befriends Evie, the most popular girl in school, her life is turned upside down as Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs, and money. But it isn’t long before Tracy’s new lifestyle begins…
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Heathers (1989)
★ 7.2/10A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
★ 7.2/10A timid magazine photo manager who lives life vicariously through daydreams embarks on a true-life adventure when a negative goes missing.
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Pardon Us (1931)
★ 6.4/10It's Prohibition, and the boys wind up behind bars after Stan sells some of their home-brew beer to a policeman.
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Requiem for a Dream (2000)
★ 8/10The drug-induced utopias of four Coney Island residents are shattered when their addictions run deep.
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Sucker Punch (2011)
★ 6.2/10A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to collect five mystical…
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Mandy (2018)
★ 6.2/10The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and…
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X-Rated 2: The Greatest Adult Stars of All Time (2016)
★ 6.8/10Documentary sequel that offers a close-up look into the personal lives of the legendary porn stars who've survived the test of time and influenced popular culture. Blends rare interviews with erotic clips and…
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Magnolia (1999)
★ 7.7/10On one random day in the San Fernando Valley, a dying father, a young wife, a male caretaker, a famous lost son, a police officer in love, a boy genius, an ex-boy genius, a game show host and an estranged daughter will…
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
★ 6.8/10A group of Southern-California high school students ignore their studies in favor of indulging in their teenage distractions.
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Beautiful Boy (2018)
★ 7.6/10After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
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The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
★ 7.5/10Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary --- all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently…