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Movies Like Lector

If you liked Lector (2000), a movie directed by Greg Marcks, 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. 1Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa

    Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

    ★ 6.2/10

    86-year-old Irving Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8 year-old grandson, Billy.

  2. 2Smoke

    Smoke (1995)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate…

  3. 3Talk Radio

    Talk Radio (1988)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

  4. 4The Good Liar

    The Good Liar (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer, what should have been another simple swindle takes on the ultimate…

  5. 5The Million Pound Note

    The Million Pound Note (1954)

    ★ 7/10

    An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he…

  6. 629th Street

    29th Street (1991)

    ★ 6.9/10

    After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.

  7. 7Thank You for Smoking

    Thank You for Smoking (2005)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath…

  8. 8The Three Stooges

    The Three Stooges (2012)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Left on the doorstep of an orphanage run by nuns, three newborn knuckleheads grow up to be finger-poking, nyuk-nyuking janitors named Larry, Curly and Moe. When they learn that financial problems will soon force the…

  9. 9Attraction

    Attraction (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10

    A writer/radio advice show host fails to heed his own advice as he stalks his ex-girlfriend and then becomes involved with an actress friend of hers.

  10. 10The Sound of Silence

    The Sound of Silence (2019)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.

  11. 11The Card

    The Card (1952)

    ★ 7/10

    A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.

  12. 12Strange Weather

    Strange Weather (2016)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.

  13. 13I Love You, Man

    I Love You, Man (2009)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Peter Klaven is a successful real estate agent who, upon getting engaged to the woman of his dreams, Zooey, discovers, to his dismay and chagrin, that he has no male friend close enough to serve as his Best Man. Peter…

  14. 14Wardriver

    Wardriver (2026)

    ★ 7.4/10

    He’s a Wardriver: a hacker who steals from banks, not people—until he’s noticed. Now the money turns violent, and the woman caught in it could save him or kill them both.

  15. 15BlackBerry

    BlackBerry (2023)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Two mismatched entrepreneurs – egghead innovator Mike Lazaridis and cut-throat businessman Jim Balsillie – joined forces in an endeavour that was to become a worldwide hit in little more than a decade. The story of the…

  16. 16Contact

    Contact (1997)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A radio astronomer receives the first extraterrestrial radio signal ever picked up on Earth. As the world powers scramble to decipher the message and decide upon a course of action, she must make some difficult…

  17. 17Hello, Dolly!

    Hello, Dolly! (1969)

    ★ 7/10

    Dolly Levi is a strong-willed matchmaker who travels to Yonkers, New York in order to see the miserly "well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire" Horace Vandergelder. In doing so, she convinces his niece, his niece's…

  18. 18Old Dads

    Old Dads (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A cranky middle-aged dad and his two best friends find themselves out of step in a changing world of millennial CEOs and powerful preschool principals.

  19. 19The Joker is Wild

    The Joker is Wild (1957)

    ★ 8.1/10

    A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.

  20. 20Salomé

    Salomé (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After 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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