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Movies Like What We Do When We're Alone (or a Little Story About Reconditioning)

If you liked What We Do When We're Alone (or a Little Story About Reconditioning) (2016), a movie directed by Moritz Adlon, 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. 1The Experiment

    The Experiment (2010)

    ★ 6.4/10

    20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.

  2. 2Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Victor Frankenstein is a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster…

  3. 3Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton

    Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond - Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017)

    ★ 7.5/10

    Through the lens of his stunningly immersive performance as Andy Kaufman, Jim Carrey ponders the meaning of life, reality, identity and career.

  4. 4In the Soup

    In the Soup (1992)

    ★ 6.8/10

    An aspiring young filmmaker gets involved with an eccentric gangster for the financing of his first film.

  5. 5They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

    They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018)

    ★ 7.1/10

    As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the chance for renewed success with the film The Other Side of the Wind.

  6. 6DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family

    DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family (2020)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Tragedy strikes the Batman's life again when Robin Jason Todd tracks down his birth mother only to run afoul of the Joker. An adaptation of the 1988 comic book storyline of the same name.

  7. 7Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters

    Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An action epic that explores the origins of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (better known as Master Shake, Frylock, and Meatwad,) who somehow become pitted in a battle over an immortal piece of exercise equipment.

  8. 8Malcolm & Marie

    Malcolm & Marie (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    As a filmmaker and his girlfriend return home from his movie premiere, smoldering tensions and painful revelations push them toward a romantic reckoning.

  9. 9DC Showcase: Death

    DC Showcase: Death (2019)

    ★ 8.4/10

    Vincent, an artist with unresolved inner demons, meets a mysterious girl who helps him come to terms with his creative legacy… and eventual death.

  10. 10I'm Here

    I'm Here (2010)

    ★ 7.2/10

    A library assistant plods through an ordinary life in LA until a chance meeting opens his eyes to the power of creativity and ultimately, love. When this new life and love begin to fall apart, he discovers he has a lot…

  11. 11Hobo with a Shotgun

    Hobo with a Shotgun (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A vigilante homeless man pulls into a new city and finds himself trapped in urban chaos, a city where crime rules and where the city's crime boss reigns. Seeing an urban landscape filled with armed robbers, corrupt…

  12. 12Bride of Re-Animator

    Bride of Re-Animator (1990)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life – starting with the heart of…

  13. 13Mad God

    Mad God (2021)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A silent figure known as The Assassin travels through a nightmare underworld of tortured souls, ruined cities and wretched monstrosities forged from the primordial horrors of the unconscious mind of Phil Tippett, the…

  14. 14The Souvenir: Part II

    The Souvenir: Part II (2021)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In the aftermath of her tumultuous relationship with a charismatic and manipulative older man, Julie begins to untangle her fraught love for him in making her graduation film, sorting fact from his elaborately…

  15. 15Heavy Traffic

    Heavy Traffic (1973)

    ★ 6.5/10

    A white dropout struggles to become a cartoonist and filmmaker, drawing inspiration from the harsh, gritty world around him. Still sharing his rundown apartment with his middle-aged parents, an oafish slob of an…

  16. 16The Souvenir

    The Souvenir (2019)

    ★ 6.1/10

    A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man.

  17. 172036: Nexus Dawn

    2036: Nexus Dawn (2017)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Niander Wallace introduces a new line of "perfected" replicants called the Nexus 9, seeking to get the prohibition on replicants repealed.

  18. 18From Straight A's to XXX

    From Straight A's to XXX (2017)

    ★ 5.9/10

    When a change of circumstances leaves Miriam unable to pay her college tuition, she makes a surprising decision: to start performing in adult films, using the pseudonym Belle Knox. Miriam lies to her family and her…

  19. 19Kings of the Road

    Kings of the Road (1976)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicide attempt - travel along the Western…

  20. 20How High

    How High (2001)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Jamal and Silas, two ordinary guys who smoke something magical, pass their college entrance exams with flying colors and end up at Harvard. Ivy League ways are strange but Silas and Jamal take it in a stride -- until…

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