Movies Like Fancy, Fancy Being Rich

If you liked Fancy, Fancy Being Rich (2002), a movie directed by Guy Maddin, 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
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
★ 7.5/10
A socialite marries a prominent novelist, which spurs a violent, obsessive, and dangerous jealousy in her.
2
Women in Love (1969)
★ 6.6/10
Growing up in the sheltered confines of a 1920s English coal-mining community, free-spirited sisters Gudrun and Ursula explore erotic love with a wealthy playboy and a philosophical educator, with cataclysmic results…
3
Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
★ 6.5/10
When a wounded Christian Grey tries to entice a cautious Ana Steele back into his life, she demands a new arrangement before she will give him another chance. As the two begin to build trust and find stability, shadowy…
4
Moby Dick (1956)
★ 7.1/10
In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the…
5
Death on the Nile (1978)
★ 7.2/10
As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect.
6
The Blue Lagoon (1980)
★ 6.1/10
Two small children and a ship's cook survive a shipwreck and find safety on an idyllic tropical island. Soon, however, the cook dies and the young boy and girl are left on their own. Days become years and Emmeline and…
7
Poor Cow (1967)
★ 6.4/10
Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to…
8
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
★ 7.2/10
When their ocean liner capsizes, a group of passengers struggle to survive and escape.
9
Querelle (1982)
★ 6.6/10
French sailor Querelle arrives in Brest and starts frequenting a strange whorehouse. He discovers that his brother Robert is the lover of the lady owner, Lysiane. Here, you can play dice with Nono, Lysiane's husband…
10
The Shipping News (2001)
★ 6.4/10
An emotionally-beaten man with his young daughter moves to his ancestral home in Newfoundland to reclaim his life.
11
Dead Sea (2024)
★ 6.4/10
Stranded in the open sea after a fatal accident, a young woman and her two friends are rescued by a fishing vessel's captain, unaware that the ship harbors a chilling secret.
12
The Call of the Wild (2020)
★ 7.5/10
Buck is a big-hearted dog whose blissful domestic life is turned upside down when he is suddenly uprooted from his California home and transplanted to the exotic wilds of the Yukon during the Gold Rush of the 1890s. As…
13
The Lighthouse (2019)
★ 7.5/10
Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.
14
Vertigo (1958)
★ 8.1/10
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
15
Bird Box (2018)
★ 6.8/10
Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.
16
Dean Spanley (2008)
★ 7.4/10
Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be trusted, Fisk Senior has little time or affection for his son, but when the pair visit an eccentric Indian…
17
Dead of Winter (2025)
★ 6.5/10
A widowed fisherwoman, travelling alone through snowbound northern Minnesota, interrupts the kidnapping of a teenage girl. Hours from the nearest town and with no phone service, she realizes that she is the young…
18
Jezebel (1938)
★ 7/10
In 1850s Louisiana, the willfulness of a tempestuous Southern belle threatens to destroy all who care for her.
19
Sanctum (2011)
★ 6.1/10
Master diver Frank McGuire has explored the South Pacific's Esa-ala Caves for months. But when his exit is cut off in a flash flood, Frank's team—including 17-year-old son Josh and financier Carl Hurley are forced to…
20
Same Kind of Different as Me (2017)
★ 6.8/10
International art dealer Ron Hall must befriend a dangerous homeless man in order to save his struggling marriage to his wife, a woman whose dreams will lead all three of them on the journey of their lives.