Movies Like Not A Body

If you liked Not A Body (2024), a movie directed by Cassandra Paige Johnston, 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
Inner Workings (2016)
★ 7.8/10
This is the story of the internal struggle between a man's Brain—a pragmatic protector who calculates his every move, and his Heart—a free-spirited adventurer who wants to let loose.
2
Autumn in New York (2000)
★ 6.1/10
Will Keane, a Manhattan restaurateur, is content with his playboy lifestyle until he meets Charlotte Fielding, a free-spirited young woman. Together the pair pursue a passionate affair that forces them both to…
3
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (2016)
★ 6.9/10
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and…
4
The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
★ 6.9/10
A group of dated appliances, finding themselves stranded in a summer home that their family had just sold, decide to seek out their eight year old 'master'.
5
Restless (2011)
★ 6.5/10
Two outsiders, both shaped by the circumstances that have brought them together, forge a deep and lasting love.
6
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
★ 7.8/10
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
7
Hamnet (2025)
★ 7.7/10
The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.
8
The Sunset Limited (2011)
★ 7.2/10
A deeply religious black ex-con thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor who tries to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, 'The Sunset Limited.' As the one attempts to connect on…
9
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
★ 7.1/10
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as…
10
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.
11
The Human Voice (2020)
★ 6.7/10
A woman watches time pass beside the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn't understand that his master has abandoned him.
12
Blackbird (2019)
★ 6.7/10
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
13
My Life Without Me (2003)
★ 6.1/10
A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before she dies without telling her family of her illness.
14
Tuesday (2024)
★ 6.8/10
A mother and her teenage daughter must confront Death when it arrives in the form of an astonishing talking bird.
15
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.
16
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
★ 6.2/10
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions…
17
The Karate Kid Part II (1986)
★ 6.4/10
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-year exile. There he must confront Yukie, the love of his youth, and Sato, his former best friend turned vengeful rival…
18
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.
19
Shadow Dancer (2012)
★ 6/10
In 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
20
Black Mirror (2011)
★ 7.8/10
A nameless drifter navigates a barren landscape punctuated by satellite dishes, radio towers and droning airplanes. Stopping periodically in anonymous hotel rooms, she makes attempts to connect to an unidentified…