Movies Like Perpetual Perpetuity of an Idiom
If you liked Perpetual Perpetuity of an Idiom, a movie directed by Candyce Weir, 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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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
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25th Hour (2002)
★ 7.3/10On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall in a city still reeling from 9/11.
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The Borrowers (1997)
★ 6.1/10The four-inch-tall Clock family secretly share a house with the normal-sized Lender family, "borrowing" such items as thread, safety pins, batteries and scraps of food. However, their peaceful co-existence is disturbed…
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Strange but True (2019)
★ 6/10A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
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Original Sin (2001)
★ 6.2/10A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp.
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12 Feet Deep (2018)
★ 6/10Two sisters are trapped under the fiberglass cover of an Olympic sized public pool and must brave the cold and each other to survive the harrowing night.
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Interstate 60 (2002)
★ 7.4/10An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
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Dead Man Down (2013)
★ 6.2/10In New York City, a crime lord's right-hand man is seduced by a woman seeking retribution.
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Pickup on South Street (1953)
★ 7.4/10In New York City, an insolent pickpocket, Skip McCoy, inadvertently sets off a chain of events when he targets ex-prostitute Candy and steals her wallet. Unaware that she has been making deliveries of highly classified…
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The Most Hated Woman in America (2017)
★ 6.2/10The true story of Madalyn Murray O'Hair -- iconoclast, opportunist, and outspoken atheist -- from her controversial rise to her untimely demise.
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Bad Sister (2015)
★ 6.6/10As a top student at St. Adeline's Catholic Boarding School, Zoe senses that something is not quite right about the school's new nun-- a sense proven to be true when it is revealed the "good' nun is an imposter with a…
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Charm City Kings (2020)
★ 7.8/10Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds…
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The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)
★ 8.1/10A family dog – with a near-human soul and a philosopher's mind – evaluates his life through the lessons learned by his human owner, a race-car driver.
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Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase (2019)
★ 6.4/10Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set…
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
★ 7.3/10Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The hunchback Quasimodo, Frollo's protege and bell-ringer of Notre Dame, lives in…
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Hell Hath No Fury (2021)
★ 6.4/10Branded a traitor by her countrymen, French national Marie DuJardin is rescued by American soldiers on one condition: to survive, she must lead them to a cache of gold - before the Nazis return to claim it for…
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Code 46 (2003)
★ 6.2/10In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passports that record people's identities and genetics. Gold falls for Maria…
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Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
★ 6/10A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday in Morocco. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on…
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Double Indemnity (1944)
★ 8.1/10An insurance representative is seduced by a dissatisfied housewife into a scheme of insurance fraud and murder that arouses the suspicion of his colleague, a claims investigator.
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The Kindness of Strangers (2019)
★ 6.4/10Clara and her two sons escape from her abusive husband with little more than their car and plan to start over in New York. After the car towed away, the family meets Alice, who gets them into an emergency shelter…