Movies Like Privacy Settings
If you liked Privacy Settings (2013), a movie directed by Joe Swanberg, 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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Hi, Mom! (1970)
★ 6.3/10Vietnam vet Jon Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with…
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Thin Ice (2012)
★ 6.5/10A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
★ 6.1/10A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
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Barbarosa (1982)
★ 5.9/10Karl Westover, an inexperienced farm boy, runs away after unintentionally killing a neighbor, whose family pursues him for vengeance. He meets Barbarosa, a gunman of near-mythical proportions, who is himself in danger…
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Body Double (1984)
★ 6.7/10After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies…
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Nightfall (1956)
★ 6.9/10An innocent man turns fugitive as he reconstructs events that implicate him for a murder and robbery he did not commit.
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Watching the Detectives (2007)
★ 6.3/10Neil, a self-proclaimed film geek and owner of Gumshoe video, has always been content to live vicariously through his favorite films noir. But when he meets Violet, a real-life femme fatale, his mundane world gets…
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Peeping Tom (1960)
★ 7.4/10Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He…
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Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)
★ 6.1/10An erotic story about a woman, the assistant of an art gallery, who gets involved in an impersonal affair with a man. She barely knows about his life, only about the sex games they play, so the relationship begins to…
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The Girl (2012)
★ 6.1/10Director Alfred Hitchcock is revered as one of the greatest creative minds in the history of cinema. Known for his psychological thrillers, Hitchcock’s leading ladies were cool, beautiful and preferably blonde. One…
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Maniac (2012)
★ 6/10As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.
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Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999)
★ 6/10Deuce Bigalow is a less than attractive, down on his luck aquarium cleaner. One day he wrecks the house of a gigolo and needs quick money to repair it. The only way he can make it is to become a gigolo himself, taking…
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Taking Care of Business (1990)
★ 6.3/10An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
★ 6.1/10A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself and into a chaotic adventure of amnesia and…
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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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Sherlock Jr. (1924)
★ 8/10A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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North by Northwest (1959)
★ 8/10Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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The Sound of Silence (2019)
★ 5.9/10A 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.
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Lucky Them (2013)
★ 6/10More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what…