Movies Like Faults

If you liked Faults (2014), a drama and comedy movie directed by Riley Stearns, 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
Matchstick Men (2003)
★ 7/10Also comedy and drama
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
2
Cecil B. Demented (2000)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and crime
A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.
3
I Care a Lot (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also crime and thriller
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
4
Joker (2019)
★ 8.1/10Also crime and thriller
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
5
Family Plot (1976)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and crime
Spiritualist Blanche Tyler and her cab-driving boyfriend encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
6
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and drama
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
7
Kinds of Kindness (2024)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and drama
A triptych fable following a man without choice who tries to take control of his own life; a policeman who is alarmed that his wife who was missing-at-sea has returned and seems a different person; and a woman…
8
A Serious Man (2009)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. He scrambles to find a semblance of meaning as he loses control of…
9
Eternal Beauty (2020)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama
When Jane is rejected by life, she spirals into a chaotic, schizophrenic world where love and normality collide with humorous consequences.
10
Bugonia (2025)
★ 7.3/10Also thriller and comedy
Two conspiracy obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
11
A Crooked Somebody (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also drama and thriller
An attention-seeking psychic is kidnapped and tries to use the situation to boost his popularity.
12
Burn After Reading (2008)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and drama
When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of gym employees, Linda and Chad, they see a chance to make enough money for Linda to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events…
13
Welcome to Me (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama
A year in the life of Alice Klieg, a woman with Borderline personality disorder who wins the Mega Millions lottery, quits her meds and buys her own talk show.
14
Defendor (2009)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and comedy
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to…
15
Panic (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and drama
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful…
16
Seven Psychopaths (2012)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and crime
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
17
Idiocracy (2006)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and thriller
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average European-Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events…
18
Neverwas (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also drama and thriller
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the…
19
Whirlpool (1950)
★ 6.4/10Also thriller and crime
The wife of a psychoanalyst falls prey to a devious quack hypnotist when he discovers she is an habitual shoplifter. Then one of his previous patients now being treated by the real doctor is found murdered, with her…
20
Trapped (2002)
★ 6.2/10Also crime and thriller
Held hostage in different cities after their daughter is kidnapped by a master extortionist, a desperate couple must find a way to outsmart a seemingly foolproof plot.