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Movies Like Professor Taranne

If you liked Professor Taranne (1987), a movie directed by Raúl Ruiz, 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. 1Enemy

    Enemy (2014)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.

  2. 2Rememory

    Rememory (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory.

  3. 3Smart People

    Smart People (2008)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Professor Lawrence Wetherhold might be imperiously brilliant, monumentally self-possessed and an intellectual giant -- but when it comes to solving the conundrums of love and family, he's as downright flummoxed as the…

  4. 4Stay

    Stay (2005)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he…

  5. 5The Human Stain

    The Human Stain (2003)

    ★ 6/10

    Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in…

  6. 6Vivacious Lady

    Vivacious Lady (1938)

    ★ 7/10

    College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.

  7. 7The Rewrite

    The Rewrite (2014)

    ★ 6/10

    An Oscar-winning writer in a slump leaves Hollywood to teach screenwriting at a college on the East Coast, where he falls for a single mom taking classes there.

  8. 8Educating Rita

    Educating Rita (1983)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Rita, a witty 26-year-old hairdresser, wants to 'discover' herself, so she joins the Open University where she meets the disillusioned professor of literature, Dr. Frank Bryant. His marriage has failed, his new…

  9. 9The Professor

    The Professor (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a…

  10. 10Cairo Conspiracy

    Cairo Conspiracy (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A fisherman's son is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicenter of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival, the university’s highest ranking religious leader, the…

  11. 11Dead Tired

    Dead Tired (1994)

    ★ 6/10

    Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to…

  12. 12Deception

    Deception (2008)

    ★ 6/10

    As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's…

  13. 13The Man from Earth

    The Man from Earth (2007)

    ★ 7.6/10

    A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and…

  14. 14Sleep, My Love

    Sleep, My Love (1948)

    ★ 6.3/10

    A woman wakes up in the middle of the night on board a train, but she can't remember how she got there. Danger and suspense ensue.

  15. 15The Pelican Brief

    The Pelican Brief (1993)

    ★ 6.6/10

    A law student's theory about the recent deaths of two Supreme Court justices embroils her in a far-reaching web of murder, corruption, and greed.

  16. 16Paranoiac

    Paranoiac (1963)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Eleven years ago, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide. All who remains is cruel Simon, an alcoholic in desperate need of…

  17. 17Black Box

    Black Box (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10

    After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.

  18. 18Sorry, Baby

    Sorry, Baby (2025)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her…

  19. 19The Outrun

    The Outrun (2024)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Fresh out of rehab, Rona returns to the Orkney Islands—a place both wild and beautiful, right off the Scottish coast. Now 29 and after more than a decade of living life on the edge in London, where she both found and…

  20. 20Black Widow

    Black Widow (1987)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple…

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