Movies Like The Insomniac on the Bridge
If you liked The Insomniac on the Bridge (1985), 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.
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Dream Lover (1994)
★ 6.8/10Not long after they cross paths at an art gallery, architect Ray Reardon and hypnotically sensual Lena are married with children. But as strange incidents occur, Ray begins to realize he may not really know the woman…
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One Fine Morning (2022)
★ 6.4/10With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks…
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Femme Fatale (2002)
★ 6.2/10A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret…
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Desire (2011)
★ 6.3/10In a social context deteriorated by a countrywide economic crisis, the life of several people will be turned upside down after they meet Cécile, a character who symbolizes desire.
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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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The Public Woman (1984)
★ 6/10An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw…
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The Last Woman (1976)
★ 6.2/10Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
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Lost in Paris (2017)
★ 6.1/10Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
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Wasp (2003)
★ 7.2/10Zoë is a single mother who lives with her four children in Dartford. She is poor and can't afford to buy food. One day her old flame drives by and asks her to go on a date with him. Scared that he doesn't want to go…
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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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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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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
★ 7.4/10This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting…
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The Image Book (2018)
★ 6.3/10In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is poetic rhyme, the…
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The Brand New Testament (2015)
★ 6.7/10God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until…
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A Woman Is a Woman (1961)
★ 7.3/10Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
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Vivre Sa Vie (1962)
★ 7.7/10Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
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The Voyeurs (2021)
★ 6.5/10When Pippa and Thomas move into their dream apartment, they notice that their windows look directly into the apartment opposite – inviting them to witness the volatile relationship of the attractive couple across the…
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The Seventh Juror (1962)
★ 6.8/10In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if…
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The Dreamers (2003)
★ 7.2/10When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
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Elegy (2008)
★ 6.3/10Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual…