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Movies Like Anecdote

If you liked Anecdote (2008), a movie directed by Nathan Silver, 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. 1The Trials of Cate McCall

    The Trials of Cate McCall (2013)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.

  2. 2Fun with Dick and Jane

    Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)

    ★ 6.2/10

    After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty…

  3. 3The Roses

    The Roses (2025)

    ★ 6.6/10

    Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while…

  4. 4Poor Cow

    Poor Cow (1967)

    ★ 6.4/10

    Joy lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age, she marries and has a child–with an abusive thief who quickly ends up incarcerated. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to…

  5. 5The Last Seduction

    The Last Seduction (1994)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.

  6. 6Fracture

    Fracture (2007)

    ★ 7.3/10

    A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner…

  7. 7Wasp

    Wasp (2003)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Zoë 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…

  8. 8The 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.

  9. 9Bad Sister

    Bad Sister (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10

    As 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…

  10. 10Glengarry Glen Ross

    Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

    ★ 7.3/10

    An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Unscrupulous salesmen try to hawk dubious real estate to suckers.

  11. 11How to Please a Woman

    How to Please a Woman (2022)

    ★ 6.3/10

    When her all-male house-cleaning business gets out of control, a mature woman must embrace her own sexuality, if she is to make a new life for herself.

  12. 12Can You Ever Forgive Me?

    Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

    ★ 6.8/10

    When a bestselling celebrity biographer is no longer able to get published because she has fallen out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.

  13. 13Love & Sex

    Love & Sex (2000)

    ★ 6.2/10

    When her rather explicit copy is rejected, magazine journalist Kate is asked by her editor to come up with an article on loving relationships instead, and to do so by the end of the day. This gets Kate thinking back…

  14. 14The Paradine Case

    The Paradine Case (1947)

    ★ 6.3/10

    In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused of poisoning her blind husband. Though happily married, Keane becomes infatuated with his enigmatic client and…

  15. 15Erin Brockovich

    Erin Brockovich (2000)

    ★ 7.4/10

    A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses…

  16. 16Double Indemnity

    Double Indemnity (1944)

    ★ 8.1/10

    An 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.

  17. 17The Man from Elysian Fields

    The Man from Elysian Fields (2001)

    ★ 5.9/10

    A failed novelist's inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife and leads him to work at an escort service, where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer.

  18. 18One Day

    One Day (2011)

    ★ 7.4/10

    After spending the night together on the eve of their college graduation, Dexter and Emma are shown each year on the same date to see where they are in their lives. They are sometimes together, and sometimes not.

  19. 19Alex of Venice

    Alex of Venice (2015)

    ★ 5.9/10

    After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing father and household all by herself.

  20. 20The Phoenician Scheme

    The Phoenician Scheme (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda appoints his only daughter, a nun, as sole heir to his estate. As Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists, and determined…

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