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Movies Like Looking at the dead

If you liked Looking at the dead (2011), a movie directed by Jean-Gabriel Périot, 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 Portrait of a Lady

    The Portrait of a Lady (1996)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Ms. Isabel Archer isn't afraid to challenge societal norms. Impressed by her free spirit, her kindhearted cousin writes her into his fatally ill father's will. Suddenly rich and independent, Isabelle ventures into the…

  2. 2The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

    The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)

    ★ 7.4/10

    An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.

  3. 3The Eighth Day

    The Eighth Day (1996)

    ★ 7.3/10

    An unusual and wonderful friendship develops between a busy but unhappy salesman and a resident of a mental asylum.

  4. 4Portrait of Jennie

    Portrait of Jennie (1948)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In Depression-era New York, painter Eben Adams despairs at his lack of success. One cold winter evening in Central Park, he meets enigmatic, old-fashioned Jennie Appleton, who captures his fancy when she asks him to…

  5. 5Asteroid City

    Asteroid City (2023)

    ★ 6.5/10

    In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.

  6. 6New York Stories

    New York Stories (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Francis Ford Coppola)…

  7. 7Dalíland

    Dalíland (2022)

    ★ 5.9/10

    In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.

  8. 8Woman in Gold

    Woman in Gold (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Maria Altmann, an octogenarian Jewish refugee, takes on the government to recover artwork she believes rightfully belongs to her family.

  9. 9The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

    The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal…

  10. 10Wonderstruck

    Wonderstruck (2017)

    ★ 6.1/10

    The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

  11. 11Salomé

    Salomé (2013)

    ★ 6.1/10

    After the lewd and frenetic Dance of the Seven Veils, and with the solemn pledge from the very lips of Herod himself that she could have whatever her heart desires up to half his kingdom, wanton and proud young Salomé…

  12. 12Nine 1/2 Weeks

    Nine 1/2 Weeks (1986)

    ★ 6.1/10

    An 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…

  13. 13Don't Worry Darling

    Don't Worry Darling (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10

    Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their…

  14. 14Love Is in the Air

    Love Is in the Air (2013)

    ★ 6/10

    Antoine is a lawyer living in New York. On his way back to France for the final round of a job interview, Antoine finds himself sitting right next to his ex-girlfriend Julie. With a seven-hour flight ahead of them…

  15. 15The Good Liar

    The Good Liar (2019)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Career con man Roy sets his sights on his latest mark: recently widowed Betty, worth millions. And he means to take it all. But as the two draw closer, what should have been another simple swindle takes on the ultimate…

  16. 16Femmes Fatales

    Femmes Fatales (1976)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they…

  17. 17Stealing Beauty

    Stealing Beauty (1996)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian…

  18. 18An Autumn Romance

    An Autumn Romance (2021)

    ★ 7/10

    When librarian Taylor Harris suddenly loses her job, she decides to visit her brother in a small town in Montana. There, she gets involved in the fight to help save her brother's hotel from tycoon Joel Sheenan, who…

  19. 19The Goldfinch

    The Goldfinch (2019)

    ★ 7.1/10

    A boy in New York is taken in by a wealthy family after his mother is killed in a bombing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In a rush of panic, he steals 'The Goldfinch', a painting that eventually draws him into a…

  20. 20Shining Through

    Shining Through (1992)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight…

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