Movies Like Short improvisation on whatever Jacob Appelbaum meant when he wrote "selector"
If you liked Short improvisation on whatever Jacob Appelbaum meant when he wrote "selector" (2020), a movie directed by Daniel Burda, 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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Anna (2013)
★ 6.5/10A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
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Peeping Tom (1960)
★ 7.4/10Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He…
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Songbird (2020)
★ 6.1/10During a pandemic lockdown, Nico, a young man with rare immunity, must overcome martial law, murderous vigilantes and a powerful family to reunite with his love, Sara.
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Kimi (2022)
★ 6.2/10A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: leave her apartment.
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The Island (2005)
★ 6.7/10In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly…
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Curve (2016)
★ 6.9/10Clinging to a smooth, curved surface high above a sentient abyss, a woman tries to cover the few feet back to safety without losing purchase and falling to her death.
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The Conversation (1974)
★ 7.5/10A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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I Believe in Unicorns (2015)
★ 6.7/10Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
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For Colored Girls (2010)
★ 6.7/10A film about existence from the perspective of 20 nameless black females. Each of the women portray one of the characters represented in the collection of twenty poems, revealing different issues that impact women in…
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The Fallout (2021)
★ 7.5/10In the wake of a school tragedy, Vada, Mia and Quinton form a unique and dynamic bond as they navigate the never linear, often confusing journey to heal in a world that feels forever changed.
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Alien: Specimen (2019)
★ 6.2/10During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog.
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The Girl in the Book (2015)
★ 5.8/10The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)
★ 6.1/10Sarah and David are single strangers who meet at a mutual friend’s wedding and soon, through a surprising twist of fate, find themselves on a funny, fantastical, sweeping adventure together where they get to re-live…
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It Feeds (2025)
★ 6.7/10A clairvoyant therapist confronts her own personal demons while trying to save a young girl who believes a malevolent entity is feeding on her.
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The Astronaut (2025)
★ 6.1/10After returning from her first space mission, astronaut Sam Walker is placed under NASA’s care at a high security house for rehabilitation and medical testing. However, when disturbing occurrences begin happening…
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Speak (2004)
★ 7.1/10Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles…
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Unsane (2018)
★ 6.2/10A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.
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Someone's Watching Me! (1978)
★ 6.2/10A young woman moves to a high-rise apartment building and soon begins to be tormented by an unknown stalker who seems to know her every move.
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Repulsion (1965)
★ 7.4/10Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married…
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Down (2019)
★ 6.8/10A pair of coworkers gets trapped in an elevator over a long weekend, but what at first promises to be a romantic connection turns nefarious as each party begins to reveal who they truly are.