Movies Like The Inner Scar

If you liked The Inner Scar (1972), a fantasy movie directed by Philippe Garrel, 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
The Brand New Testament (2015)
★ 6.7/10Also fantasy
God 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…
2
Entr'acte (1924)
★ 7/10Also fantasy
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most dada film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a…
3
Testament of Orpheus (1960)
★ 7.6/10Also fantasy
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own…
4
MirrorMask (2005)
★ 6.4/10Also fantasy
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
5
Sucker Punch (2011)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to collect five mystical…
6
Northfork (2003)
★ 6/10Also fantasy
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the…
7
The Severed Heads (1957)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy
A short mime adaptation of a Thomas Mann story about a Parisian urchin who makes her living selling human heads.
8
Interstate 60 (2002)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
9
Gandahar (1987)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasy
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious…
10
Rubber (2010)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy
In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.
11
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy
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.
12
Chaos Walking (2021)
★ 6.5/10Also fantasy
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
13
The Dark Tower (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also fantasy
A boy haunted by visions of a parallel world aids its disillusioned guardian in preventing the destruction of the nexus of universes known as the Dark Tower.
14
Purgatory (1999)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasy
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals…
15
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy
Sarah 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…
16
The King and the Mockingbird (1980)
★ 7.8/10Also fantasy
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
17
One Hundred and One Nights (1995)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
18
Southbound (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy
The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister…
19
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasy
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who…
20
Unicorn Store (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy
A woman named Kit moves back to her parent's house, where she receives a mysterious invitation that would fulfill her childhood dreams.