Movies Like Words, Words

If you liked Words, Words (2021), a movie directed by Franck Villette, 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
Shut In (2022)
★ 6.7/10
A young single mother is held captive along with her two children by a violent ex and must plot their escape before it’s too late.
2
Poison (1991)
★ 6/10
A trio of interweaved transgressive tales, telling a bizarre stories of suburban patricide and a miraculous flight from justice, a mad sex experiment which unleashes a disfiguring plague, and the obsessive sexual…
3
Irreversible (2002)
★ 7.2/10
A woman’s lover and her ex-boyfriend take justice into their own hands after she becomes the victim of a rapist. Because some acts can’t be undone. Because man is an animal. Because the desire for vengeance is a…
4
The Last Supper (1995)
★ 6.5/10
A group of idealistic but frustrated liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering right-wing pundits for their political beliefs.
5
The Last Stand of Ellen Cole (2024)
★ 8.1/10
When an evil contractor goes to extreme measures to evict a testy tenant who is standing in the way of his new project, he fails to take into account that this seemingly harmless old woman is a trained killer and will…
6
uwantme2killhim? (2013)
★ 5.9/10
Based on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
7
Casque d'Or (1952)
★ 7.3/10
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
8
Bluebeard (1963)
★ 6.4/10
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds…
9
Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
★ 5.9/10
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
10
Day of the Woman (1978)
★ 6/10
A young, beautiful career woman rents a backwoods cabin to write her first novel. Attacked by a group of local lowlifes and left for dead, she devises a horrific plan to inflict revenge.
11
Case 137 (2025)
★ 6.9/10
When Internal Affairs officer Stéphanie investigates a young man severely injured during a chaotic Paris demonstration and finds no police misconduct, the routine case hits close to home upon her discovering the victim…
12
God Bless America (2012)
★ 7/10
Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant.
13
The Words (2012)
★ 6.7/10
The Words follows young writer Rory Jansen who finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch - he didn't write it. As the past comes back to…
14
Blackbird (2019)
★ 6.7/10
A terminally ill mother invites her family to their country house for one final gathering, but tensions quickly boil over between her two daughters.
15
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2011)
★ 8.1/10
A former assassin, known simply as The Bride, wakes from a coma four years after her jealous ex-lover Bill attempts to murder her on her wedding day. Fueled by an insatiable desire for revenge, she vows to get even…
16
Anonymous Animals (2021)
★ 6.2/10
The balance of power between man and animal is reversed. In a remote countryside, any encounter with the dominant can become hostile. At the crossroads of fantastic and suspense kind, Anonymous Animals questions the…
17
Blitz (2011)
★ 6.2/10
A tough cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
18
Elephant (2003)
★ 7/10
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.
19
Le Créateur (1999)
★ 6.8/10
A playwright of note, Darius developed a drinking problem after his first major hit, and has taken time out from writing his follow-up to go to a clinic and dry out. After his release, Darius finds his producer has…
20
It's Only the End of the World (2016)
★ 7.2/10
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.