Movies Like Slag

If you liked Slag, a movie directed by Uriel Emil Pollack, 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
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
★ 7.2/10
Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
2
The Girl on the Train (2016)
★ 6.4/10
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something…
3
As Good as It Gets (1997)
★ 7.4/10
A misanthropic author, a single mother and waitress, and a gay artist form an unlikely friendship after the artist is assaulted in a robbery.
4
High Strung (1992)
★ 6/10
Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him, begins another day of complaining to himself…
5
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
★ 5.9/10
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
6
Listen Up Philip (2014)
★ 5.8/10
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend…
7
Smoke (1995)
★ 7.2/10
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate…
8
The World According to Garp (1982)
★ 6.7/10
A struggling young writer finds his life and work dominated by his unfaithful wife and his radical feminist mother, whose best-selling manifesto turns her into a cultural icon.
9
Neverwas (2005)
★ 6.4/10
Zach Riley is a psychiatrist, who leaves a job at a prestigious university, to take up a job at the privately run mental institution, Millwood. What he doesn't reveal at the time of his appointment is that this was the…
10
Just Like Heaven (2005)
★ 7/10
Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts…
11
Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
★ 6.2/10
Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own…
12
Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 (2011)
★ 5.9/10
Puppy mayhem turns the lives of newlywed Chihuahua parents Papi and Chloe upside down when their rambunctious, mischievous puppies present one challenge after another. But when their human owners end up in trouble, the…
13
Lazareth (2024)
★ 6/10
Lee is an aunt whose life mission is to protect her orphaned nieces, Imogen and Maeve, from a self-destructing world, raising them in isolation until an outsider threatens their peaceful existence.
14
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.
15
Pretty Persuasion (2005)
★ 5.8/10
A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
16
My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
★ 6.3/10
An unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
17
Derailed (2005)
★ 6.4/10
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
18
The Prince of Tides (1991)
★ 6.6/10
A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister's psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.
19
Cass (2008)
★ 5.9/10
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
20
Shuffle (2012)
★ 6.4/10
Lovell Milo is a man who begins experiencing his life out of order; every day he wakes up at a different age, on a different day of his life, never knowing where or when he’s going to be once he falls asleep. He’s…