Movies Like Almost Absent

If you liked Almost Absent (2022), a movie directed by Wellington Sari, 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
Caddo Lake (2024)
★ 7.2/10
When an 8-year-old girl mysteriously vanishes on Caddo Lake, a series of past deaths and disappearances begin to link together, forever altering a broken family’s history.
2
Vampir Cuadecuc (1972)
★ 6.1/10
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.
3
The Matrix Revisited (2001)
★ 6.9/10
The film goes behind the scenes of the 1999 sci-fi movie The Matrix.
4
Locked (2025)
★ 6.2/10
When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride…
5
I Saw the TV Glow (2024)
★ 6.2/10
In late-90s suburbia, a lonely teenager meets a girl at school who introduces him to a mysterious late-night T.V. show — a vision of a supernatural world pulsing beneath their own. As time goes on, however, questions…
6
Avatar: Creating the World of Pandora (2010)
★ 6.5/10
The Making-of James Cameron's Avatar. It shows interesting parts of the work on the set.
7
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
★ 7.8/10
A compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
8
V/H/S (2012)
★ 6.1/10
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
9
Curve (2016)
★ 6.9/10
Clinging 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.
10
The Director and the Jedi (2018)
★ 7.4/10
An intimate documentary delving into Rian Johnson's process as he comes in as a director new to the Star Wars universe.
11
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (2015)
★ 6.2/10
An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. First entry in Adrian Țofei's spiritual trilogy which includes We Put the World to Sleep and Pure.
12
Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
★ 6.2/10
SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director…
13
Resident Evil (2002)
★ 6.7/10
When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain…
14
Side by Side (2012)
★ 7.3/10
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a groundbreaking evolution in the medium…
15
Red Nose Day Actually (2017)
★ 7/10
Fourteen years after the events of the original film, a series of encounters between people in Britain reminds us that in these different times Love, actually exists.
16
Visions of Light (1992)
★ 7/10
Cameramen and women discuss the craft and art of cinematography and of the "DP" (the director of photography), illustrating their points with clips from 100 films, from Birth of a Nation to Do the Right Thing. Themes…
17
Shaft (1971)
★ 6.4/10
Cool Black private eye John Shaft is hired by a crime lord to find and retrieve his kidnapped daughter.
18
Einstein and the Bomb (2024)
★ 6.2/10
What happened after Einstein fled Nazi Germany? Using archival footage and his own words, this docudrama dives into the mind of a tortured genius.
19
Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
★ 5.9/10
The ultimate weapon, claimed to be safe for mankind, produces global side-effects including time slides and disappearances. The scientist behind the project and his car are zapped from the year 2031 to 1817 in…
20
Unknown Dimension: The Story of Paranormal Activity (2021)
★ 6.6/10
A deep dive into the making of the Paranormal Activity films with first time ever interviews with cast and crew, never-before-seen footage from the movies, and a preview of the seventh installment in the franchise.