After checking out the latest hits at the movie theater, try something similar listed below.
Lady Bird: "Lady Bird" McPherson, a teenager in Sacramento, tries to make her own way in the world.
- The Diary of a Teenage Girl: A 15-year-old aspiring comic book artist comes of age in 1970's San Francisco. Based on the novel.
- Frances Ha: Greta Gerwig, director of Lady Bird, stars as the title character in this black-and-white comedy about an aspiring dancer trying to work her life out in New York.
- The Edge of Seventeen: Two high school girls are best friends until one dates the other's older brother.
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: A mother rents three billboards to send a message to the police after her daughter's murder goes unsolved.
- In Bruges: Director Martin McDonagh demonstrated his knack for black humor in this crime caper set in Belgium.
- Fargo: Frances McDormand is determined to catch the criminal in both Three Billboards and Fargo.
- Prisoners: A darker take on the conflict between parents of victims and the police, from director Denis Villeneuve.
- Flannery O'Connor: Three Billboards borrows from O'Connor's Southern Gothic style.
- The Lobster: Director Yorgos Lanthimos also directed this surreal science fiction romance, which also stars Colin Farrell.
- Blue Velvet: Is Lanthimos the new David Lynch? Both mix the surreal with the everyday, and offer little in the way of explanation.
- Funny Games: Two psychotic young men take a family hostage in this sadistic thriller that also plays with reality.
- Eyes Wide Shut: Nicole Kidman also stars in this dream-like drama.
Murder on the Orient Express: A brilliant detective investigates a murder aboard a stalled train in this adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie novel.
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974): Compare director Branagh's modern take to acclaimed director Sidney Lumet's take from the 70's: both feature star-studded casts!
- Henry V: Try another film from Branagh's directing filmography - this acclaimed Shakespeare adaptation shows his attention to lush detail.
- Agatha Christie's Poirot: Need more Agatha Christie, or Poirot? David Suchet's performance of the famed detective is iconic.
- L.A. Confidential: A twisting mystery unfolds as three detectives unravel the conspiracy behind a killing at a diner.
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