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2023 · Movie · your starting pointIf Poor Things is the itch, these scratch it — some louder, some quieter. Free ones first.
Movies like Poor Things, ranked
1. Other People's Children (2015)
Bella Baxter's frank sensuality and defiant rejection of societal constraints echo through this portrait of a privileged woman whose curiosity about an outsider's existence becomes an all-consuming education that strips away her former self.
2. From Other Worlds (2004)
Yorgos Lanthimos's precise visual compositions and deadpan humor return here as a fish-out-of-water heroine navigates absurd circumstances with philosophical curiosity, discovering agency through romantic entanglement and cosmic displacement.
3. Wild Child (2008)
Yorgos Lanthimos's deadpan visual style returns in this boarding school comedy where a protagonist's fish-out-of-water journey forces her to unlearn toxic behavior and discover authentic autonomy through unlikely friendships and rebellion against societal constraint.
5. Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
Yorgos Lanthimos directs both films with whimsical visual inventiveness and deadpan humor to explore how unconventional women navigate impossible circumstances and forge their own paths through absurdity.
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