Movies like Poor Things

If you want Poor Things' blend of deadpan humor, visual artifice, and a woman's hard-won autonomy against societal constraint, you'll likely find it in other Lanthimos films like Other People's Children or Newton's Law, which share that deliberately stylized approach to female self-discovery. For the broader archetype—a young woman's transformative journey toward liberation through unlikely companionship and unforgiving landscapes—Beggars of Life and Wildlike probably match that thematic spine, though they lack Poor Things' baroque visual language and comic detachment. If you're chasing the surrealist visual audacity specifically, the silent expressionist tradition (Diary of a Lost Girl, Heartbeat) might scratch that itch, but none of these fully replicate the film's particular alchemy of body-horror sci-fi premise, feminist bildungsroman, and deadpan European sensibility.