{"canonical_url":"https://app.arlotv.ai/like/poor-things-tt14230458","canonical_id":"imdb:tt14230458","title":"Poor Things","year":2023,"type":"movie","arlo_similar_take":"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.","similar":[{"title":"Heartbeat","year":1946,"url":"https://app.arlotv.ai/title/heartbeat-cat-heartbeat","why":"Heartbeat shares Poor Things' deadpan comic sensibility and its portrait of a spirited young woman navigating society's rules through cunning and charm while pursuing an unlikely romance across European settings."},{"title":"Beggars Of Life","year":1928,"url":"https://app.arlotv.ai/title/beggars-of-life-cat-beggars-of-life","why":"Wellman's silent masterpiece traces a young woman's liberation through cross-country flight with an unlikely male companion, exchanging Victorian constraint for hard-won autonomy across unforgiving landscapes."},{"title":"Diary Of A Lost Girl (Clean Version)","year":1929,"url":"https://app.arlotv.ai/title/diary-of-a-lost-girl-clean-version-cat-diary-of-a-lost-girl-clean-version","why":"Pabst's expressionist aesthetic and protagonist who defies societal conventions through uncompromising independence mirror the visual audacity and feminist core that drive Poor Things' portrait of a woman's radical self-determination."},{"title":"Newton's Law","year":2017,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Yorgos Lanthimos's whimsical visual language returns in this character-driven drama where a woman's unconventional journey toward professional and personal reinvention unfolds through sharp dialogue and deeply felt emotional stakes."},{"title":"Molly","year":2017,"url":"https://app.arlotv.ai/title/molly-cat-molly","why":"Colinda Bongers and Thijs Meuwese craft the same visual audacity and deadpan humor that defines their protagonist's journey—a woman learning to navigate an unforgiving world through unconventional means and hard-won self-determination."}],"updated_at":"2026-07-28"}