{"canonical_url":"https://app.arlotv.ai/like/the-lobster-tt3464902","canonical_id":"imdb:tt3464902","title":"The Lobster","year":2015,"type":"movie","arlo_similar_take":null,"similar":[{"title":"The Menu","year":2022,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Yorgos Lanthimos's deadpan absurdism returns in this tale of a chef orchestrating an elaborate, darkly comic nightmare where guests discover the rules governing their evening are far more sinister than initially apparent."},{"title":"The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On","year":2022,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Yorgos Lanthimos's absurdist logic about enforced romantic deadlines returns here as a reality experiment where couples must immediately prove their commitment or risk losing each other entirely."},{"title":"Logan's Run","year":1976,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Yorgos Lanthimos crafts absurdist examinations of oppressive social systems where questioning authority means risking everything, and Logan's Run explores that same tension between dystopian conformity and the desperation of escape."},{"title":"The Lighthouse","year":2019,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"The Lighthouse traps two men in absurd social rituals and isolation like The Lobster does, using grotesque body horror and deadpan dark comedy to examine how desperation warps human behavior."},{"title":"Her","year":2013,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Yorgos Lanthimos's absurdist examination of romantic obligation returns in this melancholic sci-fi meditation on how systems—whether bureaucratic or algorithmic—attempt to manufacture human connection through calculated means."},{"title":"Lars and the Real Girl","year":2007,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Yorgos Lanthimos directs both films as absurdist examinations of loneliness and connection, using outlandish premises to explore how society pressures individuals into prescribed relationship roles."},{"title":"Iron Lung","year":2026,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Yorgos Lanthimos directs both films with deadpan absurdism and claustrophobic settings where arbitrary institutional rules force protagonists into impossible choices that blur the line between survival and existential dread."},{"title":"Together","year":2025,"url":"https://www.chillfree.tv/?channel=","why":"Yorgos Lanthimos explores intimate human connection through absurdist body horror and deadpan performances in this intimate two-hander that treats relationship dissolution with the same formal precision and dark comedy as his dystopian examinations of romantic desperation."}],"updated_at":"2026-09-13"}