15 Movies Like Intimate Lighting
Loved Intimate Lighting? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.
My Girl
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is "allergic to everything", and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, and begins to fall for her, things take a turn to the worse...
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Intimate Lighting.
The Banshees of Inisherin
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Intimate Lighting.
Touchless
Jolana (18) is an object of her step-father's desire. She is unable to cope, especially when her own mother turns a blind eye. Those events are heavily paid for when she finds herself working in a brothel. Her inability to cope raise a question: What is it she actually wants? Are her dreams of escaping really better than the reality she finds herself in?
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Intimate Lighting.
The Young One
A jazz musician seeks refuge from a lynch mob on a remote island, where he meets a hostile game warden and the young object of his attentions.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Intimate Lighting.
The Creation of the World
La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechia and directed by Eduard Hofman. It is adapted from a series of five books by Jean Effel, a French caricaturist and illustrator. The visual style is adapted from his drawings. The film is a comedy about the creation of the universe in six days, with the devil messing around and contributing in his own way.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Intimate Lighting.
Men in Hope
Charming bon vivant Rudolf is convinced that infidelity is the basis for a happy marriage, since, after all, a woman does not want to be bored with her partner.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Intimate Lighting.
This Is Where I Leave You
When their father passes away, four grown, world-weary siblings return to their childhood home and are requested -- with an admonition -- to stay there together for a week, along with their free-speaking mother and a collection of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. As the brothers and sisters re-examine their shared history and the status of each tattered relationship among those who know and love them best, they reconnect in hysterically funny and emotionally significant ways.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Intimate Lighting.
Even Mice Belong in Heaven
Whizzy is a little mouse, Whitebelly is a fox. They are naturally mortal enemies. One day, after an unfortunate accident, both meet in animal heaven. Together, they will embark on a fantastic journey and discover friendship can overcome everything.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Intimate Lighting.
Moving On
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Intimate Lighting.
SubUrbia
A group of suburban teenagers try to support each other through the difficult task of becoming adults.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Intimate Lighting.
Shades of Fern
Based on the only extensive prose work by the surrealist painter Josef Capek, Shades of Fern most resembles the philosophical fairy tales and fables of Josef’s older brother, the legendary Czech novelist and playwright Karel Capek. Two young poachers, more boys than men, kill a gamekeeper when they are caught illegally hunting. Panicked, they retreat into a forest that grows steadily more forbidding and deadly as their fear for the future—and guilt over their action—mounts. Loosely based on hundreds of oral folk tales and legends that haunt the woods of Czechoslovakia, Vlácil’s contemporary updating artistically underscores the relationship between man and nature, crime and punishment, isolation and society, and guilt and memory.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Intimate Lighting.
Mandragora
Marek is a 15-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He is mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and becomes a male prostitute. He is a bit smarter than his colleagues and teams up with a friend, David, in order to go after bigger scores – to cash in and get out. They manage to stash away a bit of money, but when it comes time to return home, Marek loses his nerve and is soon back in the city.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Intimate Lighting.
Dirty Girl
Accompanied by her closeted gay buddy, a promiscuous teenager sets out to find her long-absent father.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Intimate Lighting.
Small Apartments
When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.
💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Intimate Lighting.
The Painted Bird
After losing his parents, a young Jewish boy wanders Eastern Europe, seeking refuge during World War II.
💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Intimate Lighting.