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10 Best Movies Like Absurd People

If you loved Absurd People, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Qwerty

Qwerty

2012★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absurd People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The movie is a fictionalized account of a disgruntled cop who has been wrongly implicated in a torture video that went viral. It begins on his last night of duty, as he is about to...

#2
Pity

Pity

2018★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absurd People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the li...

#3
Palazzina LAF

Palazzina LAF

2023★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absurd People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track...

#4
Shun Li and the Poet

Shun Li and the Poet

2011★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absurd People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon....

#5
Pickpocket

Pickpocket

1997★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absurd People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A small town pickpocket whose friends have moved on to higher trades finds himself bitter and unable to adapt....

#6
Balancing Act

Balancing Act

2013★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Absurd People for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Giulio suddenly finds himself having to change his life when his wife, after discovering his betrayal, asks for a separation and, suddenly, the reality around him is no longer the ...