10 Best Movies Like Eel
If you loved Eel, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

Overnight
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eel for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Alternately hilarious and horrifying, Overnight chronicles one man's misadventures of making a Hollywood movie. It starts out as a rags to riches story as Troy Duffy, a Boston-bred...

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eel for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
This special explores the return of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker to the screen, as well as Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen to their classic roles. Director Deborah Chow...

Gemini Man
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eel for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
Henry Brogan is an elite 51-year-old assassin who's ready to call it quits after completing his 72nd job. His plans get turned upside down when he becomes the target of a mysteriou...

Room 237
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eel for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
A subjective documentary that explores various theories about hidden meanings in Stanley Kubrick's classic film The Shining. Five very different points of view are illuminated thro...

The Stunt Man
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eel for fans of Action. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A fugitive stumbles onto a movie set just when they need a new stunt man, takes the job as a way to hide out and falls for the leading lady while facing off with his manipulative d...

RKO 281
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Eel for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
In 1939, boy-wonder Orson Welles leaves New York, where he has succeeded in radio and theater, and, hired by RKO Pictures, moves to Hollywood with the purpose of making his first f...