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10 Best Movies Like Pickpocket

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

#1
Au Hasard Balthazar

Au Hasard Balthazar

1966★ 7.5

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

The story of a donkey Balthazar as he is passed from owner to owner, some kind and some cruel but all with motivations beyond his understanding. Balthazar, whose life parallels tha...

#2
The Trial of Joan of Arc

The Trial of Joan of Arc

1963★ 7.2

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

Rouen, Normandy, 1431, during the Hundred Years' War. After being captured by French soldiers from an opposing faction, Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans, is unjustly tried by an ec...

#3
A Man Escaped

A Man Escaped

1956★ 7.9

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

A captured French Resistance fighter during World War II engineers a daunting escape from prison....

#4
Conflict

Conflict

1983★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pickpocket for fans of Animation. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The heroes of the film: ordinary matches. A quarrel that breaks out over nothing turns into a real battle in which both warring sides are burned....

#5
Sullivan's Banks

Sullivan's Banks

2001★ 5.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pickpocket for fans of . It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Emigholz presents the buildings of the great American architect Louis Sullivan (1856–1924). “In everything that men do they leave an indelible imprint of their minds. If this sugg...

#6
Rose Hobart

Rose Hobart

1936★ 5.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Pickpocket for fans of Mystery. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

Cornell employs clips from 1931's jungle melodrama East of Borneo – more specifically, clips of its lead actress, Rose Hobart – to disquieting effect. Through Cornell's collage edi...