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10 Best Movies Like Sans Soleil

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

#1
The Lovely Month of May

The Lovely Month of May

1963★ 8.0

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

Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-be...

#2
Footprints on the Moon

Footprints on the Moon

1975★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Sans Soleil for fans of Thriller. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to th...

#3
Two Ships

Two Ships

2012★ 5.8

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

The overexcited night of a young pinched painter and a crazy comedienne. In the impossibility to end up alone, Laetitia and Thomas cross every situation between drama and lightness...

#4
The Days to Come

The Days to Come

2019★ 5.8

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

Pure and honest, this intimate glimpse of future parenthood. Not least because protagonists Maria Rodríguez and David Verdaguer surrender themselves entirely to the process: during...

#5
A Grin Without a Cat

A Grin Without a Cat

1977★ 7.8

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

Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s. Through archival footage and commentary,...

#6
Project Nim

Project Nim

2011★ 6.8

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

From the team behind Man on Wire comes the story of Nim, the chimpanzee who in the 1970s became the focus of a landmark experiment which aimed to show that an ape could learn to co...