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

We Live in Public
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Synthetic Pleasures for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
In 1999, Internet entrepreneur Josh Harris recruits dozens of young men and women who agree to live in underground apartments for weeks at a time while their every movement is broa...

Take Your Pills
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Synthetic Pleasures for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
In a hypercompetitive world, drugs like Adderall offer students, athletes, coders and others a way to do more -- faster and better. But at what cost?...

OtherLife
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Synthetic Pleasures for fans of Sci-Fi. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, m...

Heart of a Dog
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Synthetic Pleasures for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Lyrical and powerfully personal essay film that reflects on the deaths of her husband Lou Reed, her mother, her beloved dog, and such diverse subjects as family memories, surveilla...

Making 'The Shining'
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Synthetic Pleasures for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Directed and edited by Stanley Kubrick's daughter Vivian Kubrick, this film offers a look behind the scenes during the making of The Shining....

Side by Side
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Synthetic Pleasures for fans of Documentary. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.
Since the invention of cinema, the standard format for recording moving images has been film. Over the past two decades, a new form of digital filmmaking has emerged, creating a gr...