Top 20 movies like Beside Her
Top 20 Movies like Beside Her
- 1. A Place For Ashes
- 2. Myth
- 3. Two Nights
- 4. Pond, Fish
- 5. Cabaret Kadne
- 6. The Cook
- 7. Alba
- 8. As One
- 9. Finding Jedda
- 10. Giants
- 11. Jungle
- 12. Nest
- 13. Prom Night
- 14. Reptile
- 15. Slap
- 16. The Story of Lee Ping
- 17. Tough
- 18. You and Me, Before and After
- 19. 헤엄치는 새
- 20. How To Catfish Your Ex
1. A Place For Ashes
"A Place for Ashes" is the story of two sisters: Phoebe, an anxiety-ridden college dropout with a guarded personality, and her younger sister Taylor, a bubbly micromanager with a sunny disposition. The two of them discover how they can rebuild their relationship and why it fell apart in the first place.
It has an average vote of 10 on TMDB.
2. Myth
Collaborating with Australian circus company Gravity & Other Myths, 2020 BAFTA Newcomer and Berlinale Talent Campus alumna Alies Sluiter crafts a disquieting, quasi-surrealist tale of bravery and grief.
3. Two Nights
Over two nights, a young Chinese immigrant has sexual encounters with two very different men. Consequently, he has to choose between the one he wants or the who wants him.
It has an average vote of 4 on TMDB.
4. Pond, Fish (池鱼)
Qingyan Yu confronts confusion and self-identity problems as she gets to the point where romance starts to take place in her adolescence.
5. Cabaret Kadne
Otto and Lola, two cabaret artists, fill their lives with their passion: acting.
It has an average vote of 7 on TMDB.
6. The Cook
A young chef cooks up a mysterious dish.
It has an average vote of 4.8 on TMDB.
7. Alba
An aspiring Peruvian-Australian performer is partnered with her ex-boyfriend in a community Marinera dance competition.
8. As One
In the woods, a young woman and man scuffle as they fight for life. Gently lit and accompanied with a soundtrack of soaring strings, this film by Jessie Oldfield and Adam Murfet explores vulnerability, connectedness and a renewed sense of self among the autumn leaves.
9. Finding Jedda
Betty and Rosalie are best friends living on a Northern Territory mission. When cinema titans Charles and Elsa Chauvel arrive, searching for the perfect star for their revolutionary moving picture, the girls are forced to decide whether to rise up to the occasion.
10. Giants
Impressively shot over an 18-month period, Giants documents the changing drought-ridden landscape – from green to yellow to a Mars-like brown-red dust – from the perspective of one farmer, who risks losing everything as he holds fast to remain on his land.
11. Jungle
A young woman awakens to find herself in the midst of a living nightmare.
12. Nest
In early-colonial Australia, a timber feller, kept awake by his infant child’s cries of hunger, encounters something perturbing in the woods.
13. Prom Night
A Lynchian depiction of self-transformation in the social media age. Steeped in saturated colour, unnerving cinematography and bold sound design, this chamber piece depicts a young woman’s confrontation with impostor syndrome and racialised beauty standards.
14. Reptile
A group of schoolboys engage in tomfoolery, but it’s not long before playful behaviour turns primal.
15. Slap
An intimidating encounter with a group of teens forces a 12-year-old to ponder her place in the world.
16. The Story of Lee Ping
In the 1920s, the unlikely bond between Chinese erotic dancer Lee Ping and an Aboriginal farmhand enables her to escape the clutches of her white employer.
17. Tough
After her father unexpectedly hits her, a young girl decides to toughen up.
18. You and Me, Before and After
Now in their 30s, grumbling sisters Hannah and Rachel decide to get their first tattoos together. As they get inked, and unable to leave until it’s done, they bond in conversation over still-fresh wounds that they share.
20. How To Catfish Your Ex
A neurotic, heartbroken young woman searches for closure by convincing a friend to catfish her ex-boyfriend on a dating app.