Movies like Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (1988)
The best movies like Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett (1988) are For the Love of Spock (2016), The Girl in the Book (2015) and All Day and a Night (2020). If Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett hooked you, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- Highest ratedThe Man from Earth (2007)7.6/10 from 3,122 votes
- NewestEleanor the Great (2025)Released 2025
For the Love of Spock (2016)
The life of Mr. Spock, as well as that of Leonard Nimoy, the actor who played him for almost fifty years, written and directed by his son: Adam.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Girl in the Book (2015)
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll Day and a Night (2020)
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCall Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEleanor the Great (2025)
94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMo' Better Blues (1990)
Talented but self-centered trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed with his music and indecisiveness about his girlfriends Indigo and Clarke. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDalíland (2022)
In 1973, a young gallery assistant goes on a wild adventure behind the scenes as he helps aging genius Salvador Dali prepare for a big show in New York.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisStruggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski (2018)
Artists in LA discover the work of forgotten Polish sculptor Stanislav Szukalski, a mad genius whose true story unfolds chapter by astounding chapter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLucky Them (2013)
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCopying Beethoven (2006)
Serving as Ludwig van Beethoven's copyist gives a conservatory student access to the composer's musical genius, but also exposes her to his cruelty.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRachel, Rachel (1968)
Rachel is a 35-year-old school teacher who has no man in her life and lives with her mother. When a man from the big city returns and asks her out, she begins to have to make decisions about her life and where she wants it to go.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTeen Spirit (2019)
A shy teenager living on the Isle of Wight dreams of pop stardom. With the help of an unlikely mentor, she enters a singing competition that will test her integrity, talent, and ambition.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Man from Earth (2007)
A departing professor gathers his closest colleagues for an intimate farewell, but the night takes an unexpected turn when he shares a stunning secret about his past. As the conversation unfolds, skepticism and curiosity collide, challenging everything they thought they knew about history, science, and belief.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBattle of the Year (2013)
A down-on-his-luck coach is hired to prepare a team of the best American dancers for an international tournament that attracts all the best crews from around the world, but the Americans haven't won in fifteen years.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisI Am Heath Ledger (2017)
The life and career of an actor, artist, and icon. His own journey through his own camera.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRocketman (2019)
The story of Elton John's life, from his years as a prodigy at the Royal Academy of Music through his influential and enduring musical partnership with Bernie Taupin.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCoda (2020)
A famous pianist at the twilight of his career meets a free-spirited music critic who soon becomes his rock as his mental state deteriorates.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)
Five train passengers are joined by a mysterious fortuneteller who offers to read Tarot. A quintet of stories unfold: an architect returns to his ancestral home to find a vengeful werewolf; a doctor suspects his new wife is a vampire; an intelligent vine takes over a house; a jazz musician plagiarises music from a voodoo ceremony; and a pompous art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Safety of Objects (2002)
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBack to Black (2024)
The extraordinary story of Amy Winehouse’s early rise to fame from her early days in Camden through the making of her groundbreaking album, Back to Black that catapulted Winehouse to global fame. Told through Amy’s eyes and inspired by her deeply personal lyrics, the film explores and embraces the many layers of the iconic artist and the tumultuous love story at the center of one of the most legendary albums of all time.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSearching for Sam: Adrian Dunbar on Samuel Beckett (2019)
Samuel Beckett has fascinated Adrian Dunbar since he was a young student. Now, 30 years after Beckett's death in Paris, Dunbar explores what made the man who made Waiting for Godot.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Pitch ‘n’ Putt with Beckett ‘n’ Joyce (2001)
Tensions arise between James Joyce and Samuel Beckett during a game of Pitch and Putt golf when a guest fails to show up.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Prisoners of Beckett (2005)
The meeting of two worlds that never met. One of poetry and freedom, and the other of silence and darkness. A story that begins in a maximum security prison in Sweden where a young actor, Jan Jönson, decides to stage " Waiting for Godot "with five prisoners as actors.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Waiting for Godot in San Quentin (1998)
Documentary about the staging of 'Waiting for Godot' in prison.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
How Should One Wait For Godot (2021)
"How Should One Wait for Godot" is an adaptation of Samuel Beckett's two plays, Waiting for Godot and Endgame. Does waiting for Godot help us reach the destination? Perhaps we did not know how to wait the proper way
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Waiting for Godot (1961)
Two derelicts occupy themselves as they wait for 'Godot' to make an appearance on Pozzo's estate.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Beckett Directs Beckett: Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett (1988)
Two seemingly homeless men waiting for someone or something named Godot. Vladimir and Estragon wait near a tree on a barren stretch of road, inhabiting a drama spun from their own consciousness.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Samuel Beckett: As the Story Was Told (1996)
A two-part biography of the Irish writer Samuel Beckett. The first part covers the traumas of his formative years: his ill-fated love affair with his first cousin, the death of his father, and his decorated service with the French Resistance. He had settled in France before the Second World War, met fellow Irishman James Joyce, and begun writing. Patrick Magee's television performance of `Krapp's Last Tape' (1972) is interwoven with key landscapes and personalities from Beckett's life. The second part concludes the story of how Beckett finally began to connect with his audience, principally through `Waiting for Godot'. Includes an interview with the actress Billie Whitelaw, a celebrated interpreter of his work.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Samuel Beckett - Mute Interview (1969)
A wordless, silent interview with Samuel Beckett for Swedish Television after Beckett won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
The Remaking of Samuel Beckett’s What Where (2013)
A documentary which offers insights into the adaptation of the original stage play and the making of this new production of Beckett's work.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett?
The closest matches to Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett are For the Love of Spock (2016), The Girl in the Book (2015) and All Day and a Night (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett?
Start with For the Love of Spock (2016), the closest match to Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett.
What is the highest-rated movie like Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett?
The Man from Earth (2007), rated 7.6/10 by 3,122 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett?
Eleanor the Great (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett?
Yes: For the Love of Spock (2016), The Girl in the Book (2015) and All Day and a Night (2020).
How are movies similar to Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Beckett Directs Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape by Samuel Beckett, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.