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Movies like INSIDE -- The Black and White Version (2017)

The best movies like INSIDE -- The Black and White Version (2017) are Destino (2003), Blue (1993) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). If INSIDE -- The Black and White Version hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Destino (2003)

    Short film to a song of love lost and rediscovered, a woman sees and undergoes surreal transformations. Her lover's face melts off, she dons a dress from the shadow of a bell and becomes a dandelion, ants crawl out of a hand and become Frenchmen riding bicycles. Not to mention the turtles with faces on their backs that collide to form a ballerina, or the bizarre baseball game.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  2. Blue (1993)

    Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  3. The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)

    A melancholy poet reflects on three women he loved and lost in the past: a mechanical performing doll, a Venetian courtesan, and the consumptive daughter of a celebrated composer.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  4. Eleanor 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

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  5. David Lynch: The Art Life (2017)

    An intimate journey through the formative years of David Lynch's life. From his idyllic upbringing in small town America to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to shape one of cinema's most enigmatic directors.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  6. Shrek's Yule Log (2010)

    Inside the Shrek home, a fire blazes in the fireplace during a Christmas party. Christmas music plays in the background as Shrek, his family, and his friends, come and go while tending the fire and engaging in various Christmas activities.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  7. Brats (1930)

    Stanley and Oliver are trying to spend a relaxing night at home playing checkers, but the antics of their mischievous sons keep interrupting their recreation.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  8. Belfast (2021)

    Buddy is a young boy on the cusp of adolescence, whose life is filled with familial love, childhood hijinks, and a blossoming romance. Yet, with his beloved hometown caught up in increasing turmoil, his family faces a momentous choice: hope the conflict will pass or leave everything they know behind for a new life.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  9. Bo Burnham: The Inside Outtakes (2022)

    Exactly one year after the release of the one man show, "Bo Burnham: Inside" (made in one room, by one person, throughout the pandemic,) comes a series of unseen outtakes, deleted scenes, alternative versions of songs, and new songs unused from the special.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  10. Here (2024)

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  11. 42 Up (1999)

    Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  12. I Believe in Unicorns (2015)

    Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  13. The Beaver (2011)

    Suffering from a severe case of depression, toy company CEO Walter Black begins using a beaver hand puppet to help him open up to his family. With his father seemingly going insane, adolescent son Porter pushes for his parents to get a divorce.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  14. Shame (2011)

    Brandon, a thirty-something man living in New York, eludes intimacy with women but feeds his deepest desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his younger sister temporarily moves into his apartment, stirring up bitter memories of their shared painful past, Brandon's life, like his fragile mind, gets out of control.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  15. Lost Highway (1997)

    A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  16. Aftersun (2022)

    Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories fill the gaps between camcorder footages as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the troubled man she didn't.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  17. Eraserhead (1977)

    First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  18. Beau Is Afraid (2023)

    Following the sudden death of his mother, a mild-mannered but anxiety-ridden man confronts his darkest fears as he embarks on an epic odyssey back home.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  19. New York Stories (1989)

    Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Francis Ford Coppola), a precocious 12-year-old navigates privilege and loneliness in a Manhattan hotel. And in "Oedipus Wrecks" (Woody Allen), a man’s domineering mother literally becomes a looming presence over New York.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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  20. Soul (2020)

    Joe Gardner is a middle school teacher with a love for jazz music. After a successful audition at the Half Note Club, he suddenly gets into an accident that separates his soul from his body and is transported to the You Seminar, a center in which souls develop and gain passions before being transported to a newborn child. Joe must enlist help from the other souls-in-training, like 22, a soul who has spent eons in the You Seminar, in order to get back to Earth.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

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Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like INSIDE -- The Black and White Version?

The closest matches to INSIDE -- The Black and White Version are Destino (2003), Blue (1993) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after INSIDE -- The Black and White Version?

Start with Destino (2003), the closest match to INSIDE -- The Black and White Version.

What is the highest-rated movie like INSIDE -- The Black and White Version?

Soul (2020), rated 8.1/10 by 11,907 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like INSIDE -- The Black and White Version?

Eleanor the Great (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like INSIDE -- The Black and White Version?

Yes: Destino (2003), Blue (1993) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951).

How are movies similar to INSIDE -- The Black and White Version chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside INSIDE -- The Black and White Version, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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