Movies like Grey & War (2017)
The best movies like Grey & War (2017) are Ever Reaching Fairly Preachily (2017), Automatic Writing (2003) and Face Lift (2017). If Grey & War hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Grey & War
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLa Maison en Petits Cubes (2008)7.9/10 from 481 votes
- NewestAn Ode to Solitude (2020)Released 2020
- In SpanishA Movie Made of (2019)Also in Spanish
Ever Reaching Fairly Preachily (2017)
Flitter like tittertatter trying to breathe while working, like a mad hatter; the outofbreath feeling rising from recursive reforgettings (or their resemblances).
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Automatic Writing (2003)
Charcoal animation, taken from from Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image (2003).
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Face Lift (2017)
Be better and more beautiful than you were before.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
A Movie Made of (2019)
In Vigo, Spain, during Christmas, Ángel, a Spanish filmmaker, walks through the crowded streets while thinking about a possible movie made of…
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Mad About Being Mad (2017)
Setting, settling; still seething as I barely breathe.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Cels (1972)
A showcase for the MCAD Animation Workshop 1972 where each student was given one of a series of cells to animate whatever they pleased.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Confession (1968)
A filmmaker recalls his youth in the town of Onomichi. In the present, he shoots a film in Onomichi alongside his cast, crew and family.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
To Teach a Bird to Fly (2020)
This experimental nature documentary by Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts depicts climate change and the wave of extinction from the point of view of our near future. Actually, it depicts the age we live in now, or rather its fateful consequences.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Four Shadows (1978)
Four four-minute image sections and four four-minute sound sections are linked in all combinations of the sound sections with each of the image sections. This established affinities between each of the image sections to the others, and the sound sections to each other. The image sections are: surveyors measuring the land near my house as seen through an old window, a family of Siamang Gibbon apes in the Washington zoo, an industrial site, and a page turned from a book on Cézanne’s composition showing a diagram of his painting Mardi Gras, filmed against bright leaves. The sound sections are: a dramatic scene from Debussy’s opera “Pelléas et Mélisande”, a passage from William Wordworth’s autobiographical poem “The Prelude,” sounds from rowing on a lake at night, and the sounds of the apes vocalizing.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Horizons (1973)
Working with Virgil’s four-part poem “Georgics” and Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos “The Four Seasons” as models, Gottheim arranged his painterly compositions into four distinct sections, each edited according to its own exacting pattern. The seasonal flux thus informs both the form and content of the image, with the basic elements of trees, sky, hills and the occasional crisscrossing clothesline filmed in every imaginable light.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
La Maison en Petits Cubes (2008)
La Maison en Petits Cubes tells the story of a grandfather's memories as he adds more blocks to his house to stem the flooding waters.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisHarmonica (1971)
Arguably Larry Gottheim’s most exuberant experiment in the single-shot, single-roll format (and his first with a soundtrack), HARMONICA trains the camera on a friend improvising a tune in the backseat of a moving car. Held out the window, the harmonica becomes a musical conduit for the wind, while Gottheim's film transforms before our eyes into a playful meditation on wrangling the natural elements into art. - Max Goldberg
Why it matches: Similar story and style
La Escala (1964)
Experimental film by Aldo Francia that consists in diverse situations through the 123 steps of the Santa Justina staircase in the Cerro Larraín of Valparaíso.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
To Pour Milk into a Glass (1972)
A simple gesture, introduced in the very title of the work, is repeated with slight variations – the glass is half filled, the content overflows, the glass breaks, the milk spills on the table – and constitutes the film’s only action. Lamelas rejects any type of narration or human presence, and the filmic code – reduced and dissected – comprises the only argument.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
An Ode to Solitude (2020)
Exploring the duality between friendship and loneliness, this intimate narrative short tells the story of David, a bright young boy struggling with a broken home life, as he tries to reconnect with his childhood best friends as they search for something to do in their small suburban town.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Migrating Forms (2000)
A man and woman embark on a sexual journey to detach mind from body. The relationship slowly grows into one of emotional domination, physical disease, abandonment and the creation of personal pornography.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
Drug Porn (2019)
An experimental documentary about the spectacle of substance abuse on social media. More than 45 hours of footage, hundreds of pages of blog posts and interviews were distilled and remixed using glitch and cut-up techniques to insure anonymity, transcend the shock factor and unfold this complex, singular and stratified use of social media.
Why it matches: Similar story and style
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Grey & War?
The closest matches to Grey & War are Ever Reaching Fairly Preachily (2017), Automatic Writing (2003) and Face Lift (2017). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Grey & War?
Start with Ever Reaching Fairly Preachily (2017), the closest match to Grey & War.
What is the highest-rated movie like Grey & War?
La Maison en Petits Cubes (2008), rated 7.9/10 by 481 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Grey & War?
An Ode to Solitude (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Spanish movies like Grey & War?
Yes: A Movie Made of (2019), El desastre de Annual (1970) and La Escala (1964).
How are movies similar to Grey & War chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Grey & War, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.