Movies like The Little Ant (2009)
The best movies like The Little Ant (2009) are I Bury the Living (1958), Personal Effects (2009) and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966). If The Little Ant hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedArsenic and Old Lace (1944)7.6/10 from 1,098 votes
- NewestThe Shrouds (2025)Released 2025
I Bury the Living (1958)
The new manager of a small-town cemetery becomes convinced that he triggered the untimely deaths of several plot owners by tampering with a certain map. When nobody believes him, he risks his sanity to play God once again and prove his point.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPersonal Effects (2009)
Walter is a rising star in the NCAA wrestling world until his life is ripped apart by the brutal murder of his sister. Returning home to console his mother Gloria he seeks vengeance on the man who is accused of the crime. A chance meeting with a beautiful mature woman gives him solace to the situation. Will this unlikely pairing bloom into a romance and heal a wound the world cannot see or will the loss of his sister push him over the edge?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhat Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966)
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisSafe House (1998)
A psychological thriller; Mace Sowell, an ex-intelligence operative and whose past government activities catches up with him, faces his own mortality, in the shape of the onset of Alzheimer's disease. Holding the electronic key to secret information which implicates a Presidential front-runner, Mace struggles for his life while battling the debilitating effects of the disease.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisOdd Thomas (2013)
In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisUndertaking Betty (2002)
A politician's wife and the mortician who has secretly loved her for years plan to fake her death so they can run away together.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisArsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Shrouds (2025)
Inconsolable since the death of his wife, prominent businessman Karsh Relikh invents a revolutionary and controversial technology that enables the living to monitor their dear departed in their shrouds. One night, multiple graves, including that of Karsh’s wife, are desecrated, and he sets out to track down the perpetrators.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisNight of the Comet (1984)
After a comet wipes out most of life on Earth, two Valley Girls find themselves fighting against cannibal zombies and a sinister group of scientists.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWithin the Woods (1979)
While spending a weekend at a remote cabin, Bruce desecrates an Indian burial ground and becomes re-animated, making way to kill his friends.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSong for Marion (2012)
Arthur is a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional local choir. But choir director Elizabeth sees something special in the reluctant Arthur and refuses to give up on him. As she coaxes him out of his shell, Arthur realizes that it is never too late to change.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBurke & Hare (2010)
Two 19th-century opportunists become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisGriffin & Phoenix (2006)
A terminally ill man falls in love with a woman who has a secret that threatens their time spent together.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisRoseanna's Grave (1997)
Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Return of the Vampire (1943)
In 1918, an English family is terrorized by a vampire, until they learn how to deal with it. They think their troubles are over, but German bombs in WWII free the monster. He reclaims the soul of his wolfman ex-servant, and assuming the identity of a scientist who has just escaped from a concentration camp, he starts out on a plan to get revenge upon the family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSchizopolis (1997)
A man works for the unpleasant guru of a Scientology-like movement.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Loved One (1965)
The suicide of his expatriate uncle draws Englishman and poet Dennis Barlow into California's booming funeral industry.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNear Dark (1987)
A farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Last Bus (2021)
Widower Tom, on the recent passing of his wife Mary, uses his free bus pass to travel the length of Britain from John O'Groats in Caithness to Land's End in Cornwall, their shared birthplace, using only local buses. It's an incident-fuelled nostalgia trip and his encounters with local people make him a media phenomenon. Tom is totally unaware and to his surprise on arrival at Land’s End he’s greeted as a celebrity.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like this10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
After a catastrophic car crash, a young woman wakes up in a survivalist's underground bunker, where he claims to have saved her from an apocalyptic attack that has left the outside world uninhabitable.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Little Ant?
The closest matches to The Little Ant are I Bury the Living (1958), Personal Effects (2009) and What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (1966). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Little Ant?
Start with I Bury the Living (1958), the closest match to The Little Ant.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Little Ant?
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), rated 7.6/10 by 1,098 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Little Ant?
The Shrouds (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to The Little Ant chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Little Ant, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.