Movies like The Inner Scar (1972)
The best movies like The Inner Scar (1972) are The Brand New Testament (2015), Testament of Orpheus (1960) and MirrorMask (2005). If The Inner Scar hooked you with its fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe King and the Mockingbird (1980)7.8/10 from 429 votes
- NewestWoman Is My Last Name (2022)Released 2022
- In FrenchThe Brand New Testament (2015)Also in French
The Brand New Testament (2015)
God lives in Brussels. On Earth though, God is a coward, morally pathetic and odious to his family. His daughter, Ea, is bored at home and can't stand being locked up in a small apartment in ordinary Brussels, until the day she decides to revolt against her dad...
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTestament of Orpheus (1960)
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMirrorMask (2005)
In a fantasy world of opposing kingdoms, a 15-year old girl must find the fabled MirrorMask in order to save the kingdom and get home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisEntr'acte (1924)
Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most dada film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a camel (and chased by its pallbearers) and a dizzying roller coaster finale. A film of contradictions and agreements.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisMr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)
Léon, a humble civil servant, has the unusual ability to walk through walls, however thick they are. One day, he falls madly in love with a charming hotel thief by the name of Suzan.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSucker Punch (2011)
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world where she envisions a plan to escape. Gathering a group of fellow inmates, she embarks on a quest to collect five mystical items, blurring the lines between reality and imagination.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOne Hundred and One Nights (1995)
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCity of Pirates (1984)
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDays of Darkness (2007)
Jean-Marc is a man without qualities living in times that are out of joint. His wife and children ignore him; he's a mid-level government functionary in Montreal doing his job without care. He has an active imagination of sexual conquest, but his only real feelings come when he visits his aged mother, whose health is failing. When his wife leaves abruptly to work in Toronto, Jean-Marc sets out to reorder things with his daughters, his social life, and at work. In a world that at best is a farce, does he stand a chance?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNorthfork (2003)
The year is 1955, and a great flood is coming to Northfork, Montana. A new hydroelectric dam is about to be installed in the mountains above the town, ready to submerge the valley in the name of progress. It is the responsibility of a six-man Evacuation Committee to relocate the townsfolk to higher ground. Most have duly departed, but a few stubborn stragglers remain – among them a priest caring for a sickly orphan, a boy whose fevered visions are leading him to believe he is a member of a roaming band of lost angels desperately searching for a way home.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe King and the Mockingbird (1980)
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisInterstate 60 (2002)
An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGandahar (1987)
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Blood of a Poet (1932)
In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisPurgatory (1999)
An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and criminals such as Doc Holiday and Wild Bill Hickok who must redeem themselves before gaining admittance to Heaven... or screw up and go to Hell.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
An upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCosmos (2015)
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisRubber (2010)
In the California desert, the adventures of a telepathic killer-tire, mysteriously attracted by a very pretty girl, as witnessed by incredulous onlookers.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisChaos Walking (2021)
Two unlikely companions embark on a perilous adventure through the badlands of an unexplored planet as they try to escape a dangerous and disorienting reality, where all inner thoughts are seen and heard by everyone.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisText Messages from the Universe (2019)
A film that immerses its audience in subjective states of consciousness they might experience when they die, imagining what they can see and think and hear in a seamless but fragmentary flow of poetic images, words and music. The viewer undertakes a journey into their own interior world of dreams and projections in which time and space, and cause and effect logic, are turned on their heads. Text Messages from the Universe is inspired by The Tibetan Book of the Dead, a text which guides souls on their journey of 49 days through the 'Bardo', or intermediate state, between dying and rebirth.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Shimajiro and the Rainbow Oasis (2017)
Shimajiro and friends embark on a journey through the desert to help young Coco reunite with her mother after being separated in a fierce sandstorm.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Simon of the Desert (1965)
Simon, a deeply religious man living in the 4th century, wants to be nearer to God so he climbs a column. The Devil wants him come down to Earth and is trying to seduce him.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisBasorexia (2021)
At the atmospheric port of Santos, Basorexia explores the meaning of the word — a strong craving or hunger for kissing.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Ali Baba & the Gold Raiders (1999)
Ali Baba steals hidden treasure from some raiders who then seek revenge on his family.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Walter (2019)
A toad bikes back home in order to water his plants.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Woman Is My Last Name (2022)
This visual poetry is a celebration of the full spectrum of womanhood, from the complex vulnerability to the hidden power.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
One Piece: The Desert Princess and the Pirates: Adventure in Alabasta (2007)
The Straw Hat Pirates are on a quest to save the desert kingdom of Alabasta. A civil war brews among the sands, one started and stirred by the hand of none other than Crocodile and his corrupted Baroque Works gang. The stakes run ever higher as Princess Vivi's homeland threatens to tear itself apart. More than lives are on the line.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSix-String Samurai (1998)
In a post-apocalyptic world where the Russians have taken over a nuked USA and Elvis is king of Lost Vegas, Buddy is a '50s rocker and wandering warrior rolled into one, too-cool package. Armed with his six-string in one hand and his sword in the other, Buddy is on his way to Vegas to succeed Elvis as King. Along the way, he saves an orphan who decides to tag along.
Why it matches: Similar story and style · both fantasy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Inner Scar?
The closest matches to The Inner Scar are The Brand New Testament (2015), Testament of Orpheus (1960) and MirrorMask (2005). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Inner Scar?
Start with The Brand New Testament (2015), the closest match to The Inner Scar.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Inner Scar?
The King and the Mockingbird (1980), rated 7.8/10 by 429 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Inner Scar?
Woman Is My Last Name (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there French movies like The Inner Scar?
Yes: The Brand New Testament (2015), Testament of Orpheus (1960) and Entr'acte (1924).
How are movies similar to The Inner Scar chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Inner Scar, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.