18 Best Movies To Watch After Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
If you have finished watching the film Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and are looking for other movies like it, here is a list of options to consider.
Frankenstein
After catching Lisa Frankenstein this weekend, check out some of these weird & wild spins on the legendary tale.
Now that we've all established that Frankenstein (or Fronkensteen, whichever you prefer) is in fact the name of the doctor, and his creation is just "the Creature," we can sit back and enjoy a revival in appreciation for Mary Shelley's landmark story that skillfully wove together body horror, science, and existentialism. Following the critically acclaimed Poor Things is Zelda Williams' 80s-set comedy Lisa Frankenstein, opening in theaters tomorrow, which acts as a nice appetizer before Guillermo del Toro's long-awaited adaptation on the story and Maggie Gyllenhaal's version of Bride of Frankenstein, both set for release next year.
While often overlooked in favor of the cooler, sexier Dracula, there's plenty of media dedicated to Dr. Frankenstein and his creation, starting with James Whale's unimpeachable 1931 adaptation and its even better sequel, 1935's Bride of Frankenstein. It's been lovingly parodied (Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein), given a family-friendly treatment (Tim Burton's Frankenweenie), turned into a musical (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), and even made into porn (more movies than you can possibly imagine). Here now are a list of some of the more notably unusual (and non-pornographic) takes on the story, offering gore, laughs, romance, or just general weirdness. Continue Reading →
The Zone of Interest
SimilarAli: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Almost Famous (2000), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Apocalypse Now (1979), Apollo 13 (1995), Belle de Jour (1967), Ben-Hur (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) Blood and Chocolate (2007),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Contact (1997), Contempt (1963), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Cruel Intentions (1999), Dances with Wolves (1990), Desert Hearts (1985), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), East of Eden (1955), Enough (2002), Finding Forrester (2000), Forrest Gump (1994), Gandhi (1982), I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), I've Always Liked You (2016),
Jackie Brown (1997) Just Cause (1995), La Haine (1995), Metropolis (1927), Oldboy (2003), Raging Bull (1980), Random Harvest (1942),
Rebecca (1940) Shall We Dance? (2004), The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Elementary Particles (2006), The Elephant Man (1980), The Good German (2006), The Last Emperor (1987),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Outsiders (1983), The Pianist (2002), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Straight Story (1999), The Tin Drum (1979), To Die For (1995), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Wonder Boys (2000),
Watch afterAmerican Fiction (2023), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Dune: Part Two (2024), Joker (2019), Napoleon (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Poor Things (2023),
StudioA24, Film4 Productions,
Jonathan Glazer's first feature in 10 years is a near-unclassifiable work of patience and intentional distance from its historical horrors.
What am I to say here? What can I say?
I feel as if I’m to say nothing at all. My mind has gone and I feel sick, and while that’s due to the film in question, another degree of it comes from a deeper truth. I feel wrong in my reaction to it; it can’t help but feel inadequate. The Zone of Interest has leveled me like few things ever have, but that’s not the point. That’s not its point. Continue Reading →
Eileen
SimilarA Christmas Carol (1938), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Apocalypse Now (1979), Basic Instinct (1992), Ben-Hur (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) Blue Velvet (1986), Brubaker (1980), Con Air (1997), Contempt (1963), Crash (1996), Cruel Intentions (1999), Cube Zero (2004), Die Hard (1988), Die Hard 2 (1990), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Dr. No (1962), Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Fargo (1996), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), From Russia with Love (1963), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Goldfinger (1964), Gone Baby Gone (2007), Just Cause (1995), La Vie en Rose (2007), Memento (2000), Metropolis (1927), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006),
Primal Fear (1996) Schindler's List (1993), Scrooge (1951), Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979), Talk to Her (2002), The 39 Steps (1935), The Departed (2006), The Devil's Rejects (2005), The Elementary Particles (2006), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Road (2009), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Thirteenth Floor (1999), The Tin Drum (1979), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), War of the Worlds (2005), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), You Only Live Twice (1967),
Watch afterAnatomy of a Fall (2023), Interstellar (2014),
Oppenheimer (2023) Poor Things (2023), Saltburn (2023), Shortcomings (2023), Society of the Snow (2023), The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023),
StudioFilm4 Productions,
Thomasin McKenzie & Anne Hathaway burn up the screen in William Oldroyd’s unsettling thriller.
Eileen will likely be lost in the holiday season shuffle among such spectacles as the upcoming Wonka and awards-friendly fare like Ferrari. On the other hand, it’s unclear under what circumstances Eileen would make a big splash. It’s an odd, occasionally off-putting little film that wouldn’t work as well as it does if not for the scorching chemistry between its two leads.
Based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s (also odd and occasionally off-putting) novel of the same name, Eileen stars Thomasin McKenzie as the titular character, a lonely young woman stuck in a miserable rut. Living in the most depressing town in Massachusetts circa 1964, Eileen is forced to take care of her alcoholic, mean-spirited father (a chilling Shea Whigham, still somehow not one of Hollywood’s biggest stars), a former cop who’s taken to waving his gun at their neighbors. Working as a secretary at a juvenile detention center, though she’s in her twenties she comes off as someone much younger, a meek and awkward child merely dressing up as an adult. Eileen also has a child’s taste for doing things like ignoring her hygiene, stuffing herself with candy, and compulsively masturbating, while maintaining a rich fantasy life involving rough sex with a detention center guard, or murdering her father. Her boredom has reached pathological levels. Continue Reading →
Killers of the Flower Moon
SimilarA Christmas Carol (1938), A History of Violence (2005), Almost Famous (2000), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Apocalypse Now (1979), Apollo 13 (1995), Belle de Jour (1967), Ben-Hur (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) Blood and Chocolate (2007), Blue Velvet (1986), Brubaker (1980), Bugsy Malone (1976), Caché (2005), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Chicago (2002), Code of Silence (1985), Con Air (1997), Contact (1997), Contempt (1963), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Cruel Intentions (1999), Dances with Wolves (1990), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Donnie Brasco (1997), Enough (2002), Fargo (1996), Forrest Gump (1994), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Gandhi (1982), Gone Baby Gone (2007), I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), I've Always Liked You (2016), Just Cause (1995), Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003), La Haine (1995), Léon: The Professional (1994), Manhattan (1979), Memento (2000), Metropolis (1927), Mississippi Burning (1988), Oldboy (2003), Predator (1987),
Primal Fear (1996) Random Harvest (1942), Rope (1948), Saw IV (2007), Schindler's List (1993), Shall We Dance? (2004), Sissi (1955), Solaris (1972), Strange Days (1995), Taxi Driver (1976), The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Cider House Rules (1999), The Devil's Rejects (2005), The Elementary Particles (2006), The Elephant Man (1980), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), The Irishman (2019), The Road (2009), The Silence of the Lambs (1991), The Straight Story (1999), The Tin Drum (1979), Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995), Titanic (1997), To Die For (1995), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993),
Watch afterAmerican Fiction (2023), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Leave the World Behind (2023), Napoleon (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Saw X (2023), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Killer (2023), Wonka (2023),
StudioApple Studios,
To talk about The Killer is to strip away pretense. Well, one can try. Cold it may be, but David Fincher's latest is an incredibly open film. The houses are made of glass; the windows are ceiling-high; the voiceovers from the title character (Michael Fassbender) give infallible insight into his worldview. The film is his worldview, simple in its machinations and complex in its philosophy. In most other circumstances, this would unfold over time. And it does here, at least to an extent. Continue Reading →
Priscilla
SimilarAli: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Annie Hall (1977), Belle de Jour (1967), Billy Elliot (2000), Blood and Chocolate (2007),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Contempt (1963), Crash (1996), Dead Poets Society (1989), Desert Hearts (1985), Dirty Dancing (1987), Donnie Brasco (1997), Enough (2002), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Forrest Gump (1994), Gandhi (1982), Italian for Beginners (2000), La Vie en Rose (2007), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Lost in Translation (2003), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Raging Bull (1980), Shall We Dance? (2004), Solaris (1972), Strange Days (1995), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Cider House Rules (1999), The Elephant Man (1980), The Irishman (2019), The Last Emperor (1987), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Science of Sleep (2006), The Tin Drum (1979), Wonder Boys (2000),
Watch afterAquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire (2023), Saltburn (2023), Society of the Snow (2023), Thanksgiving (2023), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Killer (2023), The Marvels (2023), Wonka (2023),
StarringDagmara Domińczyk,
StudioAmerican Zoetrope,
As daybreak bleeds from within the walls, Priscilla Presley (Cailee Spaeny) wakes up next to her husband, Elvis (Jacob Elordi). Her water’s broken and, as he calls for a car, she goes to the bathroom, where she applies the perfect fake eyelashes in silence. Continue Reading →
The Burial
SimilarAlmost Famous (2000), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Anna and the King (1999), Apollo 13 (1995),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Brubaker (1980), Donnie Brasco (1997), Erin Brockovich (2000), Freedom Writers (2007), Gandhi (1982), GoodFellas (1990), Gridiron Gang (2006), Manhattan (1979), Mississippi Burning (1988), Monster (2003), Schindler's List (1993), The Elephant Man (1980), The Last Emperor (1987), The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), The Straight Story (1999), Titanic (1997),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), The Equalizer 3 (2023), The Killer (2023),
StarringAlan Ruck,
Whenever a crowd pleasing movie hits theaters or streaming, people lament, “They don’t make ‘em like they used to.” Often, these people refer to middle-of-the-road movies from the 80s and 90s, the type of film that would play on cable television in the middle of a Sunday afternoon, something that people watch over and over again, simply because it makes them feel lighter. The Burial, the new courtroom drama from writer/director Maggie Betts, falls firmly into this category. It’s dad-fare, set in 1995 when it also likely would’ve had mainstream success in popular culture. Continue Reading →
Rules of Engagement
Even William Friedkin's most loyal fans would admit the Nineties were not a particularly fertile artistic period for him. That decade saw him putting out the laughable horror film The Guardian (1990), the eventual release of his long-on-the-shelf and heavily recut 1987 death penalty drama Rampage (1992), the tepid sports drama Blue Chips (1994), and the resoundingly unnecessary (save for a nifty car chase) Jade (1995). On the small screen, he helmed two made-for-cable remakes, the Roger Corman production Jailbreakers (1994) with Shannen Doherty, Antonio Sabato Jr., and Adrien Brody, and 12 Angry Men (1997) with a powerhouse cast that included Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Ossie Davis, James Gandolfini and, perhaps inevitably, Tony Danza. Continue Reading →
Jade
After the aggressively negative critic and audience response to 1980’s Cruising, William Friedkin took a curious “hell with it, I’m going to do whatever I want” approach to projects. None of what he directed over the next decade, save for To Live and Die in L.A., came close to receiving the kind of acclaim his early 70s career did. If anything, it seemed as though he had given up his precise, occasionally unreasonable eye for perfection in favor of churning out the most generic cable-friendly nonsense possible. Continue Reading →
Fair Play
Similar9 Songs (2004), A Real Young Girl (1976), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Basic Instinct (1992), Belle de Jour (1967),
Bend It Like Beckham (2002) Boys Don't Cry (1999) Cape Fear (1991), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962), Contempt (1963), Copying Beethoven (2006), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Italian for Beginners (2000), Little Miss Sunshine (2006), Lost in Translation (2003), Memento (2000), Raging Bull (1980), Secret Window (2004), Shall We Dance? (2004), Talk to Her (2002), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), The Holiday (2006), The Shining (1980), Vertigo (1958), Volver (2006),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Leave the World Behind (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023), The Killer (2023),
StudioMRC,
Fair Play is all about the rules of engagement—in business, in bed, in relationships—and the chaos that ensues when someone who lives and dies by those rules suspects his partner is breaking them. However, it isn’t the fairness of the righteous or the just she’s violating. No, it is the unwritten rules he believes everyone should play the game by. Continue Reading →
A Haunting in Venice
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), 28 Weeks Later (2007), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Armageddon (1998), Basic Instinct (1992), Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Beverly Hills Cop II (1987),
Blade Runner (1982) Blue Velvet (1986), Buffalo Soldiers (2002), Caché (2005), Carrie (1976), Contact (1997), Die Hard 2 (1990), Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995), Don't Bother to Knock (1952), Dr. No (1962), Freedom Writers (2007), From Russia with Love (1963), Ghost (1990), Goldfinger (1964),
Jackie Brown (1997) Just Cause (1995), Klute (1971), Live Free or Die Hard (2007), Memento (2000), On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969),
Primal Fear (1996) Rebecca (1940) Rosemary's Baby (1968), Sahara (2005), Saw (2004), Secret Window (2004),
Shaft (2000) Shooter (2007), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), Solaris (1972), Stand by Me (1986), Star Trek: Generations (1994), The Godfather (1972), The Green Mile (1999), The Man with the Golden Gun (1974),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Outsiders (1983), The Shining (1980), The Usual Suspects (1995), Vertigo (1958), War of the Worlds (2005), Wild at Heart (1990), You Only Live Twice (1967),
Watch afterFive Nights at Freddy's (2023), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023),
Oppenheimer (2023) Saw X (2023), Thanksgiving (2023), The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023), The Killer (2023), The Marvels (2023),
Studio20th Century Studios,
The first two entries in director/actor Kenneth Branagh’s foray into Agatha Christie adaptation lost the magic of the English writer’s mysteries. With his third attempt, A Haunting in Venice, Branagh decides to make considerable changes to the story. Using the bones of Christie’s Hallowe’en Party, writer Michael Green changes the setting from a small town in the English countryside to a palazzo in Venice. Branagh emphasizes the gothic elements of Christie’s story, leaning on the horror of the location, the manic nature of the children’s Halloween party, and the gruesome moments before and after an unexpected death. Continue Reading →
Love at First Sight
Similar2046 (2004), A Christmas Carol (1938), A Real Young Girl (1976), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Apocalypse Now (1979), Ben-Hur (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) Contact (1997), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Cruel Intentions (1999), Dances with Wolves (1990), Desert Hearts (1985), East of Eden (1955), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Finding Forrester (2000), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Gone Baby Gone (2007), I Am Not a Serial Killer (2016), I've Always Liked You (2016),
Jackie Brown (1997) Manhattan (1979), Metropolis (1927), Mystic River (2003), Once Upon a Time in America (1984),
Primal Fear (1996) Random Harvest (1942),
Rebecca (1940) Rosemary's Baby (1968), Sahara (2005), Schindler's List (1993), Shooter (2007), Sissi (1955), Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979), Stand by Me (1986), The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Cider House Rules (1999), The Green Mile (1999), The Handmaid's Tale (1990),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Outsiders (1983), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Road (2009), The Silent Partner (1978), The Tin Drum (1979), To Die For (1995), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Wild at Heart (1990),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Blue Beetle (2023), Elemental (2023), The Equalizer 3 (2023),
StarringJameela Jamil,
As an avid consumer of romance—be it in book, film, or television format—you learn to level expectations when a beloved story is adapted. That’s particularly the case amongst the recent spate of mid-to-low budget adaptations across the gamut of streaming services. Usually, the best-case scenario is they’re mildly enjoyable but ultimately forgettable. For example, there’s Prime Video’s recent adaptation of Casey McQuiston’s Red, White, and Royal Blue. More often than not, they’re absolutely dreadful. The less said about Netflix’s take on Austen’s Persuasion, the better. What is true, though, is that they’re very seldom genuinely good. Continue Reading →
A Million Miles Away
SimilarA Christmas Carol (1938), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Apocalypse Now (1979), As It Is in Heaven (2004), Ben-Hur (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) Blood and Chocolate (2007),
Boys Don't Cry (1999) Brubaker (1980), Contact (1997), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (2000), Donnie Brasco (1997), East of Eden (1955), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Erin Brockovich (2000), Finding Forrester (2000), Forrest Gump (1994), Gridiron Gang (2006), I've Always Liked You (2016),
Jackie Brown (1997) Just Cause (1995), Manhattan (1979), Metropolis (1927), Monster (2003),
Primal Fear (1996) Rebecca (1940) Schindler's List (1993), Stand by Me (1986), The Bridges of Madison County (1995), The Elementary Particles (2006), The Green Mile (1999), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), The Irishman (2019), The Last Emperor (1987),
The Name of the Rose (1986) The Outsiders (1983), The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Road (2009), The Silent Partner (1978), The Straight Story (1999), The Tin Drum (1979), What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Wonder Boys (2000),
Watch afterBarbie (2023) Blue Beetle (2023), Elemental (2023), Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023),
StudioMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer,
A Million Miles Away is one of those movies that live in the meaty part of the decent curve. Far too sturdy and well-made to be called bad. Too rote and predictable to really call good. It tells the true story of José Hernández (Michael Pena), an unquestionably inspiring man who did an impossibly difficult thing under impossibly difficult circumstances. Continue Reading →
High-Rise
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
Sightseers
This piece was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist. Continue Reading →
El hombre del saco
Similar2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), Anatomy of a Murder (1959),
Blade Runner (1982) War of the Worlds (2005),
Watch afterMeg 2: The Trench (2023), Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023), Talk to Me (2023), The Nun II (2023),
Studio20th Century Studios,
What did your boogeyman look like? Continue Reading →
Something Wicked This Way Comes
In the wake of the death of its founder and namesake, the Walt Disney Company found itself in a bit of a tailspin in the late 60s and 70s. They were unwilling to stray too far away from being purveyors of family entertainment but failed to recognize shifting audience tastes. For about a decade after Disney’s passing, the studio’s cinematic output consisted of regular reissues of their animated classics and decidedly juvenile live-action offerings. New animated films were few and far between due to spiraling costs. Their live-action films were lousy with place-kicking mules, hirsute district attorneys, and the further adventures of Herbie the Love Bug. Herbie proved their last significant box-office hit when it (he?) debuted in 1969. Continue Reading →
We Need to Do Something
SimilarAnatomy of a Murder (1959), Blood and Chocolate (2007), Caché (2005), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Mystic River (2003),
Primal Fear (1996) The 39 Steps (1935),
Sean King O'Grady directs a claustrophobic horror film that has a lot of potential, but just misses the mark.
We Need to Do Something, the debut feature from Sean King O’Grady, is a horror film that can easily be read on two different levels, though your mileage with it will vary depending on which one you choose to follow. As a straightforward horror yarn, albeit with moments of grotesque black humor thrown in from time to time, it contains a few interesting elements but never finds a way to pull them together into a completely satisfying whole. On the other hand, if one regards the whole enterprise on a more overtly symbolic level, it gains a little more in terms of power and effectiveness.
Yet, even then it also tends to lose its way especially once the fairly potent central metaphor gives way to less interesting instances of bloodshed. In either case, it ends on such a clunky and ineffective note that viewers may get the sense that O’Grady and screenwriter Max Booth III have just been screwing with them, a feeling enhanced by the all-too-apt choice for a key musical cue towards the end. Continue Reading →