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10 Best Movies Like Play It as It Lays

If you loved Play It as It Lays, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Blonde

Blonde

2022★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Play It as It Lays for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

From her volatile childhood as Norma Jeane, through her rise to stardom and romantic entanglements, this reimagined fictional portrait of Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe blurs the ...

#2
Acrimony

Acrimony

2018★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Play It as It Lays for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Faithful wife Melinda, who is tired of standing by her devious husband Robert, is enraged when it becomes clear she has been betrayed. That's when she lost it, and now she cannot l...

#3
Maps to the Stars

Maps to the Stars

2014★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Play It as It Lays for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Driven by an intense need for fame and validation, members of a dysfunctional Hollywood family chase celebrity, one another, and the relentless ghosts of their pasts. Their fragile...

#4
The Souvenir

The Souvenir

2019★ 6.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Play It as It Lays for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A shy but ambitious film student falls into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship with a charismatic but untrustworthy older man....

#5
Infinitely Polar Bear

Infinitely Polar Bear

2014★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Play It as It Lays for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who don't make the overwhelming tas...

#6
A Woman Under the Influence

A Woman Under the Influence

1974★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Play It as It Lays for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happi...

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